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Twin Cities Campus

Early Modern Studies Minor

History Department

College of Liberal Arts

Link to a list of faculty for this program.

Contact Information

Department of History, 1030 Heller Hall, 271 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (612-625-6303; fax: 612-624-9813).

Email: emsdgs@umn.edu

Website: http://www.cemh.umn.edu/minor

Program Type: Graduate free-standing minor
Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2016
Length of program in credits (master's): 7
Length of program in credits (doctoral): 12
This program does not require summer semesters for timely completion.

The early modern studies (EMS) minor is available to master's and doctoral students. The program encourages inquiry into the early modern period, roughly 1300 to 1800 A.C.E., using insights and perspectives from multiple disciplines. The minor provides graduate students with solid grounding in the theories and multi-disciplinary methods used by scholars studying the early modern period, particularly through the required core seminar (EMS 8250 - Seminar in EMS: Current Research and Methodologies), which is co-taught by professors from two distinct departments. The minor also offers an opportunity to interact with the current research of visiting scholars and University of Minnesota faculty and graduate students through EMS 8100 - Workshop in Early Modern Studies, in which students share written responses to workshops and lectures on campus. Finally, the minor draws electives from existing courses in departments across the College of Liberal Arts, as well as those in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine. The University of Minnesota has numerous library collections and research centers which include a focus on the early modern period. For more information on the minor, visit www.cemh.umn.edu/minor.

Program Delivery

This program is available:

via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)

Prerequisites for Admission

Admission to the early modern studies graduate minor is contingent upon prior admission to a master's or doctoral degree-granting program.

For an online application or for more information about graduate education admissions, see the General Information section of this website.

Program Requirements

Use of 4xxx courses toward program requirements is permitted under certain conditions with adviser approval.

Program Sub-plans

Students are required to complete one of the following sub-plans.

Students may not complete the program with more than one sub-plan.

Masters

Required Courses

EMS 8250 - Seminar in Early Modern Studies (3.0 cr)

Students are required to enroll in EMS 8100 for 1 credit worth of workshop experience.

Take 1 or more credit(s) from the following:

· EMS 8100 - Workshop in Early Modern Studies (1.0-3.0 cr)

Elective Credits

Take 3 or more credit(s) from the following:

· EMS 5500 - Topics in Early Modern Studies (3.0 cr)

· EMS 8500 - Topics in Early Modern Studies (3.0 cr)

· EMS 8993 - Directed Study (1.0-6.0 cr)

· These electives can apply towards the minor. Not all courses are offered every semester.

· ARTH 5301 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)

or ARTH 5302 - The Image Multiplied: Prints in Early Modern Europe (3.0 cr)

or ARTH 5324 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)

or ARTH 5335 - Baroque Rome: Art and Politics in the Papal Capital (3.0 cr)

or ARTH 5777 - The Diversity of Traditions: Indian Empires after 1200 (3.0 cr)

or ARTH 5781 - Age of Empire: The Mughals, Safavids, and Ottomans (3.0 cr)

or ARTH 5785 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)

or ARTH 8320 - Seminar: Issues in Early Modern Visual Culture (3.0 cr)

or ARTH 8340 - Seminar: Baroque Art (3.0 cr)

or ENGL 5121 - Readings in Early Modern Literature and Culture (3.0 cr)

or ENGL 8120 - Seminar in Early Modern Literature and Culture (3.0 cr)

or FREN 8371 - The Rule of Reason, The Reign of Madness: Readings in Early Modern France (3.0 cr)

or FREN 8271 - The Novel of the Ancien Regime (3.0 cr)

or GER 8210 - Seminar in Early Modern German Literature and Culture (3.0 cr)

or HIST 5379 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)

or HIST 5547 - Empire and Nations in the Middle East (3.0 cr)

or HIST 5469 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)

or HIST 5612 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)

or HIST 5715 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)

or HIST 5801 - Seminar in Early American History (3.0 cr)

or HIST 5901 - Latin America Proseminar: Colonial (3.0 cr)

or HIST 5962 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)

or HIST 5964 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)

or HMED 8001 - Foundations in the History of Early Medicine (3.0 cr)

or HSCI 8125 - Foundations for Research in the Scientific Revolution (3.0 cr)

or MUS 5624 - Music of J. S. Bach (3.0 cr)

or PHIL 8085 - Seminar: History of Philosophy--Modern Philosophers (3.0 cr)

or PHIL 8090 - Seminar: History of Modern Philosophy (3.0 cr)

or PORT 5520 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)

or PORT 5530 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)

or SPAN 5316 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)

or SPAN 8212 - Spanish Theater of the 16th Century: Drama up to Lope (3.0 cr)

or SPAN 8223 - The Poetry of the Spanish Golden Age (3.0 cr)

or SPAN 8312 - Two Spanish Masterpieces: [Libro de Buen Amor] and [La Celestina] (3.0 cr)

or SPPT 8400 - Topics in Modern Hispanic and Lusophone Culture (3.0 cr)

or TH 8112 - History and Theory of Western Theatre: Medieval Through Renaissance (3.0 cr)

or TH 8113 - History and Theory of Western Theatre: National Theatres to the French Revolution (3.0 cr)

or PHIL 4055 - Kant (3.0 cr)

with PHIL 8010 - Workshop in History of Philosophy (1.0 cr)

Doctoral