Program Requirements

• Total Units Required: 36
• Grade Requirement: Student must receive a grade of C+ or higher in all courses

This concentration focuses on the new Europe and its historical and cultural contexts, attempting to understand the European contribution to world politics and cultural exchange. It involves the study of both traditional and new European cultural products (e.g., literature, film, visual art, electronic media) as well as of European institutions and contexts. This concentration will educate students interested in understanding Europe for its own sake but also help them to discover the ways in which the continent connects with other parts of the world. The concentration is committed to interdisciplinary approaches, and students may take courses in the traditional language-and-literature disciplines as well as in anthropology, art history, economics, film, history, music, philosophy, and political science.

Concentration Objectives

The European Studies concentration defines the geography of modern Europe to include the Atlantic world as well as its Eurasian and Mediterranean neighbors.

General Requirements

One semester of language must be completed before declaring the major.

• Students must complete a minimum of 36 units in Global Studies, including at least three courses focused on a world area.
• Students must complete at least 24 units at the 3000 level or above, including courses across a minimum of three academic disciplines.
• Students must complete at least 6 units at the 4000 level, no more than 3 of which may be directed research or independent study.
• In addition to the 36 units, students must complete a four-semester sequence of courses in one modern language appropriate to their concentration.

These requirements may be fulfilled only with college-level course work undertaken during a student's undergraduate enrollment. Courses must be taken for a grade, and a student must receive a grade of C+ or higher in all courses.

This concentration requires 36 units of coursework:

• 3 units of core coursework: GLOBAL 3020 Global Futures
• 3 units of introductory coursework (1000 or 2000 level)
• 3 units of European history coursework (3000 level or above from history department offerings on Europe [from 1750 forward])
• 3 units of non-European world area coursework (any level)
• 24 units of advanced European studies coursework (3000-4000 level; at least one course must focus on gender, race, or class)

• Students must fulfill the standard Global Studies language requirement with a European language consistent with their study abroad location (e.g., French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish).

Note: A single course may satisfy more than one of the distribution requirements (i.e., disciplinary; race, gender, class; or world area). Some of these requirements may be completed while abroad.

Introductory Courses

Students choose one course from this list, for a total of 3 units:

Course List

Code	Title	Units
GLOBAL 2000	Crossing Borders
GLOBAL 2009	Introduction to European Studies *preferred
HISTORY 1020	Barbarity and Civilization: Introduction to Modern European History
HISTORY 2158	FYS: Outcasts and Outlaws: The History of Othering in Modern Europe

Non-European Area Courses

Students choose one course, for a total of 3 units. We consider world areas to be Africa, East Asia, Eurasia, Latin America, the Middle East, and South Asia. Courses that may be used to satisfy this requirement may include advanced area-specific courses or the following lower-level courses:

Course List

Code	Title	Units
ARTARCH 1510	Introduction to Asian Art
CHINA 2270	Chinese Civilization
GLOBAL 1104	Chinatown: Migration, Identity and Space
GLOBAL 1105	East Asia in the World
GLOBAL 2100	The Public Servant and Other Heroes: A History of Japan Through Film
HISTORY 1124	The Meaning of Pakistan: History, Culture, Art
JAPAN 2260	Japanese Civilization
JIMES 2081	Introduction to Jewish Civilization
JIMES 2100	Introduction to Islamic Civilization
KOREA 2230	Korean Civilization
LATAM 1000	Latin America: Nation, Ethnicity and Social Conflict

Gender, Race, and Class Courses

Students pursuing this concentration are required to complete one upper-level course focused on gender, race, or class that is chosen from the following list:

