Courses
Spring 2023 Medieval Studies Courses
Catalog Courses
Learning Goals for the MDVL major:
Students graduating with a MDVL major will be able to:
- Identify materials, terminologies, and methodologies within one or more following areas of study focused on the Middle Ages:
- Art History
- Languages and Literatures
- History
- Religious Studies and religious backgrounds to medieval culture
- Music History and Performance
- Cross-cultural contacts and borrowings
- Classical backgrounds for medieval culture
- Analyze primary material from the Middle Ages, explaining what specific features in the primary text/object carry medieval cultural content. (This can include focus, meaning, formal features, aims, assumptions, and purposes evident in the primary material.)
- Critically assess and interpret primary and secondary sources.
- Recognize and evaluate the cultural phenomena of the medieval world and their relationship to the modern world.
- Synthesize an argument from textual or other evidence and express it in formal prose. (Write organized, well-structured, clear essays that make use of evidence to advance assertions and a main thesis.)