European Studies 1 HIST BC1101 Introduction to European History: 8 EUROPEAN STUDIES - HIST BC1302 Renaissance to French Revolution and EUROPEAN HISTORY SINCE 1789 (recommended as prerequisites for other Mission history courses) The European Studies program at Barnard College enables students to HIST BC2321 Colonial Encounters: Europe and the 3 combine disciplinary approaches to the study of Europe. Students ground Culture of Empire themselves in a core discipline (history, political science, anthropology, HIST BC3323 The City in Europe 4 sociology, theater, and philosophy, among others) that provides them with HIST BC3360 London: From Great Wen to World City 4 methodological expertise. They also take courses in the language and HIST BC3368 History of the Senses 4 literature of a chosen region of Europe and complement this program PHIL UN3352 Twentieth Century European Philosophy 3 with a selection of courses exploring Europe from other disciplinary PHIL UN3353 European Social Philosophy 3 perspectives. Students are encouraged to study abroad in the region of PHIL V3740 Hermeneutics and the Humanities 3 their interest. POLS UN1501 Introduction to Comparative Politics 4 Student Learning Outcomes POLS UN3401 Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe 3 RELI V3501 Introduction To the Hebrew Bible 3 Students who graduate with a major in European Studies will be able to RELI V2801 Introduction to Western Religions 3 attain the following outcomes: THTR V3150 3 • Demonstrate an understanding of the breadth of Europe’s cultural SOCI UN3000 Social Theory 3 heritage as well as its distinctive components; THTR V3152 4 • Explain the role of language and literature within culture; French courses in Culture and Literature See French • Apply different disciplinary perspectives to the study of a single German courses in Culture and Literature See German region. Italian courses in Culture and Literature See Italian Spanish courses in Culture and Literature See Spanish This program is supervised by the Committee on European Studies: Co-Chairs: Erk Grimm (Associate Professor of German), Lisa S. Tiersten Cross-Listed Courses (Professor of History) Art History (Barnard) AHIS BC1002 Introduction to the History of Art II. 4 points. Requirements for the Major BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Historical Studies Students who intend to major in European Studies should consult (HIS)., BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Cultures in a member of the department in their sophomore year to plan their Comparison (CUL)., BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: academic programs. The Visual and Performing Arts (ART)., Discussion Section Required The senior requirements vary according to the discipline studied. Majors The second part of the Introduction to Art History goes from about 1400 should consult their advisers for details. to 2015, circles the world, and includes all media. It is organized around one theme for each lecture, and approximately 100 works of art. Visits Students may focus on one country or one region of Europe. Competence to New York museums and discussions sections are crucial parts of the in the language of the region is expected. The major includes: course. 1. A concentration consisting of five courses in an academic discipline Spring 2021: AHIS BC1002 chosen in consultation with the major adviser. A maximum of two of Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment these courses that deal with European topics may be counted among Number Number the ten courses in the regional concentration (Part B). AHIS 1002 001/00126 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Anne Higonnet 4 193 Room TBA 2. Ten courses focusing on a country or region to include: • Two courses in European History; AHIS W4480 Art In the Age of Reformation. 3 points. • Two courses in the literature or cultural studies of one country in Not offered during 2021-22 academic year. the original language; Artistic production in Germany and the Netherlands in the 16th century • Two semester senior projects under the direction of the program and the transformation of the social function of art as a consequence adviser or an adviser in the minor field; of the development of reformed theories of art and the introduction of • Four courses outside the field of concentration dealing with the humanist culture: Albrecht Durer, Hans Baldung Grien, Hans Holbein selected country or region. the Younger, Albrecht Altdorfer, Quentin Massys, Lucas van Leyden, Jan The following list is only a sample selection of courses that may be Gossaert, Jan van Hemessen, and Pieter Aertsen. applied to the major. ECON BC3041 Theoretical Foundations of Political 3 Economy 2 European Studies Economics (Barnard) HIST BC2116 The History of Money. 