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Core EUS courses

EUS 300: European Integration: Socio-Economic and Political Developments; 1.5 units

EUS 300 webpage

 

Fall 2011 Movie Metropolis: The European City on/as Film- Course Outline

This course provides a historical background to and a contemporary account of modern European politics and society. The approach is comparative, concentrating on similarities and differences between selected European countries. Crucial social cleavages, selected policy fields, traditions in political culture and institutional settings are studied from a comparative and genuinely European perspective.

Note: May be taken more than once for credit on different topics with permission of the Director of European Studies.

EUS 301: Cultural and Intellectual Systems and Developments in Europe; 1.5 units

This course looks into critical aspects of European intellectual and cultural traditions both in a historic and contemporary perspective. It covers a wide range of issues related to the rich European history of ideas and artistic production encompassing the fields of philosophy, literature and arts.

Note: May be taken more than once for credit on different topics with permission of the Director of European Studies.

Elective courses by department

Elective courses can be taken from any department in Humanities, Fine Arts, and Social Sciences. These courses must be a 300 level or higher, and have an adequate European component.

If you wish to count a course as an elective that is not on this list, please consult with the EUS program coordinator.

* Please note: Several upper-level elective courses have pre-requisites within the Faculty. Please consult the EUS advisor or department heads for specific pre-requisite details.

Anthropology

ANTH 332: Ethnology of Europe

ANTH 337: Ethnology of Eurasia

ANTH 341: Paleolithic Archaeology

ANTH 349: Paleolithic Art

ANTH 391: selected problems in anthropology: ethnology

ANTH 393: selected problems in anthropology: cultural anthropology

Economics

ECON 337: History of Economic Thought to 1870

ECON 338: History of Economic Thought Since 1870

ECON 421: European and International Economic History

ECON 422: Issues in European Economic Integration

ECON 426: Institutional Economics

English

ENGL 337: Medieval British Literature in Translation

ENGL 341: Old English Literature

ENGL 342: Early Middle English Literature

ENGL 343: Later Middle English Literature

ENGL 344A: Chaucer: Canterbury Tales

ENGL 344B: Chaucer: Troilus and Minor Works

ENGL 348: Alliterative Traditions

ENGL 350: Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Literature

ENGL 353: Studies in Medieval English Literature

ENGL 359: Sixteenth-Century Poetry and Prose

ENGL 360: Special Studies in Shakespeare (depending on topic?)

ENGL 362: Special Studies in Renaissance Literature (depending on topic)

ENGL 364: English Renaissance Drama

ENGL 365: Seventeenth-Century Poetry and Prose to 1660

ENGL 366B: Shakespeare: Histories and Tragedies

ENGL 366C: Shakespeare: Comedies, Problem Plays, and Romances

ENGL 366D: Shakespeare (Individual Studies): Histories and Tragedies

ENGL 366E: Shakespeare (Individual Studies): Comedies, Problem Plays, and Romances

ENGL 369: Milton: Major Poetry and Selected Prose

ENGL 372: Special Studies in 18th Century Literature

ENGL 373: English Literature of the Restoration Period: 1660-1700

ENGL 374: Swift, Pope, and the Literature of the Augustan Age: 1701-1745

ENGL 375: Johnson, Blake and the Later 18th Century

ENGL 376A: The Beginning of the English Novel: 1660-1750

ENGL 376B: The English Novel: 1750 to the Early 19th Century

ENGL 379: British Fiction and Non-Fiction of the Early Nineteenth Century

ENGL 380: Victorian Fiction: Dickens to Eliot

ENGL 381: Late Victorian and Edwardian Fiction

ENGL 382: The Romantic Period: I

ENGL 383: The Romantic Period: II

ENGL 385: Special Studies in 19th Century British Literature

ENGL 386: Victorian Poetry

ENGL 387: Victorian Culture and Thought

ENGL 388: Special Studies in 20th Century British Literature

ENGL 433A: Modern Irish Literature

ENGL 433B: Contemporary Irish Literature

ENGL 434A: British Poetry From 1914 to 1950

ENGL 434B: British Poetry From 1950 to the Present

ENGL 436A: 20th Century British Fiction to World War II

ENGL 436B: 20th Century British Fiction After World War II

French

FRAN 300: French Reading Course

FRAN 325: Studies in Cultures of the French-speaking World (in English)

FRAN 335: Studies in Cinema and Literature of the French-speaking World (in English)

FRAN 340: Studies in the Literatures or Language of the French-speaking World (in English)

FRAN 350: Advanced Oral French

FRAN 375: Writing in French II

FRAN 380: French Morphology

FRAN 385: French Syntax and Semantics

FRAN 390: Critical Methods

FRAN 395: Advanced French Writing Workshop

FRAN 400: Advanced Studies in French Linguistics

FRAN 402: An Advanced Language Course in Modern French Usage

FRAN 404: History of the French Language I

FRAN 405: History of the French Language II

FRAN 406: Studies in Translation

FRAN 430: Studies in French Literatures and Culture before 1800

FRAN 431: Medieval Literature

FRAN 432: Common Grounds in European Medieval Literature (in English)

