The 31 Medieval and Renaissance courses listed below are being offered in the Fall and count toward the major and minor. See Program Requirements for distribution requirements among the four course-study areas. Students should meet with the Director of Undergraduate Studies for advising before determining a course schedule. Seniors graduating this spring must meet with the DUS to make sure that all requirements for the major or minor will be met before graduation.

For course descriptions, see the Online Course Synopsis Handbook. Not all departments have put up or will put up course descriptions in the Online Course Synopsis. Course descriptions, along with other information for registering (including pre-Curriculum 2000 and Curiculum 2000 designations), can be found in the MEDREN section of ACES online. Note that there will also be a link to a course's cross-listing in another department, where you might find other information on the course.

Course descriptions can also be found in the current Undergraduate Bulletin, where over 120 Medieval and Renaissance courses are listed. When looking in the Bulletin for course descriptions, keep in mind that full course descriptions are given in one place only (to save space)—in the section of the course's home department. For example, MEDREN 144B, Renaissance and Baroque Art History (cross-listed with Art History 144B) is listed among the MEDREN courses, but its full description is to be found in the Art History section of the Bulletin.

All the courses listed below may be taken toward degrees in both Medieval and Renaissance Studies and in the departments to which MEDREN courses are cross-listed.

To read about faculty teaching the courses below, go to Faculty Profiles.

For all sorts of valuable information on registration, see Trinity College's Summary of Important Information about Requirements, Registration, and Other Academic Regulations.

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100.01. Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Lovers’ Discourse (Also ENGLISH 173.01)
Beckwith
MW 11:40-12:55

100S.01 Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Early Modern Arts in Spain, France, England (Also ROMST 150S.01, RELIGION 185S.01, ENGLISH 173S.01, VISUALST 189S.01)
Greer
TTH 2:50-4:05

Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: Early Modern Europe (Also HISTORY 103.04)
Martin
MWF 10:20-11:10

111B.01. Introduction to Spanish Literature I (Also SPANISH 111.01)
Greer
TTH 1:15-2:30

112A.01. Gothic Cathedrals (Also ARTHIST 110.001)
Bruzelius
MW 10:05-11:20
Lab
112A.01L. Lab: Gothic Cathedrals (Also ARTHIST 110.01L)
Bruzelius
F 10:05-11:20

114.01. The Living Middle Ages (Also ARTHST 139.01, CLST 139.01, HISTORY 116.01, ENGLISH 123C.01)
Neuschel and Rasmussen
MW 1:15-2:30

134B.01. Jews in the Late Middle Ages (Also HISTORY 134B.01, JEWISHST 146.01)
Bell
TTH 10:05-11:20

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137.02. Renaissance and Baroque Art History (Also ARTHIST 144B.01)
Staff
WF 2:50-4:05

139AS.01. Special Topics in British Literature I: Medieval Utopias (Also ENGLISH 139AS.01)
Somerset
WF 8:30-9:45

139BS.01. Special Topics in British Literature II: Shakespeare (Also ENGLISH 139BS.01)
Ross
MW 2:50-4:05

139BS.02. Special Topics in British Literature II: Shakespeare (Also ENGLISH 139BS.02)
Ross
TTH 11:40-12:55

141B.01. Chaucer (Also ENGLISH 141.01)
Beckwith
MW 8:30-9:45

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146A.01. Islamic Civilization (Also CULANTH 147.01, HISTORY 101G.01, RELIGION 146.01, ICS 141A.01)
Lawrence
MWF 10:20-11:10

151S.01. Eros in the Renaissance (Also ROMST 151S.01)
Schachter
TTH 2:50-4:05

155S.01. Music History I: To 1650 (Also MUSIC 155S.01)
Brothers
MW 10:05-11:20

160S.01. Topics in Renaissance Literature and Culture: Wars of Religion in France (Also FRENCH 143S.01)
Schachter
TTH 4:25-5:40

161S.01. Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Body/Anatomy/Gender in the Early Modern Period (Also ITALIAN 145S.01, ENGLISH 173S.01)
Finucci
TTH 2:50-4:05

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165S.01. Vikings and Their History (Also GERMAN 165S.01)
Keul
TTH 8:30-9:45

182.01. Shakespeare Before 1650 (Also THEATRST 109.01, ENGLISH 143.01, AAAS 199.02)
Porter
TTH 11:40-12:55

200.01. Advanced Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: The History of Biblical Interpretation from Medieval to Modern Times (Also CHURHST 240.01)
Pak
W 8:30-11:00

200.02. Advanced Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: The Theology of Las Casas (Also XTIANTHE 251)
Colon-Emeric
TH 8:30-11:00

200.03. Advanced Topics in Medieval and Renaissance Studies: The Thought of Augustine of Hippo (Also XTIANTHE 288)
Griffiths
W 8:30-11:00

200S.02. John Milton: Poetry, Theology & Politics (Also HISTTHEO 220.01, ENGLISH 271BS.01)
Aers
TH 2:30-5:00

201S.01. Introduction to Medieval German (Also GERMAN 209S.01)
Rasmussen
M 6:15-8:45

202B.01. Early and Medieval Christianity (Also CHURHST 13.01)
Smith
MW 2:30-3:45

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209S.01. Topics in Middle English Literature: Dream Visions (Also ENGLISH 212S.01)
Somerset
WF 11:40-12:55

223B.01. Topics in Renaissance Music: The Motet in the Renaissance (Also MUSIC 223.01)
McCarthy W 4:25-6:55

273.01. Early Medieval Church, Out of Africa: Christianity Before Islam (Also CHURHST 272A.01)
Keefe
T 6:30-9:00

276.01. The Sacraments in the Patristic and Early Medieval Period: Baptism in the First Eight Centuries of the Church (Also CHURHST 276.01)
Keefe
W 6:30-9:00

Other MEDREN content courses not cross-listed with MEDREN this term (for various reasons) but which may count toward the major or minor:

HISTORY 111A.01. North America to 1760
Fenn
MW 11:40-12:55

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Taking Classes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Duke students should be aware of the opportunity to take classes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We may be rivals in athletics, but we are great collaborators in academics! Duke and UNC have a Reciprocal Registration arrangement that allows undergraduate students at one university to take courses at the other. For a list of Medieval & Renaissance Studies courses being offered in fall 2008 at the University of North Carolina, see the UNC Medieval and Early Modern Studies website listing of classes.

Under the inter-institutional registration agreement, any graduate, professional, or undergraduate student enrolled as a degree-seeking student at any of the following participating universities may participate in registration via the inter-institutional registration process:

Duke University
North Carolina Central University
North Carolina State University
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
University of North Carolina at Greensboro

For further information on rules and registration procedures, go to the Inter-Institutional Registration Agreement website.

A free Duke/UNC direct bus, funded by the Robertson Scholars Program, departs frequently and makes traveling between the two campuses easy and convenient. This nonstop bus picks up and drops off at the Duke Chapel Circle on west campus and at the Morehead Planetarium on Franklin Street at UNC. See the Robertson Scholars website for the departure and arrival schedule for this bus.