Institute for Medieval Studies

Undergraduate Minor In Medieval Studies

The undergraduate Minor in Medieval Studies is a multi-disciplinary course of study, housed in the Department of English, comprised of 21 credit hours. For a pdf version of the form required for the Undergraduate Minor in Medieval Studies, click here. A brief summary of the requirements follows.

Required Course (3 hours)
English 315, Intro to Medieval Culture

English Language and Literature (9 hours)
English 211 Topics in Literature
English 351 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
English 387 Studies in Genre
English 411 Special Topics: Criticism and Theory, Literary and Cultural Movements
English 440 Topics in Language or Rhetoric
English 448
English 449 Introductory Old English
English 450 Beowulf
English 451 Middle English

Distributed Course Requirements (9 hours)
In addition to the required course, the student in Undergraduate Minor in Medieval Studies must take 9 hours of course work in three courses from two other disciplines from the list below:

Art History 321, 322, 331, 449
Anthropology 326
German 101, 102, 201, 202
Greek 101, 102, 301, 302
History 305, 315, 321, 322, 323, 341, 343, 348, 356
Italian 475
Latin 101, 102, 201, 202, 351, 352

  Music 261
  Philosophy 304, 404
  Religious Studies 360, 452
  Spanish 301, 411
  University Honors
   Medieval Legacy,
  and selected courses as   approved by Medieval Studies   Undergraduate Advisor

Institute for Medieval Studies
University of New Mexico
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