Renaissance Studies program requirements
What the Renaissance Studies Specialist, Major and Minor require, as the 2026-2027 Arts & Science Calendar states it, and every course they name.
Renaissance Studies Specialist
- Arts program
- 10.0 credits
- Open enrolment
- ASSPE0532
Enrolment
This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.
Completion requirements
(10.0 credits, no more than 1.0 credit at the 100-level, at least 4.0 credits at the 300+ level including 1.0 credit at the 400-level)
1(REN240H1 and REN244H1/ REN245H1)/ REN240Y1
22.5 credits from: VIC114H1, VIC141H1, VIC142H1, VIC196H1, REN241H1, REN242H1, REN338H1, REN340H1, REN341H1, REN342H1, REN343H1, REN344H1, REN345H1, REN346H1, REN347H1, REN348Y0, REN349H1/ REN349Y1, REN392H1/ REN392Y1, REN441H1, REN442H1, REN449H1/ REN449Y1, REN492H1/ REN492Y1
31.0 credit in Literature from: ENG220H1, ENG302Y1, ENG303H1, ENG331H1, ENG335H1; FRE319H1, FRE320H1; ITA198H1, ITA200H1, ITA300H1, ITA312H1, ITA320H1, ITA321H1, ITA332H1, ITA333H1, ITA400H1, ITA420H1, ITA431H1; LCT203H1; SPA352H1, SPA354H1, SPA368H1, SPA454H1, or another course approved by the program coordinator.
41.0 credit in History from: HIS243H1, HIS291H1, HIS293H1, HIS309H1, HIS327H1, HIS333H1, HIS355H1, HIS357Y0, HIS368H1, HIS373H1, HIS375H1, HIS381H1, HIS390H1, HIS403H1, HIS422H1, HIS438H1, HIS443H1, or another course approved by the program coordinator.
51.0 credit in Art History from: FAH230H1, FAH231H1, FAH330H1, FAH331H1, FAH335H1, FAH337H1, FAH338H1, FAH340H1, FAH341H1, FAH370H1, FAH371H1, FAH393Y0, FAH430H1, FAH433H1, FAH434H1, FAH436H1, FAH440H1, FAH470H1, or another course approved by the program coordinator.
61.0 credit in a Research Course (a 299Y1, 399Y1, on a Renaissance Studies topic, or REN392H1/ REN392Y1, REN492H1/ REN492Y1)
72.0 credits in a language relevant to Renaissance Studies - French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Latin, German (only 1.0 credit may be at the introductory level).
8REN440H1
Courses these requirements name
- REN240H1The Renaissance in Italy
- REN244H1The Renaissance in Europe and the World
- REN245H1Race and Power in the Renaissance
- REN240Y1The Civilization of Renaissance Europe last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- VIC114H1Renaissance in Popular Culture
- VIC141H1Discovery and Revolution
- VIC142H1Machiavelli: The Politics of Power
- VIC196H1Renaissance Queens
- REN241H1Renaissance Masterworks and Remixes
- REN242H1Scientific Worldviews of the Renaissance
- REN338H1Renaissance in the City
- REN340H1Travel, Trade, and Difference in the Renaissance World
- REN341H1The Self and Society: Women, Men and Children
- REN342H1Women and Writing in the Renaissance
- REN343H1Sex and Gender
- REN344H1Renaissance Narrative
- REN345H1Media and Communications in the Early Modern Era
- REN346H1The Idea of the Renaissance
- REN347H1Studies in Renaissance Performance
- REN348Y0The Renaissance City
- REN349H1Special Topics in the Renaissance
- REN349Y1Special Topics in the Renaissance
- REN392H1Renaissance Studies Independent Study
- REN392Y1Renaissance Studies Independent Study
- REN441H1Michel de Montaigne: A Renaissance Life last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- REN442H1The Renaissance Book
- REN449H1Advanced Seminar in the Renaissance
- REN449Y1Advanced Seminar in the Renaissance
- REN492H1Renaissance Studies Independent Study
- REN492Y1Renaissance Studies Independent Study
- ENG220H1Introduction to Shakespeare
- ENG302Y1English Renaissance Literature last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- ENG303H1Milton
- ENG331H1Drama 1485-1603
- ENG335H1Drama 1603-1642
