A record number of students are graduating this year with a Minor in European Studies. Our Minors have taken classes, at Cornell and abroad, in European politics, history, art, and ideas, and have studied various European languages, from French and Spanish, the most popular European languages at Cornell, to Turkish, Hungarian, Polish, and Greek. The most popular major for European Studies minors is Government, but our Minor also attracted students majoring in History, Information Science, Anthropology, Biology and Society, Near Eastern Studies, Labor Studies, and even Astronomy and Computer Science. Several students have taken advantage of opportunities offered by our Institute or by the broader Global Cornell, such as our Einaudi Global Internships in Spain, Hungary, and Bosnia Herzegovina, our undergraduate Harum, Conger Wood, and Susan Tarrow fellowships, and study abroad in places like Paris, London, Turin, Barcelona, Scotland, and Copenhagen.

We are delighted that our students have had the chance to pursue such varied courses of study and opportunities, and have confidently embraced knowledge about European cultures, histories, and societies. European studies offer a perspective through which we can understand ourselves, here in America, as well as understand the whole world better. This perspective will be useful to our students as they venture into the great, wide, world beyond college. We wholeheartedly congratulate all of our Minor students on their graduation, and wish them best of luck in their post-college adventures.

Learn more about the ES Minor here.