Natalia Gulick, AAP '21, Jack Tracey, AS '20, and Katerina Zhuravel, AS '21, share brief reflections on why they chose to pursue an undergraduate minor in European Studies.
Interested in Europe and want to learn more? As a European Studies minor, you will have the opportunity to explore Europe’s past, present, and future and to demonstrate a knowledge of European languages, culture, history, politics, and international relations. Through an interdisciplinary curriculum that you can mold to your interests, the minor offers you the chance to take courses across colleges and subjects that exemplify your understanding of a globalizing world, while also providing you with an area of expertise. You will gain invaluable critical thinking skills, language abilities, and helpful frameworks for assessing today’s most pressing issues in Europe and around the world. This multifaceted minor is provided through the Institute for European Studies at the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies and is available to all Cornell undergraduates.