University Center for International Studies - West European Studies

Graduate Advisor

Center for West European Studies

4G Posvar Hall

University of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA 15260

Phone: (412) 648-7405

Fax: (412) 648-9122

Web site: http://www.pitt.edu/~wesnews

Web site: http://www.pitt.edu/~wwes

Since 1984, the Center for West European Studies has offered a strong curriculum on Western Europe by bringing together the rich assets of a major research university to create a unique learning community. The Center has been designated as a National Resource Center under Title VI of the Higher Education Act. In addition, the Center has developed an international scholarly reputation in European Union studies and was selected by the European Union Commission as one of only 10 European Union Centers in the United States.

Hillman Library at the University of Pittsburgh has been a depository library for EC/EU publications since 1974. Phil Wilkin, the West European bibliographer, has developed a series of WWW EU Research Guides that serve as an introduction to this collection.

The West European Studies Certificate enables students to complement a major in any discipline (including the sciences) with an interdisciplinary set of courses related to Western Europe and the European Union, and proficiency in a relevant language.

Financial Assistance

The Center for West European Studies offers several means of financial assistance to students in its certificate program:

1. Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships: Funded by the Department of Education, the fellowships are available to incoming or continuing graduate students who propose to combine language and area studies with their graduate training. FLAS Fellowships are awarded for the academic year or for summer.
2. European Union Fellowships
3. Graduate Student Assistantships

Requirements for the Certificate

Students seeking the Certificate in West European Studies must fulfill the following requirements:

Complete six West European studies courses in at least two schools or disciplines, including the major school/discipline (total of 18 credits). Distribution of these six courses is tailored to each academic program. Courses must be approved by the Center for West European Studies prior to taking them.

Write an interdisciplinary research paper of 15-25 pages that must show the use of foreign language materials. The paper may be prepared for a course, but students are urged to design it with the certificate in mind. At least two faculty members from two departments will evaluate the paper.

Students must study three years of college-level language, or the equivalent proficiency, in one relevant language other than English.

