2020-2021 Graduate Courses
Courses accepted for credit toward the MA degree in Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Course listings change often, please check departmental websites, as well as this page, to confirm courses.
Columbia has adopted a three term calendar for the 2020-2021 year. Please see the University Academic Calendar
As the situation surrounding COVID-19 develops please check https://covid19.columbia.edu/ for updates from the University's COVID-19 Taskforce.
Fall 2020 Courses
The department of Art History and Archaeology requires students to apply for registration in certain courses please see the the department website for more information.
Travel: Art, Architecture, and Mapping Worlds
E. Pistis
AHIS GR 8350 In Person Meeting
The Italian Renaissance Literature of Art: Strategies for Reading
M. Cole
Introduction to Old English & Literature
Patricia Dailey
GU 4091 Online Only
Milton in Context
Julie Crawford
GU3211 Online Only
Mysticism & Medieval Drama: Visionary Dramas
Eleanor Johnson
GU 4791 Online Only
Conquests, Colonialism, and the Normans
Hannah Weaver
GU4812 Online Only
Renaissance Drama
Alan Stewart
GR6135 Online Only
Rabelais and Montaigne
Compagnon
GR8214
Tibetan Monastic Institutions
Tuttle
GU 4410 Online Only
Manuscripts of the Muslim World
Sen
GU4743 Online Only
Fulfills Book Requirement
Religion and Capitalism
Coleman
GR8174 Online Only
Medieval Societies & Institutions
Kosto
GR9067 Online Only
Dante's Divina Commedia
Barolini
GU 4091- Section 1 Online Only
Italian Renaissance Romance Epic I
Cavallo
GU4097 Online Only
Medieval & Renaissance Philology
Adam Kosto
MRST GR6021
Directed Individual Readings
Adam Kosto
MRST GR6990
MA Thesis I
Adam Kosto
MRST 6998
MA Thesis II
Adam Kosto
MRST6999
Modern & Medieval Islamic Political Thought
Hamid Dabashi
GU4764 Online Only
Music, Mind, and Body in the Renaissance
Giyseppe Gerbino
GR 8104
Topics in Early Modern Philosophy
Aminah Hasan
GU 4900
Political Thought: Classical and Medieval
Giovanni Giorgini
GU 4132 Online Only
Interactions of Buddhism and Daoism in China
Zhaohua Yang
GU 4307
Spring 2021 Courses
Sin and Sodomy
G. Bryda
GU4521
Modern Titian
Bodart
GR8363
Medieval Latin Literature
Franklin
GU4152
Latin Paleography
Franklin
GR6154
Satisfies Book Course Requirement
Medieval Cultures of the Book
Baswell
GU4001
Satisfies Book Course Requirement
Trade and Traffic with Early Modern England
Stewart
GU4232
Advanced Old English
Dailey
GU4790
John Donne
Murray
GR6292
Europe's Commercial Revolution
Howell
GU4029
Sufism, Sharia, and Politics
GU4265
Hallaq
Medieval Franciscans and Their World
Senocak
GR46999
Science and Art in Early Modern Europe
GU4935
Ardeta Gjikola
Graduate Seminar: The Jewish Book in the Early Modern World
Carlebach
GR8132
Topics in the Cultural History of Premodern Japan
Lurie
GR 9875
The Qur'an in Europe
Pier Mattia Tommasino
GU4022
Dante's Divine Commedia II
Teodolinda Barolini
GU4092 Section 1 Online Only
Italian Renaissance Romance Epic II
Jo Ann Cavallo
GU4098 Online Only
Medicine and Disease in the Pre-Modern I
Van Dalen
GU4239
Summer 2021
Medieval Society, Politics, and Ethics: Major Texts
Kosto
GU4061
Making and Knowing in Early Modern Europe: Hands on History
Smith
GU4962