文艺复兴研究是一门跨学科的本科专业，它为学生提供了学习西欧历史上最激动人心的时期之一的机会，那时艺术，文学，音乐，宗教和政治生活的结构发生了深刻的变化。文艺复兴时期的边界很难修复，现代学术界不愿为中世纪后期的世界建立一个清晰的边界，但是从15世纪后期到17世纪中叶的某个时期，欧洲的思维方式发生了改变。人们了解自己的世界的方式。仅与文艺复兴有关的名字就宣告了这一时期的重要性：莎士比亚，塞万提斯，阿里奥斯托，马基雅维利，蒙田，米开朗基罗，拉斐尔，杜勒，布鲁格，卡拉瓦乔，路德，伊拉斯莫斯，洛约拉，美第奇，弗朗西
Renaissance Studies is an interdisciplinary undergraduate major that offers students an opportunity to study one of the most exciting periods of Western European history, that time when the structures of art, literature, music, religion, and political life underwent profound change.<br><br>The boundaries of the Renaissance are difficult to fix, and modern scholarship hesitates to construct a sharp boundary from the late-medieval world, but from some time in the late fifteenth-century to the mid-seventeenth century Europe saw mind-altering changes in the ways people understood their world. The names associated with the Renaissance alone proclaim the significance of the period: Shakespeare, Cervantes, Ariosto, Machiavelli, Montaigne, Michelangelo, Raphael, Durer, Bruegel, Caravaggio, Luther, Erasmus, Loyola, the Medici, Francis I, Elizabeth I, Columbus, Magellan, Drake. It was also the age of discovery, and the European encounter with the New World would change decisively, for better or worse, the face of four continents.