Medieval and Renaissance Studies (2022 - 2024)
This is only a sampling of courses that count toward the major and minor. For more choices throughout CAS, please see "cross-listed courses" (below) and consult with the center.
Love and War in Renaissance Italy: Chivalric Romance and Epic
MEDI-UA 145 Identical to ITAL-UA 145. Offered every two to three years. 4 points.
Study of Lodovico Ariosto’s Orlando furioso (1532) and Torquato Tasso’s Gerusalemme liberata (1581) in their historical context and in relation to the rich literary traditions of romance and epic that converge in them. Thematic focuses include the construction of gender and the representation of religious and racial “otherness.”
Dante's Divine Comedy in Context
MEDI-UA 269 Identical to ITAL-UA 269. Offered regularly. 4 points.
Interdisciplinary introduction (in English) to late medieval culture. The literature, art, and music, as well as political, religious, and social developments of the time. Emphasizes the classical background of medieval culture and its transmission to the modern world. Readings from Dante, St. Augustine, Boethius, St. Francis, Brunetto Latini, Thomas Aquinas, and Boccaccio.
Medieval Literature in Translation
MEDI-UA 310 Identical to ENGL-UA 310. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Introduction to the culture and literature of the medieval world through translations of diverse texts written in Latin, French, German, Italian, Icelandic, and other vernacular languages.
Medieval Romance
MEDI-UA 311 Identical to ENGL-UA 311. Offered periodically. 4 points.
Study of how these tales of adventure, love, and magic both construct and deconstruct ideals of selfhood, masculinity, femininity, heterosexuality, nationality, geography, temporality, religion, spirituality, nature, and the function and performance of linguistic discourse. Consideration of other genres (saints’ lives, chronicles, travel writing, allegory, and exempla). Readings in Middle English and in translation.
Medieval Misogyny
MEDI-UA 488 Identical to SCA-UA 488. Offered periodically. 4 points.
From the Bible to key texts of the Western Middle Ages in which men lay down the law, and occasionally women talk back. Other works: the letters of Abelard and Heloise, the fictive but larger than life Wife of Bath, and the imagined feminine utopia of Christine de Pizan.
Internship
MEDI-UA 980, 981 Prerequisite: written permission of the director of the program. Restricted to majors and minors. 1 to 4 points per term.
Requires a faculty sponsor and a substantial written report.
Topics in Medieval Studies
MEDI-UA 983, 984 Offered regularly. 4 points per term.
Topics vary by semester.
Interdisciplinary Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Studies
MEDI-UA 991, 992 Offered every semester. 4 points per term.
Topics vary by semester. Recent offerings: Text and Image in Medieval Literature; The World of King Arthur; The Medieval Life Cycle: Birth to Rebirth; Shakespeare and the London Theatre.
Topics in Renaissance Studies
MEDI-UA 993, 994 Offered regularly. 4 points per term.
Topics vary by semester.
Independent Study
MEDI-UA 997 Prerequisite: written permission of the director of the program. Restricted to majors and minors. May not duplicate the content of a regularly scheduled course. 1 to 4 points per term.
Honors Independent Study
MEDI-UA 998 Prerequisites: admission to the honors program, permission of the director of undergraduate studies, and Senior Honors Seminar (MEDI-UA 999). Open only to honors majors. Offered in the spring. 4 points.
Students meet regularly with their faculty advisers and complete research and writing of the senior honors thesis.
Senior Honors Seminar
MEDI-UA 999 Prerequisites: admission to the honors program and permission of the director of undergraduate studies. Open only to honors majors. Offered in the fall. 4 points.
Students begin researching and writing their senior honors theses. Covers critical methodologies, research tools in Bobst Library, field standards for preparing research papers (forms of documentation, citation, and bibliography), and current theories in the field of literary and cultural criticism.
Cross-Listed Courses
These courses count toward the major and minor in medieval and Renaissance studies, although students are advised to confirm with the director of the program. See departmental sections in this Bulletin for course descriptions and prerequisites. For cross-listed electives offered at NYU’s Global Academic Centers, consult Albert. Approval of the director of the program is required to count other courses taken away toward the major or minor.
ART HISTORY
History of Western Art I
MEDI-UA 1 Identical to ARTH-UA 1. 4 points.
Art in the Islamic World
MEDI-UA 98 Identical to ARTH-UA 540. 4 points.
Medieval Art
MEDI-UA 200 Identical to ARTH-UA 4. 4 points.
Art of the Early Middle Ages
MEDI-UA 201 Identical to ARTH-UA 201. 4 points.
Romanesque Art
MEDI-UA 202 Identical to ARTH-UA 202. 4 points.
Gothic Art in Northern Europe
MEDI-UA 203 Identical to ARTH-UA 203. 4 points.
Art and Architecture in the Age of Giotto: Italian Art, 1200–1420
MEDI-UA 204 Identical to ARTH-UA 204. 4 points.
Medieval Architecture
MEDI-UA 205 Identical to ARTH-UA 205. 4 points.
Architecture and Urbanism in Renaissance Europe
MEDI-UA 301 Identical to ARTH-UA 301. 4 points.
Architecture and Urbanism in the Age of the Baroque
MEDI-UA 302 Identical to ARTH-UA 302. 4 points.
Northern Renaissance Art, 1400–1530
MEDI-UA 303 Identical to ARTH-UA 303. 4 points.
