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Institute for European Studies

Certificate in European Studies

Students on Summer 2019, Fall 2019, or Spring 2020 requirements EUROACRT
The certificate in European Studies is a flexible, interdisciplinary credential designed to complement many other programs of study in the College of Arts & Sciences and beyond. In completing the certificate, students go beyond the requirements for the European Studies minor in their study of European history, politics, society, cultures, and/or languages.

Requirements

The certificate requires at least 21 credit hours, including the requirements listed below.
  1. Courses at the 200–499 level, selected from the following:
    • EURO-E 200 Intermediate Modern Greek I
    • EURO-E 250 Intermediate Modern Greek II: An Introduction to Modern Greek Culture
    • EURO-E 300 Advanced Modern Greek I: Cultural Literacy and Current Events
    • EURO-E 350 Advanced Modern Greek II: Literature, History, and Cinema
    • EURO-W 301 Modern European Politics and Society
    • EURO-W 304 Model European Union
    • EURO-W 325 European Issues Enhanced by European Language Discussion
    • EURO-W 401 Topics in European Intellectual History
    • EURO-W 405 Special Topics in European Studies
    • EURO-W 406 Special Topics in European Studies
    • EURO-W 475 Capstone in European Studies
    • EURO-X 373 Internship in European Studies
    • EURO-X 490 Individual Readings in European Studies
    • ANTH-L 200 Language and Culture
    • ANTH-E 387 The Ethnography of Europe
    • ARTH-A 203 Machine Age Modern: European Modernism, 1848-1939
    • ARTH-A 205 Baroque Art in Europe: From Caravaggio to Rembrandt
    • ARTH-A 206 Classical Art and Archaeology
    • ARTH-A 214 Art and Life in Ancient Rome
    • ARTH-A 224 The Gothic Cathedral
    • ARTH-A 231 The Age of Giants: Art in the Time of Leonardo and Michelangelo
    • ARTH-A 233 Renaissance and Baroque Art in Italy 1250-1700
    • ARTH-A 234 Renaissance Florence
    • ARTH-A 240 Rococo, Revolution, Romance
    • ARTH-A 303 The Art and Ideas of Eighteenth-Century Europe and America
    • ARTH-A 311 Art of the Classical Age of Greece
    • ARTH-A 312 Art of the Roman Empire
    • ARTH-A 313 Greek Pottery and Painting
    • ARTH-A 314 History of Greek Sculpture
    • ARTH-A 315 The Body in Classical Art
    • ARTH-A 316 Ancient Art from Alexander the Great to Augustus
    • ARTH-A 321 Romans and Barbarians: Early Medieval Art
    • ARTH-A 322 Romanesque and Gothic Art
    • ARTH-A 323 Illuminated Manuscripts in the Middle Ages: Form, Function, and Audience
    • ARTH-A 330 Art of Renaissance and Baroque
    • ARTH-A 331 Fourteenth- and Fifteenth-Century Art in Italy
    • ARTH-A 332 Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Art in Southern Europe
    • ARTH-A 333 From Van Eyck to Vermeer
    • ARTH-A 335 Baroque Art in Italy, 1580-1700
    • ARTH-A 337 Age of Rubens and Rembrandt
    • ARTH-A 340 Topics in Modern Art
    • ARTH-A 341 Nineteenth-Century European Art
    • ARTH-A 347 Picasso
    • ARTH-A 349 Dada and Surrealism
    • ARTH-A 412 The Art and Archaeology of the Aegean
    • ARTH-A 413 The Art and Archaeology of Greece
    • ARTH-A 414 Art & Archaeology of the Roman World
    • ARTH-A 415 Roman Painting
    • ARTH-A 416 Greek Architecture
    • ARTH-A 417 Roman Sculpture
    • ARTH-A 417 Roman Sculpture
    • ARTH-A 418 Roman Architecture
    • ARTH-A 423 Romanesque Art
    • ARTH-A 425 Heaven on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium
