This program is supervised by the Committee on European Studies:
Lisa Tiersten, Deborah Valenze (Program Co-Chairs)
For a complete list of
faculty on leave see:
http://www.barnard.edu/provost/facleavelist.html
A major in European Studies is open to qualified students whose applications are approved by the committee in charge. First-year students and sophomores anticipating such a major should consult their class advisers and the officer in charge by March 1 of the sophomore year.
The senior requirements vary according to the discipline studied. Majors should consult their advisers for details.
Students may focus on one country or one region of Europe. Competence in the language of the region is expected. The major includes:
A. A concentration consisting of five courses in an academic discipline chosen in consultation with the major adviser. A maximum of two of these courses that deal with European topics may be counted among the ten courses in the regional concentration (Part B).
B. Ten courses focusing on a country or region to include:Two courses in European History;
Two courses in the literature or cultural studies of one country in the original language;
Two semester senior projects under the direction of the program adviser or an adviser in the minor field;
Four courses outside the field of concentration dealing with the selected country or region.
The following list is only a sample selection of courses that may be applied to the major.
Anthropology V 3100 Anthropology of Urban Life
Anthropology V 3038 Ethnicity and Race
Art History V 3475, 3521 Art and Culture of the Northern Renaissance Seventeenth-Century Painting and Public Life in the Lowlands, 1580-1700
Economics BC 3041 Theoretical Foundation of Political Economy
History BC 1101, 1102 Introduction to European History (recommended as prerequisites for other history courses)
History BC 3321 Colonial Encounters: Europe and the culture of Empire
History BC 3323 European Women in the Age of Revolution
History BC 4360 London: From 'Great Wen' to World City
History BC 4368 History of the Senses
PHIL V 3352 Recent European Philosophy
PHIL V 3353 European Social Philosophy
PHIL V 3740 Hermeneutics, History, and the Human Sciences
Political Science BC 3007 Modern Political Movements
Political Science BC 3013, 3014 Political Theory
Political Science V 3501 Democracy and Dictatorship in Europe
Political Science V 1501 Comparative Politics
Religion V 1101 Introduction to the Study of Western Religion
Religion V 3501 18th- and 19th-Century Religious Thought
Sociology V 3100 Introduction to Social Theory
Theatre V 3150x Theatre History
Theatre V 3152 Theatre Studies: Performative Cultures of the Third Reich
Theatre BC 3186x Modern Drama
French courses in Culture and Literature See French
German courses in Culture and Literature See German
Italian courses in Culture and Literature See Italian
Spanish courses in Culture and Literature See Spanish