FRAN 434: Medieval and Renaissance Theatre

FRAN 435: Renaissance Poetry

FRAN 436: Renaissance Prose

FRAN 441: Comedy in the 17th and 18th Centuries

FRAN 443: Representations of the 17th-Century French Society

FRAN 444: 18th Century French Literature and Culture

FRAN 446: The enlightenment

FRAN 450: Studies in French Literature and Culture after 1800

FRAN 452: French Romanticism

FRAN 453: Decadence and Symbolism

FRAN 455: Dada and Surrealism: the End of the Novel

FRAN 456: 20th-Century French Theatre

FRAN 457: Breaking New Ground after Existentialism

FRAN 470: Studies in Culture, Literature or Language of the French-speaking World

Geography

GEOG 308: Introduction to GIS

GEOG 314: Global Environmental Change and Human Response

Germanic Studies

GMST 301: Intercultural Esplorations (In German)

GMST 302: Intercultural Diversity (in German)

GER 390: German Reading Course

GER 400: Advanced Writing

GER 499: Honours Graduating Essay

GERS 160: Major Figures of German Culture

GERS 254: Introduction to German Literature

GERS 261: Modern Germany

GERS 333: Literature and Film of the Holocaust and the "Third Reich"

GERS 354: Introduction to the 20th Century Literature (Pre-1945)

GERS 420: Faust

GERS 427: The Dark Side of the Enlightenment: Madness in Literature

GERS 433/GER 551: "Overcoming the Past" in Film and Text

GERS 437: Major German Filmmakers: Leni Riefenstahl

GERS 438A: Special Topics: Political Violence in the Literary and Cultural Imagination

GERS 438A: Special Topics: German Rebels

GERS 438B: Special Topics: A Brief History of Nature in German Literature (taught in German)

GERS 440: Kafka

GERS 481: German Literature: the Last Two Decades

GERS 487: A Cultural History of Vampires in Literature and Film

 

RUSS 300A: Advanced Russian I

RUSS 301A: Russian Cultural History I

RUSS 301B: Russian Cultural History II

RUSS 303: Advanced Russian Conversation and Practice I

RUSS 304A: Cinema in the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods: I

