Undergraduate Program

College of Arts and Sciences and European Studies Major Undergraduate Admission Requirements

A minimum of 26 credit hours; 23 credit hours must be in courses acceptable toward graduation.

A cumulative grade point average of at least 2.00 on all work.

• Transfer students must have a 2.0 transfer GPA.
• Continuing UNM students must have a 2.00 institutional GPA.

Demonstrated academic achievement by satisfying the following:

• Completion of the University Writing and Speaking Core.
• Completion of the University Mathematics Core.
• Completion of the University Foreign Language Core.

Completion of European Studies major admission coursework with grade of "C" or better:

• One course at any level (excluding 101 and 111) from FREN, SPAN, GRMN, ITAL, GREK, LATN, PORT, RUSS.

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Major Study Requirements

The interdisciplinary European Studies major requires 36 credit hours of work in approved courses from a very broad range of departmental offerings (list available on Web site or in European Studies office). All students must take 12 credit hours of courses in a European language other than English or the equivalent (testing out or taking a 300-level or above course in the language). Students are further required to take a minimum of 3 credit hours in courses with predominantly European content and focus from each of the following four general areas:

• Fine Arts (Art/Art History, Dance, Media Arts, Music, Theatre)
• History
• Literature and Philosophy (English, Comparative Literature, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Philosophy)
• Social Science (Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Political Science, Sociology)

In addition to the distribution requirements outlined above, students must take the interdisciplinary INTS 410 European Studies Seminar (3 credit hours), plus an additional 9 credit hours from the courses in the approved European Studies catalog (list available on Web site or in European Studies office).

The non-language courses (24 credit hours) must meet the following guidelines:

• No more than 6 credit hours below the 300-level;
• No more than 12 credit hours in any one department; and
• No more than 3 credit hours in undergraduate readings or individual studies courses.

Students are encouraged, where possible, to construct with the advice of the European Studies Director a “disciplinary focus” tied to the departmental discipline in which they take the majority of their courses.

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Minor Study Requirements

The interdisciplinary European Studies minor requires 30 credit hours of work in approved courses from a very broad range of departmental offerings (list available on Web site or in European Studies office). All students must take 12 credit hours of courses in a European language other than English or the equivalent (testing out or taking a 300-level or above course in the language). Students are further required to take a minimum of 3 credit hours in courses with predominantly European content and focus from three of the following four general areas:

• Fine Arts (Art/Art History, Dance, Media Arts, Music, Theatre)
• History
• Literature and Philosophy (English, Comparative Literature, Foreign Languages and Literatures, Philosophy)
• Social Science (Anthropology, Economics, Geography, Political Science, Sociology)

In addition to the distribution requirements outlined above, students must take an additional 9 credit hours from the courses in the approved European Studies catalog (list available on Web site or in European Studies office).

The non-language courses must meet the following guidelines:

• No more than 6 credit hours below the 300-level;
• No more than 9 credit hours in any one department; and
• No more than 3 credit hours in undergraduate readings or individual studies courses.

NOTE: The list of approved courses, or European Studies catalog, is a compilation of all undergraduate courses offered by The University of New Mexico which are devoted mostly to European orientations. These include, in addition to those offered in the College of Arts and Sciences, certain courses in the College of Fine Arts and the Schools of Architecture and Planning, Management and Law. The list is available on the European Studies Web site and in the European Studies office. The list is not necessarily complete since new courses are added every year, and students are therefore encouraged to ask about courses not found on the list that appear to satisfy the requirements.

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Departmental Honors

Students who seek honors in European Studies should contact the Director. Graduating with honors requires a minimum grade point average of 3.5 and the writing of an Honors Thesis.

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