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CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES – (120 Hrs) Effective Fall 2021 NAME PID Optional 2Nd Major Or Minor CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES – (120 hrs) Effective Fall 2021 NAME PID Optional 2nd Major or Minor FOUNDATIONS Lifetime Fitness English Comp. and Rhetoric Foreign Language* Quant. Reas. (QR) (LFIT) 1. 3. (1 hr.) 2. 4. * Through level 5, from ARAB, BCS, CZCH, FREN, GERM, HUNG, ITAL, PLSH, PORT, RUSS, SPAN, or TURK APPROACHES Phys. and Life Sciences (PL/PX) ** Social and Behavioral Sciences *** Humanities/Fine Arts Hist. Analysis (HS): EURO/HIST 159 Vis. & Perf. Arts (VP): Soc.Sci./Hist. Analysis (SS): EURO/POLI 239 Literary Arts (LA): w/lab Soc.Sci./Hist. Analysis (SS/HS): Phil. Reasoning (PH): ** At least one with lab *** From at least two depts. CONNECTIONS Communication Int. (CI) Quant. Int. (QI) or 2nd Quant. Reas. (QR) Experiential Ed. (EE) Global Issues (GL) EURO/POLI 239 US Diversity (US) North Atlantic World (NA) World before 1750 (WB) Beyond the NA (BN) EURO/HIST 159 SUPPLEMENTAL EDUCATION Cannot be a course from the major department or any course used to satisfy major requirements. May only double with Connections. A second major or minor, once completed, meets Supplemental Ed. Courses must be 3 hours or more. 1. >199 2. >199 3. >199 MAJOR/MINOR/ELECTIVES CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES (8 courses) Theme EURO/HIST 159 EURO/POLI 239 # Theme # Theme # Theme # Theme 2.0 OR HIGHER GPA REQUIRED IN MAJOR AND MINOR CORE COURSES. # Four courses from one of two themes (Approved theme courses are listed on page 2. Other courses may be approved by ## Other Theme petition to the EURO curriculum advisor): Theme I: Integration and Enlargement †Additional Theme II: Histories and Cultures ## One course from the other theme *Additional: Equivalent of 5 semesters † One additional course from Theme I, Theme II or the list of approved elective courses. modern European Foreign Language: Special topics courses EURO 190 and 490 may count for either theme, with approval based on topic. FL level 5 A minimum of 3 of the 8 courses in the major must be at the 400-level or above. * The Foreign Language requirement must be filled in a single European foreign language. Hours Tally: Remaining courses after this term: Hours to be deducted: Notes: Hours to date: _____ ____ Foundations _____ Repeated courses _____ Hours in progressprogr _____ ____ Approaches _____ HSFL _____ Pending Study Abroad* _____ ____ Connections _____ Online courses > 24 _____ Subtotal _____ ____ Supplemental _____ _____ Other Hours deducted _____ ____ _____ Professional School > _____ 30 Hours after this term _____ ____ _____ Hours in subject (BA) > 45_____ Hours remaining to grad _____ ____ _____ Total _____ Semesters left _____ Requirements subtotal _____ ____ _____ *Pending study abroad hours may Total _____ differ from hours earned. This tally assumes successful completion of presently enrolled courses (not AB or IN), and it does not account for all possible overlaps May 7, 2021 THEME COURSES FOR CONTEMPORARY EUROPEAN STUDIES # Theme I: Integration and Enlargement . HIST 269 The History of London, World City, 1890-Present . HIST 302 Movies Make History: Films as Primary Sources in . CZCH 280 Closely Watched Trains: Czech Film and Literature Europe and America . ECON 461 European Economic Integration . CZCH 411 Introduction to Czech Literature . ECON 560 Advanced International Economics . HIST 312 History of France and Algeria . EURO/HIST 252 Politics, Society, and Culture in Modern Germany . ECON/ EURO/ PWAD 460 International Economics . HIST 320 Museums in Europe and the Americas: History and (1871-1945) . EURO/ POLI 442 International Political Economy Theory . EURO/HIST/WGST 259 Towards Emancipation? Women in Modern . GEOG 124 Gender and Place: Feminist Geographies . HIST 348 Population Transfers, Migration, and Displacement in Europe . GEOG 448 Transnational Geographies of Muslim Societies Europe from the 19th to the 21st Century HIST 353 Cinema, Culture, . EURO/HIST 347 Fascist Challenge in Europe, 1918-1945 . GEOG 464 Europe Today: Transnationalism, Globalisms, and Society in Weimar and Nazi Germany . FREN 262 Cultural and Linguistic Diversity in the French-Speaking and the Geographies of Pan-Europe . HIST 354 War and Gender in Movies World . GEOG/PLAN 428 Global Cities: Space, Power, and . HIST 390H * Special Topics in History . FREN 350 Current societal issues: France and Beyond Identity in the Built Environment . HIST 398* Undergraduate Seminar in History . FREN 377 The Evolution of Frenchness since WWII . HIST 458 Europe and the World Wars, 1914-1945 . FREN 378 French and European Transmigrations: Global Contexts . POLI 190* Undergraduate Seminar * . HIST 462 Germany, 1806-1918: Politics, Society, and Culture . FREN 383 Franco-Asian Encounters . POLI 232 Politics of the United