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Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Minor

College of Arts and Sciences
Interdisciplinary
113 G Satterfield and 305 Bowman
105 Bowman Hall
330-672-2062
www.kent.edu/cas
Susanna Fein and Isolde Thyrêt, Coordinators

The Ancient, Medieval and Renaissance Studies minor offers a culturally comparative program in which the distance of time lends profound diversity from present experience. The minor allows students to explore the origins and development of Western culture as defined across continents, religions and civilizations, through a range of disciplines (anthropology, architecture, art, fashion, history, language, literature, music, philosophy and theatre). The program’s flexibility encourages students to pursue specific interests, for example, early religion, high medieval culture, classical influences upon the Renaissance or Byzantine culture.

ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MINOR REQUIREMENTS (21 credits)
Course Title Credits
Lower-Division Electives:
Must be selected from two disciplines
6
ANTH 18210 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3)  
18420 Introduction to Archaeology (3)  
ARCH 10011 Survey of Architectural History I (3)  
  10012 Survey of Architectural History II (3)  
  10111 History of Architecture I (3)  
20112 History of Architecture II (3)   
ARTH 22006 Art History I: Ancient and Medieval Art (3)   
22007 Art History II: Renaissance to Modern Art (3)  
CLAS 21404 The Greek Achievement (3)  
  21405 The Roman Achievement (3)   
ENG 21054 Introduction to Shakespeare (3)  
  22071 Great Books I (3)  
  25001 Literature in English I (3)  
HIST 11050 History of Civilization I (or HONR 13197) (3)   
HONR 13197 History of Civilization I (or HIST 11050) (3)    
MUS 32211 Music History to 1750 (3)   
PHIL  21020 Comparative Religious Thought I (3)  
Upper-Division Electives:
Must be selected from three or more disciplines

 15-16  
ANTH 38250 Religion: A Search for Meaning (3)  
  38420 Prehistory: Urbanism (3)  
ARCH 45210 Renaissance Architecture (3)  
  45211 Baroque Architecture (3)  
ARTH  42031 Greek Archaeology and Art (or CLAS 41401) (3)  
  42032 Roman Archaeology and Art (or CLAS 41402) (3)  
  42036 Medieval Art (3)  
  42039 Gothic Art, 12th to 15th Centuries (3)  
  42041 Italian Renaissance Art (3)  
  42042 Northern Renaissance Art (3)  
  42046 Baroque Art of the 17th Century (3)  
  42095  Special Topics: High Renaissance Art (3)  
CLAS 41006 Roman History (or HIST 41006) (3)  
  41097 Colloquium in Classics (3)  
  41301 Classical Mythology (3)  
  41401 Greek Archaeology and Art (or ARTH 42031) (3)  
  41402 Roman Archaeology and Art (or ARTH 42032) (3)  
  41503 Greek Literature in Translation (3)  
ENG 31002  History of the English Language (3)  
  34001 British Literature to 1500 (3)   
  34002 British Literature from 1500 to 1660 (3)  
  34055 Shakespeare (3)  
  34065 Chaucer (3)  
  34095 Special Topics: John Milton (3)  
35201 The Bible as Literature (3)  
  37001 Classical Rhetoric (3)  
  39995 Special Topics: Arthurian Romance (3)  
GER 41331 History of German Literature (4)  
GRE  34350 Advanced Prose Authors (3)  
  34351 New Testament in Greek (3)  
  34370 Plato: Apology and Phaedo (3)  
  34371 Homer (3)  
  44352 Greek Drama (3)  
HIST 31009 History of the Byzantine Civilization (3)  
  31027 History of England in 1688 (3)  
  31127 Ancient and Early Medieval Jewish History (3)  
  31128 Late Medieval and Modern Jewish History (3)  
  41010 The Early Middle Ages (3)  
  41011 The High Middle Ages (3)  
  41014 Europe in the Renaissance (3)  
  41016 The Protestant and Catholic Reformations (3)  
  41017 Seventeenth-Century Europe (3)  
  41026 Tudor England 1485-1603  
  41044  Imperial Russia, 1689-1917  
  41097 Colloquium: Saints, Monks and the Medieval Community (3)  
  42397 Colloquium: Women in Europe from Antiquity to the Renaissance (3)  
LAT 36170 Cicero (3)  
  36171 Vergil (3)  
  46095 Special Topics in Latin (3)  
  46351 Latin Comedy (3)  
  46352 Elegaic Poets (3)  
  46372 Lyric Poetry (3)  
  46373 Advanced Prose Authors (3)  
  46374 Juvenal's Satires and Martial's Epigrams (3)  
  46375 Lucretius (3)  
MUS 40295 Special Topics: Madrigal Music (3)  
  40295 Special Topics: Development of Polyphonic Mass (3)  
  40295 Special Topics: The Mass from Machaut to Paestrina (3)  
PHIL 31001 Ancient Greek Philosophy (3)  
  31002 Medieval Philosophy (3)  
  31065 Philosophies of Religious Experience (3)  
  41065 Plato (3)  
  41070 Aristotle (3)  
SPAN 38330 Early Spanish Literature (3)  
  48340 Medieval Spanish Poetry (3)  
  48350 Don Quixote (3)  
  48351 Minor Works of Cervantes (3)  
  48352 Medieval Spanish Prose (3)  
THEA 31112 History of Theatre and Drama I (3)  
  TOTAL
21

Appropriate specialized offering may be substituted above as available with approval of the coordinator(s).

Minimum cumulative 2.00 GPA required for graduation.