Jewish Studies

• JSTU-H 500 Topics in Jewish Studies (3 cr.) Topics: Jewish Thought; Zionism and Contemporary Israel Intensive study of selected topics and issues in Jewish Studies. May be repeated with dif­ferent topics for credit.

• JSTU-H 520 Colloquium in Jewish Studies (4 cr.) This course is an interdisciplinary survey of various methodologies and ap­proaches to the field of Jewish studies.

• JSTU-H 595 Directed Readings in Jewish Studies (1-3 cr.) Directed readings in various topics in Jewish Studies; topics, credit hours, and readings to be determined in consultation with faculty member with whom the student wishes to work. May be repeated twice for up to 6 credit hours.

• JSTU-J 699 M.A. Thesis in Jewish Studies (3 cr.) The thesis should not exceed 40 pages or 12,000 words. Thesis defense before a committee of three faculty members, at least two of whom must be Jewish Studies faculty.

• JSTU-P 598 Internship in Jewish Studies (1-6 cr.) S/F grading. Through internships, students make particular use of their skills, learn new skills, and start to build professional contacts in their field of interest

Anthropology

• ANTH-E 332 Jewish Women: Anthropological Perspectives (3 cr.)

• ANTH-E 600 Seminar in Cultural and Social Anthropology (3 cr.) Top­ics: Ethnicities of Israel; The Jewish Family; Jewish Women.

• ANTH-E 344 Title (3 cr.) Jews in Moslem Society

• ANTH-E 371 Modern Jewish Culture and Society (3 cr.)

Comparative Literature

• CMLT-C 505 Western Literary and Intellectual Traditions to 1500 (4 cr.) Topic: Ancient Mediterranean Literature and the Rise of Interpretation

• CMLT-C 545 The Bible and Western Literature (4 cr.) (when topic fo­cuses on Hebrew Bible) Topics: The Poetics of Biblical Narrative; Prophecy and Poetry.

English

• ENG-L 761 American Poetry (4 cr.) Topic: Conceptualizing Culture after Auschwitz

• ENG-L 780 Special Studies in English and American Literature (4 cr.) Topic: Literature of the Holocaust

• ENG-L 762 Research in Composition, Literacy, and Culture (4 cr.) Topic: Rhetoric, Representation, and the Holocaust

• ENG-W 602 Contemporary Theories in Rhetoric and Composition (4 cr.) Topic: Rhetoric, Representation, and the Holocaust.

Folklore

• FOLK-F 634 Jewish Folklore and Ethnology (3 cr.)

Germanic Studies

• GER-Y 501 Beginning Yiddish I (3 cr.)

• GER-Y 502 Beginning Yiddish II (3 cr.)

• GER-Y 503 Intermediate Yiddish I (3 cr.)

• GER-Y 504 Intermediate Yiddish II (3 cr.)

• GER-Y 505 Topics in Yiddish Literature (3 cr.) Topics: Fantasy, Real­ism, and Fiction: The First Century of Modern Yiddish Litera­ture, 1810-1913; Love, Soul, and Destiny in Modern Yiddish Literature; Readings in Modern Yiddish Poetry; Selected Read­ings in 20th-Century Yiddish Fiction.

• GER-Y 506 Topics in Yiddish Culture (3 cr.) Topics: Aspects of Modern Yiddish Culture, 1880-1980; Culture, Memory, and Identity: Yid­dish in the Post-Holocaust World; Ghetto, Shtetl, and Beyond: Millennium of the History and Sociology of Yiddish; History and Society of Yiddish; Readings in Yiddish Ethnography: Folklore and Dialectology; Yiddish in America.

• GER-Y 815 Individual Readings in Yiddish Studies: Language, Litera­ture and Culture (1-4 cr.)

History

• HIST-H 523 The Holocaust (3 cr.)

• HIST-H 620 Colloquium in Modern Western European History (4 cr.) Topics: Approaches to Jewish Studies; Jews in Modern Europe; The Judeo-Spanish Diaspora; Life after Death: Rebuilding Germany after World War II.

• HIST-H 640 Colloquium in Russian History (4 cr.) Topics: Jews in East­ern Europe; The Holocaust in the Soviet Union

• HIST-H 645 Colloquium in East European History (4 cr.) Topic: Jews of Eastern Europe.

• HIST-H 680 Colloquium in Cultural History (4 cr.)

• HIST-H 720 Seminar in Modern Western European History (4 cr.)

