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Medieval & Renaissance Studies Medieval & Renaissance Studies 1 A minimum of 11 courses are required for the major in Medieval and MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE Renaissance Studies: STUDIES • Five courses in the area of concentration; • Two history courses for students who are not concentrating in 312 Milbank history; 212-854-5321 • Two courses in the other disciplines mentioned above for those who are; Mission • Two electives in areas outside the concentration, to be chosen in The Medieval and Renaissance program at Barnard College is designed consultation with the adviser; and to enable students to acquire both a broad knowledge of the European • MEDR BC3998 Directed Research for the Senior Project and Middle Ages and/or Renaissance and a richer and more detailed MEDR BC3999 Directed Research for the Senior Project, a two- understanding in one area of concentration chosen by the student. semester program of interdisciplinary research leading to the writing Students can elect to concentrate in one of the following disciplines: art of the senior essay. history, history, literature, philosophy, romance languages and cultures, music, or religion. We encourage our students to take advantage of (In some cases, a senior seminar in one of the departments may be relevant courses taught at Columbia as well as at Barnard, with the result substituted for MEDR BC3998 Directed Research for the Senior Project or that more than sixty courses are currently listed as approved for the MEDR BC3999 Directed Research for the Senior Project.) major. Students are required to write an interdisciplinary senior essay based on two semesters of research in their field of concentration and in another Student Learning Outcomes discipline, carried out under the supervision of their area adviser and Students who graduate with a major in Medieval and Renaissance another from the second discipline. The choice of topic for this senior Studies will be able to attain the following outcomes: project and the appointment of a second adviser are determined in consultation with the area adviser and the chair of the program. • Demonstrate a broad knowledge of the European Middle Ages and/or Renaissance. In addition to the language used to fulfill the general four-semester • Show they also have in-depth knowledge in their chosen requirement for graduation, the student must have completed two concentration of study. semesters of a second language (or the equivalent) relevant to her area of • Create an original research project centered in primary sources. concentration. This program is supervised by the Committee on Medieval and The following courses represent only a sample of those that can be taken Renaissance Studies: to satisfy the program requirement. Other relevant courses may be taken with the permission of the chair. Director: Rachel Eisendrath (English) Professors: Christopher Baswell (English), Elizabeth Castelli (Religion), No minor is offered in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Achsah Guibbory (English), Kim Hall (English), Joel Kaye (History), Keith MEDR BC3998 Directed Research for the Senior Project. 4 points. Moxey (Art History), Peter Platt (English), Anne Lake Prescott (English), Two semesters of supervised interdisciplinary research in Medieval or Deborah Valenze (History) Renaissance Studies terminating in the writing of a senior essay. The Assistant Professors: Orlando Bentancor (Spanish and Latin American program of research is determined in consultation with the chair and Cultures) under the guidance of the area adviser. It is supervised by the latter and Senior Lecturer: Laurie Postlewate (French), Timea Szell (English) an adviser from the second discipline involved in the project. Columbia University Faculty: MEDR BC3999 Directed Research for the Senior Project. 4 points. Professors: Peter Awn (Religion), Teodolinda Barolini (Italian), Susan Two semesters of supervised interdisciplinary research in Medieval or Crane (English), Kathy Eden (English), Carmela Franklin (Classics), Jean Renaissance Studies terminating in the writing of a senior essay. The Howard (English), Martha Howell (History), Christia Mercer (Philosophy), program of research is determined in consultation with the chair and Stephen Murray (Art History), David Rosand (Art History), James Shapiro under the guidance of the area adviser. It is supervised by the latter and (English), Robert Somerville (Religion), Paul Strohm (English), an adviser from the second discipline involved in the project. Associate Professor: Jo Ann Cavallo (Italian), Julie Crawford (English), Matthew Jones (History), Holger Klein (Art History), Adam Kosto Cross-Listed Courses (History), Pamela Smith (History) Art history and Archaeology Assistant Professors: Patricia Dailey (English), Molly Murray (English), AHIS W3230 Medieval Architecture. 