Interdisciplinary Minors

Contemporary Europe

Coordinator: Desmond Dinan, School of Public Policy

Students receiving the university-wide minor in the New Europe complete a minimum of 18 credits: a 3-credit required course and 15 credits of electives (at least 3 credits from each field). Special topics courses, seminars, independent study, internships, and study abroad, where relevant to the minor, may also be taken for elective credits, with approval of the coordinator.

1. 1 required course (3 credits)

• GOVT 334 Government and Politics of Europe, or
• GOVT 444 Issues in International Studies (with approval of the coordinator)

2. 5 electives (15 credits) (at least one chosen from each field below)

• Field A: History, geography, and politics
  • GEOG 320 Geography of Europe
  • GOVT 334 Government and Politics of Europe (if not taken as the required course)
  • GOVT 337 Ethnic Politics in Western Europe and North America
  • GOVT 338 Government and Politics of Russia and Central Eurasia
  • HIST 314 History of Germany
  • HIST 322 Modern Britain
  • HIST 329 Modern Russia and the Soviet Union
  • RUSS 354 Contemporary Post-Soviet Life
    
    
• Field B: Language, literature, and the arts
  • ARTH 362 Twentieth-Century European Art
  • FREN 441 Twentieth-Century Prose Fiction
  • FREN 442 Twentieth-Century Drama and Poetry
  • FREN 470 Topics in French Cinema
  • FREN 580 Contemporary French Society and Culture
  • GERM 451 Modern Literature: 1925 to the Present
  • GERM 580 Contemporary Germany
  • PHIL 336 Contemporary Continental Thought: Existentialism
  • SPAN 484 Literature of Spain II
  • SPAN 580 Contemporary Hispanic Institutions