- FRE319H1Laughter and Thought in French Renaissance Literature
- FRE320H1French Literature of Classicism and Enlightenment
- ITA198H1Machiavelli and Machiavellianism
- ITA200H1Major Italian Authors in Translation: from Dante to Tasso
- ITA300H1History of Italian Literature: Middle Ages and Renaissance
- ITA312H1Mediaeval Italian Literature in Translation: Petrarch and Boccaccio
- ITA320H1Dante: Vita Nuova and Divina Commedia (Inferno)
- ITA321H1Dante: Divina Commedia (Purgatorio and Paradiso)
- ITA332H1Love in the Renaissance
- ITA333H1Literature and Society in Renaissance Italy
- ITA400H1Machiavelli
- ITA420H1Spinning a Tale: The Italian Short Story from Boccaccio to Basile
- ITA431H1History of Italian Language I-from Middle ages to Cinquecento
- LCT203H1Empires I
- SPA352H1Court and Country in Early Modern Spain
- SPA354H1Parody and Comedy in Early Modern Spanish Literature
- SPA368H1Spanish and the Empire: Migration in Language and Literature
- SPA454H1Cervantes: Don Quixote
- HIS243H1Early Modern Europe (15th-17th Centuries)
- HIS291H1Latin America: The Colonial Period
- HIS293H1The Making of the Atlantic World, 1480-1804
- HIS309H1Global Reformations
- HIS327H1Rome: The City in History
- HIS333H1Catholic Asia in the Early Modern Era, 1500-1800
- HIS355H1A History of Pre-modern Medicine
- HIS357Y0The Renaissance
- HIS368H1Early Modern Britain, 1485-1660
- HIS373H1Servants and Masters, 1000- 1700
- HIS375H1Crime and Punishment in the Early Modern World
- HIS381H1Youth in the Early Modern World
- HIS390H1Slavery in Latin America
- HIS403H1Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
- HIS422H1Early Modern English Popular Culture, 1500-1800
- HIS438H1Inquisition and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- HIS443H1Space and Sense in the Early Modern World
- FAH230H1Renaissance Art and Architecture
- FAH231H1Baroque Art and Architecture
- FAH330H1German Art and Architecture in the Age of Dürer
- FAH331H1Netherlandish Renaissance Art and Culture
- FAH335H1The Art of Love in the Renaissance
- FAH337H1Rivalry, Imitation and Envy in Italian Renaissance Art
- FAH338H1Art and Consumers in the Renaissance (1400-1700)
- FAH340H117th-Century Art of the Netherlands
- FAH341H1Venetian Renaissance Art and Architecture
- FAH370H1European Renaissance Architecture
- FAH371H1Architecture and Urbanism in Baroque Europe
- FAH393Y0Studies Abroad in Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture
- FAH430H1Pieter Bruegel
- FAH433H1Leonardo and His Legacy in Renaissance Italy
- FAH434H1The First Art Historians
- FAH436H1Italian Renaissance Art, Fashion, and Material Culture
- FAH440H1Dutch Genre Painting of the 17th Century
- FAH470H1Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
- REN440H1Florence and the Renaissance
Renaissance Studies Major
- Arts program
- 6.0 credits
- Open enrolment
- ASMAJ0532
Enrolment
This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.
Completion requirements
(6.0 credits, no more than 1.0 credit at the 100-level, and at least 2.0 credits at 300+ level)
1(REN240H1 and REN244H1/ REN245H1)/ REN240Y1
21.5 credits from: VIC114H1, VIC141H1, VIC142H1, VIC196H1, REN241H1, REN242H1, REN338H1, REN340H1, REN341H1, REN342H1, REN343H1, REN344H1, REN345H1, REN346H1, REN347H1, REN348Y0, REN349H1/ REN349Y1, REN392H1/ REN392Y1, REN441H1, REN442H1, REN449H1/ REN449Y1, REN492H1/ REN492Y1
31.0 credit in Literature from: ENG220H1, ENG302Y1, ENG303H1, ENG331H1, ENG335H1, FRE319H1, FRE320H1, ITA198H1, ITA200H1, ITA300H1, ITA312H1, ITA320H1, ITA321H1, ITA332H1, ITA333H1, ITA400H1, ITA420H1, ITA431H1, LCT203H1, SPA352H1, SPA354H1, SPA368H1, SPA454H1, or another course approved by the program coordinator.