West European Studies Course List

Anthropology

ANTH 2640 Introduction to Historical Linguistics

ANTH 2525 Europe in Later Prehistory

ANTH 2754 Comparative Political Systems

Classics

CLASS 2312 Studies in Plato

CLASS 2314 Studies in Aristotle

CLASS 2370 Studies in Medieval Philosophy

Study of Culture

CLST 2152 Modern European Social Thought

CLST 2808/3808 Germany at the Turn of Century

CLST 3809/3070 Early European History—Readings

CLST 3620 Topics in Political Theory

CLST 3840 Film Director: Rossellini

Economics

ECON 2520 Comparative Economic Systems

English Literature

ENGLIT 2010 Introduction to Modern Critical Practice

ENGLIT 2023 Michael Foucault

ENGLIT 2106 Medieval Literature and Culture

ENGLIT 2107 Society and Dissent: Early English Literature

ENGLIT 2110 History and Representation

ENGLIT 2115 Chaucer

ENGLIT 2120 Early Modern London

ENGLIT 2126 Shakespeare

ENGLIT 2127 Shakespeare, Cinema and Society

ENGLIT 2128 Renaissance Discourses of Gender

ENGLIT 2133 17th Century Poetry

ENGLIT 2140 Milton

ENGLIT 2151 18th Century British Social Theory

ENGLIT 2152 Long 18th Century

ENGLIT 2175 Victorian Women Novelists

ENGLIT 2176 19th Century British Novel

ENGLIT 2190 1890's Represent Fin de Siecle

ENGLIT 2231 Blood, Class, and Nostalgia

ENGLIT 2325 Modernism

ENGLIT 2382 Irish Literary Revival

ENGLIT 2466 Film and Modernism

ENGLIT 2600 Warrior Culture Narratives

ENGLIT 2612 Fascism and Euro-American Literature

ENGLIT 2660 Sexuality Narratives and Representation

ENGLIT 3157 Narrative in Postmodernity

ENGLIT 3840 Film Director: Rossellini

French

FR 2100 Readings in Early Modern French

FR 2101 Medieval French Literature

FR 2101 Medieval Topics

FR 2104 Villon

FR 2105 Seminars: Medieval Topic

FR 2200 Renaissance Poetry

FR 2201 Renaissance Prose

FR 2202 Rabelais and His Times

FR 2203 Seminar Montaigne

FR 2300 17th Century Literature

FR 2301 French Classicism

FR 2305 Seminar: 17th Century Topic

FR 2306 Seminar Racine

FR 2402 Topics in 17th and 18th Century French Culture

FR 2405 Seminar: 18th Century Topic

FR 2406 Seminar Rousseau

FR 2408 18th Century Republic Letters

FR 2410 Texts and Ideals of Revolution

FR 2415 The Novels of the Enlightenment

FR 2416 Novels for a Godless World

FR 2500 19th Century Literature

FR 2501 Paris Prose and Politics: 19th Century France

FR 2502 Seminar: Flaubert

FR 2505 Seminar: 19th Century Topic

FR 2510 French Romanticism

FR 2600 20th Century Literature

FR 2601 French Literature WWI-WWII

FR 2602 Literature and World War II

FR 2605 Seminar: 20th Century Topic

FR 2606 Seminar: Genet

FR 2607 Seminar: Celine

FR 2701 Critical Reading

FR 2702 Problems in Literary Criticism

FR 2703 Seminars on Area Topics, Genres, and Themes

FR 2705 French Intellectuals Past and Present

FR 2710 Introduction to the Study of Literature 1

FR 2711 Introduction to the Study of Literature 2

FR 2760 Literature and the Arts

FR 2801 History of the French Language

FR 2802 Introduction to the Old Provencal

FR 2803 Seminar: Problems in Synchronic French Linguistics

FR 2804 Seminar: Problems in Diachronic French Linguistics

FR 2810 Comparative Romance Linguistics I

FR 2811 Comparative Romance Linguistics II

FR 2970 Teaching French

FR 2972 HED: Foreign Language Education: Theory and Practice

FR 2973 HED: Issues in Teaching/Learning Foreign Language

German

GER 2100 Research Methods and Materials

GER 2110 Proseminar in Literary Theory

GER 2120 Introduction to German Studies 1

GER 2121 Introduction to German Studies 2

GER 2140 Proseminar in Literary History

GER 2142/3142 Cultural History to the 18th Century

GER 2144/3144 Intellectual History: Lessing to Freud

GER 2146/3146 The Plotting of History

GER 2148 History, Memory, Narrative

GER 2150 Folklore in Literature

GER 2160 Image in Literature

GER 2170 Proseminar in Linguistics

GER 2194 Middle High German Language and Literature

GER 2200 Lyric Poetry

GER 2212 Folktales

GER 2250 Topics in Medieval Literature

GER 2300 German Humanism and Reformation

