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Undergraduate Certificate

Undergraduate Certificate in Medieval Studies

University of Wisconsin-Madison College of Letters & Science 68 courses 15 total credits

About This Program

The Medieval Studies certificate offers students interdisciplinary perspectives on the history and culture of Europe and the Mediterranean rim between ca. 300 and 1500. Courses from 18 departments allow students to explore the medieval world from the standpoints of art, visual and material culture, history, law, languages and literature, music, philosophy, religious studies, and the history of science and medicine. The certificate in Medieval Studies is designed to encourage the pursuit of interdisciplinary work across several departments.

Degree Requirements

Total Credits 15 credits

Category B Courses

Code Course Title Credits
ART HIST 201 History of Western Art I: from Pyramids to Cathedrals 4
ART HIST 305 History of Islamic Art and Architecture 3
ART HIST 310 Icons, Religion, and Empire: Early Christian and Byzantine Art, Ca. 200-1453 3
ART HIST 318 Romanesque and Gothic Art and Architecture 3-4
ART HIST 320 Italian Renaissance Art 3-4
ART HIST 360 Gore Luxury Identity Mimesis: Northern Renaissance 3
ART HIST 373 Mecca, Cairo, Istanbul, Delhi: Great Cities of Islam 3
ART HIST 413 Art and Architecture in the Age of the Caliphs 3
ART HIST 415 Topics in Medieval Art 3
ART HIST 440 Art and Power in the Arab World 3
ART HIST 515 Proseminar in Medieval Art 3
ENGL 177 Literature and Popular Culture 3
ENGL 241 Literature and Culture I: to the 18th Century 3
ENGL 314 Structure of English 3
ENGL 360 Early Medieval England 3
ENGL 417 History of the English Language 3
ENGL 422 Outstanding Figure(S) in Literature Before 1800 3
ENGL 423 Topic in Medieval Literature and Culture 3
ENGL 424 Medieval Drama 3
ENGL 425 Medieval Romance 3
ENGL 426 Chaucers Courtly Poetry 3
ENGL 427 Chaucer's Canterbury Tales 3
ENGL 520 Old English 3
ENGL 521 Advanced Old English Literature 3
ENGL 546 Topic in Travel Writing Before 1800 3
FRENCH 347 Knights, Priests and Peasants: France 800-1789 3
FRENCH 430 Readings in Medieval and Renaissance Literature 3
GERMAN 650 History of the German Language 3
GERMAN 651 Introduction to Middle High German 3
ILS 203 Western Culture: Literature and the Arts I 3
ITALIAN 321 Studies in Italian Literature and Culture I 3
ITALIAN 440 Poverty, Ecology and the Arts: St. Francis of Assisi 3
ITALIAN 659 Dante's Divina Commedia 3
ITALIAN 671 The 13th Century 3
JEWISH 462 Muslims and Jews 3
LATIN 563 Mediaeval Latin 3
LITTRANS 253 Of Demons and Angels. Dante's Divine Comedy 3
LITTRANS 255 Black Death and Medieval Life Through Boccaccio's Decameron 3
LITTRANS 271 In Translation:Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature, Middle Ages-1900 3-4
LITTRANS 345 The Nordic Storyteller 3
LITTRANS 347 In Translation: Kalevala and Finnish Folk-Lore 3-4
MUSIC 411 Survey of Music in the Middle Ages 3
MUSIC 412 Survey of Music in the Renaissance 3
SCAND ST 235 The World of Sagas 3
SCAND ST 342 Nordic Mythology 3
SCAND ST 373 Masterpieces of Scandinavian Literature: from the Middle Ages to 1900 3-4
SCAND ST 407 Introductory Old Norse 3
SCAND ST 409 Survey of Old Norse-Icelandic Literature 3
SCAND ST 430 The Vikings 4
SCAND ST 435 The Sagas of Icelanders in English Translation 3
SCAND ST 444 Kalevala and Finnish Folk-Lore 4
SPANISH 322 Survey of Early Hispanic Literature 3
SPANISH 414 Literature of the Castilian Middle Age (Xii-Xv Centuries) 3
SPANISH 541 Old Spanish 3

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