Curriculum
Courses
Faculty

Jewish Studies

• JSTU-H 500 Topics in Jewish Studies (3 cr.) 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 5 times for up to 8 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

Biblical and Literary Studies

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

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

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

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

European Studies

• EUR-W 605 Selected Topics in West European Studies (1.5-12 cr.) Topic: War Diaries: 70 Years after World War II (From Anne Frank to Etty Hillesum)

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; A Language Without an Army: Functions and Conceptions of Yiddish Through the Ages; Readings in Yiddish Ethnography: Folklore and Dialectology; Yiddish in America; Yiddish Life: On Page, On Stage, On Screen.

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

History

• HIST-H 620 Colloquium in Modern Western European History (4 cr.) Topics: Approaches to Jewish Studies; A Century of Genocide; Globalization and Jewish History; Historiography of the Holocaust; Jews in Modern Europe; 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; Jews of Modern Europe.

• HIST-H 680 Colloquium in Cultural History (4 cr.)
• HIST-H 685 Colloquium in Near Eastern History (4 cr.) Topic: History of Conflict as History of Emotions: The Israeli Arab Case

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

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

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

Near Eastern Languages and Culture

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

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

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

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

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

• NELC-H 502 Elementary Modern 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.)

• NELC-H 575 Introductory Readings in Hebrew Literature (3 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; Gender, Difference, and Israel; Introductory Readings in Hebrew Literature; Israeli Film and Fiction; 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 (3 cr.)

Religious Studies

• REL-R 511 Religion of Ancient Israel (3 cr.)

• 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.)

• REL-R 610 Studies in Biblical Literature and Religion (4 cr.) (when topic is related to Jewish Studies)

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

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

• REL-R 663 Textual Interpretations (4 cr.) (when topic is related to Jewish Studies)

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

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

• REL-R 763 Textual Interpretations (4 cr.) (when topic is related to Jewish Studies)

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