GER 2400 17th Century Literature

GER 2510 17th Century Language Academies

GER 2600 Age of Goethe

GER 2601 Sturm und Drang

GER 2608 Romanticism

GER 2610 Goethe

GER 2611 Goethe's Dramas

GER 2612 Goethe's Faust

GER 2613 Goethe's Poetry

GER 2660 Classical Drama

GER 2700 Literature and Culture 1830-1900

GER 2702 Double Outcasts

GER 2703 Jewish Contributions to German Literature

GER 2808 Germany at the Turn of the Century

GER 2810 Weimar Culture

GER 2820 Kafka

GER 2822 Thomas Mann

GER 2826 Brecht

GER 2830 Modern Poetry

GER 2840 Modern Drama

GER 2850 The Modern Novel

GER 2860 Post-War Literature and Culture

GER 2865 Contemporary Literature and Culture

GER 2870 GDR Literature

GER 2880 Nazi Cinema

GER 2882 Topics in German Literature

GER 2884 Weimar Cinema

GER 2886 Film in the Third Reich

GER 2970 Teaching of German

GER 3200 Lyric Poetry

GER 3510 17th Century Language Academies

GER 3612 Goethe's Faust

GER 3882 Topics in German Cinema

History of Art and Architecture

HA&A 2200 Special Topics—Medieval

HA&A 2230 Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts

HA&A 2300 Special Topics—Renaissance

HA&A 2301 Special Topics—Baroque

HA&A 2313 17th Century Italian Drawings

HA&A 2400 Special Topics—Modern Art

HA&A 2450 19th Century European Art

History

HIST 2005/2006 Special Topics

HIST 2069 Gender in Global Perspective

HIST 2070 Early European History—Readings

HIST 2080/2081 Problems of European History

HIST 2082 Comparative Nationalism Readings

HIST 2083 Comparative Nationalisms

HIST 2085 Comparative Common Law

HIST 2118 Early Modern Europe

HIST 2152 Modern European Social Thought

HIST 2153 Max Weber

HIST 2154 Max Weber's Comparative History

HIST 2212 Idea of Europe

HIST 2721 Atlantic History

HIST 2752 Historiography of European Imperialism

History and Philosophy of Science

HPS 2533 Descartes

HPS 2543 Kant and Scientific Thought

HPS 2546/2549 Modern European Social Thought

HPS 2550 European Classical Sociology

HPS 2557 Contemporary European Historiography

HPS 2558 Myth, Ideology, and Science

Italian

ITAL 2100 Trecento

ITAL 2200 Dante II

ITAL 2201 Duecento

ITAL 2202 Petrarch

ITAL 2203 Boccaccio and the World of Trencento

ITAL 2300 Quattrocento, Cinquecento

ITAL 2301 Novella

ITAL 2302 Theater of the Renaissance

ITAL 2305 Tasso

ITAL 2310 Boccaccio and Renaissance in Ferrara

ITAL 2315 Renaissance Humanism

ITAL 2320 Ariosto and Vernacular

ITAL 2400 Seicento

ITAL 2410 Settencento

ITAL 2420 Goldini

ITAL 2500 Ottocento I

ITAL 2501 Ottocento II

ITAL 2510 Leopardi

ITAL 2511 Manzoni

ITAL 2512 Verga

ITAL 2513 Foscolo

ITAL 2600 Novecento I

ITAL 2601 Novecento II

ITAL 2700 Literary Criticism

ITAL 2701 Special Topics

ITAL 2710 Introduction to the Study of Literature I

ITAL 2711 Introduction to the Study of Literature II

ITAL 2750 Scientific Discourse in Italian Literature

ITAL 2800 Comparative Romantic Linguistics I

ITAL 2801 History of the Italian Language

ITAL 2970 Teaching of Italian

School of Law

LAW 5416 German for Lawyers 1

LAW 5469 French for Lawyers 1

LAW 5471 French for Lawyers 2

LAW 5473 German for Lawyers 2

LAW 5475 Spanish for Lawyers 1

LAW 5476 Spanish for Lawyers 2

LAW 5480 Transnational Litigation

LAW 5579 Comparative Legal Culture

LAW Public International Law

LAW International Business Transactions

LAW International Trade Law Seminar

LAW Comparative Law

LAW Comparative Law: Asian Law

LAW Conflict of Laws

LAW Direct Foreign Investment

LAW Comparative Constitutional Law

LAW International Environmental Law Seminar

LAW Foreign Affairs Seminar

LAW Transnational Litigation

LAW European Union Law

LAW European Environmental Law

LAW International and Comparative Environmental Law Seminar

LAW International Sales Seminar

LAW Immigration Law

LAW Advanced Transnational Litigation Seminar

LAW Introduction to German Law

LAW US-EC Trade Relations Law

LAW International Human Rights Seminar

(Some course numbers not yet available from School of Law's registrar's office.)