Course List

Code	Title	Units
AFAS 3062	Islam, Culture and Society in West Africa	3
AFAS 3360	Zambaje: Afro-Indigenous Relations in Latin America	3
AFAS 4090	Gender, Sexuality and Change in Africa	3
ANTHRO 3313	Women and Islam	3
ANTHRO 4134	The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography and Ethics	3
ANTHRO 4365	Sex, Gender, and Power	3
ANTHRO 4366	Europe's New Diversities	3
ARCH 307X	Community Building	3
CHINA 4390	Topics in Chinese Lit & History: Writing Women of the Late Imperial and Early Republican Periods	3
COMPLITTHT 3101	An Intellectual History of Sex and Gender	3
COMPLITTHT 3300	Topics in Comp Lit: The Asian Experience: Negotiating the In-Betweenness	3
COMPLITTHT 4492	Topics in Comp Lit: Writing from the Periphery: The Question of Chineseness	3
ELIT 3106	Topics in Asian American Literature: Gender and Sexuality in American Asian Lit	3
ELIT 3111	Topics in English & American Lit: Asian American Writings: Contesting American Constructions of the Alien Other	3
GLOBAL 3248	Intercultural Communication	3
GLOBAL 3512	"Model Minority": The Asian American Experience	3
GLOBAL 3840	Migration & Modernity: Human Mobility, Identity & State Formation in the Russian/Soviet/Post-Soviet Context	3
GLOBAL 3880	Topics in Migration and Identity	3
GLOBAL 3890	Furies and Die-Hards: Women in Rebellion and War	3
GLOBAL 4036	Children of Immigrants: Identity and Acculturation	3
GLOBAL 4357	The Holocaust in the Sephardic World	3
GLOBAL 4414	Gender Analysis in International Affairs	3
HEBREW 3090	Israeli Women Writers	3
HISTORY 3049	Chinese Diaspora: A Social History of Global Migration	3
HISTORY 3087	The Holocaust: History and Memory of the Nazi Genocide	3
HISTORY 3094	History of the Jews in Islamic Lands	3
HISTORY 3104	War, Genocide and Gender in Modern Europe	3
HISTORY 3131	Gender, Sexuality and Communism in 20th Century Europe	3
HISTORY 3146	Topics in European History: Modern European Women	3
HISTORY 3951	Imperialism and Sexuality: India, South Asia, and the World (WI)	3
HISTORY 4038	Beyond the Harem: Women, Gender and Revolution in the Modern Middle East	3
ITAL 3500	Topics in Italian Lit and Culture: Global Italy: Race, Gender, Migration and Citizenship	3
ITAL 4302	Divergent Voices: Italian Women Writers	3
JAPAN 3260	Topics in Modern Japanese Lit: Mirrors and Masks: Gender and Sexuality in Japanese Literature	3
JAPAN 4490	Modern Japanese Women Writers	3
JAPAN 4495	Modern Japanese Women Writers: Writing-Intensive Seminar	3
JIMES 3184	A Rainbow Thread: A History of Queer Identitites in Judaism and Islam	3
JIMES 4043	Race and Ethnicity in the Middle East and North Africa	3
KOREA 3550	Topics in Korean Lit & Culture: Sexing Korea: Gender & Sexuality in Korean Pop Culture	3
KOREA 4550	Topics in Korean Lit & Culture: Gender in Korean Literature and Film	3
LATAM 3020	Survey of Brazilian Cultures: Race, Nation and Society	3
LATAM 3060	Survey of Southern Cone Cultures: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay	3
LATAM 4120	Gender and Modernity in Latin America	3
LATAM 4280	Constructing the (Racial) Other: Race and Ethnicity in Latin America from the Colonial Caste System to U.S. Latinos	3
RELPOL 3070	Islam, Gender, Sexuality	3
SOC 3190	Gender in Society	3
SOC 4170	Global Structures and Problems	3
SOC 4831	Global Racial Systems	3
SPAN 4500	Special Topics in Hispanic Literature and Culture: Spanish Women Writers from the Enlightenment to the Contemporary Period	3
SPAN 4500	Special Topics in Hispanic Literature and Culture: Women's Writing in Latin America	3
WGSS 3014	Queer Citizenship	3
WGSS 3041	Making Sex and Gender: Understanding the History of the Body	3
WGSS 3203	Bodies Out of Bounds: Feminist and Queer Disability Studies	3
WGSS 3256	Sex Trafficking	3
WGSS 3550	Trans* Studies	3
WGSS 3555	Caste: Sexuality, Race and Globalization	3
WGSS 3685	Gender Violence	3
WGSS 4085	Everyday Unruliness: Feminist and Queer Resistance	3
WGSS 4150	Feminist Literary and Cultural Theory	3
WGSS 4245	Transnational Feminisims	3

Advanced Courses

Students choose nine courses from current European-focused course offerings in the following departments.* All courses must be approved by the student's Global Studies advisor in order to count for the major. Visit the concentration webpage and concentration course list for the full list of options.

