European Studies
[BYU Course Catalog]
European studies is an interdisciplinary degree designed to combine advanced-language experience with study in humanities, social science, and/or business. Courses are taught by European experts from across a variety of BYU’s academic departments and are intended to develop skills in analytical thinking, methods of interpretation, perceptive reading, competent writing, as well as an in-depth understanding of European affairs. Building on the University Core and GE Foreign Language Requirements, the European studies degree is grounded in an introduction to European Studies (Euro Studies 200) and twelve credit hours of European history. At the junior level, the degree splits into two tracks: TRACK A consists of twelve credit hours in European Society, which draws from history, political science, economics, business, sociology, and geography, OR TRACK B, which consists of twelve credit hours in European Culture, which draws from the humanities, language and literature, art history, philosophy, etc. At the senior level, students take an additional twelve credit hours focused on an interrelated set of European issues, decided upon in conjunction with the European studies coordinator.
Career Opportunities
The degree can lead to a number of excellent career possibilities. With a broad, general background in European languages and area knowledge, graduates are well prepared for careers in international branches of government, nonprofit organizations, international industry and commerce, domestic and foreign teaching, Peace Corps, military, and many other professions requiring an expert knowledge of European language, culture, and politics. The European Studies major is also excellent training for professional schooling in international business, law, medicine, journalism, editing, advertising, etc. Many previous area studies graduates have landed jobs in the State Department, immigration, the FBI, and other international agencies.
Students are encouraged to double major or at least have a strong minor in another discipline to enhance their career prospects. The combination of European areas studies with another discipline will make students attractive to employers.
For more information on careers in your major, please refer to From Major to Career, a publication found in all college advisement centers.
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Requirements
BA
in European Studies
Independent Study Courses (PDF)
Winter 2008 Courses (PDF)
Note: These course lists
are prepared for your convenience. Please use them in
that spirit. They are not necessarily complete. Please
make sure that any course that you wish to use as an
elective is focused on Europe and approved by Scott
Sprenger, European Studies coordinator. If you
have any doubt about the appropriateness of a course,
check with the coordinator.
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Majors
How do I declare a major?
Go to the Kennedy Center Advisement Center (273 HRCB) and the secretaries will assist you. Seniors must meet with the academic advisor before approval will be granted.
European Studies Learning Objectives
1. Demonstrate general factual knowledge of the
geography, history, politics, and societies of Europe,
both past and present.
2. Be able to analyze and interpret specific European
topics at an in-depth level using theories, concepts,
and ideas from more than one European Studies-related
discipline.
3. Be able to use appropriate methods of inquiry and
analysis, locate and engage appropriate research
materials, and to construct effective analytical
arguments on advanced European topics (in English).
4. Be able to read and communicate ideas, orally and
in writing, in a European language (other than English) at the intermediate level for Track A
students at an advanced level for Track B students.
5. Develop the curiosity and habits of thought, and
perhaps even a passion, that will encourage life-long
learning and continued contact with Europe, its
peoples, and its issues.
6. Gain knowledge and skills useful in the pursuit of
personal goals such as graduate study, employment,
and/or service in international communities or
organizations.
7. Develop a sensitivity for cultural differences that
will foster prudence and good judgment in
international affairs and in daily life.
No Minor at this time.
An Overview of Courses Taught (PDF)
This chart provides information on when courses have been offered in the
past and which courses will be offered during the next semester or term
(according to the most recent class timetable). Future schedules are tentative
and subject to change. Hence students should still check with departments
for course scheduling and availability.
Note: Not all courses are
taught with the same frequency; some are often taught while others are
seldom or rarely taught. So, please plan accordingly. For example, if
a course has not been taught during the last two plus years it may not
be likely to be taught in the near future. Students are strongly advised
to work with the advisement center located in 237 HRCB.
Assessment
To comply with
BYU’s assessment regulations, European Studies majors
will be required to do the following:
1) an entrance
survey
2) submit an electronic and uncorrected copy of three term papers (from EUROP 200, a history course, and a senior-level elective course focused on an interdisciplinary topic)
3) submit an exit survey
4) complete an exit interview with coordinator
5) submit, if possible, evidence of fulfilling ES
language requirement (e.g., Oral Proficiency Interview
results).