Linguistics

LING 2270 Advanced Sociolinguistics

LING 2860 Intro to Historical Linguistics

Music

MUSIC 2224 Seminar in Baroque Music

MUSIC 2226 Seminar in Classical Music since 1945

Philosophy

PHIL 2041 Studies in Aristotle

PHIL 2110 Descartes

PHIL 2130 Leibniz

Political Science

PS 2040 Core Political Theory

PS 2114 Capstone Seminar

PS 2305 Comparative Policy

PS 2310 Politics of the European Community

PS 2311 Western European Government & Politics

PS 2312 Readings in European History

PS 2313 Immigration and Citizenship

PS 2314 Regions of Europe

PS 2315 EU and the European Welfare State

PS 2316 Political Economy of the European Union

PS 2375 Politics: Advanced Industrial Society

PS 2381 Seminar Political Institution

PS 2503 Topics in International Affairs

PS 2506 International Politics

PS 2507 Knowledge, Ideology, and Public Policy

PS 2541 Politics of Global Economic Relations

PS 2543 International Political Economy

PS 2556 Problems International Security

PS 2604 Political Practice and Reason in European Social Thought

PS 2612 Political Theory of Marxism

PS 2620 Topics in Political Theory

Graduate School of Public and International Affairs

GSPIA 2032 European Classical Sociology

GSPIA 2096 Capstone Seminar

GSPIA 2097 Practical Politics of the EU

GSPIA 2097 Practical Economics of the EU

GSPIA 2097 Aspects of EU Enlargement

GSPIA 2097 The Politics of US-EU Relations

GSPIA 2097 The EU and Issues Concerning Integration, Reform, and World Trade

GSPIA 2152 Modern European Social Thought

GSPIA 2300 International Political Economy

GSPIA 2303 National and International Security Policy

GSPIA 2316 Intercultural Communication

GSPIA 2319 International Trade

GSPIA 2321 Political Economy of International Trade

GSPIA 2322 World Economic Patterns

GSPIA 2341 Alternative Approaches to National Security

GSPIA 2344 Problems in International Security

GSPIA 2358 Regional Foreign Policy

GSPIA 2363 International History

GSPIA 2364 Comparative Foreign Policy

GSPIA 2366 International Organizations

GSPIA 2490 The EU, the U.S., and the WTO: The Challenges of Deeper Integration

Spanish

SPAN 2195 Professional Translation1

SPAN 2196 Professional Translation 2

SPAN 2224 Special Topics in Cultural Analysis

SPAN 2301 Advanced Grammar

SPAN 2303 Structure of Modern Spanish

SPAN 2304 Dialectology

SPAN 2305 Morphology

SPAN 2306 Spanish Applied Linguistic

SPAN 2308 Syntax

SPAN 2309 Phonology

SPAN 2311 Hispanic Sociolinguistics

SPAN 2312 Pragmatics

SPAN 2313 Special Topics in Linguistics

SPAN 2314 Seminar in Linguistics and Method

SPAN 2315 Theory and Practice: Foreign Language Teaching

SPAN 2316 Spanish Sociolinguistics

SPAN 2317 Seminar: Applied Socio-Pragmatics

SPAN 2430 Modernism

SPAN 2440 Vanguard

SPAN 2465 Seminar 20th Century Topics

SPAN 2570 Contemporary Hispanic Literature

SPAN 2615 Seminar: Renaissance Topics

SPAN 2620 Golden Age and Baroque

SPAN 2621 Spanish Literature of Golden Age Drama

SPAN 2624 Golden Age Topics

SPAN 2660 Realist and Naturalist Narrative: 19th Century Novel

SPAN 2680 Generation of '27

SPAN 2690 Contemporary Peninsular Literature

SPAN 2694 20th Century Peninsular Topics

SPAN 2695 Seminar 20th Century

SPAN 2700 Literary Criticism

SPAN 2702 Introduction to Literary Studies

SPAN 2705 Seminar Literary Criticism

SPAN 2706 Analysis of Hispanic Literary Texts

SPAN 2970 Professional Translation Internship

Theater Arts

THEA 2212 Tragedy

THEA 2225 Greek and Roman Theater

THEA 2230 Shakespeare's Plays

THEA 2231 History of Shakespeare

THEA 2235 18th Century Theater

THEA 2236 Studies in 19th Century Theater

THEA 2258 Contemporary European Theater