British Studies Minor Social Science and History PEAK

SSH PEAK

15 credits

Minor Requirements

Complete three courses from the following (9 credits):

HIS-311To Kill a King: English Civil War 1638-1659

3 credits

HIS-34718th-Century Europe: Empires and Modernity

3 credits

HIS-34819th--Century Europe: Revolutions and Empires

3 credits

HIS-34920th--Century Europe: Conflict and Unity

3 credits

HIS-352England to 1688

3 credits

HIS-360Britain, Empire, and World, 1639-1832

3 credits

HIS-361Britain, Empire, and World, 1832-2010

3 credits

HIS-399T.2Tudor England

3 credits

IND-307.1London: Art/History/Literature

3 credits

IND-325Regional Cultures of the British Isles

3 credits

IND-307: 7 credits count towards the British Studies Minor

HIS-311, HIS-352: Complete 1 starred paper

Students may use HIS 347, 348, and 349 for the British Studies minor if, in the course, a student writes a research paper on a British topic.

Complete two courses from the following (6 credits):

200-level Intro. to Literary Studies must taken before enrolling in 300-level course in British Literature.

ENG-210Shakespearean Comedy

3 credits

ENG-212Introduction to Shakespeare

3 credits

ENG-218World War I and Modern Literature

3 credits

ENG-219Thief Making and Thief Taking: 19 Century Crime Literature

3 credits

ENG-220Regionalisms of the British Isles

3 credits

ENG-306The Seventeenth Century Lyric

3 credits

ENG-307Origins and Traditions of English Literature

3 credits

ENG-308Rival Playwrights: Marlowe, Shakespeare, Johnson

3 credits

ENG-310English Renaissance Literature

3 credits

ENG-315Ghosties and Ghoulies and Long-Leggedy Beasties: the Supernatural in British Literature

3 credits

ENG-316The Brontes

3 credits

ENG-317Nineteenth-Century British Fiction

3 credits

ENG-319Nineteenth-Century Literature of the British Isles

3 credits

ENG-320Twentieth-Century Literature of the British Isles

3 credits

ENG-322V. S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie

3 credits

IND-307.1London: Art/History/Literature

3 credits

IND-320.1Scotland and the Lake District

2 credits

IND-320.2Scotland and the Lake District

4 credits

IND-325Regional Cultures of the British Isles

3 credits

MUS-308Performing Britannia and Celtica: the Music of Britain

3 credits

IND-307: 7 credits count towards the British Studies Minor

ENG-316, ENG-317: Complete 1 starred paper

For a "starred paper" students must expand a paper they have written for one of their HIS British Studies courses. These will be graded on a pass/fail basis by the faculty member who originally supervised the project and should constitute a polished piece of work that serves as the student's highest achievement in the minor.