    • ARTH-A 426 The Medieval City
    • ARTH-A 432 Italian Art of the Sixteenth Century
    • ARTH-A 434 Visual Culture of the Interwar Years
    • ARTH-A 436 Italian Art of the Fifteenth Century
    • ARTH-A 437 Playing with Pictures in the Fifteenth-Century Netherlands
    • ARTH-A 440 Nineteenth-Century Painting I
    • ARTH-A 441 Nineteenth-Century Painting II
    • ARTH-A 442 Twentieth-Century Art, 1900-1945
    • ARTH-A 482 Sixteenth-Century Visual Culture in Northern Europe
    • CEUS-R 294 Introduction to Hungary, Estonia, and Finland
    • CEUS-R 295 Contemporary East Central Europe
    • CEUS-R 302 Modern Finland
    • CEUS-R 309 Topics in Baltic-Finnish Studies
    • CEUS-R 340 Introduction to Hungarian Studies
    • CEUS-R 342 Roma (Gypsy) History and Culture
    • CEUS-R 349 Topics in Hungarian Studies
    • CEUS-R 399 Advanced Topics in Central Eurasian Studies
    • CEUS-R 441 Art and Music of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Hungary
    • CEUS-T 201 Intermediate Finnish I
    • CEUS-T 202 Intermediate Finnish II
    • CEUS-T 203 Intermediate Estonian I
    • CEUS-T 204 Intermediate Estonian II
    • CEUS-T 241 Intermediate Hungarian I
    • CEUS-T 242 Intermediate Hungarian II
    • CEUS-T 301 Advanced Finnish I
    • CEUS-T 302 Advanced Finnish II
    • CEUS-T 303 Advanced Estonian I
    • CEUS-T 304 Advanced Estonian II
    • CEUS-T 341 Advanced Hungarian I
    • CEUS-T 342 Advanced Hungarian II
    • CLAS-C 205 Classical Mythology
    • CLAS-C 206 Classical Art and Archaeology
    • CLAS-C 209 Medical Terms from Greek and Latin
    • CLAS-C 310 Classical Drama
    • CLAS-C 311 Classical Epics
    • CLAS-C 321 Classical Myth and Culture in Film
    • CLAS-C 351 Change and Innovation in Greece
    • CLAS-C 362 Later Latin Literature in Translation
    • CMLT-C 325 The Renaissance
    • CMLT-C 329 The Eighteenth Century
    • CMLT-C 333 Romanticism
    • CMLT-C 335 Realism, Naturalism, and Symbolism
    • CMLT-C 363 Black Paris
    • ECON-E 303 Survey of International Economics
    • ENG-L 220 Introduction to Shakespeare
    • ENG-L 305 Chaucer
    • ENG-L 306 Middle English Literature
    • ENG-L 307 Medieval and Tudor Drama
    • ENG-L 308 Elizabethan and Seventeenth-Century Drama
    • ENG-L 309 Elizabethan Poetry
    • ENG-L 310 Literary History 1: Beginnings through the Seventeenth Century
    • ENG-L 312 Literary History 2: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
    • ENG-L 313 Early Plays of Shakespeare
    • ENG-L 314 Late Plays of Shakespeare
    • ENG-L 317 English Poetry of the Early Seventeenth Century
    • ENG-L 318 Milton
    • ENG-L 320 Restoration and Early Eighteenth-Century Literature
    • ENG-L 327 Later Eighteenth-Century Literature
    • ENG-L 328 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Drama
    • ENG-L 332 Romantic Literature
    • ENG-L 335 Victorian Literature
    • ENG-L 345 Twentieth-Century British Poetry
    • ENG-L 346 20th and 21st Century British Fiction
    • ENG-L 347 British Fiction to 1800
    • ENG-L 348 Nineteenth-Century British Fiction
    • FOLK-F 312 European Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music
    • FRIT-F 200 Second-Year French I: Language and Culture
    • FRIT-F 202 Intermediate French Conversation I
    • FRIT-F 222 Media Studies in the Francophone World
    • FRIT-F 225 French Culture: Topics
    • FRIT-F 226 French Society: Topics
    • FRIT-F 227 French Style: Topics
    • FRIT-F 250 Second-Year French II: Language and Culture
    • FRIT-F 252 Intermediate French Conversation II
