The distinguishing characteristic of Division students' course of study is regular enrollment in the so-called Division Seminar, History 696f, Early Modern Europe. This seminar is offered on a different topic virtually every semester and provides invaluable opportunities for serious late-medievalist/early-modernist students to expand their knowledge into diverse subjects and at every phase of their progress—except when away carrying out dissertation research—to interact with and assist one another.

Among recent topics have been the following:

• Spring 2001, Oberman: Martin Bucer's De regno Christi
• Fall 2001, Karant-Nunn: Strasbourg and the Reformation
• Spring 2002, Karant-Nunn: The family in early modern Europe
• Fall 2002, Nader: Charity in early modern Spain
• Spring 2003, Karant-Nunn: Anabaptism
• Fall 2003-Spring 2004, Bernstein: Economic foundations of the high and late medieval Catholic church
• Fall 2004, Karant-Nunn: Literacy in early modern Europe
• Spring 2005, Cuneo: Art and the Reformation
• Fall 2005, Nader: The Habsburgs
• Spring 2006, Karant-Nunn: Preachers and preaching
• Fall 2006, Graizbord: Early modern European Judaism
• Spring 2007, McBride [listed as Women's Studies 500]: Body politics in early modern England
• Fall 2007, Brady: The Reformations in the Holy Roman Empire
• Spring 2008, Karant-Nunn: The Emotions in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

• Classics 510A - Methods in Classical Studies
  Introduction to the various disciplines of classical scholarship; philology, textual criticism, paleography, papyrology, archaeology.
• History 505A/B - Medieval Europe
  Major institutions and trends in Europe from the breakup of the Roman World to the fourteenth century.
• History 507A/B - Intellectual History of Medieval Europe
  Major medieval cultural and intellectual trends. 507A: High Medieval Europe. Emphasis on the period before 1300. 507B: Late Medieval/Early Modern Europe. Emphasis on the period after 1300.
• History 509 - The Reformation
  The Reformation in thought and action both from the perspective of its religious origins and of the political and social conditions. Analysis of its impact on sixteenth-century Europe including the spread of the Protestant Reformation and its companion movement, the Counter-Reformation.
• History 695C - Advanced Studies in European History Colloquium
  The exchange of scholarly information and/or secondary research, usually in a small group setting. Instruction often includes lectures by several different persons.
• History 695H - Comparative History Colloquium
  The exchange of scholarly information and/or secondary research, usually in a small group setting. Instruction often includes lectures by several different persons.
• History 695K - Historiography Colloquium
  The exchange of scholarly information and/or secondary research, usually in a small group setting. Instruction often includes lectures by several different persons.
• Latin 501 - Latin Reading Course
  Readings in one of the following: epic, lyric, drama, history, oratory, satire, epistles, novel, philosophical, technical, or medieval literature.
• Latin 514 - Medieval Latin
  Survey of Latin literature during the thousand years between the end of the classical period and the beginning of the Renaissance.
• Latin 520 - Latin Paleography
  Identification and reading of major Latin bookhands of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Problems in text transmission, corruptions, and emendation.