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Some courses are special topics or rotating topics courses. Students should make certain that the course taught under such headings has appropriate Jewish studies content. The Center for Jewish Studies provides a list of courses each semester.
Credits: 3; can be repeated with change in content up to 9 credits.
Variable topics examine issues, movements, forms or themes related to race and ethnicity in American literature. Topics may include Pacific Rim cultures in America, Chicano-Latino literature, the Black Arts Movement, constructing Native America, border-crossing and migration, post-war Jewish fiction, literature and the psychology of prejudice, comparative representations of racial and ethnic experience, representing whiteness, literatures of assimilation and multi-racial identities.
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Credits: 3.
Cross-cultural survey of beliefs and practices dealing with the supernatural, magic, and religion. Conceptualization of the supernatural. Sacred specialists, their function, and social position. Theories of comparative religion in light of anthropological data. (S and D)
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CPO 4000 Selected Studies in Comparative Politics
Credits: 3.
Variable topics in comparative politics; precise course content will be announced in advance. (S and N)
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Credits: 4; can be repeated with change in content up to 12 credits.
Variable topics study of the films of historically important national cinemas, such as American, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese.
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Credits: 3.
Origins of anti-Semitism in central Europe and the execution of the Holocaust by Nazi Germany. Examines the ideology of the Nazi leaders and the role of the SS, Army, Police, and ordinary citizens in perpetrating genocide. (H and N) (WR)
Credits: 3.
Collapse of the monarchy and tribulations of the Weimar Republic. Examines Hitler's seizure of power, and of social, political, and ideological aspects of the Third Reich. The two Germanies to the fall of the Berlin Wall. (H and N) (WR)
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Credits: 5.
Beginning Hebrew covers four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. For those with no prior exposure to the language.
Credits: 5; Prereq: HBR 1130 with minimum grade of C or S, or the equivalent.
Continues beginning Hebrew, covering four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Credits: 4; Prereq: HBR 1131 with minimum grade of C or S, or the equivalent.
Intermediate Hebrew study covers four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing with new vocabulary and grammar.
Credits: 4; Prereq: HBR 2220 with minimum grade of C or S, or the equivalent.
Continues intermediate Hebrew covering four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
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Credits: 3; Prereq: HBR 2220 or HBR 2133 with minimum grade of C or S, or the equivalent.
Advanced study of the four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing with attention to more complex structures. (H and N)
Credits: 3; Prereq: HBR 3410 with minimum grade of C or S, or the equivalent.
Continues advanced Hebrew study of the four skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing with attention to more complex structures. (H and N)
Credits: 1 to 5; Prereq: refer to the department.
Individual work on an approved topic.
Credits: 3.
Proseminar of variable content providing an opportunity for in-depth study of special topics in Israeli literature, history, or culture.
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Credits: 3.
Depictions of women in 20th century Hebrew fiction.
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HMW 3201 Introduction to Modern Hebrew Literature 2
Credits: 3.
More contemporary texts, including recently published stories and poems. Class is instructed in Hebrew.
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Credits: 3.
Analyzes women’s roles both as political agents and as objects of political policies and movements. Examines Israeli female politicians and judges as political actors, and as both subjects and objects of state policy.
JST 2930 Special Topics in Jewish Studies
Credits: 3; can be repeated with change in content up to 6 credits.
Selected topics in the study of Jewish civilization.
Credits: 3; Prereq: sophomore standing.
Introduces major themes in dynamics of contemporary Israeli society. Juxtaposition of the different subjective points of view and motivations of the various actors involved.
Credits: 3; Prereq: sophomore standing.
Discussion of Israeli-Palestinian interactions with a focus on the way collective identities are shaped by the conflict. Historically outlines development of the conflict from the beginning of the Zionist immigration to Palestine to present day and includes thematic analysis of its sociological dynamics.
JST 3930 Special Topics in Jewish Studies
Credits: 3; can be repeated with change in content up to 12 credits.
Variable topics in Jewish thought, history, literature and culture as represented in classified Jewish texts, Jewish law, Jewish ethics, folklore, Hasidism and Holocaust literature. (WR)
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JST 4905 Individual Work in Jewish Studies
Credits: 1 to 3; can be repeated with change in content up to 6 credits.
For advanced students who desire supplemental reading or research under guidance.
Credits: 3; Prereq: REL 2600 or the equivalent, junior or senior standing and instructor permission.
Colloquium in Jewish studies designed to enhance knowledge of the development and significance of Jewish civilization.
Credits: 1 to 6; can be repeated with change in content up to 6 credits. Prereq: REL 2600 or the equivalent, junior/senior standing and instructor permission.
