ndergraduate Program
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Medieval Studies Concentration
The Medieval Studies program was one of the first interdisciplinary programs to be established at UT, and it has a proven record of interdisciplinary faculty cooperation. Students majoring in Medieval Studies will take courses in disciplines as varied as architecture, art history, foreign language, history, literature, philosophy, political science and religious studies. Although the scope of the Medieval Studies program has traditionally been Europe between 500 and 1500, the program is flexible enough to allow students to focus on this period in Asia if they wish or to widen the time period studied to include the Late Classical world and the beginnings of the early modern or Renaissance world.
A concentration in Medieval Studies offers the opportunity to deepen one's self-awareness and broaden one's view of the range of human possibilities by studying a very different and remote culture, its conditions of life, social and political institutions, values and ideals, and modes of perception and expression.
Latin is the most appropriate language for students in the Medieval Studies concentration and is essential for those who plan to continue their studies in graduate school. In addition, students planning to go on to graduate school are strongly advised to supplement their Medieval Studies concentration with extensive work in one of the traditional disciplines.
The concentration consists of Medieval Studies 201 and 403 and 21 hours of upper-division courses concerned primarily with the medieval experience, divided among the following three categories.
- Category 1 - History, Philosophy and Political Science: History 312, 313, 330, 334, 369, 474, Philosophy 322, Political Science 475.
- Category 2 - Language and Literature: Classics 435, English 371, 401, 402, French 410, Italian 401, 402
- Category 3 - The Arts: Architecture 415, Art History 425, 431, 441, 451, Musicology 210
Courses should either form a related pattern (for example, courses in the literature and history of medieval England or Italy) or should revolve around a particular discipline or two closely related disciplines (for example, courses in the history of art and architecture).
Medieval Studies Minor
A Medieval Studies minor consists of Medieval Studies 201 and 403 and twelve additional hours distributed among the categories listed above for the major concentration. Each student's program, major or minor, must be approved in advance by the Medieval Studies Coordinating Committee chairperson.
For more information, please email Program Coordinator Erin Read at eread1@utk.edu.