This course listing is meant to be as comprehensive as possible. If, however, you are interested in a course that is not on this listing, and think it is applicable to
your MEMS concentration, please feel free to speak with Professor Karla Taylor, the Director of MEMS. To make an appointment, please call 763-2066, or email
kttaylor@umich.edu.
Department and Program Abbreviations
AAPTIS: Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish and Islamic Studies
ACABS: Ancient Civilizations and Biblical Studies
AMCULT: American Culture
ANTHRCUL: Cultural Anthropology
ASIAN / ASIANLAN: Asian Languages & Cultures
CAAS: Center for Afro-American and African Studies
CLARCH: Classical Architecture
CLCIV: Classical Civilizations
COMPLIT: Comparative Literature
GTBOOKS: Great Books
HISTART: History of Art
HISTORY: History
HJCS: Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies
Departments &
Course Numbers
AAPTIS 100 / ACABS 100 / HJCS
100 / HISTORY 132
AAPTIS 200 / ACABS 200 / HJCS
200 / RELIGION 201
Instructors &
Email
Kathryn Babayan [babayan]
JUDAIC: Judaic Studies
LHSP: Lloyd Hall Scholars Program
LING: Linguistics
MENAS: Middle Eastern and North African Studies
MUSICOL: Musicology
PHIL: Philosophy
POLSCI: Political Science
RCHUMS: Residential College Humanities
SCAND: Scandinavian Studies
SI: School of Information
THTREMUS: Theatre and Drama
WOMENSTD: Women’s Studies
Title
Peoples of the Middle East
AAPTIS 261
AAPTIS 381
AAPTIS 475
Ralph Williams [fiesole]
Alexander Knysh [alknysh]
Yaron Eliav [yzeliav]
Michael Bonner [mbonner]
Trevor Legassick [tleg]
Gernot Windfuhr [windfuhr]
ANTHRCUL 346
ANTRCUL 519
Jeremy Mumford [memford]
Sarah Thomason [thomason]
Colonial Latin America
Principles and Methods of Historical Linguistics
ASIAN 204
ASIAN 206
ASIAN 207
ASIAN 225 / RELIGION 225
Christian dePee [cdepee]
Thomas Trautmann [trautt]
Victory Lieberman [Eurasia]
Madhav Deshpande
[mmdesh]
East Asia: Early Transformations
Indian Civilization
Southeast Asian Civilization
Introduction to Hinduism
ASIAN 230 / PHIL 230 /
RELIGION 230
ASIAN 260
ASIAN 301 / WS 301
Introduction to World Religions: Near Eastern–Religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam
Civilization of Medieval Islam
Introduction to Arab Literature in Translation.
Rumi and Persian Mystic Poetry
Introduction to Buddhism
Miranda Brown [mdbrown]
Esperanza RamirezChristensen [qmz]
Introduction to Chinese Civilization
Japanese Womens’ Literature
Departments &
Course Numbers
ASIAN 324 / HIST 325
ASIAN 365
ASIAN 534
ASIANLAN 409
ASIANLAN 433
ASIANLAN 465
Instructors &
Email
Farina Mir [fmir]
Miranda Brown [mdbrown]
David Rolston [drolston]
David Rolston [drolston]
Esperanza RamirezChristensen [qmz]
Gareth Sparham [gsparham]]
CAAS 246 / HIST 246
Ellen Poteet [poteet]
Africa to 1850
DUTCH 160
Ton Broos [tonbroos]
Colonialism and its Aftermath
ENGLISH 308
ENGLISH 350
ENGLISH 367
ENGLISH 368
ENGLISH 370.001
ENGLISH 370.002
ENGLISH 371.001
ENGLISH 371.002
ENGLISH 407 / 501
ENGLISH 450
ENGLISH 470
ENGLISH 469.001
ENGLISH 501
ENGLISH 560
ENGLISH 642.001
Thomans Toon [ttoon]
Ralph Williams [fiesole]
W. B. Worthen [wbw]
Steven Mullaney [mullaney]
Catherine Sanok [sanok]
Bill Ingram [ingram]
Sunil Agnani [agnani]
Levinson
Thomas Toon [ttoon]
Theresa Tinkle [tinkle]
Susan Parrish [sparrish]
Linda Gregerson [gregorso]
Thomas Toon [ttoon]
Karla Taylor [kttaylor]
Barbara Hodgdon [hodgdonb]
History of the English Language
English Literature to 1660
Shakespeare's Principal Plays
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Bodies and Communities in Medieval and Early Modern Literature
Medieval and Renaissance Literature (honors section): The Elizabethan Mind
Studies in Literature, 1600 – 1830: Narratives of Enlightenment
Studies in Literature, 1600 – 1830: NT
Old English
Sex and Religion in Medieval Drama
Early American Literature
John Milton
Old English
Chaucer: The Major Texts
Un-read Shakespeare
FRENCH 366
Peggy McCracken
[peggymcc]
George Hoffman [georgeh]
France and the Crusades
FRENCH 367
GERMAN 375 / SCAND 375
Title
History of Islam in South Asia
Premodern Chinese Science
Chinese Drama
Literary Chinese 1
Classical Japanese I
First Year Classical Tibetan I
The Jealous Imagination