• HIST-H 740 Seminar in Russian History (4 cr.) Topic: Culture and Empire; Jews in Eastern Europe.

• HIST-H 745 Seminar in East European History (4 cr.)

• HIST-H 780 Seminar in Cultural History (4 cr.)

Institute for Biblical and Literary Studies

• IBLS-I 600 Colloquium in Biblical and Literary Studies (4 cr.) (when topic focuses on Hebrew Bible)

Near Eastern Languages and Culture

• NELC-H 575 Introductory Readings in Hebrew Literature (3 cr.)

• NELC-H 590 Intensive Elementary Hebrew (4 cr.)

• NELC-N 511 Foreign Study in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (2-8 cr.)

• NELC-N 587 Modern Hebrew Literature in English (3 cr.)

• NELC-N 588 Recent Hebrew Literature in English (3 cr.)

• NELC-N 591 Directed Readings in Hebrew (1-6 cr.)

• NELC-N 675 The Kibbutz in Fact and Fiction (3 cr.)

• NELC-N 687 Modern Hebrew Literature in Hebrew (3 cr.)

• NELC-N 691 Research in Medieval Hebrew Texts (3 cr.)

• NELC-N 695 Graduate Topics in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures (1-4 cr.) Topics: Biblical Themes in Modern Hebrew Literature in English; Introductory Readings in Hebrew Literature; Mod­ern Hebrew Literature in English; Recent Hebrew Literature in English; Recent Hebrew Literature in Hebrew; S. Y. Agnon and the Jewish Experience.

• NELC-N 708 Seminar in Judaic Literature (4 cr.)

• NELC-B 503 Intermediate Biblical Hebrew I (3 cr.)

• NELC-B 504 Intermediate Biblical Hebrew II (3 cr.)

• NELC-H 501 Elementary Hebrew I (3 cr.)

• NELC-H 502 Elementary Hebrew II (3 cr.)

• NELC-H 503 Intermediate Modern Hebrew I (3 cr.)

• NELC-H 504 Intermediate Modern Hebrew II (3 cr.)

• NELC-H 505 Advanced Modern Hebrew I (3 cr.)

• NELC-H 506 Advanced Modern Hebrew II (3 cr.)

Religious Studies

• REL-R 511 Religion of Ancient Israel (3 cr.) Topics: The Book of Job and the Crisis of Faith; Studies in Religion (Issues in the Study of the Hebrew Bible); Narrative in the Hebrew Bible.

• REL-R 521 Studies in Early Christianity (3 cr.) Topics: Ancient Medi­terranean and Near Eastern Religions; Paul and His Influence in Early Christianity.

• REL-R 541 Studies in the Jewish Tradition (3 cr.) Topics: The Struggle for the Holy Land: Power, Piety, and Politics in the Israeli-Pales­tinian Conflict; Prophecy in Ancient Israel; Judaism in the Mak­ing; Introduction to Jewish Mysticism; Messiahs and Messian­ism in Comparative Perspective; Religious Thought in Medieval Judaism; Religious Issues in Contemporary Judaism (Major Trends in Modern Judaism; Women in Judaism); Talmud, Top­ics in Ancient Israelite Religion (The Sabbath in Literature and Liturgy); Topics in the History of Judaism.

• REL-R 660 Religion and Culture (4 cr.) Topics: American Jewish Thought and Culture; Studies in American Judaism: Theological and Cultural Perspectives.

• REL-R 672 Religious Thought and Ethics (4 cr.) Topic: The Jewish Jesus: From Antiquity to the Present

• REL-R 610 Studies in Biblical Literature and Religion (4 cr.)

• REL-R 615 The Bible in Literature Courses (4 cr.)

• REL-R 663 History of Biblical Interpretation (4 cr.)

• REL-R 763 History of Biblical Interpretation (4 cr.)

• REL-R 793 Advanced Biblical Study (1-4 cr.)

• REL-R 714 Studies in Jewish Thought and Culture (4 cr.)

Slavic Languages and Literatures

• SLAV-C 564 Modern Czech Literature and Culture (3 cr.) Topic: 20th-Century Literature, History, and Film.

• SLAV-C 565 Seminar in Czech Literature and Culture (3 cr.) Topic: Central European Literature and Culture Between the Wars.

• SLAV-R 545 Jewish Characters in Russian Literature (3 cr.)

• SLAV-S 540 Graduate Readings in Slavic Studies (1-3 cr.) Topic: Yiddish Creativity, Literature, and Culture in Russian Context.