41.0 credit in History from: HIS243H1, HIS291H1, HIS293H1, HIS309H1, HIS327H1, HIS333H1, HIS355H1, HIS357Y0, HIS368H1, HIS373H1, HIS375H1, HIS381H1, HIS390H1, HIS403H1, HIS422H1, HIS438H1, HIS443H1, or another course approved by the program coordinator.
51.0 credit in Art History from: FAH230H1, FAH231H1, FAH330H1, FAH331H1, FAH335H1, FAH337H1, FAH338H1, FAH340H1, FAH341H1, FAH370H1, FAH371H1, FAH393Y0, FAH430H1, FAH433H1, FAH434H1, FAH436H1, FAH440H1, FAH470H1, or another course approved by the program coordinator.
6REN440H1
Courses these requirements name
- REN240H1The Renaissance in Italy
- REN244H1The Renaissance in Europe and the World
- REN245H1Race and Power in the Renaissance
- REN240Y1The Civilization of Renaissance Europe last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- VIC114H1Renaissance in Popular Culture
- VIC141H1Discovery and Revolution
- VIC142H1Machiavelli: The Politics of Power
- VIC196H1Renaissance Queens
- REN241H1Renaissance Masterworks and Remixes
- REN242H1Scientific Worldviews of the Renaissance
- REN338H1Renaissance in the City
- REN340H1Travel, Trade, and Difference in the Renaissance World
- REN341H1The Self and Society: Women, Men and Children
- REN342H1Women and Writing in the Renaissance
- REN343H1Sex and Gender
- REN344H1Renaissance Narrative
- REN345H1Media and Communications in the Early Modern Era
- REN346H1The Idea of the Renaissance
- REN347H1Studies in Renaissance Performance
- REN348Y0The Renaissance City
- REN349H1Special Topics in the Renaissance
- REN349Y1Special Topics in the Renaissance
- REN392H1Renaissance Studies Independent Study
- REN392Y1Renaissance Studies Independent Study
- REN441H1Michel de Montaigne: A Renaissance Life last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- REN442H1The Renaissance Book
- REN449H1Advanced Seminar in the Renaissance
- REN449Y1Advanced Seminar in the Renaissance
- REN492H1Renaissance Studies Independent Study
- REN492Y1Renaissance Studies Independent Study
- ENG220H1Introduction to Shakespeare
- ENG302Y1English Renaissance Literature last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- ENG303H1Milton
- ENG331H1Drama 1485-1603
- ENG335H1Drama 1603-1642
- FRE319H1Laughter and Thought in French Renaissance Literature
- FRE320H1French Literature of Classicism and Enlightenment
- ITA198H1Machiavelli and Machiavellianism
- ITA200H1Major Italian Authors in Translation: from Dante to Tasso
- ITA300H1History of Italian Literature: Middle Ages and Renaissance
- ITA312H1Mediaeval Italian Literature in Translation: Petrarch and Boccaccio
- ITA320H1Dante: Vita Nuova and Divina Commedia (Inferno)
- ITA321H1Dante: Divina Commedia (Purgatorio and Paradiso)
- ITA332H1Love in the Renaissance
- ITA333H1Literature and Society in Renaissance Italy
- ITA400H1Machiavelli
- ITA420H1Spinning a Tale: The Italian Short Story from Boccaccio to Basile
- ITA431H1History of Italian Language I-from Middle ages to Cinquecento
- LCT203H1Empires I
- SPA352H1Court and Country in Early Modern Spain
- SPA354H1Parody and Comedy in Early Modern Spanish Literature
- SPA368H1Spanish and the Empire: Migration in Language and Literature
- SPA454H1Cervantes: Don Quixote
- HIS243H1Early Modern Europe (15th-17th Centuries)
- HIS291H1Latin America: The Colonial Period
- HIS293H1The Making of the Atlantic World, 1480-1804
- HIS309H1Global Reformations