Kingdom . HIST 463 Germany since 1918: Politics, Society, and Culture . POLI 236 Politics of East-Central Europe . FREN 504 Cultural Wars: French/United States Perspectives . HIST 466 Modern European Intellectual History . POLI 255 International Migration and Citizenship Today . GERM 245 Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud . HIST 468 Art, Politics, and Society in France, 1850-1914 . POLI 433 Politics of the European Union . GERM 265 Hitler in Hollywood: Cinematic Representations of Nazi . HIST 469 European Social History, 1815-1970 . POLI 438 Democracy and International Institutions in an Germany . HIST 474 Britain in World Affairs: British Foreign Policy since Undivided Europe . GERM 268 Auteur Cinema World War II . POLI 447 Immigrant Integration in Contemporary Western . GERM 286 (Un)Welcomed Guests? German Reflections on Exile and . HIST 476 Borderlands: Religion and Ethnicity in Modern East Europe Immigration Central Europe . POLI 448 The Politics of Multilevel Governance . GERM 349 Vienna-Munich-Berlin: Revolutions in German Art c. HIST 477 Revolution in Russia, 1900-1930 . POLI 451 Race, Ethnicity, and Political Change in 1900 . HIST 478 Stalin and After: The USSR, 1929-Present Comparative Perspective . GERM 450 Nietzsche, Hesse, and Mann . HIST 481 From Communists to Capitalists: Eastern Europe since . POLI 490* Advanced Special Topics in Political Science . GSLL 246 Reality and Its Discontents: Kant to Kafka 1945 . POLI 630 Political Contestation in Europe . GSLL 251 Ideology and Aesthetics: Marxism and Literature . HIST 485 From Fiddler on the Roof to the Holocaust: East . POLI 631 European Security: The Enlarging European . GSLL 254 The Division of Germany, Reunification, and Conflict with European and Soviet Jewish History . Union and the Trans-Atlantic Relationship Russia . HIST 490*Special Topics in History . POLI 632 The European Union as a Global Actor . GSLL 260 From Berlin to Budapest: Literature, Film, and Culture of . HIST 578 Transatlantic Relations and Contemporary Geo-Politics Central Europe . POLI/ PWAD 459 Trans-Atlantic Security from the Cold War to the Present 469 . GSLL 268 Cultural Trends in Post-Communist Central Europe: Search . POLI/PWAD Conflict and Intervention in the Former . HIST/JWST/PWAD 262 History of the Holocaust: The for Identity, Importance of Jewish Voices Yugoslavia Destruction of the European Jews POLI/ PWAD/ SOCI 260 . GSLL 280 The Dialectic of Whiteness and Blackness in Atlantic . Crisis and Change in Russia . HIST/EURO/POLI 257 Politics, Society, and Culture in Postwar Cultures and Eastern Europe Germany . GSLL 284 Philosophy and the Arts . HIST486/PWAD 485 Extremism, Terrorism, and Security in . GSLL 285 Dissent and Protest in Central Europe Postwar Europe # Theme II: Histories and Cultures . GSLL 306 Language and Nationalism . HIST/WGST 259 Towards Emancipation? Women in Modern . GSLL 465 Literature of Atrocity: The Gulag and the Holocaust in the . ANTH 377 European Societies Europe Soviet Union and Eastern Europe . ARTH 282 Modernism I: Realism, Impressionism, Post- .ITAL 250 Italian Fascism: Between History, Fiction, and Film . HIST 256 France, 1940 to the Present Impressionism .ITAL 320 Italian Cities and Cultures: History, Power, and Ecology . HIST 260 From Kings to Communists: East-Central Europe in the . ARTH 284 Modernism II: 1905-1960 .ITAL 343 Italian Culture Today: Modern Italy as a Nation 1860 to . ARTH 303 Art and Colonialism: France in Africa/Africa in Modern Era . France . HIST 261 France, 1870-1940 ITAL 365 Italian Food and Culture . ARTH/483/HIST 468 Art, Politics, and Society in France, . HIST 269 The History of London, World City, 1890-Present ITAL 385 Italian Landscapes: Italy in the UNESCO World 1850-1914 . HIST 302 Movies Make History: Films as Primary Sources in Europe Heritage List . ASIA 490* Advanced Topics in Asian Studies and America . PLSH 280 The Modern Cinema of Poland . BCS 411 Introduction to South Slavic Literatures and Cultures . GSLL/PWAD 467 Language and Political Identity .PLSH 411 19th-Century Polish Literature and Culture . BCS 490* Topics in South Slavic Cultures . GSLL 475 Magical Realism: Central European Literature in a Global . CMPL/GSLL 270/JWST/RELI 239 German Culture and the Context . RUSS 270 Crimes and Punishments: Russian Literature of the Jewish Question . GSLL 480 Interrogating Cultures of Fascism: Introduction to 19th Century . CMPL 281 Holocaust Cinema in Eastern Europe Frankfurt School's Critical Theory 1923-Present .RUSS 274 Russian Literature from the Revolution to Today . CMPL 469 Milan Kundera and World Literature . HIST 165 20th Century Britain: from the Great War to Brexit . HIST 206 War, Diplomacy, and Statecraft, 1815-1945 . CMPL 479 What is a Medium? German Media Theory from .SPAN 340 Iberian Cultural Topics Aesthetics to Cultural Techniques . HIST 256 France, 1940 to the Present .
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