Early Modern Studies Minor History Department College of Liberal Arts

Twin Cities Campus Early Modern Studies Minor History Department College of Liberal Arts

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Contact Information: Department of History, 1030 Heller Hall, 271 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-625-6303; fax: 612-624-9813). Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.cemh.umn.edu/minor

•Program Type: Graduate free-standing minor •Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2020 •Length of program in credits (Masters): 7 •Length of program in credits (Doctorate): 12 •This program does not require summer semesters for timely completion.

Along with the program-specific requirements listed below, please read the General Information section of the catalog website for requirements that apply to all major fields.

The Early Modern Studies (EMS) minor encourages inquiry into the early modern period, roughly 1300 to 1800 C.E., using insights and perspectives from multiple disciplines. The minor provides graduate students with solid grounding in the theories and multi-disciplinary methods used by scholars studying the early modern period; and draws electives from courses offered by departments across the College of Liberal Arts as well as the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine graduate program. The University has numerous library collections and research centers that include a focus on the early modern period. For more information on the minor, visit www.cemh.umn.edu/minor.

Program Delivery This program is available: •via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)

Prerequisites for Admission Special Application Requirements: Students interested in the minor are strongly encouraged to confer with their major field advisor and director of graduate studies, and the Early Modern Studies director of graduate studies regarding feasibility and requirements.

For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the General Information section of the catalog website.

Program Requirements Use of 4xxx courses toward program requirements is permitted under certain conditions with adviser approval.

Courses applied to the minor that are offered on both the A-F and S/N grade basis must be taken A-F, with a minimum grade of B earned for each.

The minimum cumulative GPA for minor field coursework is 3.0.

Required Courses (4 to 6 credits) Take the following courses in consultation with the EMS director of graduate studies. Masters students take 1 credit, and doctoral students take 3 credits of EMS 8100. Doctoral students may register for EMS 8100 in any credit combination. EMS 8250 - Seminar in Early Modern Studies (3.0 cr) EMS 8100 - Workshop in Early Modern Studies (1.0 - 3.0 cr)

Electives (3 to 6 credits) Masters students select 3 elective credits, and doctoral students select 6 elective credits from the following to complete minimum credit requirements. Other courses can be applied to this requirement with approval of the EMS director of graduate studies. ARCH 5423 - Gothic Architecture (3.0 cr) ARCH 5424 - Renaissance Architecture (3.0 cr)

