European Studies
College of Liberal & Creative Arts
Dean: Andrew Harris
European Studies Program
SCI 267
Phone: 415-338-2250
Coordinator: Sarah Curtis
Faculty
Professors: Calderón, Christmas, Curtis, D'Agostino, Kovacs, Klironomos, Langbehn, Luft, Mann, Peel, Tsygankov, Vandergriff, Watts
Associate Professors: Clavier, Concolino, Hackenberg, Hammer, Hood, Khanmohamadi, Le Marchand, Lisy-Wagner, Millet, Nelsen, Rodriguez, Sowaal, Steier
Assistant Professors: Linton, Siegel
Program
Program Scope
The European Studies minor is a multidisciplinary program in European history, politics, and culture designed to provide undergraduate students with a broad understanding of European ideas and institutions over time. Europe is intrinsically connected to important concepts and historical developments such as revolution, religion, imperialism, capitalism, industrialization, individualism, democracy, communism, human rights, and welfare states. These concepts, formative for Western society, have had global significance as well. Though no longer dominant, Europe today remains a complex, fascinating, and vital region of the world, and one grappling with an array of fundamental political, socioeconomic, and cultural challenges, from enlarging the European Union to determining the future of the welfare state to integrating former colonial subjects into European societies as full citizens.
This minor allows students to engage critically in the examination of Europe past and present through courses in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. It is designed to accommodate a wide range of student interests in particular time periods and specific countries. It is especially recommended for students who wish to study abroad in one of SFSU’s exchange programs in Europe and for students considering careers in teaching, the arts, international politics, international business, and the foreign service. In an era of global interdependence, a minor in European Studies demonstrates interest in and knowledge of a region outside of the United States from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Minor in European Studies
The European Studies Minor consists of a core curriculum of 9 to 10 units which contain material and perspectives which reach across the normal disciplinary divisions of the university, plus 12 to 14 units of upper division courses taken from the following categories on advisement. A full list of approved electives is available from the European Studies director. The minor must include courses from at least three different disciplines (prefixes) and two colleges.
European Studies, Minor — 21 - 24 units
Courses are 3 units unless otherwise indicated.
Core Courses (9 - 10 units)
- HIST 111 Western Civilization II
- HIST 346/ Recent European History
- I R 346 Recent European History
3 - 4 units selected from the following:
- HIST 348 Modern European Intellectual and Cultural History
- HUM 410 The Modern Revolution
- PLSI 353 Political Theory: The Twentieth Century (4)
- PHIL 303 Modern Philosophy
Electives (12 - 14 units)
Under advisement, students are to select one course from Humanities and Literature, one course from Social Sciences, one course from Art History and the Performing Arts, and one course from any of the above areas. These selections may focus on Europe as a civilization (e.g., the formation of Europe, Europe in transition, and contemporary Europe), a section of Europe (e.g., Russia and Eastern Europe, Western Europe, the European community, etc.), or on European artistic and intellectual traditions. Elective courses are listed below.
Humanities and Literature (3 units)
Students may choose from appropriate electives in the following departments: Comparative and World Literature, English, French, German, Humanities, Italian, Jewish Studies, Modem Greek Studies, Philosophy, Russian, and Spanish.
Social Sciences (3 - 4 units)
Students may choose from appropriate electives in the following departments: History, International Business, International Relations, Jewish Studies, and Political Science.
Art History and the Performing Arts (3 units)
Students may choose from appropriate electives in the following departments: Art History, Cinema, Music, and Theater Arts.
Additional Elective (3 - 4 units)
Students may choose a fourth elective from any of the three areas (Humanities and Literature, Social Sciences, Art History and the Performing Arts) above.
Foreign Language Requirement
All students completing the European Studies Minor are required to demonstrate intermediate level competency in a language other than English, relevant to the area. This requirement may be met by completing the university entrance requirement of two years of high school language study, one year of successful college level language study, or demonstration of equivalent competency.
Study Abroad
Students completing the European Studies minor are strongly encouraged to participate in study-abroad programs. At the discretion of the European Studies director, courses taken in certified SF State Study-Abroad programs may be substituted for the minor requirements.
Courses are 3 units unless otherwise indicated.