African and African American Studies

• Terror and Violence in the Black Atlantic (AFAS 3880)

Anthropology

• Anthropology of Refugees, Asylum and Forced Migration (ANTHRO 3038)
• Sex, Gender, and Power (ANTHRO 4365)
• Europe’s New Diversities (ANTHRO 4366)
• Culture, Power, Knowledge (ANTHRO 4367)
• Writing Culture (ANTHRO 4481)
• Advanced GIS Modeling and Landscape Analysis (ANTHRO 4803)

Applied Linguistics

• Second Language Acquisition and Technology (APL 4023)
• Linguistics and Language Learning (APL 4111)
• Reading Across Languages and Cultures: Theory, Research and Practice (APL 4692)

Art History

• Topics in Art History (WI): Fauvism and Expressionism in Europe, c. 1905-1945 (ARTARCH 3000)
• Pleasure and Pain: European Fashion as (Art) History (ARTARCH 3380)
• The Modernist Project: Art in Europe and the US, 1905-1980 (ARTARCH 3500)
• Rococo to Revolution: Art in 18^th Century Europe (ARTARCH 3520)
• Rejecting Reason: Dada and Surrealism in Europe and the United States (ARTARCH 3590)
• Modern Sculpture: Canova to Koons (ARTARCH 3637)
• The Century of Picasso (ARTARCH 4545)
• Gauguin Then and Now: Art, Myth and Controversy (ARTARCH 4575)
• The Impressionist Landscape: Style, Place and Global Legacies 1870-1920 (ARTARCH 4605)
• Impressionism and the Nation in France and Beyond: Painting and Photography 1860-1920 (ARTARCH 4610)
• 1968 and Its Legacy (ARTARCH 4735)
• Marking History: Painting and Sculpture After World War II in the US, France and Germany (ARTARCH 4879)

Classics

• Greek History: The Dawn of Democracy (CLASSICS 3450)

Comparative Literature

• Intro to Comparative Arts: the 20^th Century (COMPLIT 3030)
• Intro to Comparative Arts: Cultural Constructs (COMPLIT 3030)
• Paris and New York: The Art of the City (COMPLIT 3320)
• Topics in Comparative Literature: Points of Intersection (COMPLIT 3320)
• Topics in Comparative Literature: Central European Modernisms (COMPLIT 3320)
• Intro to Comparative Literature (COMPLIT 4020)
• Topics in Lit and History: Constructing Strangeness: Witches, Ghosts & Vampires (1500-2000) (COMPLIT 4112)
• The Commedia dell’Arte (COMPLIT 4121)
• The Unmaking and Remaking of Europe: The Literature and History of the Great War of 1914-1918 (COMPLIT 4931)

Drama

• Seminar: Actors as Celebrities + Public Figures - 18^th Century England + France (DRAMA 4305)

Economics

• Open Economy Macroeconomics (ECON 4220)

English Literature

• Introduction to Literary Theory (ELIT 3000)
• Topics in English & American Lit: International Modernism (ELIT 3107)
• Topics in English & American Lit: British Fiction 1900-1945 (ELIT 3111)
• Topics in English & American Lit: British & Anglophone Fiction 1945 – Present (ELIT 3113)
• Introduction to Postcolonial Literature (ELIT 3138)
• Modern British Literature (ELIT 3139)
• Topics in Lit: Drama Queens: Cleopatra in Elizabethan England (ELIT 3140)
• Topics in Lit: 20^th Century Irish Poetry: Yeats and Heaney (ELIT 3173)
• The Victorian Period (ELIT 3157)
• Shakespeare (ELIT 3163)
• Topics in Irish Lit: Understanding Recent (Irish) Poetry (ELIT 4133)
• English Novel of the 19^th Century (ELIT 4137)
• Topics in English Lit II: Sex and the City – Sexual Economies in Early Modern London (ELIT 4147)
• Frankenstein: Origins and Afterlives (ELIT 4155)

Environmental Studies

• IPCC: Governance, Policy and Science (ENST 4527)

