Undergraduate Programs
Students in our interdisciplinary program Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MRST) study the events, people and cultures of the rich period stretching from approximately 300 to 1700 C.E.
Students can take courses from over 50 faculty members across a dozen departments and programs in the College of Arts and Sciences and beyond. We explore developments in Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas during these centuries from the perspective of many fields: architecture, art history, archaeology, history, literature and languages, music, religious studies, philosophy, political science, and more. Our curriculum introduces students to these fields and their methods, while allowing them to concentrate on the eras and approaches that excite them most.
In MRST classes, students and faculty together encounter the past as “another country” in order to understand the conditions that have shaped today’s increasingly interconnected world. MRST majors and minors graduate with a multifaceted understanding of the premodern world and with skills essential for the job market, including sensitivity to cultural, linguistic, and historical difference and experience making contemporary sense of the texts and contexts of past times.
If you wish to declare an MRST major or minor, please arrange a meeting with Marco’s Riggsby Director by sending an email to [email protected].