2010-11 Jewish Studies Courses (by area)

 

JEWISH STUDIES
Jewish Studies 194 Selected Themes in Jewish Studies.
Jewish Studies 289 Independent Study
Jewish Studies 290 Directed Readings
Jewish Studies 295 Senior Seminar
Jewish Studies 296 Senior Project in Jewish Studies
Jewish Studies 298a Seniors Honors Research Seminar
Jewish Studies 298b Seniors Honors Research Seminar


LANGUAGES
Hebrew 111a Elementary Hebrew
Hebrew 111b Elementary Hebrew.
Hebrew 113a Intermediate Hebrew
Hebrew 113b Intermediate Hebrew.
Hebrew 289 Hebrew Independent Study
Religion 2501 Elementary Biblical Hebrew
Religion 3816 Advanced Biblical Hebrew
Religion 3818 Aramaic
Religion 3803 Ben Sira with Introduction to Mishnaic Hebrew (Rabbinic Hebrew)
Yiddish (by examination)
Ladino (by examination)
Judaeo-Arabic (by examination)

 

AREA 1: BIBLICAL STUDIES
Religion 3169 Feminist Interpretations of Scripture
Religious Studies 108 Themes in the Hebrew Bible
Religious Studies 112 Introduction to Judaism
English 282 The Bible in Literature

 

AREA 2: ANTIQUITY AND THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
Anthropology 104 Introduction to Archaeology
Classics 209 Greece and the Near East from Alexander to Theodosius
History 213 Muhammad and Early Islam
History 219 Last Empire of Islam
Jewish Studies 115F.01 In a Pluralistic Age: Jews, Christians and Muslims in Spain
Jewish Studies 122 Classical Judaism: Jews in Antiquity
Jewish Studies 222 Jews in Egypt from the Biblical Joseph to the Suez Crisis
Jewish Studies 257.01 Topics in Ancient and Medieval Jewish History: Jews and Greeks
Philosophy 211 Medieval Philosophy
Religious Studies 226 Ancient Goddesses
Religious Studies 254 The Qur'an and the Tradition of Interpretation

 

AREA 3: MODERN & CONTEMPORARY EXPERIENCE
English 280 / History 291 Workshop in English and History: Jews and the Modern City.
European Studies 201 European Society and Culture.
European Studies 215W Europe on Trial.
European Studies 240.02 Topics in European Studies: Religion and Politics in Modern Europe.
History 172 World War II.
History 210 Russia: The U.S.S.R. and Afterward.
History 228 Europe, 1900–1945.
History 230 Twentieth-Century Germany.
History 287d Immigration, Race, and Nationality: The American Experience.
Jewish Studies 124 Perspectives in Modern Jewish History.
Jewish Studies 155 American Jewish Life.
Jewish Studies 156 The Holocaust.
Jewish Studies 280 Contemporary Jewish Issues (Service Learning in Jewish Studies).
Jewish Studies 288a Internship Training.
Jewish Studies 288b Internship Research
Political Science 230 Middle East Politics.
Religion 2750 The History of Religion in America.
Religious Studies 229 The Holocaust: Its Meanings and Implications.

 

AREA 4: CULTURE, PHILOSOPHY, AND LITERATURE
English 283 Jewish American Literature.
Foreign Program Work (FNTM) 218 Study Abroad. Hebrew University: Israel.
Foreign Program Work (FNTM) 251 Jewish Studies in Prague, Czech Republic.
Jewish Studies 115F.04 FYS: Civil Rights and Civil Wrongs: Black-Jewish Relations in the 1950s and 1960s.
Jewish Studies 115F.05 FYS: Gender, Sexuality, and Desire in Jewish Literature.
Jewish Studies 115.10 Jewish Responses to Catastrophe
Jewish Studies 136W Imagining the Alien: Jewish Science Fiction.
Jewish Studies 137W. Black-Jewish Relations in Post-War American Literature and Culture
Jewish Studies 180W Introduction to Jewish Studies.
Jewish Studies 235W Hebrew Literature in Translation
Jewish Studies 245
Major Themes in Jewish Studies: Jewish Studies in the Academy
Jewish Studies 248W Jewish Storytelling.
Jewish Studies 250 Is G-d Guilty? The Problem of Evil in Judaism
Jewish Studies 253W Witnesses Who Were Not There: Literature of the Children of Holocaust Survivors
Jewish Studies 255 Zionism:  Politics, Religion and Ethnicity.
Music Literature (Blair) 261 Music, Identity, and Diversity.
Philosophy 231 Philosophy of History.
Philosophy 233W Writing as Political Resistance.
Philosophy 245 Humanity, Evolution, and God
Philosophy 260
Twentieth-Century Continental Philosophy
Philosophy 261
Jewish Philosophy
Philosophy 353.04
Figures: Averroes and Gersonides
Religious Studies 140
Great Books of Literature and Religion.
Religious Studies 203 Jewish Theories of Religion
Russian 231
Jews in Russian Culture: Survival and Identity.
Sociology 246 Sociology of Religion.