Elective Courses
• Humanities and Literature (3 units)
- CWL 420 Studies in Comparative Literature (European variants)
- CWL 421 Celtic Literature
- ENG 501 Age of Chaucer
- ENG 510 Age of Wit
- ENG 512 18th-Century Women Writers
- ENG 514 Age of the Romantics
- ENG 550 The Rise of the Novel
- ENG 552 Modern British Novel
- FR 400 GW French Culture - GWAR
- FR 410 Contemporary French Civilization
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FR 450 French/Francophone Literature, Linguistics, and/or Culture
(metropolitan French variants) - FR 500 Introduction to Literary Texts (in French)
- FR 525 17th and 18th Century French Theater (in French)
- FR 535 Les Philosophes (in French)
- GER 401 German Culture and Civilization I (in German)
- GER 502 Contemporary Germany (in German)
- GER 613 The Weimar Republic and Its Principle of Discontent (in English)
- GER 617 The Holocaust and Postwar Germany Taught in English
- HIST 330/ The Early Middle Ages
- HUM 403 The Early Middle Ages
- HUM 375 Biography of a City (Athens, Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, St. Petersburg, Vienna)
- HUM 404/ The High Middle Ages
- HIST 331 The High Middle Ages
- HUM 407 Romanticism and Impressionism
- HUM 410 The Modern Revolution
- HUM 415 Contemporary Culture
- HUM 432 Nietzsche and Postmodernism
- ITAL 401 Italian Culture and Civilization
- ITAL 510 Italian Literature: Early Period (in Italian)
- ITAL 511 Italian Literature: Late Period (in Italian)
- ITAL 525 Literature of the Risorgimento (in Italian)
- ITAL 550 The Italian Theater (in Italian)
- ITAL 560 The Italian Novel (in Italian)
- ITAL 570 Italian Women Writers--l3th to 20th Centuries (in Italian)
- ITAL 580 Great Figures in Italian Literature (in Italian)
- ITAL 581 Divina Commedia (in Italian)
- ITAL 600 GW Italian Literature on Film in English - GWAR
- JS 437/ Holocaust and Literature
- CWL 437 Holocaust and Literature
- JS 480 European Jewish Writers
- MGS 465/ Modern Greek Poetry in Comparative Perspective
- CWL 465 Modern Greek Poetry in Comparative Perspective
- MGS 497 Modern Greek Literature
- MGS 555 Introduction to Modern Greek Literary Texts
- PHIL 302 Medieval Philosophy
- PHIL 303 Modern Philosophy
- PHIL 365 Science and Civilization
- RUSS 260 Russian Culture and Civilization (in English)
- RUSS 511 Survey of 19th-Century Russian Literature (in English)
- RUSS 610 Dostoevsky (in English)
- RUSS 613 The Russian Novel: Pushkin, Lermontov, Gogol (in English)
- RUSS 615 The Russian Avant-Garde (in English)
- SPAN 401 GW Culture and Civilization of Spain - GWAR
- SPAN 562 Cervantes: The Quijote
- SPAN 595 Survey in Spanish Literature
• Social Sciences (3 - 4 units)
- HIST 317/ The Holocaust and Genocide
- JS 317 The Holocaust and Genocide
- HIST 330/ The Early Middle Ages
- HUM 403 The Early Middle Ages
- HIST 334 The Renaissance
- HIST 336 The Reformation
- HIST 338 The Age of Louis XIV
- HIST 342 Europe and the French Revolution
- HIST 344 Nineteenth Century Europe
- HIST 347 Women in Modern Europe
- HIST 385 The Russian Revolution
- HIST 386 Soviet Russia, the West, and the Cold War
- HIST 389 European International History: 1848-1918
- HIST 390 European International History: 1918 to 1945
- HIST 400 Modern European Imperialism
- HUM 404/ The High Middle Ages
- HIST 331 The High Middle Ages
- IBUS 593 Doing Business in Europe
- I R 327 Europe: Forming a More Perfect Union (4)
- I R 328/ Domestic and Foreign Policy: Post-Communist Regions (4)
- PLSI 328 Domestic and Foreign Policy: Post-Communist Regions (4)
- JS 632 Jewish History I
- JS 633 Jewish History II
- MGS 316 Culture of Contemporary Greece
- MGS 350 Greece and the Balkans
- MGS 510 The Byzantine Empire
- PLSI 353 Political Theory: Twentieth Century (4)
- PLSI 407 Politics of Russia (4)
• Art History and the Performing Arts (3 units)
- ART 201 Western Art History I
- ART 202 Western Art History II
- ART 405/ Art, Literature, and Power in the Renaissance
- HUM 405 Art, Literature, and Power in the Renaissance
- ART 406 Renaissance Art
- ART 501 Western Art: Special Areas (European variants)
- CINE 401 National/Regional Cinemas (European variants)
- CINE 305/ Film and the Holocaust
- JS 405 Film and the Holocaust
- MUS 550 Music from the Middle Ages to 1750
- MUS 551 Classic and Romantic Music
- TH A 401 Theatre Backgrounds: 500 B.C.-1642
- TH A 402 Theatre Backgrounds: 1642-1900