    • FRIT-F 300 French and Francophone Studies: Introduction
    • FRIT-F 305 Stage and Page
    • FRIT-F 306 Fiction and Poetry
    • FRIT-F 310 Francophone Culture: Topics
    • FRIT-F 311 French/Francophone Studies Through Film
    • FRIT-F 311 French/Francophone Studies Through Film
    • FRIT-F 313 Advanced Grammar
    • FRIT-F 314 Creative and Critical Writing in French
    • FRIT-F 315 The Sounds and Rhythms of French
    • FRIT-F 316 Conversational Practice
    • FRIT-F 317 French in the Business World
    • FRIT-F 361 La France médiévale (jusqu\'à 1500)
    • FRIT-F 362 Renaissance et Révolution
    • FRIT-F 363 La France Post-Révolutionnaire
    • FRIT-F 375 Thèmes et perspectives littéraires et culturels
    • FRIT-F 401 Structure and Development of French
    • FRIT-F 402 Introduction to French Linguistics
    • FRIT-F 413 French Renaissance
    • FRIT-F 423 Seventeenth-Century French Literature
    • FRIT-F 424 Ideas and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France
    • FRIT-F 436 Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau
    • FRIT-F 450 Culture and Society in French Studies
    • FRIT-F 451 Literature and the Arts in French Studies
    • FRIT-F 455 Le Roman au 20e siècle
    • FRIT-F 460 La francophonie nord-américaine
    • FRIT-F 461 Cinéma et Culture: La France/la Francophonie contemporaine
    • FRIT-F 467 French Beyond the Hexagon
    • FRIT-G 275 Thematic Studies
    • FRIT-M 200 Intermediate Italian I
    • FRIT-M 215 Accelerated Second-Year Italian
    • FRIT-M 222 Topics in Italian Culture
    • FRIT-M 235 Rome, the City and the Myth
    • FRIT-M 236 Dante's Divine Comedy
    • FRIT-M 238 Visual, Musical, and Literary Culture in Italy
    • FRIT-M 250 Intermediate Italian II
    • FRIT-M 300 Italian Conversation and Diction
    • FRIT-M 301 Italian Reading and Expression
    • FRIT-M 305 Perspectives on Italian Culture
    • FRIT-M 307 Masterpieces of Italian Literature I
    • FRIT-M 308 Masterpieces of Italian Literature II
    • FRIT-M 311 Italian Film and Culture
    • FRIT-M 390 Studies in Italian Film
    • FRIT-M 435 Theatre Workshop
    • FRIT-M 450 Seminar in Italian Literature
    • FRIT-M 455 Seminar in Italian Cinema
    • FRIT-M 474 Workshop on Advanced Italian Stylistics and Expression
    • GEOG-G 428 Geography of Europe
    • GER-E 162 Scandinavian Culture
    • GER-E 311 Tradition and Innovation in German Literature
    • GER-E 321 Gender and Sexuality in Germany
    • GER-E 322 German Cultural History
    • GER-E 323 German Film Culture
    • GER-E 341 Dutch Culture: The Modern Netherlands
    • GER-E 342 Topics in Dutch Culture and History
    • GER-E 343 Topics in Dutch Literature
    • GER-E 351 Topics in Yiddish Literature
    • GER-E 352 Topics in Yiddish Culture
    • GER-E 361 Vikings and Sagas
    • GER-E 362 Topics in Scandinavian Culture
    • GER-E 363 Topics in Scandinavian Literature
    • GER-G 200 Intermediate German I
    • GER-G 250 Intermediate German II
    • GER-G 300 Fifth-Semester College German
    • GER-G 305 Introduction to German Literature: Types
    • GER-G 306 Introduction to German Literature: Themes
    • GER-G 330 Sixth-Semester College German
    • GER-G 362 Introduction to Contemporary Germany
    • GER-G 363 Introduction to German Cultural History
    • GER-G 375 Conversational German
    • GER-G 400 Advanced College German
    • GER-G 404 Modern German Literature
    • GER-G 415 Perspectives on German Literature
    • GER-G 416 Studies in German Authors
