European Studies (BA)

The European Studies major explores European society and culture from a multi-disciplinary perspective. Students will become familiar with Europe’s distinctive history and politics, its commerce and media, and its contributions to the arts, literature, and ideas. Majors will demonstrate a solid grounding in at least one European language and will spend a term of study at one or more of Webster’s European campuses.

Learning Objectives and Intended Outcomes for the European Studies Major:

Upon completion of the program, students should:

1. be proficient in at least one major European language*
2. be familiar with the geography of Europe
3. be familiar with major events and major literary, philosophic, and artistic movements in European history
4. understand overall periodization of European history, as well as some social, political, and economic facts about each period
5. be able to analyze, compare and contrast multiple interpretive frameworks for the study of European society and culture
6. be able to describe the outlines of religious beliefs and ideological belief systems like liberalism, feminism, and Marxism,
7. be able to draw connections between the study of European culture, history, and society.

36 credit hours in European Studies, divided into the following distribution areas:
   12 credits in European History and Politics
   12 credits in European Commerce and Communications
   12 credits in European Arts and Expression
   ISTL 4510. European Studies Overview (may be taken for 0 or 1 credit)
27 general education credit hours
65 elective credit hours

Other Program Requirements

Four advanced level courses (3000 or 4000) which cover all of the (three) distribution areas
Proficiency in one of the following languages: French, German, Italian, or Spanish.

Proficiency may be demonstrated either by a foreign language exam or by passing a course in one of these languages at the 3000 level.

At least one term of study at Webster University’s campus in London, Leiden, Geneva, or Vienna (Students may, with the approval of the program director, also fulfill this requirement at a university in Europe that is outside the Webster network)

Distribution Areas

An asterisk indicates that the course must have an appropriate subtitle to qualify toward the major or else must be approved by the program director as having relevant content. In many cases, appropriate courses under these sub-headings will only be offered on Webster’s European campuses.

Courses not on this list may be substituted with the permission of the program director.

European History & Politics

• HIST 1010: Topics in History*
• HIST 2000 Social History*
• HIST 2060 Gender and Family*
• HIST 2080 History of Disease and Medicine
• HIST 2200 History of Medieval Society
• HIST 2210 Renaissance and Reformation
• HIST 2310 Encounters with History: Ancient Greeks
• HIST 2220 Modern Europe (may be repeated if topics differ)
• HIST 2250 History of Russia
• HIST 2280 History of England (may be repeated if topics differ)
• HIST 2310 Encounters with History*
• HIST 3060 History Roundtable* (may be repeated if topics differ)
• HIST 4200 Advanced Studies in European History
• HIST 4600 History Seminar* (may be repeated if topic differs)
• POLT 2250 Politics in the Industrialized World
• POLT 3400 Comparative Politics*
• POLT 4100 Advanced Studies in International Politics*
• POLT 4400 Advanced Studies in Comparative Politics*
• POLT 4600 Political Science Seminar*

Commerce & Communications

• BUSN 1200 Introduction to Business*
• BUSN 4650 International Business
• MNGT 3320 Business Law: International
• MNGT 3400 Human Resource Management*
• MNGT 3420 Labor & Management Relations*
• MNGT 3450 Principles of Organizational Behavior*
• MNGT 3500 Marketing*
• MNGT 3510 Advertising*
• MNGT 3600 Management and the Arts*
• MNGT 4100 International Management
• MNGT 4330 International Marketing
• ECON 3100 Issues in Economics*
• ECON 4600 Comparative Economic Systems
• ECON 4720 International Trade and Finance
• ECON 4900 History of Economic Thought
• JOUR 3080 Global Journalism
• JOUR 3120 Global Affairs Reporting
• JOUR 3150 Topics in Modern Media*
• JOUR 3190 Topic in International Journalism
• JOUR 4220 Advanced Global Journalism
• MEDC 3260 International Communications
• ILC 2150 Topics in Culture*
• ILC 3150 Culture and Civilization*
• ILC 4150 Contemporary Issues*
• ILC 4650 Advanced Topics*
• LEGL 4600 Legal Studies Seminar*
• HIST 3050 Economic History
• HIST 3100 Diplomatic History
• HIST 3150 International Affairs
• INTL 2030 International Law
• INTL 3700 International Organizations
• INTL 4280 International Trade
• INTL 4600 International Relations Seminar*

European Arts & Expression

• ENGL 2020 Major British Writers I
• ENGL 2030 Major British Writers II
• ENGL 2035 Major British Writers II: 18th-19th c. novelists
• ENGL 2110 Perspectives*
• ENGL 2210 Literature into Film*
• ENGL 3500 Contexts*
• ENGL 3900 Myth and Classical Literature (Homer, Virgil, and Dante)
• ENGL 4020 Heroic Themes (Malory, Spenser, and Milton)
• ENGL 4150 Shakespeare I
• ENGL 4160 Shakespeare II
• GNST 1400 Civilization and the Arts*
• GNST 2000 Topics in the Liberal Arts*
• ILC 3250 Introduction to Literature*
• THEA 2030 History of the Theater: Greeks to Restoration
• THEA 2040 History of the Theater: Eighteenth Cent to Modern
• THEA 3030 Topics in the Theater*
• THEA 3040 Topics in the Theater*
• ARHS 2210 Introduction to the History of Western Art
• ARHS 2350 Introductory Topics in Art History*
• ARHS 3340 History of Renaissance Art
• ARHS 3350 Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Art
• ARHS 3360 History of Modern Art*
• ARHS 4350 Topics in Art History*
• MUSC 1050 Introduction to Music Appreciation
• MUSC 1070 Topics in Music*
• PHIL 2080 Topics in Philosophy*
• PHIL 2300 Social and Political Philosophy*
• PHIL 2510 Philosophic Classics: Ancient Greece and Rome
• PHIL 2520 Philosophic Classics: Early Modern Europe
• PHIL 3100 Literature and Philosophy*
• PHIL 3120 Philosophy and Art*
• PHIL 3320 Continental Philosophy
• PHIL 3350 Philosophical Ethics*
• PHIL 4050 Topics in the History of Philosophy*
• RELG 2030 Contemporary Topics*
• RELG 2080 Introduction to Western Religions
• RELG 3180 Judaism
• RELG 3190 Christianity
• RELG 4040 Belief Systems*
• RELG 4400 Spiritual Paths and Classics*
• RELG 4550 Advanced Study in Religion*

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