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JUDAIC STUDIES

 

Minor in Judaic Studies

 

The minor consists of 5 or 6 courses, according to the following scheme, to be taken in consultation with the program director. [Note: only one course may be in the Department of Religion. If the Rosenthal Visiting Professor's course is cross listed in RLGN, this will not count as the one course.]

A. Introduction to Judaic Studies (JDST 201)

B. Nine additional credit hours with at least 1/3 Jewish content (no more than one from RLGN).

Currently offered courses that fulfill this requirement include:


  • JDST 220 Jewish Traditional Art and Architecture
  • JDST 233 Introduction to Jewish Folklore
  • JDST 228 The Jewish Image in Popular Film
  • JDST 392 Independent Research in Judaic Studies


  • RLGN 223 Middle East Conflict
  • RLGN 268 Women in the Bible
  • RLGN 280 Religion and Politics in the Middle East (Supervised Study in Israel)
  • RLGN 350 Jewish Ethics


  • POSC 370K Nationalism, Ethnicity and Religion in World Politics
  • POSC 379 Middle East: Politics, Economics and American Policy


  • SOCI 302 Race and Ethnic Minorities
  • SOCI 355 Sociology of Religion


  • ENGL 365E Immigrant Experience
  • ENGL 366G American Jewish Literature or Blacks and Jews in American Literature


  • HSTY 254 The Holocaust
  • HSTY 257 Immigrants in America


  • HBRW 201 Intermediate Modern Hebrew I
  • HBRW 202 Intermediate Modern Hebrew II
  • HBRW 301 Advanced Modern Hebrew I
  • HBRW 302 Advanced Modern Hebrew II

C. Two semesters of Hebrew (HBRW 101 and HBRW 102). Students who place out of both semesters of Hebrew must take a third course under "B" above.