Program of Concentration in Modern European Studies
Designed for students who seek to broaden their awareness of the European experience and to prepare for international careers or advanced study, the program in European Studies (EUS) offers the major disciplinary breadth as well as expertise in a specialty of their choosing. Most EUS majors also participate in one of the Vanderbilt study abroad programs in Europe and/or reside in the International House on campus. The interdisciplinary major consists of 42 hours of course work, to be distributed among various disciplines as indicated in the following. Emphasis is on political, cultural, economic, and related trends or events especially since the early modern period.

Advising is crucial to the successful completion of the major in EUS. Advising forms and declaration of major forms are available in the Max Kade Center for European and German Studies (MKC). In consultation with the director and/or associate director of the Max Kade Center, students choose a thematic focus and specific courses that will fulfill the requirements for the major. This focus can consist of a thematic or comparative topic (such as culture and society during a particular epoch), a regional or subregional topic (such as European integration, the Iberian Peninsula, the Baltic region), or the culture and society of a particular nation (such as France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Spain). In addition to the core requirements, majors take relevant courses in history, social sciences, and the humanities, as well as a foreign language of the student’s choice. Special activities of the MKC include visiting lecture series, international symposia, and informal faculty-student luncheon seminars. Both academic scholars and public figures are invited to campus to address European and transatlantic affairs.

Required Core Courses (21 hours)
1. EUS 201, European Society and Culture (3 hours).
2. EUS 203, The Idea of Europe (3 hours).
3. EUS 250, Senior Seminar (3 hours).
4. Six hours in Political Science, usually PSCI 210, West European Politics,
    and PSCI 211, The European Union.
5. Six hours in European history in the student’s special interest area, to
    be selected from the list below and in consultation with the major adviser.

Foreign Language Requirement (6 hours)
The foreign language requirement is to be satisfied in one of the following
ways:
6. Six hours of course work beyond the intermediate level in one European language;
7. course work through the intermediate level in two European languages;
8. demonstration of proficiency equivalent to either of the preceding options; or
9. participation in one of the Vanderbilt study programs in Europe (students participating in the Vanderbilt in England program must complete course work through the intermediate level in one European language, or demonstrate equivalent proficiency).

Electives (15 hours)
The remainder of the 42 hours required for the major may be selected from the list of courses below or from among approved courses taken abroad. Students majoring in EUS are advised to select courses from the social sciences and humanities that complement their areas of special interest and their thematic focus. They should be distributed as follows:
• 3 additional hours in history
• 3 additional hours from other social science fields
• 9 hours from the humanities

EUROPEAN HISTORY

EUROPEAN STUDIES: 215W, Europe on Trial; 237, Air War and Aftermath; 240, Topics in European Studies; 260, European Cities.

HISTORY: 135, Western Civilization to 1700; 136, Western Civilization since 1700; 139, America to 1776: Discovery to Revolution; 149, The Modern Human Sciences; 160, European Economic History, 1000-1700; 172, World War II; 173, The U.S. and the Cold War; 176, History of Christian Traditions; 183, Sexuality and Gender in the Western Tradition to 1700;
184, Sexuality and Gender in the Western Tradition since 1700; 209, Russia: Old Regime to Revolution; 210, Russia: the U.S.S.R. and Afterward; 223, Medieval Europe, 1000-1350; 224 Renaissance Europe; 225, Reformation Europe; 226, Revolutionary Europe, 1789-1815; 227,  Nineteenth-Century Europe; 228, Europe 1900-1945; 229, Europe since 1945; 230, Twentieth-Century Germany; 231, France: Renaissance to Enlightenment; 234, Modern France; 241, Victorian England; 241, The English Atlantic World, 1500-1688; 244, Rise of the Iberian Atlantic Empires, 1492-1700; 245, Decline of the Iberian Atlantic Empires, 1700-1820; 280, Modern Medicine; 287C, Cities of Europe and the Middle East; 294, Selected Topics in History (with appropriate topic); 295, Undergraduate Seminar in History (with appropriate topic).

JEWISH STUDIES: 156, The Holocaust; 157, Modern Jewish History, 1750-2000.

SOCIAL SCIENCES

ANTHROPOLOGY: 243, European Ethnography.

ECONOMICS: 115F, First-Year Writing seminar: Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations; 249a-249b, Selected Topics (with appropriate topic); 262, History of Economic Thought; 263, International Trade; 271, Economic History of Europe.