Celtic and Nordic Mythology
GREATBOOKS 191
H. Don Cameron
[hdcameron]
Great Books
HISTART 251
HISTART 386
HISTART 393 / MEMS 411.002
HISTART 415 / WS 415
HISTART 555 / ARCH 518
HISTART 584
Megan Holmes [holmesml]
Martin Powers [mpow]
Megan Holmes [holmesml]
Pat Simons [patsimon]
Lydia Soo [lmsoo]
Sussan Babaie [sbabaie]
Italian Renaissance Art, II
Painting and Poetry in China
Junior Prosem: Researching Visual Culture
Imagining Female-Female Eroticism in Early Modern Europe
Italian Renaissance Architecture
Islamic Painting
HISTORY 110
Diane Hughes [dohughes]
Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation
Departments &
Course Numbers
HISTORY 160
HISTORY 197
HISTORY 204 (121) / ASIAN 204
HISTORY 206
HISTORY 207 / ASIAN 207 (112)
HISTORY 210 / MEMS 210
HISTORY 220
HISTORY 246
HISTORY 257
HISTORY 263
HISTORY 325
HISTORY 347 (476 / 478) /
ANTHRCUL 346
HISTORY 396.004
Instructors &
Email
Maris Vinosvskis [vinovski]
Valerie Kivelson
Christian dePee [cdepee]
Thomas Trautmann [ttraut]
Victor Lieberman [eurasia]
Paolo Squatriti [pasqua]
Michael MacDonald
[mmacdon]
Ellen Poteet [poteet]
Rachel Neis [rneis]
David Hancock
Farina Mir [fmir]
Jeremy Mumford [mumford]
Title
United States to 1865
Witchcraft in Russia
East Asia: Early Transformations
Indian Civilization
SE Asian Civilization
Early Middle Ages
The British to 1688
Africa to 1850
Law in the Premodern World
Discovery of America, 1492-1607
History of Islam in South Asia
Latin America: The Colonial Period
Dreams and Visions in the History of Medieval and Early Modern Euopre and America
HISTORY 408
HISTORY 461
HISTORY 469
HISTORY 626
HISTORY 698
Michael Macdonald
[mmacdon]
John Fine [no email]
Stephanie Siegmund
[siegmund]
Michael Witgen
Stephanie Siegmund
[Siegmund]
John Fine [ no email]
Scott III
Victor Lieberman [eurasia]
John Fine [no email]
Christian dePee [cdepee]
ITALIAN 471
Alison Cornish [acorn]
Italian Theater
LING 517 / ANTHRCUL 519 /
GERMAN 517
Sarah Thomason [thomason]
Principles and Methods of Historical Linguistics
MEMS 110 / HISTORY 110
MEMS 210 / HISTORY 210
MEMS 251 / HISTART 251
MEMS 310 / RCHUMS 310
MEMS 350 / ENGLISH 350
MEMS 367 / ENGLISH 367
MEMS 375 / SCAND 375
MEMS 377 / FRENCH 367
MEMS 411.002 / HISTART 393
Diane Hughes [dohughes]
Paolo Squatriti [pasqua]
Megan Holmes [holmesml]
Cindy Sowers [cindysrs]
Ralph Williams fiesole]
W.B. Worthen [wbw]
Medieval, Renaissance, and Reformation Europe
Early Middle Ages, 300-1100
Italian Renaissance Art, II
Christians, Pagans & Barbarians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
Literature in English to 1660: English Masterworks of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Shakespeare’s Principal Plays
Celtic and Nordic Mythology
The Jealous Imagination
Junior Prosem: Researching Visual Culture
HISTORY 396.006/626
HISTORY 397.001
HISTORY 397.002
HISTORY 406
George Hoffman [georgeh]
Megan Holmes [holmesml]
Studies in Byzantine History
Religion and the Italian Renaissance
Indians and Empires
The Church and the Jews
Byzantine, 284-867
The American Revolution
Problems in Precolonial SE Asian History
Byzantine Studies
Premodern China, 8th-14th Centuries
Departments &
Course Numbers
MEMS 491
MUSICOL 239
MUSICOL 345
MUSICOL 414 / 514
MUSICOL 478
Instructors &
Email
Title
Honors Senior Colloquium
James Borders [jborders]
Stefano Mengozzi [smeng]
Louise Stein [lkstein]
Stefano Mengozzi [smeng]
PHILOSOPHY 461
History of Music: Middle Ages to Baroque
History of Music: Middle Ages to Baroque
History of Opera, 1600-1800
Renaissance Music
Philosophical Thought in the 17th Century
POLSCI 301
Arlene Saxonhouse
[awsaxon]
Development of Political Thought: To Modern Period
RCHUMS 310
RCHUMS 387
Cindy Sowers [cindysrs]
Martin Walsh [narenlob]
Christians, Pagans & Barbarians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
SPANISH 459
SPANISH 473
Frank Casa [fcasa]
Gustavo Verdesio [verdesio]
Don Quijote
Colonial Discourse and Post-colonial Theory
THTREMUS 321.001 & 002
Mbala Nkanga & Leigh
Woods
History of the Theatre I: From Ancient Greece to the Seventeenth Century
WOMENSTD 301 / ASIAN 301
Esperanza RamirezChristensen [qmz]
Japanese Women’s Literature
Renaissance Drama: Italian Renaissance Drama & the Commedia dell'arte