Film and Media Studies

• British Cinema (FILM 3200)
• French Film Culture (FILM 3250)
• Screening the Holocaust (FILM 4750)

French

• French Culture and Civilization: The New Face of France (FRENCH 3015)
• Topics I: Sport et Societé (FRENCH 3210)
• Topics II: In Perspective: Graphic Novels (FRENCH 3220)
• Topics II: In Perspective: The French New World (FRENCH 3220)
• French Lit I: Dramatic Voices: Poets and Playwrights (FRENCH 3250)
• French Lit II: Narrative Voices: Fiction and Non-Fiction (FRENCH 3260)
• In-Depth: Science Fiction (FRENCH 3740)
• In-Depth: Medical Narratives, Narrative Medicine (FRENCH 3750)
• Cinema and Society (FRENCH 3760)
• The 19^th Century French Novel: From Realism to Naturalism to Huysmans (FRENCH 4150)
• The French Islands: Isles and Exiles: Lit of the Francophone Tropics (FRENCH 4191)
• Tragedy and Farce in African Francophone Literature (FRENCH 4192)
• The 20^th Century French Novel (FRENCH 4210)
• Topics in French Lit and History: Perspectives on Paris (FRENCH 4610)

German

• Topics in Holocaust Studies: Children in the Shadow of the Swastika (GERMAN 3060)
• German Literature and the Modern Era (GERMAN 3080)
• German Thought and the Modern Era (GERMAN 3081)
• Germany Today (GERMAN 4040)
• German Lit and Culture, 1750-1830 (GERMAN 4061)
• German Lit and Culture, 1830-1914 (GERMAN 4062)
• German Lit and Culture, 1914-Present (GERMAN 4063)
• Studies in Genre (GERMAN 4070)
• Topics in German Studies: Kafka and his Contemporaries (GERMAN 4080)
• Topics in German Studies: Telling Tales - The Magical, the Wondrous, and the Strange (1500-present) (GERMAN 4080)
• Topics in German Studies: The Book Was Better Than the Movie: Literary Adaptations in the Age of Multimedia (GERMAN 4080)
• Contemporary German Literature (GERMAN 4380)

Global Studies (All GS Home-based courses count for this concentration)

• Global Health and Language (GLOBAL 3006)
• Topics in Global Studies: Modern Indian Literature (GLOBAL 3008)
• Global Futures (GLOBAL 3020)
• Global Surveillance Culture (GLOBAL 3511)
• Borders, Checkpoints, and the Frontiers of Literature (GLOBAL 3602)
• Anarchism: History, Theory and Praxis (GLOBAL 3641)
• Russian Literature and Empire OR Russian Literature at the Borders: Multiculturalism and Ethnic Conflict (GLOBAL 3740)
• Topics in Russian and Culture: Madmen or Visionaries? (WI) (GLOBAL 3750)
• Topics in Russian and Culture: The Short Story (WI) (GLOBAL 3750)
• Topics in Russian Literature and Culture: The Soviet Experiment through Novels and Novellas (GLOBAL 3750)
• Nabokov and Others: Emigration, Literature, Identity (GLOBAL 3790)
• Nabokov in Europe and America (GLOBAL 3790)
• Migration & Modernity: Human Mobility, Identity & State Formation in the Russian/Soviet/Post-Soviet Context (GLOBAL 3840)
• Empire in East Asia: Theory and History (WI) (GLOBAL 3860)
• Interrogating “Crime and Punishment” (GLOBAL 3866)
• Topics in Migration and Identity (GLOBAL 3880)
• Furies and Die-Hards: Women in Rebellion and War (GLOBAL 3890)
• Global Studies Research Methods Proseminar and Assistantship (GLOBAL 4007)
• Islam, Immigrants and the Future of European Culture (GLOBAL 4200)
• The Holocaust in the Sephardic World (GLOBAL 4357)
• Gender Analysis in International Affairs (GLOBAL 4414)
• Labor and Labor Movements in Global History (GLOBAL 4622)
• War, Migration, and Human Rights (GLOBAL 4820)
• Russia and the West: Creating and Representing Identity (GLOBAL 4868)
• Reading War and Peace (GLOBAL 4869)

