Students can use the Minor in Jewish Studies to complement their majors and, with advising, to fulfill General Education requirements. Students interested in pursuing an undergraduate or graduate degree with a focus in Jewish Studies may be able to do so by developing a Special major through either the Office of Undergraduate Studies or the Graduate Division.
Core Courses:
- JS 300 Introduction to Jewish Studies
- JS 310 Jewish Thought and Culture
- JS 320/HIST 635 The Jewish Historical Experience
- JS 330 Jews and Judaism in the Modern World
- Elective
Courses:
- JS 101 First Semester Modern Hebrew
- JS 102 Second Semester Modern Hebrew
- JS 311 Facing Each Other: Blacks and Jews in the Popular Media
- JS 317/HIST 317 Holocaust and Genocide
- JS 340 American Jewish Identity and Family
- JS 350 Jewish Social Responsibility
- JS 410/PHIL 514 Spirituality and Jewish Tradition
- JS 412 Postmodernity and Jewish Tradition
- JS 415/PHIL 415 The Hebrew Bible
- JS 416 Special Topics in Jewish Studies
- JS 430 Israeli Democracy: Politics, Institutions and Society
- JS 436 Introduction to Israeli Literature
- JS 445 Jews, Diaspora and Identity
- JS 501/HUM 501/PHIL 501 Judaism, Christianity and Islam
- JS 546 Twentieth Century American Jewish Women Writers
- JS 550 Good and Evil: Jewish Ethics and Contemporary Social Problems
- JS 667 Jewish Women and Social Change
- CINE 406 Jewish Identity in Film
- WCL 420 Literature and the Holocaust
- WCL 445.1 Jewish Authors in Translation
- WCL 445.2 Modern Jewish Literature
- WOMS 560
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