RUSS 308B: Russian Literature of the 20th Century: Art on Trial

RUSS 311: Dostoevsky

RUSS 315: Sculpting in Time: The Cinematic Art of Andrei Tarkovsky

RUSS 400A: Advanced Grammar and Stylistics I

RUSS 416: Stalinist Cinema

RUSS 434/HIST 389: Special Topics: Interpreting Stalinism

RUSS 460: Forbidden Books, Forbidden Films

SLAV 364: Eastern Europe through Western eyes

SLAV 361: Imperial Russia

SLAV 363/ HIST 377: Modern Ukraine

Greek and Roman Studies

GREE 301: Greek Epic

GREE 302: Greek Tragedy

GREE 303:Greek Historians

GREE 304: Plato

GREE 305: Greek Orators

GREE 306: Greek Comedy

GRS 314: Age of Nero

GRS 316: Greek and Roman Novels and Romances

GRS 320: Greek and Roman Tragedy

GRS 323: Ancient Comedy and Satire

GRS 325: Topics in Greek and Roman Literature

GRS 326: Topics in Greek and Roman Civilization

GRS 328: Myth and Theory

GRS 331: Greek History From the Bronze Age to Alexander

GRS 332: Social and Economic History of Greece

GRS 333: Alexander and the Hellenistic Age

GRS 334: Democracy and the Greeks

GRS 335: Women in the Greek and Roman World

GRS 341: Roman History

GRS 342: Roman Society

GRS 347: Household and Family in the Greek and Roman World

GRS 348: The City of Rome

GRS 349: Jew and Christians in the Roman World

GRS 361: Aegean Bronze Age and the World of Homer

GRS 371: Art and Architecture of Ancient Greece and the Aegean

GRS 372: Art and Architecture of the Roman World

GRS 375: Cities and Sanctuaries of the Ancient World

GRS 376: Ancient Technology

GRS 377: Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World

GRS 379: Early Greek Thought

GRS 380: The Life and Times of Socrates

GRS 381: Greek and Roman Religion

GRS 382: The Ancient World on Film

GREE 401: Hesiod and the Homeric Hymns

GREE 402: Greek Lyric Poets

GREE 404: Greek Historians

GREE 406: Hellenistic Greek Authors

GREE 407: Aeschylus

GREE 408: Greek Comedy

GRS 441: The Fall of the Roman Republic

GRS 442: Roman Law and Society

GRS 461: Greece and the Near East

GRS 462: Archaeology of Athens

GRS 480: Seminar in Ancient History and Archaeology

GRS 481: Seminar in Ancient Literature

GRS 493: Directed Study in Greek or Roman Civilization

GRS 495: Archaeology Field Work Seminar

History

British

HIST 320: Seminar in Medieval England

HIST 320A: Crime and Criminality in Medieval England

HIST 321: Tudor-Stuart England

HIST 328A: Death and the Afterlife in England 1200-1750

HIST 328B: Death and the Afterlife in England 1750 - Present

HIST 329: Power and Popular Culture in England, 1300-1900

HIST 330: The Bloody Code: Crime in England, 1660-1800

HIST 338: Seminar in British History

HIST 339: Topics in British History European

European History

HIST 360: The Renaissance

HIST 361: The Reformation

HIST 362: Europe from Louis XIV to the French Revolution

HIST 363: Revolutionary and Napoleonic Europe, 1789-1815

HIST 364A: France and International Relations, 1814-1914

HIST 364B: France and International Relations, 1914-82

HIST 365A: Social and Cultural History of Modern Europe: 1770-1848

HIST 365B: Social, Cultural and Political History of Modern Europe: 1848-1914

HIST 366: Europe Between Two World Wars

HIST 367: The Second World War and the Recovery of Western Europe

HIST 369: Gender, Religion and Politics in France, 1453-1715

HIST 370A: Reaction, Reform and Revolution in France, 1814-1914

HIST 370B: Reaction, Reform and Revolution in France, 1914-1982

HIST 371A: Image and Reality: Scandals in France, 1785-1870

HIST 371B: Image and Reality: Scandals in France, 1870-1982

HIST 372: Imperial Germany

HIST 373: Weimar and Nazi Germany

HIST 374: Imperial Russia, 1689-1917

HIST 376: The Soviet Union and Its Successor States, 1917-2000

HIST 377: Modern Ukraine

HIST 380A: Seminar in Medieval Europe

HIST 380D: Individual, Family and Community in Medieval Society

HIST 380E: Medieval Foundations of the Western Legal Tradition

HIST 380G: Medieval Law and Literacy

HIST 382A: The Scientific Revolution

HIST 382B: The Origins of Modernity

HIST 383A: The Enlightenment in Britain

HIST 383B: The Enlightenment in Europe

HIST 386: Criminality and Violence in Europe, 1400-1800

HIST 388: Topics in European History

HIST 389: Seminar in European History

HIST 390: War in the Modern World, 1755 to the Present

HIST 392: Seminar in the History of the Second World War

HIST 393: Topics in the Historical Study of Peace and War

HIST 394: Seminar in Peace and War Studies

HIST 396: Topics in the History of Science

History in Art

HA 339: The 16th Century in Europe

HA 340A: The 15th Century in Northern Europe

HA 340B: Renaissance and Reformation in Northern Europe

HA 341A: The 15th Century in Italy

HA 342A: The 17th Century in Italy

HA 342B: The 17th Century in Northern Europe

HA 343A: The 18th Century in Italy

HA 343B: The 18th Century in Northern Europe

HA 344: Art Theory and Criticism in Early Modern Europe

HA 362A: Modern Art in Europe and North America: 1900-1945

HA 362B: Art in Europe and North America: 1945 to Today

HA 387A: European and North American Architecture, 1750 to 1900

HA 387B: Twentieth-Century Architecture in Europe and North America

HA 392: Special Topics in History in Art (depeding on topic, varies by year)

HA 492: Advanced Studies in History in Art

HA 445: Advanced Seminar in Renaissance Art

HA 447: Advanced Seminar in Early Modern Art, c.1500-1750

Italian

ITAL 300: Italian for Reading Knowledge

ITAL 303: Medieval Italian Culture and Literature (in English)

ITAL 306: Italian Culture (in English)

ITAL 350: Advanced Italian Grammar and Literary Usage I

ITAL 351: Advanced Italian Grammar and Literary Usage II

ITAL 365: Advanced Written Italian

ITAL 407: In Search of the True Culprit: Italian Culture and Society in Detective Fiction (in English OR Italian depending on year)

ITAL 470: Dante's Divine Comedy

ITAL 472A: Boccaccio's Decameron (in English)

ITAL 472B: Francis Petrarch: His Life as Literature (in English)

ITAL 473: Renaissance Literature

ITAL 474: Italian Comic Theatre

ITAL 478: Topics in Modern Italian Literature

ITAL 479A: Women in the Hispanice and Italian World

ITAL 479B: The Early Modern Period in Italy and Spain (in English)

