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Institute for European Studies

Minor in European Studies

Students on Summer 2019, Fall 2019, or Spring 2020 requirements EUROMIN
The minor in European Studies is intended to provide a broad understanding of the historical significance, social structure, political features, and cultural aspects of European countries.

Requirements

The minor requires at least 15 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 Spanish for Health Professions
    • 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 Current Issues in Eastern Europe
    • 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 Central European Cinema
    • 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. Minor GPA, Hours, and Minimum Grade Requirements.
    1. At least 9 credit hours in the minor 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 minor 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 minor.
    4. A GPA of at least 2.000 for all courses taken in the minor—including those where a grade lower than C- is earned—is required.
    5. Exceptions to minor 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.