Course Descriptions

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Jewish Studies Discipline Courses

Course ID Title Latest Offering
JS 151 First Semester Modern Hebrew (3) Fall 2009
JS 152 Second Semester Modern Hebrew (3) Spring 2009
JS 201 Third Semester Modern Hebrew (3) Fall 2009
JS 202 Fourth Semester Modern Hebrew (3) Spring 2009
JS 270 Judaism, An Introduction (3) Spring 2009
JS 300 Introduction to Jewish Studies (3) Fall 2009
JS 317 The Holocaust and Genocide (3) Fall 2008
JS 340 American Jewish Identity and Family (3) Effective Fall 2008
JS 350 Jewish Social Responsibility (3) Spring 2009
JS 377 Jerusalem (3) Fall 2009
JS 378 Beyond the Bagel (3) Effective Summer 2009
JS 405 Film and the Holocaust (3) Spring 2009
JS 408 Israeli Cinema (3) Spring 2009
JS 410 Kabbalah and Mysticism in the Jewish Tradition (3) Spring 2009
JS 413 Hannah Arendt (3) Effective Fall 2008
JS 414 Arendt and Heidegger (3) Fall 2009
JS 415 The Hebrew Bible (3) Effective Fall 2008
JS 416 Special Topics in Jewish Studies (1-3) Effective Fall 2008
JS 417 Judaism as Sacred Theatre (3) Effective Fall 2008
JS 425 Judaism: Religion and Text (3) Effective Fall 2008
JS 430 Israeli Democracy: Politics, Institutions, and Society (3) Spring 2009
JS 437 Holocaust and Literature (3) Fall 2009
JS 449 American Jewish History (3) Fall 2008
JS 451 Jewish Literature of the Americas (3) Spring 2009
JS 477 Topics in Israel Studies (3) Effective Summer 2009
JS 477 Variable topics:
  JS 477 Introduction to Israel Studies (3) Effective Summer 2009
JS 501 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (3) Spring 2009
JS 516 Bible and Ethics: The Moral of the Story (3) Effective Fall 2008
JS 534 Performing Yiddish Theatre (3) Effective Fall 2008
JS 540 Anti-Semitism (3) Fall 2008
JS 545 German-Jewish Ferment 1920s-1950s (3) Effective Fall 2008
JS 546 20th Century American Jewish Women Writers (3) Fall 2009
JS 550 Good and Evil: Jewish Ethics and Contemporary Social Problems (3) Effective Fall 2008
JS 560 The Arab-Israeli Conflict (3) Fall 2008
JS 571 Fathers and Sons in Jewish Literature (3) Effective Fall 2008
JS 600 Internship (3) Fall 2009
JS 632 Jewish History I: Beginnings to 1650 (3) Fall 2009
JS 633 Jewish History II: 1650 to Present (3) Spring 2009
JS 699 Special Study (1-3) Effective Fall 2008
JS 699 Variable topics:
  JS 699 Special Study (1) Fall 2009
  JS 699 Special Study (2) Fall 2009
  JS 699 Special Study (3) Fall 2009
JS 800 Internship (3) Fall 2009
  JS 899 Special Study (1) Spring 2009
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