EUROPEAN STUDIES: 240 Topics in European Studies (depending on topic).

POLITICAL SCIENCE: 101, Introduction to Comparative Politics; 102, Introduction to International Politics; 103, Introduction to Political Theory; 203, Modern Political Philosophy; 205, Modern Political Ideologies; 206, Foundations of Marxism; 207, Liberalism and its Critics;
210, West European Politics; 211, The European Union; 220, Crisis Diplomacy; 221, Causes of War; 225, International Political Economy; 226, International Law and Organization; 227, Economics and Foreign Policy; 231, Contemporary Issues in Europe; 232, Evolution in French Foreign Policy under the Fifth Republic; 238, Comparative Political Parties; 284, Special Topics (with appropriate topic); 287-288, Seminar in Selected Topics (with appropriate topic); 294, Special Topics (with appropriate topic).

SOCIOLOGY: 294 Seminar in Selected Topics (with appropriate topic).

HUMANITIES

CLASSICS: 225, Humor, Ancient to Modern; 240, The Trojan War in History, Art, and Literature.

COMMUNICATION STUDIES:
225 History of Criticism of British Public Address
294 Selected Topics in Communication Studies (with appropriate topic)

ENGLISH
115F, First-Year Writing Seminar (with appropriate topic); 209a-209b, Shakespeare;
210, 210W, Shakespeare: Representative Selections; 221, Medieval Literature; 230, The Eighteenth-Century English Novel; 231, The Nineteenth-Century English Novel; 233, The Modern British Novel; 235, Contemporary British Fiction; 244, Critical Theory; 248, Sixteenth-Century Literature; 249, Seventeenth-Century Literature; 250, English Renaissance: The Drama;
251, Milton; 252a-252b, Restoration and Eighteenth Century; 254a-254b, The Romantic Period;
256, Modern British and American Poetry: Yeats to Auden; 264, Modern Irish Literature;
272, 272W, Movements in Literature (with appropriate topic); 274, 274W, Major Figures in Literature (with appropriate topic); 295, Undergraduate Seminar (with appropriate topic).

EUROPEAN STUDIES: 151, Confronting the Self – Defining the Self; 225, European Realism; 235, Filming World War II; 240, Topics in European Studies; 260, European Cities.

FRENCH: 201W, French Composition; 204, French for Business; 209, Contemporary France; 210, French Cinema; 211, Text and Contexts: Middle Ages to the Enlightenment; 214, Advanced Conversational French; 215, La Provence; 216, Summer Study Tour; 218, The Contemporary Press and Media; 220, Texts and Contexts: Middle Ages to the Enlightenment; 226, Advanced French Grammar; 232, The Querilies des femmes;234, Medieval French Literature; 237, The Early Modern Novel; 238, The Twentieth-Century Novel; 240, From Carnival to “Carnivalesque”; 251, Provence the French Novel; 252, Literature and Law; 253, Literature of the Fantastic; 255, French Feminist Thought: Literary and Critical; 256, French Intellectual History; 260, Enlightenment; 261, Age of Louis XIV; 265, From Romanticism to Symbolism; 267, Twentieth-Century French Literature; 270, French Literary Tradition; 271, French and Italian Avant-garde; 272, Adultery and Transgressions in Literature; 294a Special Topics in French Literature (with appropriate topic); 295ab, Special Topics in French Language and Civilization (with appropriate topic).

GERMAN: 115F, First-Year Writing Seminar; 201, Introduction to German Studies; 213-214, Intermediate German Conversation and Composition; 222. German Culture and Literature;
238, Interconnections between Science and Humanities: Goethe; 244, German Fairy Tales;
248, German Lyric Poetry-Form and Function; 262, German Literature of the Middle Ages;
263, The Age of Goethe; 269, Writing under Censorship; 270, German Cinema; 271, Women at the Margins: German-Jewish Women Writers; 280, Murder and Mayhem: Der Sturm und Drang;
294a–294b, Special Topics.

HISTORY OF ART: 100–111, History of Western Art; 115F  First-Year Writing Seminar (with appropriate topic); 210, Early Christian and Byzantine Art; 211, Medieval Art; 212, Northern Renaissance; 218  Italian Renaissance Art to 1500; 219, Italian Renaissance Art after 1500; 220,  Renaissance-Baroque Architecture; 221, Seventeenth-Century Art; 222, British Art; 224, Eighteenth-Century Art; 230–231, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century European Art; 232, Modern Architecture; 237, History of Spanish Art up to the Seventeenth Century; 238, History of Spanish Art from the Seventeenth Century to the Present; 272a–272b, Survey of Film History;

HONORS: 184–15, Boundaries of the Human in the Age of Robots and Clones; 184–13, Subhuman, Superhuman, Robot: Humanity in the Age of Machines.