- HIS327H1Rome: The City in History
- HIS333H1Catholic Asia in the Early Modern Era, 1500-1800
- HIS355H1A History of Pre-modern Medicine
- HIS357Y0The Renaissance
- HIS368H1Early Modern Britain, 1485-1660
- HIS373H1Servants and Masters, 1000- 1700
- HIS375H1Crime and Punishment in the Early Modern World
- HIS381H1Youth in the Early Modern World
- HIS390H1Slavery in Latin America
- HIS403H1Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
- HIS422H1Early Modern English Popular Culture, 1500-1800
- HIS438H1Inquisition and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- HIS443H1Space and Sense in the Early Modern World
- FAH230H1Renaissance Art and Architecture
- FAH231H1Baroque Art and Architecture
- FAH330H1German Art and Architecture in the Age of Dürer
- FAH331H1Netherlandish Renaissance Art and Culture
- FAH335H1The Art of Love in the Renaissance
- FAH337H1Rivalry, Imitation and Envy in Italian Renaissance Art
- FAH338H1Art and Consumers in the Renaissance (1400-1700)
- FAH340H117th-Century Art of the Netherlands
- FAH341H1Venetian Renaissance Art and Architecture
- FAH370H1European Renaissance Architecture
- FAH371H1Architecture and Urbanism in Baroque Europe
- FAH393Y0Studies Abroad in Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture
- FAH430H1Pieter Bruegel
- FAH433H1Leonardo and His Legacy in Renaissance Italy
- FAH434H1The First Art Historians
- FAH436H1Italian Renaissance Art, Fashion, and Material Culture
- FAH440H1Dutch Genre Painting of the 17th Century
- FAH470H1Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
- REN440H1Florence and the Renaissance
Renaissance Studies Minor
- Arts program
- 4.0 credits
- Open enrolment
- ASMIN0532
Enrolment
This is an open enrolment program. A student who has completed 4.0 credits may enrol in the program. The full enrolment requirements are on the Calendar's page for this program.
Completion requirements
(4.0 credits, no more than 1.0 credit at the 100-level, and at least 1.0 credit at 300+ level)
12.5 credits from: VIC114H1, VIC141H1, VIC142H1, VIC196H1, REN240Y1, REN240H1, REN241H1, REN242H1, REN244H1, REN245H1, REN338H1, REN340H1, REN341H1, REN342H1, REN343H1, REN344H1, REN345H1, REN346H1, REN347H1, REN348Y0, REN349H1/ REN349Y1, REN392H1/ REN392Y1, REN440H1/ VIC440Y1, REN441H1, REN442H1, REN449H1/ REN449Y1, REN492H1/ REN492Y1
21.5 credits in Literature, History, or Art from: Literature: ENG302Y1, ENG303H1, ENG330H1, ENG331H1, ENG335H1, FRE319H1, FRE320H1, ITA198H1, ITA200H1, ITA300H1, ITA312H1, ITA320H1, ITA321H1, ITA332H1, ITA400H1, ITA420H1, ITA431H1; SPA352H1, SPA368H1, SPA454H1 History: HIS243H1, HIS309H1, HIS368H1, HIS375H1, HIS381H1, HIS403H1, HIS438H1, HIS443H1 Art: FAH230H1, FAH330H1, FAH331H1, FAH335H1, FAH337H1, FAH338H1, FAH340H1, FAH341H1, FAH370H1, FAH371H1, FAH393Y0, FAH430H1, FAH433H1, FAH434H1, FAH436H1, FAH440H1, FAH470H1
Courses these requirements name
- VIC114H1Renaissance in Popular Culture
- VIC141H1Discovery and Revolution
- VIC142H1Machiavelli: The Politics of Power
- VIC196H1Renaissance Queens
- REN240Y1The Civilization of Renaissance Europe last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- REN240H1The Renaissance in Italy
- REN241H1Renaissance Masterworks and Remixes
- REN242H1Scientific Worldviews of the Renaissance
- REN244H1The Renaissance in Europe and the World
- REN245H1Race and Power in the Renaissance
