Renaissance Studies
Major in Renaissance Studies
36 semester hours
Required courses:
- REN 100 Defining the Renaissance
- ENG 216 Introduction to Shakespeare
- HIST 238 Tudor-Stuart England, 1450–1660
- ENG 320 Renaissance Literature
- ARTH 202 Italian Renaissance Art: The Early Renaissance or ARTH 203 Italian Renaissance Art: The High Renaissance
- THEA 217 Continental Renaissance Drama or THEA 218 Renaissance Drama in Context
- REN 400 Senior Seminar
Five of the following:
- ARTH 211 Women in the Visual Arts
- ARTH 314 Art in England
- ENG 315 Tudor-Stuart Drama
- ARTH 343 Renaissance Studies in Italy
- ENG 390 Virginia Program at Oxford, English Renaissance Literature
- HIST 390 Virginia Program at Oxford, Tudor-Stuart History
- SPAN 325 Spanish Literature of the Golden Age
Students may take up to six elective hours in the following graduate courses, with permission from the Director of the MLitt/MFA program and the instructor:
- REN 510 Shakespeare and Textual Culture
- REN 520 Tudor-Stuart History
- REN 540 Early English Drama and Theatre History
- REN 550 Social History of Early Modern England
- REN 554 Shakespeare's Theater
- REN 557 Shakespeare's Contemporaries
- REN 630 Visual Design on the Early Stage
- REN 675 Early Modern Costume
