Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Minor
The undergraduate minor in medieval and early modern studies provides students with a broad, humanities-based approach to the rich and fascinating cultures that flourished globally from around 500 CE to 1800 CE.
Requirements
In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must:
- take at least nine hours of their minor "core" requirements at UNC–Chapel Hill
- earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.000 in the minor core requirements. Some programs may require higher standards for minor or specific courses.
For more information, please consult the degree requirements section of the catalog.
This interdisciplinary minor requires students to take five classes representing at least three different subject codes.
Code | Title | Hours |
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Core Requirements | ||
One core course chosen from: | 3 | |
Medieval Art in Western Europe | ||
At least one course at the 300 level or above | 3 | |
No more than three courses at the 100 level (including the core course) | 9 | |
Total Hours | 15 |
H | Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply. |
The following courses are approved for the MEMS minor. With the prior approval of the MEMS minor supervisor up to two courses can be applied to the minor as transfer credits from other institutions.
Code | Title | Hours |
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Medieval and Early Modern Studies Course List | ||
AMST/ANTH 54 | 3 | |
AMST/HIST 110 | 3 | |
ANTH 121 | 3 | |
ARTH 54 | 3 | |
ARTH 151 | 3 | |
ARTH 264 | Medieval Art in Western Europe | 3 |
ARTH 265 | Medieval Iconography H | 3 |
ARTH 274 | 3 | |
ARTH 450 | The City as Monument H | 3 |
ARTH 466 | History of the Illuminated Book | 3 |
ARTH 471 | Northern European Art of the 14th and 15th Centuries | 3 |
ARTH 472 | Early Modern Art, 1400-1750 H | 3 |
ARTH 490 | Special Topics in Art History (based on topic) | 3 |
ASIA/HIST 131 | Southeast Asia before 1800 through Digital History | 3 |
ASIA/HIST 135 | 3 | |
ASIA/HIST 138 | History of Muslim Societies to 1500 | 3 |
ASIA/RELI 180 | 3 | |
ASIA/RELI 183 | 3 | |
ASIA/RELI 284 | 3 | |
ASIA/RELI 285 | 3 | |
ASIA/RELI 487 | Mountains, Pilgrimage, and Sacred Places in Japan | 3 |
ASIA/RELI 488 | 3 | |
ASIA/RELI 489 | 3 | |
ASIA/RELI 581 | 3 | |
ASIA/RELI 582 | 3 | |
ASIA/RELI 584 | 3 | |
ASIA 300/RELI 283 | 3 | |
ASIA 301/RELI 286 | 3 | |
ASIA 303/RELI 288 | 3 | |
CLAS 259 | Pagans and Christians | 3 |
CLAS/CMPL 364 | The Classical Background of English Poetry H | 3 |
CMPL 120 | 3 | |
CMPL 121 | 3 | |
CMPL 122 | 3 | |
CMPL 123 | 3 | |
CMPL 124 | 3 | |
CMPL 223 | 3 | |
CMPL 317 | 3 | |
CMPL 452 | The Middle Ages | 3 |
CMPL 453 | 3 | |
CMPL 454 | 3 | |
CMPL 456 | 3 | |
CMPL 473 | 3 | |
CMPL/ENGL 621 | Arthurian Romance | 3 |
ENGL 120 | 3 | |
ENGL 153 | 3 | |
ENGL 223 | 3 | |
ENGL 224 | 3 | |
ENGL 225 | 3 | |
ENGL 226 | 3 | |
ENGL 227 | 3 | |
ENGL 228 | Literature of the Later Renaissance H | 3 |
ENGL 230 | 3 | |
ENGL 237 | 18th-Century Drama H | 3 |
ENGL 325 | 3 | |
ENGL 327 | 3 | |
ENGL 329 | 3 | |
ENGL 330 | 3 | |
ENGL 331 | 3 | |
ENGL 430 | 3 | |
ENGL/PWAD 660 | War in Shakespeare's Plays | 3 |
FREN 315 | 3 | |
FREN 370 | 3 | |
FREN 387 | 3 | |
FREN 554 | Writing the Mediterranean | 3 |
FREN 675 | Literature and Enlightenment, 17th - 18th Centuries | 3 |
GERM 210 | Getting Medieval: Knights, Violence, and Romance | 3 |
GERM 216 | The Viking Age | 3 |
GERM 500 | History of the German Language | 3 |
GERM 505 | Early New High German | 3 |
GERM 511 | Old Saxon | 3 |
GERM 514 | Old Norse I (Old Icelandic) | 3 |
GERM 515 | Old Norse II (Old Icelandic) | 3 |
GERM 615 | Foundations in German Studies II | 3 |
GERM/WGST 220 | Women in the Middle Ages | 3 |
GERM 508 | Old High German | 3 |
GSLL 53 | 3 | |
HIST 107 | 3 | |
HIST 127 | 3 | |
HIST 142 | 3 | |
HIST 151 | 3 | |
HIST 177H | Honors Seminar in Early European History | 3 |
HIST 228 | 3 | |
HIST 255 | 3 | |
HIST 306 | 3 | |
HIST 307 | 3 | |
HIST 398 | 3 | |
HIST 431 | The Medieval Church | 3 |
HIST 432 | The Crusades | 3 |
HIST 434 | 3 | |
HIST 435 | The Medieval University | 3 |
HIST 437 | 3 | |
HIST 452 | The Renaissance: Italy, Birthplace of the Renaissance, 1300-1550 | 3 |
HIST 453 | Mediterranean Societies and Economics in the Renaissance World | 3 |
HIST/PWAD 254 | 3 | |
HIST/PWAD 266 | 3 | |
HIST/RELI 454 | The Reformation | 3 |
HIST/WGST 280 | 3 | |
ITAL 241 | 3 | |
ITAL 357 | Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio in English | 3 |
LATN 205 | Medieval Latin | 3 |
MUSC 251 | 3 | |
PHIL 215 | 3 | |
PHIL 220 | 3 | |
PHIL 415 | Medieval Philosophy | 3 |
PHIL 421 | 3 | |
PHIL 422 | 3 | |
PHIL 470 | Political Philosophy from Hobbes to Rousseau | 3 |
PORT 501 | Survey of Portuguese Literature I | 3 |
RELI 64 | 3 | |
RELI 161 | 3 | |
RELI 165 | 3 | |
RELI 362 | 3 | |
RELI 366 | Medieval Religious Texts | 3 |
RELI 367 | The Art of Devotion in Medieval and Early Modern Europe | 3 |
RELI 450 | 3 | |
RELI 489 | 3 | |
RELI 525 | Seminar in Religion and Literature | 3 |
RELI 566 | Islamic and Jewish Legal Literature | 3 |
RELI 586 | 3 | |
RELI/WGST 371 | Women Mystics | 3 |
SPAN 280 | Cervantes in English Translation | 3 |
SPAN 371 | Studies in Spanish Literature | 3 |
SPAN 383 | Medieval Spanish Literature | 3 |
SPAN 384 | Spanish Renaissance | 3 |
SPAN 613 | Colonial and 19th-Century Spanish American Literature | 3 |
SPAN 617 | Cervantes and the Quijote | 3 |
SPAN 650 | The Spanish Comedia of the Golden Age | 3 |
H | Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply. |
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Department Programs
Majors
Minors
- Comparative Literature Minor
- Composition, Rhetoric, and Digital Literacy Minor
- Creative Writing Minor
- English Minor
- Global Cinema Minor
- Latina/o Studies Minor
- Medicine, Literature, and Culture Minor
- Medieval and Early Modern Studies Minor
Graduate Programs
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