European Studies EURO ST

EURO ST 9 Topics in Europe in the Middle Ages

Units

4

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

(IV and VIII.)

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.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST 10 Topics in Historical Foundations (1500-1800)

Units

4

Overlaps with EURO ST S10

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

((III or IV) and VIII.)

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.

Offered: Fall 2026 (7 sections)

EURO ST S10 Historical Foundations: Europe and the Foundations of the Modern World

Units

4

Overlaps with EURO ST 10

((III or IV) and VIII.)

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.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST 11 Issues and Institutions in Modern Europe (1789-1945)

Units

4

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

((III or IV) and VIII.)

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.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST S11 Europe's Futures: 1755-Present

Units

4

Overlaps with EURO ST 11

((III or IV) and VIII.)

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.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST 12 What is the Origin of Language?

Units

4

((III or IV) and Vb.)

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?

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST 13 Topics in Contemporary Europe (1945 – Today)

Units

4

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

(IV and VIII.)

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.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST 100A Topics in European Literatures and Visual Cultures

Units

4

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Explores developments in literature and/or the visual culture (art, film, media) within the broader context of Europe by comparing different traditions.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST 100B Topics in European Identities: Race, Nation, Religion, Migration

Units

4

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

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.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST 100C Topics in European Thought, Culture, and Society

Units

4

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Introduces multidisciplinary approaches to important themes in European society, culture, art, literature, philosophy, and politics.

Offered: Fall 2026 (1 section)

EURO ST 101A European Studies Core I - Early Europe (Pre-1789)

Units

4

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

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.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST 101B European Studies Core II: Modern Europe (Post-1789)

Units

4

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

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.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST 102 Topics in Early European History and Culture: Pre-1789

Units

4

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Addresses historical and cultural events, issues, and texts (art, literature, music, political theory) from the pre-1789 period in more than one European country.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST 103 Topics in Modern European History and Culture: Post-1789

Units

4

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Addresses historical and cultural events, issues, and texts (art, literature, music, political theory) from 1789 to present in more than one European country.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST 139W Topics in European Culture and Society

Units

4

Prerequisite

Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement

Repeatability: May be taken 1 time as topics vary

(Ib)

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.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST 150 Topics in European Culture and Society

Units

4

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

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.

Offered: Fall 2026 (3 sections)

EURO ST 190W Senior Seminar in European Studies

Units

4

Prerequisite

Satisfactory completion of the Lower-Division Writing requirement

Restrictions: School of Humanities students only

(Ib)

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.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST 199 Independent Study

Units

1-4

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times

Directed reading and research in consultation with a faculty advisor. Substantial written work required.

Offered: Fall 2026 (10 sections)

EURO ST 200A Core Seminar I: Foundations of European Thought and Culture

Units

4

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.

Offered: Fall 2026 (1 section)

EURO ST 200B Core Seminar II: Theorizing Periods and Movements in European Thought and Culture

Units

4

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.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST 200C Core Seminar III: European Thought and Culture Beyond Europe

Units

4

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.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST 201 Topics in European Studies

Units

4

Repeatability: May be taken for credit for unit as topics vary

Seminars on various topics related to European Studies.

Not on the Fall 2026 schedule.

EURO ST 290 Reading and Conference

Units

2-4

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times as topics vary

Studies in selected areas. Topics addressed vary each quarter.

Offered: Fall 2026 (12 sections)

EURO ST 299 Independent Research

Units

4

Repeatability: May be taken unlimited times

Restrictions: School of Humanities students only

For students to do independent research with advisors on their master's thesis or master's examination reading lists.

Offered: Fall 2026 (5 sections)