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University of Montana Catalog 2024-2025

European Studies Minor

General Degree Requirements

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Courses taken to satisfy the requirements of a major, minor, or certificate program must be completed with a grade of C- or better unless a higher grade is noted in the program requirements.

MINOR - EUROPEAN STUDIES 

Course Requirements

Core Course
Complete the following course:
WLC 110Introduction to European Studies3
Language Requirement
Complete the 101-202 language sequence of one of the following languages:12-16
Ancient Greek (GRK)
French (FRCH)
German (GRMN)
Latin (LATN)
Russian (RUSS)
Spanish (SPNS)
Upper-Division Electives 1
Complete six of the following courses (at least three courses must come from two different disciplines offered outside of the student's primary major):18
English
Shakespeare and Film
Shakespeare
Chaucer
Milton
British Romanticism
World Languages & Literatures
Ancient Greek Civilization and Culture
French Literature and Culture: Middle Ages and Renaissance
French Literature and Culture: 17th 18th Centuries
French Literature Culture: Long 19th Century
Literature and Culture III: French and Francophone Literatures and Cultures of the 20th Century
The French Cinema
French Civilization & Culture
Studies in French Prose
Studies in French Drama
Studies in French Poetry
Introduction to Multicultural Literature in Contemporary Germany
Survey of German Cinema
Nature and the Environment in German Literature and Film
German Culture: Beginnings to Romanticism
Germ Culture: Romanticism to the Present
German Literature 1760-1832
19th Century German Literature
20th and 21st Century German Literature
Evil and the Supernatural in Russian Literature
Beauty, Power and Pride in Russian Literature
19th-Century Russian Authors
20th-Century Russian Authors
Russian Short Story
Russian Poetry
Seminar in Russian Studies
Contemporary Spanish Lit
Spanish Literature: Renaissance and Golden Age
Spanish Literature: Modern & Contemporary
European History
European Social and Intellectual History: The 19th Century
European Social and Intellectual History: The 20th Century
Contemporary Europe
Britain 1485-1688
Britain from Revolution to Reform 1688
Modern Britain
France Revolution 1789-1848
Italy: 1300-1800
Italy: 1800-Present
Russia to 1881
Russia Since 1881
Eastern Europe
Music
Music History I
Music History II
Art History
20th Century Art
Total Hours33-37
1

Two lower-division courses in a second European language may be substituted for two of the six required upper-division courses, subject to advisor approval. 

 

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