Course Requirements for the BA Major in Modern Jewish Studies

Three universities-San Francisco State University, CSU Chico, and San Diego State University-will jointly offer courses toward a major in Modern Jewish Studies. Students will use their home campus for general education and electives, take core courses in the B.A. from their home campus, and may use the joint-campus course offerings via distance-learning in Modern Jewish Studies to get their B.A.

Each of the three campuses will award the B.A. Students may take distance-based courses only when the home campus does not offer those courses. Exceptions to this policy may be made in consultation with a Modern Jewish Studies adviser. No courses may be used to satisfy requirements in more than one area. All courses are three units unless otherwise noted. 42-43 semester units are required for the major.

COURSES OFFERED AT SFSU

Introductory Course-3 units
JS 300 Introduction to Jewish Studies Language Area-3 units (some courses are 4 units at other campuses)

One Hebrew course at student's appropriate level
JS/HEBR 101 First Semester Modern Hebrew
JS/HEBR 102 Second Semester Modern Hebrew
JS/HEBR 201 Third Semester Modern Hebrew
JS/HEBR 202 Fourth Semester Modern Hebrew

Culture and Society Area-9 units
JS 340 American Jewish Family and Identity
JS /IR/PLSI 430 Israeli Democracy, Politics, and Society
JS 437/ENG 533/WCL 437 Holocaust and Literature

History Area 9 Units
JS/HIST 317 The Holocaust and Genocide
JS 320/HIST 635 The Jewish Historical Experience
JS 633 Modern Jewish History

Religion and Thought Area - 9 Units
JS 310 Jewish Thought and Culture
JS 410/PHIL 514 Kabbalah and Jewish Spirituality (formerly "Spirituality and Jewish Tradition")
JS 550 Good and Evil: Jewish Ethics and Contemporary Social Problems

Capstone Course-3 units
JS 690 Senior Seminar in Jewish Studies (new course-not yet offered)

Electives-6 units
Students may take these units from any campus. A maximum of 6 units outside of Jewish Studies may be counted toward the major, and a major adviser must approve these units.

JS/JOUR 311 Facing Each Other: Blacks and Jews in the Popular Media
JS/PHIL 412 Derrida and Jewish Tradition
JS/PHIL 415 The Hebrew Bible
JS 416 Special Topics in Jewish Studies
JS 445 Jews, Diaspora, and Identity
JS/ENG 451 American Jewish Literature
JS/HUM/PHIL 501 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
JS/CW 509 Jewish Writers in the American Poetry Archives
JS 516/WCL 416/CLAS 416/ENG 532/PHIL 551 Bible and Ethics: The Moral of the Story
JS/ENG/WOMS 546 Twentieth Century American Jewish Women Writers
JS 600 Internship
CINE 406 Jewish Identity in Film
WCL 445 Jewish Literature in Translation
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