History

• The Holocaust: History and Memory (HISTORY 3087)
• Vienna, Prague, Budapest: Politics, Culture and Identity in Central Europe (HISTORY 3092)
• Becoming “Modern”: Emancipation, Anti-Semitism and Nationalism in Modern Jewish History (HISTORY 3093)
• The World Is Not Enough: Europe's Global Empires, 1400-1750 (HISTORY 3103)
• War, Genocide and Gender in Modern Europe (HISTORY 3104)
• Riots and Revolution: A History of Modern France from 1789 to the Present (HISTORY 3109)
• Modern Germany (HISTORY 3111)
• Europe in the 20^th Century: Unruly Populations (HISTORY 3116)
• Gender, Sexuality and Communism in 20th Century Europe (HISTORY 3131)
• Révolution with an Accent: The Haitian and French Revolutions, 1770-1805 (HISTORY 3135)
• Socialist and Secular? A Social History of the Soviet Union (HISTORY 3137)
• 20^th Century Russian History (HISTORY 3138)
• Topics in European History: Modern European Women (HISTORY 3146)
• The First World War and the Making of Modern Europe (HISTORY 3148)
• Out of the Shtetl: Jewish Life in Central and Eastern Europe in the 19^th and 20^th Centuries (HISTORY 3351)
• Race, Ethnicity, and Migration: A Transatlantic History (HISTORY 3514)
• The Cold War: 1945-1991 (HISTORY 3682)
• European Population Politics, 1900-2000 (HISTORY 3715)
• Unruly Populations: Biopolitics in 20th-Century Europe (HISTORY 3715)
• The Fascist Challenge in Europe, 1919 – 1945 (HISTORY 4035)
• Humanitarianism and Human Rights (HISTORY 4092)
• Advanced Seminar in History: History of the Body (HISTORY 4889)

Interdisciplinary Project in the Humanities

• Introduction to Digital Humanities: Cultural Analysis in the Information Age (IPH 3121)
• The Traffic in Women and Contemporary European Cinema (IPH 3600)
• Imagining the City: Crime and Commerce in Early Modern London (IPH 4260)

Italian

• Italian Literature II (WI) (ITAL 3240)
• Topics in Film Studies: Cinema and Society in Contemporary Italy (ITAL 3320)
• Topics in Italian Lit and Culture: Global Italy: Race, Gender, Migration and Citizenship (ITAL 3500)
• Disease, Madness, and Death Italian Style (ITAL 4080)
• Divergent Voices: Italian Women Writers (ITAL 4302)
• Caffé, Cadavers, Comedy and Castrati: Italy in the Age of the Grand Tour (ITAL 4370)

Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

• Diaspora in Jewish and Islamic Experience (JIMES 4005)

Philosophy

• Kant and 19^th Century Philosophy (PHIL 3290)
• Advanced Social and Political Philosophy (PHIL 4321)

Political Science

• Politics of the European Union (POLSCI 3096)
• Topics in Politics: Political Economy of Immigration (POLSCI 3189)
• Topics in Politics: Comparative Political Parties (POLSCI 3242)
• History of Political Thought (POLSCI 3391)
• History of Political Thought (POLSCI 3392)
• Understanding Political Protest and Violence (POLSCI 3565)
• Quantitative Political Methodology (POLSCI 3630)
• History of Political Thought (POLSCI 3930)
• Global Justice (POLSCI 4306)
• Research Design and Methods (POLSCI 4905)

Russian

• Russian Theatre, Drama and Performance: From Swan Lake to Punk Prayer (RUSS 3320)
• The 19^th Century Russian Novel (RUSS 3500)
• Dostoevsky’s Novels (RUSS 3721)

Sociology

• Statistics for Sociology (SOC 3040)
• Sociology of Immigration (SOC 3150)
• Gender in Society (SOC 3190)
• Global Racial Systems (SOC 4831)

Spanish

• Literary and Cultural Studies in Spanish (SPANISH 3410)
• Iberian Literatures and Cultures (SPANISH 3420)
• Special Topics in Hispanic Literature and Culture: Spanish Women Writers from the Enlightenment to the Contemporary Period (SPANISH 4500)

Women Gender and Sexuality Studies

• Making Sex and Gender: Understanding the History of the Body (WGSS 3041)
• Feminist Literary Theory and Cultural Theory (WGSS 4150)

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