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College
College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Department of English

113 Satterfield Hall
E-mail: english@kent.edu
Tel: 330-672-2676
Fax: 330-672-3152
Web: www.kent.edu/english

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.

Type Legend: DD Diversity–Domestic; DG Diversity–Global; ELR Experiential Learning; KAD Kent Core Additional; KBS Kent Core Basic Sciences; KCM Kent Core Composition; KFA Kent Core Fine Arts: KHU Kent Core Humanities; KMC Kent Core Mathematics and Critical Reasoning; KSS Kent Core Social Sciences; WIC Writing Intensive

Please read the sections in the University Catalog on Kent Core, diversity, writing-intensive and the experiential learning requirements.

ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE MINOR REQUIREMENTS (21 credits)
Type Course Title Credits
  Lower-Division Electives:
Must be selected from two disciplines		 6
KSS/DG ANTH 18210 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology (3)  
KSS/DG   18420 Introduction to Archaeology (3)  
KFA ARCH 10011 Survey of Architectural History I (3)  
KFA   10012 Survey of Architectural History II (3)  
    10111 History of Architecture I (3)  
    20112 History of Architecture II (3)  
KFA ARTH 22006 Art History I: Ancient and Medieval Art (3)  
KFA   22007 Art History II: Renaissance to Modern Art (3)  
KHU/DG CLAS 21404 The Greek Achievement (3)  
KHU/DG   21405 The Roman Achievement (3)  
KHU ENG 21054 Introduction to Shakespeare (3)  
KHU   22071 Great Books to 1700 (3)  
    25001 Literature in English I (3)  
KHU/DG HIST 11050 World History: Ancient and Medieval (3)  
  MUS 32211 Music History to 1750 (3)  
KHU/DG 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 form 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)  
  GRE 34351 New Testament in Greek (3)  
    34370 Plato: Apology and Phaedo (3)  
    34371 Homer (3)  
    44352 Greek Drama (3)  
  HIST 31027 History of England to 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)  
    41044 Imperial Russia, 1689-1917  
    41097 Colloquium: Saints, Monks and the Medieval Community (3)  
  LAT 36170 Cicero (3)  
    36171 Vergil (3)  
    46095 Special Topics in Latin (3)  
    46351 Latin Comedy (3)  
    46352 Elegiac 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)  
    48351 Minor Works of Cervantes (3)  
    48352 Medieval Spanish Prose (3)  
  THEA 31112 History of Theatre and Drama I (3)  
  MINIMUM TOTAL 21


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

Minimum cumulative 2.000 GPA required for graduation.

Students must complete at least two upper-division courses in the minor at Kent State on a graded basis (A-F). For information on the major Residence Requirements please visit the University Residence Requirements policy.