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British* Studies is an interdisciplinary
minor designed to provide an integrative study of British life and culture
throughout the ages, to examine the impact of British institutions and
customs on the American experience, and to contribute to students’ understanding
of the global community in which they live. (* British will be used
in the widest sense of the term; i.e., pertaining to people and developments
associated with the British Isles or the present countries of England,
Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and Northern Ireland)
REQUIREMENTS (18 credit hours)
History,
Politics, Economics, and/or Sociology/Anthropology of the British Isles
(6 credits)
Choose two courses from
any of the following:
HIST 354: Tudor England
HIST 355: Stuart England
HIST 356: Georgian England
HIST 357: Victorian Britain
POLS 320: Politics of Western
Europe
SPECIAL TOPICS (if appropriate) in
History, Politics, Economics, and/or Sociology/Anthropology; e.g., ANTH 329:
Peoples and Cultures of the British Isles/ Peoples and Cultures of Ireland;
HIST 370: The Quest for Arthur's Britain; HIST 441: Research Seminar: Elizabethan
England; POLS 339: U.S. and British Politics in the New Millennium have been
or are currently being offered. Future possibilities include: ANTH 319, ECON
260/360, HIST 270/370/347, and SOCY 330/349/359/369.
BILATERAL EXCHANGE COURSES at University
of Nottingham, University of Northampton (UofN), Bath-Spa University, Buckinghamshire
Chilterns University College, and University of Sussex
BRITISH STUDIES CONSORTIUM COURSES
based at King’s College, University of London (the College is a member of this
consortium headed by the University of Southern Mississippi)
Literature,
Art, Architecture, Drama, and/or Music of the British Isles (6 credits)
Choose two three-credit courses from
the following:
ENGL 201/202: Major British Writers
ENGL 301/302: Shakespeare, Early/Later
Period
ENGL 304: Chaucer
ENGL 306: Milton
ENGL 307: Introduction to Old English
ENGL 308: Spenser
ENGL 311: Middle English Lit
ENGL 314: Non-Dramatic Literature
of the Renaissance
ENGL 317/318/325: Seventeenth/Eighteenth/Twentieth
Century English Literature
ENGL 321: Romantic Literature
ENGL 328: Victorian Literature
ENGL 327/328: British Novel I/II
ENGL 337: British Drama
ENGL 340: Restoration and Eighteenth
Century Drama
SPECIAL TOPICS (if appropriate) in
Literature, Art, Architecture, Drama, and/or Music; e.g., ARTH 290: Art and
Theatre in London; ARTH 340: Art, Architecture and Preservation in Britain/Urbanism
in Britain; ENGL 395: Quest for Arthur’s Britain; MUSC 222: Exploring the Arts
and Culture of Scotland; MUSC 444: Music in Performance in Scotland and at the
Edinburgh Festival; THTR 289: Art and Theatre in London.
BILATERAL EXCHANGE COURSES at
University of Nottingham, University of Northampton (UofN), Bath-Spa University,
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, and University of Sussex
BRITISH STUDIES CONSORTIUM COURSES
based at King’s College, University of London
British
Empire (3 credits)
Choose one three-credit
course from the following:
ARTH 341: History of the
Art of India
ENGL 342: Colonial and Revolutionary
American Literature
ENGL 358: Colonial and Postcolonial
British Literature
HIST 264: Caribbean to 1800
HIST 265: Caribbean Since
1800
HIST 273: Modern Africa
HIST 285: Indian Subcontinent
Since 1500
HIST 301: Colonial America
HIST 302: Era of the American
Revolution
POLS 331: Politics of Film
and Reality in South Africa
POLS 339: ST in Comparative
Politics (if appropriate)
POLS 367: Geography of International
Conflict
POLS 379: ST in International
Relations (if appropriate)
SPECIAL TOPICS (if relevant
to British Empire/Dominions)
Integrative
Capstone (3 credits)
Choose one of the following options:
BRST 400: Capstone in British Studies
(see below)
BACHELOR’S ESSAY/SENIOR PAPER/INDEPENDENT
STUDY that explores some aspect of British life and culture, either in a comparative
or interdisciplinary perspective.
BILATERAL EXCHANGE COURSES at the
University of Nottingham, University of Northampton (UofN), Bath-Spa University,
Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, and University of Sussex
CAPSTONE COURSE
BRST 400: Capstone in British
Studies (3). This course will take an interdisciplinary perspective
on a particular theme or period in British life and culture. Prerequisites:
at least two 200- or 300-level courses in the humanities, arts, or social
sciences that focus on some aspect of life and culture in the British Isles
or permission of the instructor.
For additional information on the minor, please contact the British Studies Coordinator, Dr. Catherine E. Thomas, at thomasc@cofc.edu. For additional information on opportunities for study abroad in the U.K. see https://www.cofc.edu/~mccandla/Britstud.htm.
Last Updated: 29 August 2006