College Schools, Departments & Programs

Jewish Studies

Cross-Listed Courses
Art History
  • ARTH-A 245 Jewish Art.
College of Arts and Sciences
  • COLL-C 103 Critical Approaches to the Arts and Humanities. Topics: Representing the Holocaust; Power, Politics, and Piety: Nationalism and Territory in Israel/Palestine; A Question of Identity: The Case of Judaism; Who Wrote the Bible?
Comparative Literature
  • CMLT-C 100 Freshman Seminar. Topic: The Agnostic Bible
  • CMLT-C 301 Special Topics in Comparative Literature. Topics: The Agnostic Bible; Poetics of Biblical Narrative; Reading the Prophets
  • CMLT-C 377 Topics in Yiddish Literature. Topics: Fantasy, Realism, and Fiction in Early Modern and Modern "Classic" Yiddish Literature; Love, Soul, and Destiny in Modern Yiddish Literature; Selected Readings in Twentieth-Century Yiddish Fiction; Yiddish Life: On Page, on Screen, on Stage
  • CMLT-C 378 Topics in Yiddish Culture. Topics: Culture, Memory, and Identity: Yiddish in the Post-Holocaust World; Ghetto, Shtetl, and Beyond: Millennium of History and Society of Yiddish; History and Sociology of Yiddish; Yiddish in America
  • CMLT-C 400 Studies in Comparative Literature. Topics: Job, from the Bible to Kafka; The Poetics of Biblical Narrative
  • CMLT-C 405 Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature. Topics: The Bible in Western Literature; Job, from the Bible to Kafka; Prophecy and Poetry
English
  • ENG-L 241 American Jewish Writers.
  • ENG-L 367 Literature of the Bible.
  • ENG-L 375 Studies in Jewish Literature. Topics: American Jewish Writers; Jewish American Responses to the Holocaust; Literature of the Holocaust; Representations of the Holocaust
  • ENG-L 460 Seminar: Literary Form, Mode, and Theme. Topic: The Poetics of Biblical Narrative
European Studies, Institute for
  • EURO-W 405 Special Topics in European Studies. Topics: European Anti-Semitism; War Diaries: 70 Years After World War II (From Anne Frank to Etty Hillesum)
  • EURO-W 406 Special Topics in European Studies. Topic: Anne Frank: Her Diary in Perspective
Germanic Studies
  • GER-E 341 Dutch Culture: The Modern Netherlands. Topics: Anne Frank: Her Diary in Perspective; War Diaries: 70 Years After World War II (From Anne Frank to Etty Hillesum)
  • GER-E 351 Topics in Yiddish Literature. Topics: Fantasy, Realism, and Fiction in Early Modern and Modern "Classic" Yiddish Literature; Love, Soul, and Destiny in Modern Yiddish Literature; Selected Readings in Twentieth-Century Yiddish Fiction; Yiddish Life on Page, on Screen, on Stage.
  • GER-E 352 Topics in Yiddish Culture. Topics: Culture, Memory, and Identity: Yiddish in the Post-Holocaust World; Ghetto, Shtetl, and Beyond: Millennium of History and Society of Yiddish; History and Sociology of Yiddish; Yiddish in America.
  • GER-X 493 Individual Readings in Yiddish Studies. Topic: Language, Literature, Culture
History
  • HIST-A 379 Issues in Modern United States History. Topic: The Holocaust in American History; The Holocaust in American Memory
  • HIST-B 200 Issues in Western European History. Topic: Extreme Violence in Europe 1900-1945: Political Utopias, Ethnic Conflict, and Total War; Israel: History, Society, Culture (An Introduction); War and Violence in 20th Century Europe; The Zionist Movement between Europe and Palestine/Israel
  • HIST-B 300 Issues in Western European History. (when Jewish history topic)
  • HIST-B 303 Issues in Modern European History. (when Jewish history topic) Topic: Anti-Semitism in Europe Since the Enlightenment
  • HIST-B 315 European Anti-Semitism from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust .
  • HIST-B 321 European Jews in the Age of Discovery .
  • HIST-B 322 Jews in the Modern World. Topic: Jews in Space: Places of Jewish Encounter in Modernity
  • HIST-B 323 History of the Holocaust.
  • HIST-B 324 Zionism and the State of Israel.
  • HIST-B 330 The Jews of Spain.
  • HIST-B 400 Issues in Western European History. (Jewish history topic)
  • HIST-C 230 Israel: History, Society, Culture.
  • HIST-C 300 Issues in Classical and Byzantine History. Topics: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean; Three Cultures in the Medieval Mediterranean: Interactions between Muslims, Christians, and Jews
  • HIST-C 305 Issues in Near Eastern History.
  • HIST-D 304 Jews of Eastern Europe.
  • HIST-H 251 Introduction to Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to the Present.
  • HIST-H 252 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to Spanish Expulsion.
  • HIST-H 259 American Jewish History.
  • HIST-J 300 Seminar in History. (when Jewish history topic) May be repeated with a different topic and the authorization of the history undergraduate advisor for a total of 6 credit hours. Topics: Economy and the Jews; The Jewish Body; The Jews of Islam; Jewish History in (Auto) Biographies; Perpetrators of the Holocaust; Testimonies of the Holocaust
  • HIST-J 400 Seminar in History. May be repeated with a different topic for a maximum of 6 credit hours. Topics: Jewish History in (Auto)biographies; Jews after the Holocaust; Anti-Semitism and Jewish Responses; Jewish Cultural History of the Modern Era; Jewish Emancipation; Perpetrating Genocide; Perpetrators of the Holocaust; Testimonies of the Holocaust
  • HIST-W 300 Issues in World History. Topic: Refugees and Migrants
Hutton Honors College
  • HON-H 234 Literature of Time and Place. Topic: Anne Frank and Hitler; Literature of the Holocaust
  • HON-H 303 Interdepartmental Colloquia. Topics: The Agnostic Bible; The American Jewish Experience; American Jewish Writers; Literature of the Holocaust; Poetics of Biblical Narrative; Understanding Antisemitism
  • HON-H 304 Interdepartmental Colloquia. Topic: Refugees and Migrants
International Studies
  • INTL-I 300 Topics in International Studies. Topic: Refugees and Migrants
Media School, The
  • MSCH-F 309 Images of War and Peace in Public Culture. Topic: Images of War and Peace in Israeli Public Culture
  • MSCH-F 445 Media, Culture, and Politics. Approved topics only.
Medieval Studies
  • MEST-M 200 Medieval Cultures. Topic: Literature of Muslim Spain

