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  "college": "uc-irvine",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "code": "EURO ST",
  "name": "European Studies",
  "sourceUrl": "https://catalogue.uci.edu/allcourses/euro_st/",
  "courses": [
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 9",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "9",
      "title": "Topics in Europe in the Middle Ages",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Explores the literature, history, and thought of the European Middle Ages. Topics may include understandings of self and community, aristocratic power and courtly life, colonialism, crusading, religious beliefs and persecution, monasticism and reform, university culture, epic literature, and Arthurian romance.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary",
        "(IV and VIII.)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 10",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "10",
      "title": "Topics in Historical Foundations (1500-1800)",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Offers an overview of the European experience from its social, political, and cultural foundations to modern European issues and institutions in a globalized world. Topics include social, political, and cultural history up to the French Revolution.",
      "notes": [
        "Overlaps with EURO ST S10",
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary",
        "((III or IV) and VIII.)"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 7,
          "open": 6,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/euro-st/#euro-st-10"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST S10",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "S10",
      "title": "Historical Foundations: Europe and the Foundations of the Modern World",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Encompasses a variety of perspectives in the social sciences and the humanities involving crucial developments coming out of Europe from roughly 1500 to 1800, (the Protestant Reformation through the French Revolution), that helped shape the modern (western) world.",
      "notes": [
        "Overlaps with EURO ST 10",
        "((III or IV) and VIII.)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 11",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "11",
      "title": "Issues and Institutions in Modern Europe (1789-1945)",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Offers an overview of modern European societies in social, political, and cultural terms. Topics include shifting geopolitical borders, social movements, and various forms of cultural expression (film, art, literature) as they intersect with and shape issues and events after 1800.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary",
        "((III or IV) and VIII.)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST S11",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "S11",
      "title": "Europe's Futures: 1755-Present",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduces students to competing approaches from humanities and social sciences to conceptualizing the future in politics, art, and literature. From the enlightenment to today, investigates the cultural and political context of moments when new ideas emerged to secure Europe's futures.",
      "notes": [
        "Overlaps with EURO ST 11",
        "((III or IV) and VIII.)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 12",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "12",
      "title": "What is the Origin of Language?",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Teaches symbol-based logic and universal grammar in human language as tools to investigate the origin of language. Does language originate with reason? Is language inherently universal or diverse? Does it begin as something literal or figurative?",
      "notes": [
        "((III or IV) and Vb.)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 13",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "13",
      "title": "Topics in Contemporary Europe (1945 – Today)",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Offers a perspective on contemporary politics and social and cultural life of today’s Europe. Introduces students to literature, film, and social theory crises of the contemporary world as they emanated from World War II, such as nationalism and populism.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary",
        "(IV and VIII.)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 100A",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "100A",
      "title": "Topics in European Literatures and Visual Cultures",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Explores developments in literature and/or the visual culture (art, film, media) within the broader context of Europe by comparing different traditions.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 100B",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "100B",
      "title": "Topics in European Identities: Race, Nation, Religion, Migration",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduces Europe not as a geographical location but as a site of constant evolution and change. Its “identity” has been negotiated and is being negotiated in the face of significant social, cultural, and political developments, also in a global context.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 100C",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "100C",
      "title": "Topics in European Thought, Culture, and Society",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduces multidisciplinary approaches to important themes in European society, culture, art, literature, philosophy, and politics.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/euro-st/#euro-st-100c"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 101A",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "101A",
      "title": "European Studies Core I - Early Europe (Pre-1789)",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Introduction to multidisciplinary approaches to important themes in European society, culture, art, literature, and politics; encourages students to explore intersections among disciplines. Possible themes: Concept of Europe in Renaissance, Self and Other: Europe and Islam, Hybrid Cultures in Medieval Europe.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 101B",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "101B",
      "title": "European Studies Core II: Modern Europe (Post-1789)",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Multidisciplinary approaches to important themes in modern European society, culture, art, literature, and politics, encouraging students to see points of intersection among disciplines. Possible themes: Subjects, Citizens, and Representation; Europe in the World; European Revolutions in Art and Society.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 102",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "102",
      "title": "Topics in Early European History and Culture: Pre-1789",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Addresses historical and cultural events, issues, and texts (art, literature, music, political theory) from the pre-1789 period in more than one European country.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 103",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "103",
      "title": "Topics in Modern European History and Culture: Post-1789",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Addresses historical and cultural events, issues, and texts (art, literature, music, political theory) from 1789 to present in more than one European country.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 139W",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "139W",
      "title": "Topics in European Culture and Society",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Students engage in rigorous, in-depth, interdisciplinary exploration of specific topics, periods, or themes, investigating and analyzing the intersection of history and culture in different periods and geographical locations in Europe.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken 1 time as topics vary",
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 150",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "150",
      "title": "Topics in European Culture and Society",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Addresses historical and cultural events, issues, and texts from an interdisciplinary perspective (art, literature, music, political theory). The historical focus could be from the Middle Ages to the present.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 3,
          "open": 2,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/euro-st/#euro-st-150"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 190W",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "190W",
      "title": "Senior Seminar in European Studies",
      "units": "4",
      "prerequisite": "Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Capstone research seminar. Students engage in rigorous, in-depth, interdisciplinary exploration of specific topics, periods, or themes, investigating and analyzing the intersection of material and discursive culture in different historical periods and geographical locations.",
      "notes": [
        "Restrictions: School of Humanities students only",
        "(Ib)"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 199",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "199",
      "title": "Independent Study",
      "units": "1-4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Directed reading and research in consultation with a faculty advisor. Substantial written work required.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 10,
          "open": 10,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/euro-st/#euro-st-199"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 200A",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "200A",
      "title": "Core Seminar I: Foundations of European Thought and Culture",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Provides a historical, geographical, and methodological overview of foundational texts and issues in European thought and culture. Covering several historical periods between the Middle Ages and the present, students will see how ideas and institutions change over time.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 1,
          "open": 1,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/euro-st/#euro-st-200a"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 200B",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "200B",
      "title": "Core Seminar II: Theorizing Periods and Movements in European Thought and Culture",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Periods and movements still form basic units for organizing European thought and theory, even as such categories are problematized. This course will allow for greater focus on a specific time period or constellation of issues around a period or movement.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 200C",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "200C",
      "title": "Core Seminar III: European Thought and Culture Beyond Europe",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Studies the intersection and afterlives of European thought and culture with and in non-European contexts, the way European thought and culture has been translated and transformed, taken up and challenged, in colonial, postcolonial, and other global situations.",
      "notes": [],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 201",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "201",
      "title": "Topics in European Studies",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Seminars on various topics related to European Studies.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken for credit for unit as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": []
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 290",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "290",
      "title": "Reading and Conference",
      "units": "2-4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "Studies in selected areas. Topics addressed vary each quarter.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 12,
          "open": 12,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/euro-st/#euro-st-290"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "code": "EURO ST 299",
      "subject": "EURO ST",
      "number": "299",
      "title": "Independent Research",
      "units": "4",
      "cid": [],
      "transfer": [],
      "description": "For students to do independent research with advisors on their master's thesis or master's examination reading lists.",
      "notes": [
        "Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times",
        "Restrictions: School of Humanities students only"
      ],
      "offered": [
        {
          "term": "fall-2026",
          "name": "Fall 2026",
          "sections": 5,
          "open": 5,
          "url": "/c/uc-irvine/schedule/fall-2026/euro-st/#euro-st-299"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}