3 points. ECON BC3041 Theoretical Foundations of Political Economy. 3 points. Examining the history of money and the history of ways of thinking about BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Reason and Value money. We investigate how different monetary forms developed and (REA)., BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Ethics and how they have shaped and been shaped by culture, society, and politics. Values. Tracing money from gift-giving societies to the European Monetary Union, the focus is on early modern Europe. Prerequisites: An introductory course in economics or permission of the instructor. HIST BC2180 Merchants, Pirates, and Slaves in the Making of Atlantic Intellectual origins of the main schools of thought in political economy. Capitalism. 3 points. Study of the founding texts in classical political economy, Marxian BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Historical Studies economics, neoclassicism, and Keynesianism. (HIS)., BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Cultures in Comparison (CUL). Spring 2021: ECON BC3041 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment Examines how the Atlantic Ocean and its boundaries were tied together Number Number through the flow of people, goods, and ideas. Studies the cultures of the ECON 3041 001/00189 T Th 1:10pm - 2:25pm Andre 3 19/80 communities formed by merchants, pirates, and slaves; investigates Room TBA Burgstaller how their interactions and frictions combined to shape the unique ECON 3041 002/00190 T Th 2:40pm - 3:55pm Belinda 3 46/45 combination of liberty and oppression that characterizes early modern Room TBA Archibong capitalism. Fall 2021: ECON BC3041 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment HIST BC2230 Central Europe: Nations, Culture, and Ideas. 3 points. Number Number BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Historical Studies ECON 3041 001/00234 T Th 6:10pm - 7:25pm Sonia Pereira 3 35/35 Ll103 Diana Center (HIS). ECON 3041 002/00235 T Th 4:10pm - 5:25pm Sonia Pereira 3 35/35 Not offered during 2021-22 academic year. 409 Barnard Hall The making and re-making of Central Europe as place and myth from the History (Barnard) Enlightenment to post-Communism. Focuses on the cultural, intellectual, HIST BC1062 Introduction to Later Middle Ages: 1050-1450. 4 points. and political struggles of the peoples of this region to define themselves. BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Historical Studies Themes include modernization and backwardness, rationalism and (HIS). censorship, nationalism and pluralism, landscape and the spatial imagination. Social environment, political, and religious institutions, and the main intellectual currents of the Latin West studied through primary sources HIST BC2321 Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Culture of Empire. 3 and modern historical writings. points. Examines the shaping of European cultural identity through encounters HIST BC1302 EUROPEAN HISTORY SINCE 1789. 4.00 points. with non-European cultures from 1500 to the post-colonial era. Novels, Emergence of revolutionary and counter-revolutionary mass political paintings, and films will be among the sources used to examine movements; European industrialization, nationalism, and imperialism; such topics as exoticism in the Enlightenment, slavery and European 20th-century world wars, the Great Depression, and Fascism capitalism, Orientalism in art, ethnographic writings on the primitive, and Spring 2021: HIST BC1302 tourism. Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment Number Number Fall 2021: HIST BC2321 HIST 1302 001/00106 M W 10:10am - 11:25am Lisa Tiersten 4.00 87/93 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment Room TBA Number Number HIST 1302 AU1/19866 Lisa Tiersten 4.00 5/5 HIST 2321 001/00041 M W 2:40pm - 3:55pm Lisa Tiersten 3 32/30 324 Milbank Hall HIST BC3062 Medieval Economic Life and Thought ca 1000 to 1500. 4 points. HIST BC3360 London: From Great Wen to World City. 4 points. BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: Historical Studies Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. (HIS). Preregistration required. Social and cultural history of London from the Great Fire of 1666 to the Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 15. 1960s. An examination of the changing experience of urban identity Preregistration required. through the commercial life, public spaces, and diverse inhabitants Traces the development of economic enterprises and techniques in their of London. Topics include 17th-century rebuilding, immigrants and cultural context: agricultural markets, industry, commercial partnerships, emigrants, suburbs, literary culture, war, and redevelopment. credit, large-scale banking, insurance, and merchant