Musicology (Jacobs School of Music)

  • MUS-M 410 Composer or Genre. Topics: American Jewish Popular Music; Music in Judaism
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • NELC-N 204 Topics in Middle Eastern Culture and Society. Topic: Prostitutes, Homemakers, and CEOs: Israel and the Concept of University Women's Experiences
  • NELC-N 214 Multiple Voices of Israeli Society.
  • NELC-N 216 Israeli Inequality in Context.
  • NELC-N 260 Literary Masterpieces of Muslim Spain.
  • NELC-N 303 Issues in Middle Eastern History. Topic: Jewish Philosophy in the Medieval World: The Jews of Islam; Muslim Spain
  • NELC-N 305 Issues in Middle Eastern Literature. Topic: Solitary Life in the Pre-Modern World: Muslim and Jewish Sources
  • NELC-N 360 Muslim Spain and Portugal: History and Memory
Philosophy
  • PHIL-P 205 Modern Jewish Philosophy.
  • PHIL-P 305 Topics in the Philosophy of Judaism.
Political Science
  • POLS-Y 352 The Holocaust and Politics.
  • POLS-Y 361 Contemporary Theories of International Politics. Topic: The Politics of Israel
  • POLS-Y 362 International Politics of Selected Regions.
Religious Studies
  • REL-A 202 Issues in African, European, and West Asian Religions. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credit hours. Topics: Biblical Justice; Hell and Heaven in Judaism; The Jewish Jesus through the Ages; Women in American Jewish History
  • REL-A 210 Introduction to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible.
  • REL-A 220 Introduction to the New Testament.
  • REL-A 230 Introduction to Judaism.
  • REL-A 235 Sacred Books of the Jews.
  • REL-A 300 Studies in African, European, and West Asian Religions. Topics: History of God; Introduction to Rabbinic Literature; Issues in the Study of the Hebrew Bible; Magic, Demons, and Disease in Ancient Judaism; Rabbinic Judaism; Revelation in Rabbinic Literature; Torah, Temple, and God in Ancient Judaism; Understanding the Rabbinic Mind
  • REL-A 305 Ancient Mediterranean Religions. (If Jewish Studies is one-third or more of course material.)
  • REL-A 315 Prophecy in Ancient Israel.
  • REL-A 316 Jews, Christians, and Others in Late Antiquity.
  • REL-A 317 Judaism in the Making.
  • REL-A 318 Rabbinic Judaism: Literature and Beliefs.
  • REL-A 321 Paul and his Influence in Early Christianity.
  • REL-A 335 Introduction to Jewish Mysticism.
  • REL-A 375 Women in the Bible.
  • REL-A 415 Topics in Ancient Israelite Religion. Topics: Biblical Justice; The Poetics of Biblical Narrative; Studies in Rabbinic and Talmudic Literature
  • REL-A 430 Topics in the History of Judaism. Topics: Bible and Beyond: Reading Early Jewish Literature; The Question of the Jew; The Struggle for the Holy Land: Power, Piety, and Politics in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict; Talmud
  • REL-A 440 Judaism and Gender: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives.
  • REL-A 450 Topics in the History of Christianity. Topics: The Bible and Slavery; Jews and Christians; Late Ancient and Early Medieval Imaginings of Travel, Territory, and Identity
  • REL-C 230 American Jewish History.
  • REL-C 323 Jews and Race in the United States.
  • REL-D 300 Studies in Theory, Ethics, and Comparison. Topic: Dilemmas of Modern Judaism
  • REL-D 362 Religious Issues in Contemporary Judaism.
  • REL-D 410 Topics in Religious Thought. Topics related to Jewish Studies
  • REL-R 152 Jews, Christians, Muslims. Topic: The Binding of Isaac in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
  • REL-R 300 Studies in Religion. Topic: Jewish Critics of Zionism