ITAL 485: Topics in Italian Film

ITAL 495: Directed Reading 

Latin

LATI 301: Vergil

LATI 307: Historians of the Republic

LATI 308: Cicero

LATI 309: Ovid

LATI 310: Roman Love Poetry

LATI 350: Medieval Latin

LATI 402: Roman Drama

LATI 404: Roman Satire

LATI 406: Roman Epic

LATI 407: Imperial Roman Historians and Biographers

LATI 408: Roman Novel

LATI 410: Horace

Mediterranean Studies

MEST 300: The Mediterranean Region From the Perspective of Spain and Italy (in English)

MEST 308: Fascism in the Hispanic and Italian World (in English)

MEST 310: The Portrayal of the Family in Mediterranean Culture (in English)

Medieval Studies

MEDI 303: The Medieval World

MEDI 304: Medieval Studies

MEDI 360: Selected Topics in Medieval Culture (only when on European content)

MEDI 401: Seminar in Medieval Culture (only when on European content)

MEDI 402: Cross-Cultural Encounters and Exchanges (only when on European content)

MEDI 441: Medieval Arthurian Romance

MEDI 442: Common Grounds in European Medieval Literature

MEDI 451: The Medievals and the Written Word

MEDI 452: Selected Topics in Medieval Manuscript Studies

Music

MUS 322: A Composer's Style and Music

MUS 323: Forms and Genres in Music

MUS 391: Cross-Cultural and Historical Topics in Music

MUS 421: Selected Topics in Music History (depending on topic, varies by year)

Philosophy

PHIL 301: Plato

PHIL 303: Aristotle

PHIL 305A: Early Medieval Philosophy

PHIL 305B: Later Medival Philosophy

PHIL 306: The Rationalists

PHIL 307: Hellenistic Philosophy

PHIL 308: The Empiricists

PHIL 309: Kant

PHIL 311: Existentialist Thinkers

PHIL 379: Early Greek Thought

PHIL 383: The Life and Times of Socrates

Political Science

POLI 300A: Ancient and Medieval Political Thought

POLI 300B: Early Modern Political Thought

POLI 300C: Post-Enlightenment Political Thought

POLI 306: Introduction to Marxism

POLI 311: Governments and Politics in Europe

POLI 319: Issues in Comparative Politics (if sufficient European Content)

POLI 349: Issues in International Politics (if sufficient European Content)

POLI 379: Topics in Contemporary European Politics

POLI 414: Politics in the European Union (seminar course)

Portuguese

PORT 300: Reading Portuguese

Spanish

SPAN 340: Spanish Immersion Literature

SPAN 350A: Advanced Composition, Translation and Stylistics I

SPAN 350B: Advanced Composition, Translation and Stylistics II

SPAN 370: Survey of Spanish Literature from Origins to 1700

SPAN 375: Survey of Spanish Literature Since 1700

SPAN 468: Spanish Historical Fiction

SPAN 470: Medieval Literature

SPAN 471A: The Female Voice in Medieval Poetry

SPAN 471B: Miracle Stories of the Marian Tradition

SPAN 471C: Special Topics in Medieval Literature (in English)

SPAN 472: Cervantes' Don Quixote

SPAN 473A: Prose of the Golden Age

SPAN 473B: Poetry of the Golden Age

SPAN 473C: Drama of the Golden Age

SPAN 475: Landscapes of Desire: Visions of Self and Country

SPAN 476A: Spanish Literature in the 19th Century

SPAN 476C: Literature of Renewal: Prose and Poetry of Spanish Fin De Siglo

SPAN 478A: The 20th Century Novel After the Civil War

SPAN 478B: 20th Century Drama and Poetry

SPAN 478C: Special Topics in Modern Spanish Literature

SPAN 479A: Women in the Hispanic and Italian World

SPAN 479B: The Early Modern Period in Italy and Spain (in English)

Theatre

THEA 309A: History of Opera to the Late Nineteenth Century

THEA 309B: Modern Opera

THEA 314: Studies in Theatre of the Ancient World

THEA 315: Studies in Medieval Theatre

THEA 317: Studies in 19th Century Theatre

THEA 319: Studies in Renaissance Theatre

THEA 410: Seminar in Theatre History III (depending on topic, varies)

Announcements

Seminars

Dr. Stefan Seidendorf of the Franco-German Institute in Ludwigsburg, Germany is visiting UVic on January 24th and 25th and will be presenting two seminars: January 24th and 25th.

See posters


West Coast Model EU 2013

Applications for West Coast Model EU 2013 at the University of Washington are now open! Please send your CV and letter of intent to eusprog@uvic.ca by November 15th. If you would like to act as advisor on this trip, the deadline is October 20th.

More information, e-mail us or access the WCMEU 2013 website.


NEW EUS 100 COURSE - FALL 2012

European Studies is now available at the 100 course level. It is an introduction to European Studies and it is coming out very promising. This course is also part of our Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence curriculum.

See JMCE webpage

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