New Europe Minor

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Banner Code: NEU

Phone: 703-993-4973

Web: neweurope.gmu.edu

Director

T. Mills Kelly, History and Art History

Europe is changing profoundly in a wide variety of ways. The New Europe interdisciplinary minor includes a range of courses and study abroad options that explore current developments in the Old Continent. It complements most undergraduate majors and will appeal to anyone with an interest in European history, politics, economics, society, and languages. Apart from its intellectual benefits, the New Europe minor should enhance students’ employment prospects in an increasingly interdependent global economy, especially one in which Europe is a major player.

This program of study is an interdisciplinary minor offered by the College of Humanities and Social Sciences .

For policies governing all minors, see the Academic Policies chapter of this catalog.

Course Work

One core course (3 credits)

GOVT 444 may be used to meet this requirement with prior written approval of the director.

GOVT 334 - Government and Politics of Europe Credits: 3

Four elective courses (12 credits)

Students must take at least one course from each category below. When relevant to the minor, special topics courses, seminars, independent study, internships, and study abroad may also be taken to fulfill this requirement with prior written approval of the director.

History, geography, and politics

ECON 380 - Economies in Transition Credits: 3
GOVT 334 - Government and Politics of Europe Credits: 3 (if not taken as the core course)
GOVT 337 - Ethnic Politics in Western Europe and North America Credits: 3
GOVT 338 - Government and Politics of Russia Credits: 3
HIST 312 - Nationalism in Eastern Europe Credits: 3
HIST 314 - History of Germany Credits: 3
HIST 322 - Modern Britain Credits: 3
HIST 329 - Modern Russia and the Soviet Union Credits: 3
RUSS 354 - Contemporary Post-Soviet Life Credits: 3

Language, literature, and the arts

ARTH 362 - Twentieth-Century European Art Credits: 3
ENGH 361 - Continental Fiction, 1880-1950 Credits: 3
ENGH 339 - British and Irish Drama after 1900 Credits: 3
FREN 441 - Twentieth-Century Prose Fiction Credits: 3
FREN 442 - Twentieth-Century Drama and Poetry Credits: 3
FREN 470 - Topics in French Cinema Credits: 3
GERM 451 - Modern Literature: 1925 to the Present Credits: 3
PHIL 336 - Twentieth-Century Continental Thought: Existentialism Credits: 3
PHIL 337 - Twentieth-Century Continental Thought: Phenomenology Credits: 3
SPAN 484 - The Literature of Spain II Credits: 3

Total: 15 credits