© 2005 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. Information current as of September 23, 2021 ARCH 5425 - Baroque Architecture (3.0 cr) ARTH 5335 - Baroque Rome: Art and Politics in the Papal Capital (3.0 cr) ARTH 5777 - The Diversity of Traditions: Indian Empires after 1200 (3.0 cr) ARTH 5781 - Age of Empire: The Mughals, Safavids, and Ottomans (3.0 cr) ARTH 5785 - Art of Islamic Iran (3.0 cr) ARTH 8320 - Seminar: Issues in Early Modern Visual Culture (3.0 cr) ARTH 8340 - Seminar: Baroque Art (3.0 cr) CSCL 5281 - European Intellectual History: The Early Modern Period, Antiquity to 1750 (3.0 cr) EMS 5500 - Topics in Early Modern Studies (3.0 cr) EMS 8500 - Topics in Early Modern Studies (3.0 cr) EMS 8993 - Directed Study (1.0 - 6.0 cr) ENGL 5121 - Readings in Early Modern Literature and Culture (3.0 cr) ENGL 5140 - Readings in 18th Century Literature and Culture (3.0 cr) ENGL 8120 - Seminar in Early Modern Literature and Culture (3.0 cr) ENGL 8150 - Seminar in Shakespeare (3.0 cr) FREN 8271 - The Novel of the Ancien Regime (3.0 cr) FREN 8371 - The Rule of Reason, The Reign of Madness: Readings in Early Modern France (3.0 cr) GER 5712 - History of the German Language II (3.0 cr) GER 8210 - Seminar in Early Modern German Literature and Culture (3.0 cr) GER 8220 - Seminar in 18th-Century German Literature and Culture (3.0 cr) HIST 5281 - European Intellectual History: The Early Modern Period, Antiquity to 1750 (3.0 cr) HIST 5286 - Galileo and the Beginnings of Modern Science (3.0 cr) HIST 5379 - Problems in Early American History (3.0 cr) HIST 5469 - Historiographies of China, 1000-1700 (3.0 cr) HIST 5547 - Empire and Nations in the Middle East (3.0 cr) HIST 5612 - New Directions in the Middle Ages, ca. 1100-1500 (3.0 cr) HIST 5633 - Socio-Economic History of China (3.0 cr) HIST 5715 - Readings in European Women's History: 1450-1750 (3.0 cr) HIST 5801 - Seminar in Early American History (3.0 cr) HIST 5901 - Latin America Proseminar: Colonial (3.0 cr) HIST 5962 - Bell Library Research Seminar in Comparative World History, ca. 1000-1800 CE (3.0 cr) HIST 5964 - Comparative Economic History (3.0 cr) HIST 8715 - Research on European Women's History, 1450-1750 (3.0 cr) HIST 8801 - Seminar in Early American History (3.0 cr) HIST 8858 - Research in Early American History (3.0 cr) HMED 8001 - Foundations in the History of Early Medicine (3.0 cr) HSCI 5611 - Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Rise of Modern Science (3.0 cr) HSCI 8125 - Foundations for Research in the Scientific Revolution (3.0 cr) HSCI 8900 - Seminar: History of Early Physical Science (3.0 cr) LAT 5200 - Advanced Reading in Later Latin (3.0 cr) MUS 5624 - Music of J. S. Bach (3.0 cr) MUS 8182 - Opera History in Context: Monteverdi and Mozart (3.0 cr) MUS 8632 - Seminar: Music in Early Modern Europe (3.0 cr) PHIL 4055 - Kant (3.0 cr) PHIL 8010 - Workshop in History of Philosophy (1.0 cr) PHIL 8085 - Seminar: History of Philosophy--Modern Philosophers (3.0 cr) PHIL 8090 - Seminar: History of Modern Philosophy (3.0 cr) POL 8252 - Early Modern Political Thought (3.0 cr) PORT 5520 - Portuguese Literary and Cultural Studies (3.0 cr) PORT 5530 - Brazilian Literary and Cultural Studies (3.0 cr) RELS 5612 - Baroque Rome: Art and Politics in the Papal Capital (3.0 cr) RELS 5721 - North Africa since 1500: Islam, Colonialism, and Independence (3.0 cr) SPAN 5170 - The Literature of the Spanish Empire and Its Decline (3.0 cr) SPAN 5180 - Don Quixote (3.0 cr) SPAN 5190 - The Crisis of the Old Regime: Spanish Literature of the Enlightenment and Romanticism (3.0 cr) SPAN 5316 - Spanish Picaresque Narratives (3.0 cr) SPAN 8212 - Spanish Theater of the 16th Century: Drama up to Lope (3.0 cr) SPAN 8223 - The Poetry of the Spanish Golden Age (3.0 cr) SPAN 8312 - Two Spanish Masterpieces: [Libro de Buen Amor] and [La Celestina] (3.0 cr) SPPT 8400 - Topics in Modern Hispanic and Lusophone Culture (3.0 cr) TH 8112 - History and Theory of Western Theatre: Medieval Through Renaissance (3.0 cr) TH 8113 - History and Theory of Western Theatre: National Theatres to the French Revolution (3.0 cr)

© 2005 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota is an equal opportunity educator and employer. Information current as of September 23, 2021 Program Sub-plans Students are required to complete one of the following sub-plans. Students may not complete the program with more than one sub-plan.

Masters

Doctoral