Spring 2022 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. 

GU 4027
Architecture and Associated Arts in Western Europe from 1066 until 1399: Building with Blood, Sweat, and Tears
S. Van Liefferinge

GU 4031
Art of Italy: 1300-1520
I. Oryshkevich

GU4152
Medieval Latin Literature
C. Franklin

GU4625
Shakespeare Performance Studies
W. Worthen

GU4729
Canterbury Tales
E. Johnson

GU4932
Witchcraft and Law in the Early Modern World
J. Peters

GR6276
Microliteratures
P. Dailey
Satisfies MA Book Course Requirement 

GU4292
Queer Medieval France
E. Zingesser

GU4962
Making and Knowing in Early Modern Europe
P. Smith

GU4711
Occult in the Muslim Past
T. Sen

GR6948
Climate in History: Climate and Historical Research: Methods and Concept
N. Di Cosmo

 

Topics in Jewish Studies
GU4990 Sec. 1
Isabelle Levy

Philology
GU6021
Kosto

Directed Individual Readings
GR6990
Kosto

MA Thesis I
GR6998
Kosto

MA Thesis II
GR6999
Kosto

GU4060
Medieval Music Drama
S. Boynton

In this seminar we will study examples of music drama from the tenth century to the fourteenth, taking into account both the manuscript sources and methodological questions raised by performative works at the intersection of literature, music, and ritual. The course is open to advanced undergraduates and graduate students in all disciplines. Students will learn skills including the critical reading and analysis of both primary and secondary texts, and the assessment of  relationships between the original state of unpublished texts and music, their modern (edited) forms, and their modes of performance.

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. 

Past Semesters

Fall 2021
Fall 2020-Summer 2021
Spring 2020
Fall 2019
Spring 2019
Fall 2018
Spring 2018
Fall 2017
Spring 2017