Minor in Medieval & Renaissance Studies

The Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MARS) minor offers an interdisciplinary, multifaceted program of study in the history, literature, philosophy, theology, art, architecture, language, and legacy of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Medieval & Renaissance Studies provides students a variety of sources, methodologies, and disciplines for approaching people, events, texts, ideologies, institutions, and artifacts from late antiquity through the seventeenth century.

As a student minoring in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, you will seek to understand the culture of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, how it was shaped by antiquity, and how this period gave birth to the modern western world. By the end of this course of study, you will:

• be able to articulate the literary, historical, material, cultural, social, and political features distinctive to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
• demonstrate knowledge of how the Middle Ages and Renaissance adopt, re-shape, and reject features of antiquity and how modernity, in turn, adopts, re-shapes, and rejects its Medieval and Renaissance roots.
• be able to identify, analyze, and evaluate primary and secondary sources relevant to multiple disciplines.
• gain proficiency in writing across disciplines in Medieval and Renaissance Studies and will demonstrate the ability to utilize and combine research approaches from multiple disciplines.