    • GER-G 418 German Film and Popular Culture
    • GER-G 448 Introduction to German Phonetics and Phonology
    • GER-G 453 Introduction to German Sociolinguistics
    • GER-G 458 Introduction to German Morphology
    • GER-G 459 Introduction to the History of the German Language
    • GER-G 464 German Culture and Society
    • GER-K 200 Intermediate Norwegian I
    • GER-K 250 Intermediate Norwegian II
    • GER-N 200 Dutch Reading, Composition, and Conversation I
    • GER-N 250 Dutch Reading, Composition, and Conversation II
    • GER-N 300 Advanced Dutch I
    • GER-N 330 Advanced Dutch II
    • GER-X 493 Individual Readings in Yiddish Studies: Language, Literature, Culture
    • GER-Y 200 Intermediate Yiddish I
    • GER-Y 250 Intermediate Yiddish II
    • HISP-P 200 Second-Year Portuguese I
    • HISP-P 250 Second-Year Portuguese II
    • HISP-P 290 Global Portuguese: Arts and Culture
    • HISP-P 311 Advanced Grammar and Composition in Portuguese
    • HISP-P 317 Reading and Conversation in Portuguese
    • HISP-P 400 Literatures of the Portuguese-Speaking World I
    • HISP-P 401 Literatures of the Portuguese-Speaking World II
    • HISP-P 405 Literature and Film in Portuguese
    • HISP-P 410 Brazilian Cinema
    • HISP-P 411 Portugal: The Cultural Context
    • HISP-P 412 Brazil: The Cultural Context
    • HISP-P 425 Structure of Portuguese Language
    • HISP-P 467 Contemporary Portuguese Literature
    • HISP-P 470 Poetry in Portuguese
    • HISP-P 476 Prose in Portuguese
    • HISP-S 200 Second-Year Spanish I
    • HISP-S 250 Second-Year Spanish II
    • HISP-S 260 Trends in Hispanic Cinema
    • HISP-S 265 Topics in Hispanic Literature in Translation
    • HISP-S 269
    • HISP-S 280 Spanish Grammar in Context
    • HISP-S 284 Women in Hispanic Culture
    • HISP-S 308 Composition and Conversation in Spanish
    • HISP-S 315 Spanish in the Business World
    • HISP-S 317 Spanish Conversation and Diction
    • HISP-S 322 Introduction to Film Analysis in Spanish
    • HISP-S 324 Introduction to the Study of Hispanic Cultures
    • HISP-S 326 Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics
    • HISP-S 328 Introduction to Hispanic Literature
    • HISP-S 334 Panoramas of Hispanic Literature
    • HISP-S 336 Introduction to Spanish Translation
    • HISP-S 407 Cultural Icons of Spain
    • HISP-S 408 Iberian Modernities
    • HISP-S 411 Spain: The Cultural Context
    • HISP-S 419 Modern Spanish Prose Fiction
    • HISP-S 420 Modern Spanish-American Prose Fiction
    • HISP-S 422 Hispanic Cinema
    • HISP-S 423 The Craft of Translation
    • HISP-S 425 Spanish Phonetics
    • HISP-S 427 The Structure of Spanish
    • HISP-S 429 Hispanic Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics
    • HISP-S 430 The Acquisition of Spanish
    • HISP-S 450 Don Quijote
    • HISP-S 472 Dictatorship and Democracy in Spanish American Literature and Culture
    • HISP-S 473 Hispanic Literature and Literary Theory
    • HIST-B 200 Issues in Western European History
    • HIST-B 204 Medieval Heroes
    • HIST-B 208 Pagans and Christians in the Middle Ages
    • HIST-B 215 Religion, Magic and Witchcraft, 1000--2000
    • HIST-B 226 The Mafia and Other Italian Mysteries
    • HIST-B 260 Women, Men, and Society in Modern Europe
    • HIST-B 270 Inside Nazi Germany
    • HIST-B 300 Issues in Western European History
    • HIST-B 301 Issues in Medieval European History
    • HIST-B 302 Issues in Early Modern European History
    • HIST-B 303 Issues in Modern European History
    • HIST-B 313 The Crusades
