Students come to the major and minor chiefly through one of the many courses currently offered in the Medieval or Renaissance Studies Program. Interested students will be directed to faculty advisors with whom they can work directly in developing a course of study. Advisors will inform students about the course offerings, help them plan an interdisciplinary program that will build toward a capstone project, and inform them about graduate opportunities in their field.
Minors
Minors must take six courses drawn from at least three separate fields (Classics, English, history, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, music, philosophy, religious studies, Spanish, visual arts, etc.). At least three courses must be at the intermediate or advanced level.
Majors
Medieval and Renaissance Studies majors fulfill all the requirements of the minor plus eight more courses, for a total of 14. (Or, if the Medieval and Renaissance Studies major is a second major for a student, s/he will take a total of 10 Medieval and Renaissance Studies courses; only two of these may be in the field of the first major.) In addition, majors are required to read and work with original period texts — either in a foreign language (French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish) or in Middle English — at some point during their coursework.