- REN338H1Renaissance in the City
- REN340H1Travel, Trade, and Difference in the Renaissance World
- REN341H1The Self and Society: Women, Men and Children
- REN342H1Women and Writing in the Renaissance
- REN343H1Sex and Gender
- REN344H1Renaissance Narrative
- REN345H1Media and Communications in the Early Modern Era
- REN346H1The Idea of the Renaissance
- REN347H1Studies in Renaissance Performance
- REN348Y0The Renaissance City
- REN349H1Special Topics in the Renaissance
- REN349Y1Special Topics in the Renaissance
- REN392H1Renaissance Studies Independent Study
- REN392Y1Renaissance Studies Independent Study
- REN440H1Florence and the Renaissance
- VIC440Y1
- REN441H1Michel de Montaigne: A Renaissance Life last in the 2023-2024 Calendar
- REN442H1The Renaissance Book
- REN449H1Advanced Seminar in the Renaissance
- REN449Y1Advanced Seminar in the Renaissance
- REN492H1Renaissance Studies Independent Study
- REN492Y1Renaissance Studies Independent Study
- ENG302Y1English Renaissance Literature last in the 2024-2025 Calendar
- ENG303H1Milton
- ENG330H1Medieval Drama
- ENG331H1Drama 1485-1603
- ENG335H1Drama 1603-1642
- FRE319H1Laughter and Thought in French Renaissance Literature
- FRE320H1French Literature of Classicism and Enlightenment
- ITA198H1Machiavelli and Machiavellianism
- ITA200H1Major Italian Authors in Translation: from Dante to Tasso
- ITA300H1History of Italian Literature: Middle Ages and Renaissance
- ITA312H1Mediaeval Italian Literature in Translation: Petrarch and Boccaccio
- ITA320H1Dante: Vita Nuova and Divina Commedia (Inferno)
- ITA321H1Dante: Divina Commedia (Purgatorio and Paradiso)
- ITA332H1Love in the Renaissance
- ITA400H1Machiavelli
- ITA420H1Spinning a Tale: The Italian Short Story from Boccaccio to Basile
- ITA431H1History of Italian Language I-from Middle ages to Cinquecento
- SPA352H1Court and Country in Early Modern Spain
- SPA368H1Spanish and the Empire: Migration in Language and Literature
- SPA454H1Cervantes: Don Quixote
- HIS243H1Early Modern Europe (15th-17th Centuries)
- HIS309H1Global Reformations
- HIS368H1Early Modern Britain, 1485-1660
- HIS375H1Crime and Punishment in the Early Modern World
- HIS381H1Youth in the Early Modern World
- HIS403H1Jews and Christians in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
- HIS438H1Inquisition and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
- HIS443H1Space and Sense in the Early Modern World
- FAH230H1Renaissance Art and Architecture
- FAH330H1German Art and Architecture in the Age of Dürer
- FAH331H1Netherlandish Renaissance Art and Culture
- FAH335H1The Art of Love in the Renaissance
- FAH337H1Rivalry, Imitation and Envy in Italian Renaissance Art
- FAH338H1Art and Consumers in the Renaissance (1400-1700)
- FAH340H117th-Century Art of the Netherlands
- FAH341H1Venetian Renaissance Art and Architecture
- FAH370H1European Renaissance Architecture
- FAH371H1Architecture and Urbanism in Baroque Europe
- FAH393Y0Studies Abroad in Renaissance and Baroque Art and Architecture
- FAH430H1Pieter Bruegel
- FAH433H1Leonardo and His Legacy in Renaissance Italy
- FAH434H1The First Art Historians
- FAH436H1Italian Renaissance Art, Fashion, and Material Culture
- FAH440H1Dutch Genre Painting of the 17th Century
- FAH470H1Studies in Renaissance and Baroque Architecture
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