    • HIST-B 315 European Anti-Semitism from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust
    • HIST-B 321 European Jews in the Age of Discovery
    • HIST-B 322 Jews in the Modern World
    • HIST-B 323 History of the Holocaust
    • HIST-B 330 The Jews of Spain
    • HIST-B 348 Byzantine History
    • HIST-B 351 Western Europe in the Early Middle Ages
    • HIST-B 352 Western Europe in the High and Later Middle Ages
    • HIST-B 353 The Renaissance
    • HIST-B 354 The Reformation
    • HIST-B 356 French Revolution and Napoleon
    • HIST-B 359 Europe from Napoleon to the First World War I
    • HIST-B 360 Europe from Napoleon to the First World War II
    • HIST-B 361 Europe in the Twentieth Century I
    • HIST-B 362 Europe in the Twentieth Century II
    • HIST-B 366 Paris and Berlin in the 1920s: A Cultural History
    • HIST-B 368 Modern Italy
    • HIST-B 374 The Cultures of Modern Europe
    • HIST-B 377 Germany, Reformation to 1871
    • HIST-B 378 Germany, 1871 to the Present
    • HIST-B 386 British Sexual Histories: From Regency Scandals to Sexual Revolution
    • HIST-B 400 Issues in Western European History
    • HIST-C 215 Sparta at War
    • HIST-C 300 Issues in Classical and Byzantine History
    • HIST-C 320 The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic
    • HIST-C 376 Greek History: Bronze Age to the Persian Wars
    • HIST-C 377 Greek History: The Persian Wars to the Legacy of Alexander
    • HIST-C 390 The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
    • HIST-C 400 Issues in Ancient History
    • HIST-D 200 Issues in Russian/East European History
    • HIST-D 300 Issues in Russian/East European History
    • HIST-D 304 Jews of Eastern Europe
    • HIST-D 322 Hungarian History and Civilization 1711--1918
    • HIST-D 325 Path to Emancipation: Nationalism in the Balkans, 1804--1923
    • HIST-D 327 The Habsburg Empire, 1780-1918: Nation-Building and Imperial Decline
    • HIST-D 329 Eastern Europe 1900--1943
    • HIST-D 330 Eastern Europe 1944--Present
    • HIST-H 104 Europe: Napoleon to the Present
    • HIST-H 206 Medieval Civilization
    • HIST-H 210 Britain's Road to Modernity
    • HIST-H 213 The Black Death
    • HIST-H 231 Women, Men and Family in History
    • HIST-H 252 Introduction to Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to the Present
    • HPSC-X 406 Survey of History of Science up to 1750
    • HPSC-X 452 Modern Philosophy of Science
    • INTL-I 310 Advanced Topics in Diplomacy, Security, Governance
    • INTL-I 423 Postcolonial/Postcommunist Discourses
    • PHIL-P 211 Early Modern Philosophy
    • PHIL-P 301 Medieval Philosophy
    • PHIL-P 304 19th Century Philosophy
    • PHIL-P 335 Phenomenology and Existentialism
    • PHIL-P 340 Classics in Ethics
    • PHIL-P 343 Classics in Social and Political Philosophy
    • POLS-Y 102 International Political Controversies
    • POLS-Y 335 Western European Politics
    • POLS-Y 340 East European Politics
    • POLS-Y 343 The Politics of International Development
    • POLS-Y 347 German Politics
    • POLS-Y 350 Politics of the European Union
    • POLS-Y 352 The Holocaust and Politics
    • POLS-X 476 Political Science Practicum III
    • REEI-R 300 Russian and East European Issues
    • REEI-R 303
    • SLAV-C 201 Intermediate Czech I
    • SLAV-C 202 Intermediate Czech II
    • SLAV-C 211 Summer Intensive Intermediate Czech I
    • SLAV-C 222 Summer Intensive Intermediate Czech II
    • SLAV-C 223 Introduction to Czech Culture