16th-Century Art North of the Alps
MEDI-UA 304 Identical to ARTH-UA 304. 4 points.
Italian Renaissance Sculpture
MEDI-UA 305 Identical to ARTH-UA 305. 4 points.
Early Masters of Italian Renaissance Painting
MEDI-UA 306 Identical to ARTH-UA 306. 4 points.
The Age of Leonardo, Raphael, and Michelangelo
MEDI-UA 307 Identical to ARTH-UA 307. 4 points.
The Golden Age of Venetian Painting
MEDI-UA 308 Identical to ARTH-UA 308. 4 points.
Italian Art in the Age of the Baroque
MEDI-UA 309 Identical to ARTH-UA 309. 4 points.
Dutch and Flemish Painting 1600–1700
MEDI-UA 311 Identical to ARTH-UA 311. 4 points.
French Art: Renaissance to Rococo, 1520–1770
MEDI-UA 313 Identical to ARTH-UA 313. 4 points.
Renaissance and Baroque Art
MEDI-UA 333 Identical to ARTH-UA 5. 4 points.
CLASSICS
Classical Mythology
MEDI-UA 404 Identical to CLASS-UA 404. 4 points.
Engaging Early Christian Theology
MEDI-UA 510 Identical to CLASS-UA 856. 4 points.
ENGLISH
History of Drama and Theatre I
MEDI-UA 127 Identical to DRLIT-UA 110. 4 points.
Literatures in English I: Medieval and Early Modern Literatures
MEDI-UA 210 Formerly British Literature I. Identical to ENGL-UA 111 (formerly ENGL-UA 210). 4 points.
Medieval Literature in Translation
MEDI-UA 310 Identical to ENGL-UA 310. 4 points.
Colloquium: Chaucer
MEDI-UA 320 Identical to ENGL-UA 320. 4 points.
16th-Century English Literature
MEDI-UA 400 Identical to ENGL-UA 400. 4 points.
Shakespeare I, II
MEDI-UA 410, 411 Identical to ENGL-UA 410, 411. 4 points per term.
Colloquium: Shakespeare
MEDI-UA 415 Identical to ENGL-UA 415. 4 points.
17th-Century English Literature
MEDI-UA 440 Identical to ENGL-UA 440. 4 points.
Colloquium: The Renaissance Writer
MEDI-UA 445 Identical to ENGL-UA 445. 4 points.
Colloquium: Milton
MEDI-UA 450 Identical to ENGL-UA 450. 4 points.
Topics: Medieval Literature
MEDI-UA 953 Identical to ENGL-UA 950. 4 points.
Topics: Renaissance Literature
MEDI-UA 954 Identical to ENGL-UA 951. 4 points.
Topics: 17th-Century British Literature
MEDI-UA 955 Identical to ENGL-UA 952. 4 points.
FRENCH
Topics in French Literature
MEDI-UA 869 (in English), MEDI-UA 969 (in French) Identical to FREN-UA 868 (in English), FREN-UA 968 (in French). 4 points.
History of the French Language
MEDI-UA 920 Identical to FREN-UA 920. 4 points.
HEBREW AND JUDAIC STUDIES
The Bible as Literature
MEDI-UA 23 Identical to HBRJD-UA 23. 4 points.
Topics in Judaic Studies
MEDI-UA 177 Identical to HBRJD-UA 177. 4 points.
Topics in the Bible and the Ancient Near East
MEDI-UA 949 Identical to HBRJD-UA 949. 4 points.
HISTORY
The Early Middle Ages, 300-1050
MEDI-UA 111 Identical to HIST-UA 111. 4 points.
The City in Western History: From Antiquity to Early Modernity
MEDI-UA 250 Identical to HIST-UA 25. 4 points
Topics in Medieval History
MEDI-UA 274 Identical to HIST-UA 108. 4 points.
ITALIAN
Readings in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
MEDI-UA 115 Identical to ITAL-UA 115. 4 points.
Machiavelli
MEDI-UA 147 Identical to ITAL-UA 147. 4 points.
Giordano Bruno and the Art of Memory
MEDI-UA 148 Identical to ITAL-UA 148, HIST-UA 126. 4 points.
Francesco Petrarca’s Rime
MEDI-UA 155 Identical to ITAL-UA 155. 4 points.
Dante’s Divine Comedy
MEDI-UA 270 Identical to ITAL-UA 270. 4 points.
MIDDLE EASTERN AND ISLAMIC STUDIES
Topics in Middle Eastern History
MEDI-UA 518 Identical to MEIS-UA 518. 4 points.
The Making of the Muslim Middle East, 600–1400
MEDI-UA 640 Identical to MEIS-UA 542. 4 points.
The Sufis: Mystics of Islam
MEDI-UA 863 Identical to MEIS-UA 863. 4 points.
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Early Christian Theology
MEDI-UA 570 Identical to RELST-UA 570. 4 points.
SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE LANGUAGES AND LITERATURES
Topics in Peninsular Spanish Literature and Culture
MEDI-UA 273 Identical to SPAN-UA 360. 4 points.
Graduate Courses Open to Undergraduates (with Permission)
ENGLISH
Introductory Old English
ENGL-GA 1060 4 points.
FRENCH
Introduction to Medieval French Literature
FREN-GA 1211 4 points.
MUSIC
Collegium Musicum
MUSIC-GA 1001, 1002 4 points.