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.

What you’ll learn with a Medieval and Renaissance Studies Minor

With a medieval and Renaissance studies minor, you will have the skills needed to achieve your bigger goals, regardless of industry or area of expertise within the humanities realm and will be able to:

• Articulate the literary, historical, material, cultural, social and political features distinctive to the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
• Explain how the Middle Ages and Renaissance adopted, reshaped and rejected features of antiquity, and how modernity does the same with its medieval and Renaissance roots.
• Identify, analyze and evaluate primary and secondary sources relevant to multiple disciplines.
• Combine research approaches from multiple disciplines, such as history, literature, philosophy, theology and art history.
• Write across disciplines in medieval and Renaissance studies, including in writing-intensive courses in history, English and philosophy.