    • SLAV-C 301 Advanced Intermediate Czech I
    • SLAV-C 302 Advanced Intermediate Czech II
    • SLAV-C 363 History of Czech Literature and Culture
    • SLAV-C 364 Lovers & Murderers: Czech Literature and Culture from WWII to Today
    • SLAV-C 365 Seminar in Czech and Central European Literatures and Cultures
    • SLAV-C 366 Czech Cinema
    • SLAV-M 201 Intermediate Romanian I
    • SLAV-M 211 Summer Intensive Intermediate Romanian I
    • SLAV-M 222 Summer Intensive Intermediate Romanian II
    • SLAV-P 201 Intermediate Polish I
    • SLAV-P 202 Intermediate Polish II
    • SLAV-P 211 Summer Intensive Intermediate Polish I
    • SLAV-P 222 Summer Intensive Intermediate Polish II
    • SLAV-P 223 Introduction to Polish Culture
    • SLAV-P 301 Advanced Intermediate Polish I
    • SLAV-P 302 Advanced Intermediate Polish II
    • SLAV-P 363 Faces of War and Freedom
    • SLAV-P 365 Topics in Polish Literature and Culture
    • SLAV-P 366 The Bold and the Restless: Polish Film from the 1950s to the Present
    • SLAV-P 473 Fourth-Year Polish I
    • SLAV-P 474 Fourth-Year Polish II
    • SLAV-R 353
    • SLAV-S 201 Intermediate Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian I
    • SLAV-S 202 Intermediate Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian II
    • SLAV-S 211 Summer Intensive Intermediate Croatian/Serbian I
    • SLAV-S 222 Summer Intensive Intermediate Croatian/Serbian II
    • SLAV-S 223 Introduction to Balkan and South Slavic Cultures
    • SLAV-S 301 Advanced Intermediate Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian I
    • SLAV-S 302 Advanced Intermediate Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian II
    • SLAV-S 320 Special Topics in Slavic Studies
    • SLAV-S 363 Literature and Culture of the Southern Slavs I: Literature and Nationalism in the Balkans
    • SLAV-S 364 Socialist Modernism
    • SLAV-S 401 Fourth-Year Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian I
    • SLAV-S 402 Fourth-Year Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian II
    • SLAV-T 230 Topics in Slavic Literatures and Cultures
    • SLAV-X 390 Readings in Romanian
    • SOC-S 101 Social Problems and Policies (approved topic: "Immigration")
    • BUS-C 272 GLOBAL BUSINESS IMMERSION-BUSINESS COMMUNICATIONS (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • BUS-D 271 GLOBAL BUSINESS ANALYSIS-INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • BUS-F 272 GLOBAL BUSINESS IMMERSION-FINANCE (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • BUS-T 144 JLLC HOT TOPICS (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
    • SPEA-V 450 CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN PUBLIC AFFAIRS (approved topics only; see academic advisor)
  2. Certificate GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
    1. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed in courses taken through the Indiana University Bloomington campus or an IU-administered or IU co-sponsored Overseas Study program.
    2. At least 9 credit hours in the certificate must be completed at the 300–499 level.
    3. Except for the GPA requirement, a grade of C- or higher is required for a course to count toward a requirement in the certificate.
    4. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the certificate—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
    5. Exceptions to certificate requirements may be made with the approval of the department's Director of Undergraduate Studies, subject to final approval by the College of Arts and Sciences.