Undergraduate Certificate

Students will take a total of 24 credits in British Studies (normally as 8 courses of 3 hours each). A grade of C- or better must be received in all classes. The courses should be distributed as follows:

1. In the department of primary focus (either English or History, depending on the student's own interests), any 4 courses in British or Irish Studies. CBIS will provide a list of possible courses.
2. In the secondary department (either History, English, or Political Science, depending upon which was chosen as the primary area), a minimum of 2 courses and a maximum of 4 courses. CBIS will provide a list of possible courses (see below).
3. Students may take 1 or 2 courses in departments other than English, History, or Political Science, chosen from the attached list, in place of courses in the secondary department.
4. Students are encouraged, though not required, to do some work of explicitly interdisciplinary nature. This might involve taking a team taught course offered by two departments, like English 3162 / History 3163 or English 4112 / History 4113, or doing an Independent Study or Honors Thesis which spans two disciplines.
5. Studying in Britain or Ireland would be a fine addition to the Certificate. See the Office of International Education, Environmental Design Bldg., Room 1B45, (303)-492-6016, for information on CU's Study Abroad programs.

This is a list of pre-approved courses (as it will appear in the 2025-26 Course Catalog). Other courses, including topics courses, that is, courses with topics that vary from section to section or semester to semester, may be substituted with the approval of the CBIS director.

Art History

• ARTH 4309      Neoclassicism and Romanticism: 1760 – 1840 (3)
• ARTH 4319      European Art from 1830 to 1886 (3)

Economics

• ECON 4514      Economic History of Europe (3)

English

• ENGL 1500      Introduction to British Literature (3)
• ENGL 2503      Medieval and Renaissance (3)
• ENGL 2504      Enlightenment and Modernity (3)
• ENGL 2767      Race, Empire, and the Postcolonial (3)
• ENGL 3000      Shakespeare for Nonmajors (3)
• ENGL 3068      Modernisms and Modernity, 1900-1945 (3)
• ENGL 3078      Contemporary Literature: 1945 to the Present (3)
• ENGL 3164      History and Literature of Georgian Britain (3)
• ENGL 3227      Sex in Shakespeare’s Time (3)
• ENGL 3300      Literary London (3)
• ENGL 3523      Renaissance Literature (3)
• ENGL 3544      The Long Eighteenth Century (3)
• ENGL 3553      Chaucer and the Invention of English Literature (3)
• ENGL 3563      Shakespeare in Dialogue (3)
• ENGL 3564      Romantic Literature and its Revolutions (3)
• ENGL 3573      Shakespeare in Performance (3)
• ENGL 3583      Milton’s Worlds (3)
• ENGL 3604      Victorian Literature (3)
• ENGL 4003      Old English 1: Introduction to Old English (3)
• ENGL 4013      Old English 2: Intermediate Old English (3)
• ENGL 4023      Old English 3: Beowulf (3)
• ENGL 4048      The Modernist Novel (3)  [formerly 4224]
• ENGL 4113      Medieval Worlds (3)
• ENGL 4513      British Medieval Literature (3)
• ENGL 4514      Advanced Topics: The Long 18^th Century (3)
• ENGL 4524      Advanced Topics: Romanticism (3)
• ENGL 4624      Topics in Transnational Literature 1660-1900 (3)
• ENGL 4634      Advanced Topics: The Victorian Era (3)
• ENGL 4693      Advanced Topics in British Literature to 1600 (3)

History

• HIST 1113        Introduction to British History to 1660 (3)
• HIST 1123        Introduction to British History since 1660 (3)
• HIST 1528        Introduction to South Asian History since 1757 (3)
• HIST 3113        Seminar in Medieval and Early Modern English History (3)
• HIST 3133        Seminar in Britain since 1688 (3)
• HIST 4013        Law and Society in Premodern England to 1688 (3)
• HIST 4053        Britain and the Empire, 1688-1964 (3)
• HIST 4123        Kings & Commoners in an Age of Crisis: English History 1327-1487 (3)
• HIST 4125        Early American History to 1763 (3)
• HIST 4133        Tudor England, 1485-1603 (3)
• HIST 4143        The Making of Great Britain: British History 1603-1714 (3)
• HIST 4258        Africa under European Colonial Rule (3)
• HIST 4339        Borderlands of the British Empire (3)
• HIST 4349        Decolonization of the British Empire
• HIST 4558        Buddha to Gandhi: A History of Indian Nonviolence (3)

Humanities

• HUMN 4000    The Question of Romanticism (3)
• HUMN 4082    19th-Century Art and Literature (3)

Linguistics

• LING 1010       The Study of Words (3)
• LING 3545       World Language Policies (3)
• LING 4650       Language Teaching Materials Design (3)

Political Science

• PSCI 2004        Survey of Western Political Thought (3)
• PSCI 3172        Democracy and Its Citizens in the US and EU (3)
• PSCI 4002        Western European Politics (3)
• PSCI 4016        Inequality and Public Policy in the U.S. and Europe (3)
• PSCI 4213        Europe and the International System (3)
• PSCI 4283        International Migration and Policy (3)

1. By taking courses dealing with various aspects of British Studies, students will gain a picture of Britain from several vantage points.
2. Upon successful completion of requirements, students will be awarded an official Certificate in British Studies, signed by the Director of the Center for British Studies and the Dean of Arts and Sciences. The Certificate may be used by the student in applying for graduate school or employment, as evidence of a sustained interdisciplinary concentration in British Studies.

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• If you have fulfilled the requirements for the certificate, click here to download a completion form