Available Courses

Many courses are offered each year; with few exceptions, the remainder are available at least every other year. Consult Dr. Wheeler about offerings and frequency. 

ARHS 3320 Medieval Art

ARHS 3321 Age of the Crusades

ARHS 3322 Art and the Italian Commune

ARHS 3323 Romanesque Art and Architecture

ARHS 3324 Art and Cultures of Medieval Spain

ARHS 3325 The Gothic Cathedral

ARHS 3328 Byzantine Art

ARHS 3329 Paris Art and Architecture I (SMU-in-Paris)

ARHS 3392 (CFA 3313) Islamic Art and Architecture: The Creation of a New Art

ARHS 3399 Medieval Jewish-Christian Dialogue in Art & Text

ARHS 4320 Seminar in Medieval Art

ARHS 4321 Word and Image in the Early Middle Ages

ARHS 5320 Seminar in Medieval Art

ARHS 5321 Seminar in Early Christian Art

ARHS 5322 Seminar on "Convivencia"

ARHS 5323 Seminar in Byzantine Art

ENGL 1320 Chivalry

ENGL 3320 Topics in Medieval English Literature

ENGL 3323 (MDVL 3323) Tales of Wales from Arthur to the Present Day

ENGL 3371 (HIST 3357, CF 3363) Joan of Arc in History, Literature, and Film

ENGL 3389 Directed Studies (When applicable)

ENGL 4320 Medieval Writers

ENGL 4323 Chaucer

FL 3365 Special Topic: French Literature in Translation (When applicable)

FL 3366 Special Topic: French Literature in Translation (When applicable)

FL 3393 Dante's Poetic Vision

FL 3391 Special Topic: Italian Literature in Translation (When applicable)

FL 3392 Special Topic: Italian Literature in Translation (When applicable)

FREN 5320 Literary Periods (When applicable)

FREN 5321 Literary Periods (When applicable)

FREN 5334 Genre Studies (When applicable)

FREN 5335 Genre Studies (When applicable)

HIST 2321 Philosophical and Religious Thought in the Medieval West

HIST 3332 Ancient and Medieval France

HIST 3344 (CF 3394) The Oxford Landscape: From the Stone Age to the Tudors (SMU-in-Oxford)

HIST 3345 England in Medieval and Early Modern Times (SMU-in-Oxford)

HIST 3350 Life in the Medieval World, A.D. 306-1095

HIST 3351 Life in the Medieval World, A.D. 1095-1350

HIST 3352 Age of the Crusades

HIST 4320 Medieval Europe I

HIST 4321 Medieval Europe II

HIST 4322 Constitutional and Legal History of Medieval England

HIST 4323 History of Ireland

HIST 4324 Medieval Spirituality

HIST 4325 Islam to A.D. 1453

HIST 4326 Anglo-Saxon England to A.D. 1160

HIST 4380 History of Spain to 1492

HIST 4384 Early and Medieval England from the Beginning to 1485

HIST 5364 City of God: Utopias in the Christian Tradition

HIST 5378 Medieval Renaissances

HIST 5392 Seminar in European History: The Confessions and the Western Autobiographical Tradition

LATN 3324 Advanced Latin Grammar and Composition

LATN 3335 Medieval Latin

MDVL 3321 (CF 3321) The Birth of the Individual

MDVL 3323 Tales of Wales

MDVL 3327 The Unicorn: Understanding Varieties of Truth in the Middle Ages

MDVL 3329 (ENGL 3329, CF 3302) The World of King Arthur

MDVL 3351 (CF 3351) The Pilgrimage: Images of Medieval Culture

MDVL 3352 (CF 3352) Ideas and Ideals of Gender in the Middle Ages

MDVL 3353 (CF 3353) Medieval Ideas

MDVL 3398 Directed Studies

MDVL 3399 Directed Studies

MDVL 4371 Special Topics

MDVL 5301 Independent Studies

MDVL 5302 Independent Studies

MDVL 5398 Independent Studies

MDVL 5399 Independent Studies

MUHI 3301 Survey of Music History I

MUHI 4301 Research Project in Music History (When applicable)

MUHI 4392 Directed Studies in Music History: The Middle Ages

MUHI 6309 Seminar in Medieval and Renaissance Sources and Styles

PERE 3075 Collegium Musicum

PERE 3175 Collegium Musicum

PHIL 3351 History of Western Philosophy (Ancient)

PHIL 3390 Topics in Medieval Philosophy

PLSC 4361 Political Regimes: Understandings of Rome

PLSC 4362 Medieval Political Philosophy

RELI 3326 Introduction to the New Testament

RELI 3349Early Christianity

SPAN 5310 Spanish Literature Before 1700

 

The Courses(MDVL)

3321 - The Birth of the Individual. Examines several basic notions pertaining to selfhood, including consciousness, cognition, motivation, personal identity and decision, as found in medieval texts.

3327 - The Unicorn: Understanding Varieties of the Truth in the Middle Ages. Investigates the question of how history and fiction were perceived in the Middle Ages.

3329 - The World of King Arthur. Investigates Britain's greatest native hero and one of the world's most compelling story stocks: the legend of King Arthur and the Round Table, and the early Arthurian materials and the later romance, epic, and artistic traditions.

3351 - The Pilgrimage: Images of Medieval Culture. An exploration of the medieval world through one of its own literal and metaphorical images, moving from Jerusalem to the empire of New Rome, to Rome itself and across Europe on the pilgrimage roads of the Middle Ages.

3352 - Ideas and Ideals of Gender in the Middle Ages. Focuses on the status of women in the Middle Ages and the impact of ideas regarding the feminine on the development of (mostly) Western thought.

3353 - Medieval Ideas. Presents some of the classic achievements of the medieval mind. While the main focus will be on Medieval Europe and the adjacent Muslim works, wherever possible, students' attention will be drawn to developments in other culture areas.

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