View details here
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European Studies Faculty
Committee of the Whole
Stan Benfell (PhD, New York University)
Medieval and Renaissance literature; Dante and the Renaissance epic.
Gary Bryner (PhD, Cornell University)
American politics, public policy, and environmental politics.
Phil Bryson (PhD, Ohio State University)
Post-communist economies, Eastern European economies.
Douglas Bush (PhD, University of Texas at Austin)
Organ music in Roman Catholic and Protestant liturgies, German Renaissance and Baroque musical periods.
Mike Call (PhD, Stanford University)
18th- and 19th-century French literature and arts, Romanticism, Impressionism.
Mark Choate (PhD, Yale University)
Modern Italy from 1800, international history from 1860, world population migration from 1800, early modern Europe: 1500–1650, religion and ethnicity in the U.S. and Western Europe from 1860.
Scott Cooper (PhD, Duke University)
Politics of Soviet successor states, former Soviet ruble zone, European monetary union, British and French colonial currency zones.
Pat Debenham (MA, University of California, Los Angeles)
Laban movement analysis, pedagogy, the creative process, personal biographies, dance and language.
Brooke Derr (PhD, Harvard University)
Succession planning, personal definitions of career successes: cross-cultural perspectives, high-potential management: cross-cultural perspectives, strategies for work-life satisfaction.
Eric Dursteler (PhD, Brown University)
Early modern Mediterranean, France, Italy (Venice).
James Faulconer (PhD, Pennsylvania State University)
Contemporary European philosophy, religion and philosophy, philosophy of social science, the history of philosophy.
Dick Hacken (PhD, University of California, Davis)
Collection building and library use instruction for German, French, Italian, Benelux, and Scandinavian studies; research into digitization of European primary historical documents.
Craig Harline (PhD, Rutgers University)
Early modern Europe, the Reformation, religion, history on film.
Don Harreld (PhD, University of Minnesota)
European social and economic history, expansion of Europe, history of the Low European countries, European urban history.
Julie Hartley-Moore (PhD, Columbia University)
Anthropology of Europe, sustainable development, agriculture and tourism, international politics.
Jesse Hurlbut (PhD, Indiana University)
French civilization to 1815, 15th-century Burgundian culture (France, Belgium, and Holland), Medieval French drama, Medieval manuscripts.
Jerry Jaccard (EdD, University of Massachusetts)
Musical pedagogy, music curriculum development, history of music education.
Wade Jacoby (PhD, MIT)
International organizations, European security policy, German politics.
Hans Kelling (PhD, Stanford University)
German culture and literature, German colloquial literature.
Paul Kerry (PhD, University of Oxford)
European intellectual history: Enlightenment, Romanticism, Victorian; German and Jewish thought, historiography, philosophy of history, interdisciplinary history.
Ilona Klein (PhD, University of Wisconsin)
Italian language, literature, and civilization.
Yvon LeBras (PhD, Laval University)
17th-century French literature, Quebecois literature, the French novel, French civilization (1715 to present), business French, English to French translation.
Daryl Lee (PhD, Yale University)
19th-century, poetry, film, literature and space/architecture
Grant Lundberg (PhD, University of Kansas)
Slovene dialects, political borders, languages in Central Europe.
Roger Macfarlane (PhD, University of Michigan)
German cultural history, German literature, urban literature
Cinzia Noble (Dott. in Litt., Libera Università Abruzzese degli Studi “Gabriele D'Annunzio”)
20th-century Italian literature, myth of America during fascism, Italian phonetics, linguistics, language.
Marc Olivier (PhD, University of Washington)
17th- and 18th-century French literature, science, technology and cultural history.
Sam Otterstrom (PhD, Louisiana State University)
Geography of Europe, historical ethnic geography in
Slovakia.
Joseph Perry (PhD, University of Utah)
Middle Ages, Renaissance.
Scott Sprenger (PhD, Emory University)
19th- and 20th-century France; idea of Europe.
Charlotte Stanford (PhD, Pennsylvania State University)
Gothic architecture and medieval devotional practices.
Steven Sondrup (PhD, Harvard University)
19th- and 20th-century literature.
Debra Sowell (PhD, Tufts University)
Dance critic and historian
Madison Sowell (PhD, Harvard University)
Italian epic tradition from Dante to Tasso.
Nicolass Unlandt (PhD, Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Medieval literature.
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