3 points. Neslihan Senocak (History) Not offered during 2021-22 academic year. Requirements for the Major Developed collaboratively and taught digitally spanning one thousand Major programs are established individually with a concentration in one years of architecture. of these disciplines: art history, history, literature, philosophy, romance philology, music, or religion. Each student, after consultation with the chair, chooses an adviser in her area of concentration who guides her in developing a sequence of courses to be taken in the field. 2 Medieval & Renaissance Studies AHIS W3407 Early Italian Art. 3 points. ENGL BC3154 Chaucer Before Canterbury. 3 points. Discussion Section Required Chaucer's innovations with major medieval forms: lyric, the extraordinary Not offered during 2021-22 academic year. dream visions, and the culmination of medieval romance, Troilus and Criseyde. Approaches through close analysis, and feminist and historicist An introduction to the origins and early development of Italian interpretation. Background readings in medieval life and culture. Renaissance painting as a mode of symbolic communication between 1300-1600. Artists include Giotto, Fra Angelico, Masaccio, Mantegna, and Fall 2021: ENGL BC3154 Leonardo da Vinci. Emphasis on centers of painting in Florence, Siena, Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment Assisi, Venice and Rome. Number Number ENGL 3154 001/00411 T Th 8:40am - 9:55am Eugene 3 8 Classics 409 Barnard Hall Petracca LATN UN3033 MEDIEVAL LANGUAGE # LITERATURE. 3.00 points. ENGL BC3155 Canterbury Tales. 3 points. Prerequisites: four semesters of college Latin or the instructor's Not offered during 2021-22 academic year. permission. Prerequisites: four semesters of college Latin or the instructors Chaucer as inheritor of late-antique and medieval conventions and permission. This course offers an introduction to medieval Latin literature founder of early modern literature and the fiction of character. Selections in conversation with its two most important traditions, classical literature from related medieval texts. and early Christian culture. Illustrative passages from the principal ENGL BC3158 Medieval Literature: Literatures of Medieval Britain. 3 authors and genres of the Latin Middle Ages will be read, including points. Augustine and biblical exegesis; Ambrose and poetry; Bede and history BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Reason and Value and hagiography; Abelard and Heloise and the 12th century Renaissance. (REA)., BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Literature (LIT). The course is suitable both for students of Latin and of the Middle Ages Not offered during 2021-22 academic year. Fall 2021: LATN UN3033 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment It's easy to forget that medieval literature wasn't always old and "quaint" Number Number as it seems to many of us today. For writers and artists of that era, they LATN 3033 001/10744 T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm Carmela 3.00 12/20 616 Hamilton Hall Franklin were modern, too. But they also imagined their own past and (like many of us) they often had a nostalgic yearning for that lost time. This course LATN GU4152 MEDIEVAL LATIN LITERATURE. 3.00 points. will explore a number of forms of medieval literature, mostly British but Prerequisites: the instructor's permission. also some continental, as it explores versions of its past, and especially Prerequisites: the instructors permission. This course covers various the ultimately tragic story of King Arthur. We will read across many topics in Medieval Latin Literature medieval genres, including some little known today, like lives of saints. Spring 2021: LATN GU4152 But the course will focus on narratives of quest: heroic, psychological, Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment and erotic. We will also explore some of the often beautiful medieval Number Number manuscripts in which these texts were often copied. We will read most LATN 4152 001/12402 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm Carmela 3.00 4/20 Online Only Franklin Middle English texts in the original language; we'll study French and Latin LATN 4152 AU1/19292 Carmela 3.00 3/3 texts in translation. Franklin ENGL BC3163 Shakespeare I. 3 points. English & Comparative Literature A critical and historical introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances. Please note that you do not need to take ENGL ENGL UN3336 Shakespeare II. 3 points. BC3163: Shakespeare I and ENGL BC3164: Shakespeare II in sequence; (Lecture). Shakespeare II examines plays from the second half of you may take them in any order. Shakespeare’s dramatic career, primarily a selection of his major tragedies and his later comedies (or “romances”). Fall
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