{"id":1263,"date":"2024-07-02T09:54:12","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T13:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/?page_id=1263"},"modified":"2024-08-17T21:19:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-18T01:19:44","slug":"why-global-medieval-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/why-global-medieval-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Minor in Medieval Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <b>minor in Global Medieval Studies<\/b><span> is not only <strong>interdisciplinary<\/strong> but <strong>adaptable<\/strong>: students design <strong>individualized programs of study<\/strong> in consultation with a faculty advisor to create a course of study that complements or supplements their major or unique interests. With accomplished faculty who teach in 11 different academic departments and a flexible inventory of courses, the Global Medieval Studies program challenges students to critically engage with the events, people, arts, and ideas from late antiquity to the early modern period that shaped the world in which we live.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 16pt; color: #e31936;\">Global Potential<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span>Boston University\u2019s Global Medieval Studies program is at the forefront of encouraging undergraduate learning and research that engages with <strong>pre-modern to modern Asia, Africa, and the Middle East in addition to Europe, Britain, and the Americas.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_804\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-804\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/medieval\/files\/2023\/07\/Image-7-13-23-at-4.20-PM-e1719953044354.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"268\" class=\"wp-image-804 size-full\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-804\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u201cThe Miscellany of Iskander Sultan\u201d, Iran. Fifteenth century, The British Library. Public Domain.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span>Students benefit from diverse Global Medieval Studies faculty spread across the College of Arts &amp; Sciences, including faculty from the departments of <strong>Archaeology, Anthropology, Classical Studies, English, History, History of Art &amp; Architecture, Musicology, Philosophy, Romance Studies, Religion, and World Languages &amp; Literatures<\/strong>, who are active contributors within their scholarly fields. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Banner image: \u201cFour Gospels in Armenian, The Marriage at Cana \/ The Betrayal\u201d, Turkey. Fifteenth century, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The minor in Global Medieval Studies is not only interdisciplinary but adaptable: students design individualized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20263,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1263"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1263\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/medieval\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}