ITALIAN: 201W, Grammar and Composition; 214, Spoken Italian; 220, Introduction to Italian Literature; 230, Italian Civilization; 231, Readings from Dante’s Divina Commedia; 232, Literature of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; 289, Independent Study (with appropriate topic); 294a, Special Topics in Italian Literature (with appropriate topic).

JEWISH STUDIES: 156, The Holocaust; 235W, Hebrew Literature in Translation, 244, Freud and Jewish Identity; 246, Berlin and Jewish Modernity; 253W, Witnesses Who Were Not there: Literature of the Children of Holocaust Survivors, 254, Jewish Literary Centers.

MUSIC LITERATURE: 141, Survey of Music Literature; 144, Survey of Orchestral Music; 145, Survey of Choral Music; 183, Music, the Arts, and Ideas; 186, Women and Music; 242, Music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; 243, Music of the Baroque and Classic Eras; 244, Music of Romantic and Modern Eras; 247, Opera.

PHILOSOPHY: 115F, First-Year Writing Seminar, Section 10, Environmental Philosophy; 115F, First-Year Writing Seminar, Section 15, Limits of the Human in Philosophy and Film; 211, Medieval Philosophy; 212, Modern Philosophy; 213, Contemporary Philosophy; 220, Immanuel Kant; 224, Existential Philosophy; 228, Nineteenth-Century Philosophy; 231, Philosophy of History; 240, History of Aesthetics; 241, Topics in Aesthetics; 247, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche; 249, Philosophy of Music; 252, Political and Social Philosophy; 253, Philosophy and Economic Policies; 254, Modern Philosophies of Law; 258, Contemporary Political Philosophy; 260, Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy; 289a–289b, Independent Readings (with appropriate topic); 294a–294b, Selected Topics (with appropriate topic).

PORTUGUESE: 200, Intermediate Portuguese; 201, Portuguese Composition; 202, Portuguese Conversation; 294, Special Topics in Portuguese Language, Literature, and Civilization (with appropriate topic).

RELIGIOUS STUDIES: 115F, First-Year Writing Seminar (with appropriate topic); 140, Great Books of Literature and Religion; 202, Natural Science and the Religious Life; 215, Formation of the Catholic Tradition; 216, Christianity in the Reformation Era; 228, Antisemitism and Jewish Identity; 229, The Holocaust, Its Meaning and Implications; 240, The Nature of Evil.

RUSSIAN: 171, A Tale of Three Cities: Kiev, Moscow, and St. Petersburg; 172, Dreams, Visions, and Nightmares; 221–222, Survey of Russian Literature in English Translation; 223–224, Composition and Conversation; 231, Jews in Russian Culture; 232, Evil Empire: Stalin’s Russia; 234, The Russian Cinema; 235, The Adultery Myth in Literature and Film (Anna Karenina); 236W, Russian/Soviet Short Stories; 294, Selected Topics (with appropriate topic).

SPANISH: 201, 201W, Intermediate Spanish Writing; 202, Spanish for Oral Communication through Cultural Topics; 206, Spanish for Business and Economics; 207, Advanced Conversation; 208, Advanced Conversation through Cultural Issues in Film; 220, The Languages of Spain; 221, Spanish Civilization; 226, Film and Cultural Trends in Spain; 230, Development of Lyric Poetry; 231, The Origins of Spanish Culture; 232, Literature of the Spanish Golden Age; 233, Modern Spanish Literature; 234, Contemporary Spanish Literature; 237, Contemporary Lyric Poetry; 239, Development of the Novel; 246, Don Quixote; 251, Development of Drama; 256, Love and Honor in Medieval and Golden Age Literature; 258, Spanish Realism; 260, Development of the Short Story; 280, Undergraduate Seminar: Comic Drama in Spain; 281, Theory and Praxis of Drama; 289, Independent Study (with appropriate topic); 294, Special Topic: (with appropriate topic).

WOMEN’S AND GENDER STUDIES: 239, Medieval Women in Their Own Words; 272, Feminism and Film.