Certificate Program in the History of Monastic Movements

Advisor: E. Rozanne Elder
Director, Center for Cistercian and Monastic Studies
210E Walwood Hall
269-387-8921

The Graduate Certificate in the History of Monastic Movements is open to students enrolled in a graduate degree program at Western Michigan University. The certificate requires 18 credit hours of approved courses, including a Seminar on Monastic and Communitarian Movements offered by faculty of one or more of the participating departments or institutes.

Program requirements

Students are required to receive at least a “B” in the following courses (or in equivalent courses taken at other institutions).

MDVL 6000 - Advanced Seminar in Medieval Studies Credits: 2 to 4 hours
History of Monastic and Related Movements Credits: 3 hours
LAT 5600 - Medieval Latin Credits: 4 hours
Or another appropriate research language.

AND

At least 11 additional credit hours in graduate courses on related topics (see list below).
Intermediate-level reading knowledge of a modern language, demonstrated by examination or by a course (not to be counted among the 18 hours) appropriate to the student’s field of concentration.

Course List:

ENGL 5300 - Medieval Literature Credits: 3 hours
(monastic emphasis)
ENGL 5550 - Studies in Major Writers Credits: 3 hours
Medieval Women Writers
HIST 5500 - Topics in Medieval History Credits: 3 hours
Life in a Medieval Monastery
HIST 6120 - Readings in Medieval History Credits: 3 hours
Carolingian Monasticism
Early Monastic Movements
Monastic Reform in the High Middle Ages
Women in Medieval Religion: Nuns and Others
HIST 6820 - Research Seminar in Medieval History Credits: 3 hours
Aspects of the Cistercian Reform
Cistercian Writers of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
Mendicants and their World
Military and Ransoming Orders and the Crusades
Monastic Hagiography
Monastic Historians and Their Histories, ca. 900-1200
The Spirituality of Medieval Monasticism
LAT 5500 - Independent Study in Latin Credits: 1 to 3 hours
Readings in Latin Literature (monastic emphasis)
SPAN 5600 - Studies in Spanish Literatures Credits: 3 hours
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