Preapproved internship with Jewish communal, educational or service institutions. Only 3 credits of JST 4940 can count toward a Jewish studies major or minor. (S-U)
Credits: 1 to 3; can be repeated with change in content up to 3 credits.
Directed research leading to submission of an honors thesis. Work completed under the supervision of a Jewish studies faculty member. Students can register for one semester (3 credits) or two (1 and 2 credits respectively). Required for magna or summa cum laude designation.
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Credits: 3; can be repeated once with change in content up to 6 credits.
Variable topics in the Jewish literary experience, from the biblical narrative and classical tales to Yiddish and Hebrew literature, the modern European novel, and American Jewish fiction. (H and N)
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MUH 3621 Jewish Art Music in Western Culture
Credits: 3. Prereq: written instructor permission.
Cultural history of western art music inspired by Jewish subjects, Biblical and non-Biblical, composed by both Jewish and non-Jewish composers, and a survey of Jewish performing musicians from the Renaissance to the present. (H and N)
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POS 4291 Religion and Politics in the United States
Credits: 3; Prereq: refer to the department.
Investigates the role of religious institutions, values and communities in contemporary American political life. (WR)
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Credits: 3.
Introduces the historical underpinnings, geographical movement, development and current expression of a variety of religious traditions.
Credits: 3.
Explores competing secular and religious views regarding human impacts on and moral responsibilities toward nature and of the key thinkers and social movements in contention over them. (H) (WR)
Credits: 3.
History, literature, and beliefs of the Israelites from the Biblical text in the light of modern scholarship. (H)
Credits: 3.
History, performing arts and cultural expressions of the Hindu traditions in India and in the Diaspora.
REL 2388 Indigenous Religions of the Americas
Credits: 3.
Religious values, attitudes and norms of Native American peoples within the United States. (H) (WR)
Credits: 3.
Multidisciplinary approach to the Jewish experience from its Biblical origins to modern times.
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Credits: 3.
Intensive introduction to the literary study of the Hebrew Bible within the context of ancient Near Eastern literature and history.
Credits: 3; Prereq: instructor permission.
Examines the biblical book of Job and the ongoing tradition of its interpretation.
Credits: 3.
Examines ancient Israelite and early Jewish wisdom literature alongside similar literature from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt.
Credits: 3.
Critical examination of the literary representation and historical realities of gender and sexuality in ancient Israel through close readings of selected texts from the Hebrew Bible.
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Credits: 3.
Examines the Jewish-Christian encounter. The historical interaction between Judaism and Christianity including how each group symbolized the other, and the practical implications of the representations. (H and N) (WR)
Credits: 3; Prereq: refer to the department.
Mysticism in Judaism in Biblical, Rabbinic, Medieval and Modern periods. (H) (WR)
Credits: 3.
Explores the problem of violence that springs from religious roots in Western, Asian, African and Native American traditions. (H and N) (WR)
Credits: 3; can be repeated with change in content up to 12 credits.
Special topics in religion. (H) (WR)
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Credits: 3; Prereq: instructor permission.
Examines relationships between ethics and utopias in literature, religious communities, and millenarian movements. (H) (WR)
REL 4209 Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Jewish Literature
Credits: 3; Prereq: refer to the department.
Explores the varieties of literature that arose within Judaism from 250 BCE to 220 CE, including selections from the Dead Sea Scrolls, the OT Pseudepigrapha, Philo, and Josephus. (H)
Credits: 3; can be repeated with change in content up to 6 credits. Prereq: instructor permission.
In-depth study of the Pentateuch (Genesis-Deuteronomy) in light of modern biblical scholarship.
REL 4293 Special Topics in Biblical Studies
Credits: 3; can be repeated with change in content up to 9 credits.
Advanced study of special topics for those with previous courses in biblical studies. (WR)
Credits: 3; Prereq: instructor permission.
In-depth exploration of the main works of various existentialist thinkers with a particular emphasis on their views of religion.
REL 4490 Special Topics in Religious Thought
Credits: 3; can be repeated with change in content up to 9 credits.
Special topics in religious thought. (WR)
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Credits: 3; Prereq: instructor permission.
Comparative survey of literary, historical, ritual, and material aspects of ancient Israelite religion with evidence from Canaan, Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome.
Credits: 3; Prereq: refer to the department.
Critical and historicized introduction to the rabbinic texts of Mishnah, Midrash, and Talmud. Emphasizes the growth and development of the rabbinic movement, and upon reading practices. (H and N)
REL 4936 Special Topics in Religious Studies
Credits: 3; can be repeated with change in content up to 9 credits.
Advanced study for those with proper preparation of selected topics involving one or more religious traditions. (WR)
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