Spring 2023 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.

As the situation surrounding COVID-19 develops please check https://covid19.columbia.edu/ for updates from the University's COVID-19 Taskforce. 

The department of Art History and Archaeology requires students to apply for registration in certain courses please see the department website for more information. 

AHIS GU4093
Sacred Space in South Asia
S. Kaligotla

AHIS GU4526
Conversion Aesthetics
G. Bryda
***Interested students should email Prof. Bryda ([email protected]) with a short paragraph expressing their relevant coursework and reasons for taking the course

AHIS GR8338
Drawing as Gesture
D. Bodart

AHIS GR8809
Ifriqiya: Graduate Travel Seminar in Spring 2023
A. Shalem 
*Note that the application is due by November 28. Questions can be sent electronically to Avinoam Shalem, Riggio Professor of the Arts of Islam ([email protected]), and Claire Dillon, PhD candidate and course coordinator and excursion manager ([email protected]). Deadline Monday, 11:59pm November 28th. ‘Ifriqiya: Art and Architecture of Tunisia’ application form

GU4015
Vernacular Paleography
C. Baswell

GU4122
Renaissance in Europe II
K. Eden

GU4790
Advanced Old English
P. Dailey

GU4791
Mysticism and Medieval Drama
E. Johnson

GR6281
Cultures of Reading Early Modern Europe
A. Visser

 

GU4423
Cosmology in Medieval Literature
S. Kay

 

GU4962
Making and Knowing in Early Modern Europe: Hands-On History
P. Smith

GR8132
The Jewish Book in the Early Modern World
E. Carlebach

 

GU4300
Renaissance Orientalism
P. M. Tommasino

GU4092
Dante’s Divina Commedia 2
T. Baroline

 

GU6021
Philology
Boynton

GR6990
Directed Individual Readings
Boynton

GR6998
MA Thesis I
Boynton

GR6999
MA Thesis II
Boynton

GR8102
Historical Musicology: Middle Ages
S. Boynton

 

GR6201
The Culture of Kyivan Rus’
V. Izmirlieva

Students may take courses at the Union Theological Seminary and receive credit in the MedRen Program with the permission of the Instructor and Program Director. Please consult the UTS Course Directory and contact the MedRen Program Manager for more information.