Courses
Core EUS courses
EUS 300: European Integration: Socio-Economic and Political Developments; 1.5 units
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 unitsThis 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.

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.




