The Minor in European Studies

Course Requirements for the Minor: 23 units

The following courses, or their approved transfer equivalents, are required of all candidates for this minor.

8 units selected from:

Any modern European language courses (FREN, GERM, ITAL, PORT, RUSS, or SPAN). The 8 units must be in the same modern European language.

15 units selected from:

Upper-division courses in European studies, approved by European Studies Coordinator. Typically, these courses will be in political science, history, art, music, economics, geography, philosophy, English, or modern language literatures. Examples include:

SUBJ NUM	Title	Units	Semester Offered	Course Flags
ARTH 411W	Greek Art and Architecture (W)	3.0	INQ	W
In-depth study of Greek art and architecture. The course is thematic, with emphasis on gender, sexuality, race, and cultural identity. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved Writing Course. (000858)
ARTH 412W	Roman Art and Architecture (W)	3.0	INQ	W
In-depth study of Roman art and architecture. The course is thematic, with emphasis on the political, religious, and social elements of Roman art and architecture. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved Writing Course. (000860)
ARTH 413W	Medieval Art and Architecture (W)	3.0	INQ	W
In-depth thematic study of medieval art and architecture. The course is thematic, with emphasis on religion, geography, sexuality, race, and monstrosity. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved Writing Course. (000843)
ARTH 433W	20th Century Art (W)	3.0	INQ	W
An investigation of the history of modern art from the early-to-mid twentieth century. The course covers such movements as Cubism, Expressionism, Constructivism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, and Minimalism. An emphasis is placed on understanding how art relates to critical debates and social and historical contexts. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved Writing Course. (000777)
ECON 410	The History of Economic Thought	3.0	FA
Prerequisites: ECON 301. Survey of the development of economic philosophy and its relevance to social and political development and issues. (May not be counted for credit toward a major in Economics if ECON 305 is used.) 3 hours seminar. (002683)
ECON 413	Marxist Economic Theory	3.0	SP
Prerequisites: ECON 301. An analysis of the economic theories of Karl Marx and Marxist economists with an emphasis on how these theories relate to economic conflicts, crises, and transformations; contrasts to orthodox economic ideas and theories; analysis of 20th century economic problems, and prospects for the future. 3 hours seminar. (002685)
ECON 470	International Economics	3.0	FA
Prerequisites: ECON 301. Economic problems arising out of economic relations and interactions among nations. Current theory of international trade, capital flows, and finance. International economic institutions and their relationship to American foreign policy. 3 hours seminar. (002697)
ENGL 276	Survey of Early British Literature	3.0	FS
A survey of British literature from Beowulf to mid-1700s. 3 hours lecture. (003472)
ENGL 277	Survey of Later British Literature	3.0	FS
A survey of British literature from mid-1700s to the twentieth century. 3 hours lecture. (003473)
ENGL 441W	Shakespeare (W)	3.0	FS	GW W
Prerequisites: Completion of GE Written Communication (A2) requirement; ENGL 276, ENGL 340. An introduction to Shakespeare's principal plays, his art, his age, and his critics; designed especially for English majors. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved Graduation Writing Assessment Requirement course; a grade of C- or higher certifies writing proficiency for majors. This is an approved Writing Course. (003507)
HIST 322	Russian and Soviet History	3.0	FA
The course covers the dramatic events of the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 and the evolution of Soviet and Russian history up to the present. Emphasis is on the social origins of the Russian Revolution, how a revolution for social democracy gave rise to one- party rule, and the chain of events which placed the Soviet Union on a path leading eventually to its demise in 1991 and the recasting of politics and society. 3 hours seminar. (004530)
HIST 326	Gender and Sexuality in Modern European History	3.0	FA	GE
This course is also offered as WMST 326. This course explores major themes and developments in the social and cultural history of European women from the 1700s to the present, including changing gender roles, attitudes toward sexuality, reproduction, and the family. In particular, the course examines women's struggle to define themselves and their roles in society and their impact on the social identities of men. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. (004531)
HIST 328	Modern Germany: From Unification to Reunification	3.0	F2
This course examines the main currents of German history from its first unification in 1870-71 under Bismarck to the reunification in 1989-90. The emphasis is on the nature of Imperial Germany, the German experience during the First World War, the political weaknesses and cultural innovations of the Weimar Republic, the rise of Hitler and of Nazism, the nature of the Third Reich, the causes and consequences of the Second World War, the Holocaust, and the experience of divided Germany in the postwar period. 3 hours seminar. (004519)
HIST 411	Renaissance Civilization: 1300-1550	3.0	S2
New ideas about power and social structure in fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Europe: Humanism, socio-political transformations, secular attitudes in art and society. 3 hours seminar. (004592)
HIST 412	The Reformation and Early Modern Europe: 1400-1660	3.0	S1
The breakdown of religious consensus among Europeans; the people and directions of Reform; technology and the military revolution of the period; rulers, people, and the idea of revolution; the reconsolidating of a European elite. 3 hours seminar. (015755)
HIST 422	Balkan History	3.0	SP
The Turkish conquests of the 14th and 15th centuries, the diplomatically bedeviling "Eastern question" of the 19th century, the shots at Sarajevo that started the First World War, the creation and destruction of Yugoslavia, the war in Bosnia: conflicts in the Balkan peninsula have influenced and often dominated world affairs. This course traces political, cultural, and religious developments in the Balkan world. After an overview of the earlier centuries, the focus will be on the profound events and current problems of the 20th century. 3 hours seminar. (004543)
HIST 423	Tudor-Stuart Britain: 1485-1715	3.0	F2
Political, social, and cultural history of the British Isles from the advent of the Tudors through the demise of the Stuarts. This course examines the transition from a medieval society to modern Britain, by focusing upon change and continuity in matters of government, religion, gender and the economy. 3 hours seminar. (004523)
MUSC 292	Great Musical Compositions and Composers	3.0	FS	GE
A survey of seminal compositions and composers from western art music history. Musical traditions, compositional techniques, performance mediums, and the compositional background of individual works and composers, and the effects of political, social and philosophical issues upon the compositions and composers studies are explored. 3 hours discussion. This is an approved General Education course. (006183)
PHIL 217	Existentialism	3.0	FS	GE
An examination of existentialism from Kierkegaard and Nietzsche to Sartre, and de Beauvoir. An analysis of the basic forces, concepts, and figures which have shaped existentialism. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. (021534)
PHIL 302	History of Modern Philosophy	3.0	SP
Western philosophical thought from the Renaissance through Kant, including Bacon, Hobbes, Descartes, Spinoza, Leibniz, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume. 3 hours lecture. (007182)
PHIL 382	Sartre and Camus	3.0	S2
Intensive reading and discussion of the writing of Satre & Camus. 3 hours seminar. (007309)
POLS 437	Contemporary Political Thought	3.0	INQ
An extended discussion of the nature of anarchy, corporatism, oligarchy, classical liberalism, radical liberalism, democratic socialism, communism, and fascism, with a continued focus on these political cultures and their ideological expressions in contemporary politics. 3 hours seminar. (007281)
WMST 326	Gender and Sexuality in Modern European History	3.0	FA	GE
This course is also offered as HIST 326. This course explores major themes and developments in the social and cultural history of European women from the 1700s to the present, including changing gender roles, attitudes toward sexuality, reproduction, and the family. In particular, the course examines women's struggle to define themselves and their roles in society and their impact on the social identities of men. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. (004531)