Departments & Programs

Jewish Studies

Courses by Areas of Specialization Including Cross-Listed Courses


I. Literature and the Arts

II. History and Society

III. Religion and Thought

Note: Although JSTU J203, J303, and J403 courses are listed under both Literature and the Arts and History and Society, the area of specialization fulfilled by each of these courses will depend upon the specific topic.

I. Literature and the Arts

College of Arts and Sciences

  • E103 Topics in Arts and Humanities (topics relating to Jewish Studies) (3 cr.) A & H, TFR Topic: Who Wrote the Bible?
  • S103 Freshman Seminar in Arts and Humanities (3 cr.) A & H, TFR Topics: Genesis and Myth; Popular Representations of the Holocaust

Comparative Literature

  • C100 Freshman Seminar (3 cr.) A & H Topic: The Agnostic Bible
  • C301 Special Topics in Comparative Literature (3 cr.) A & H, CSA Topics: The Agnostic Bible; Literature of the Bible; Poetics of Biblical Narrative; Reading the Prophets
  • C377 Topics in Yiddish Literature (3 cr.) A & H, CSA 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
  • C378 Topics in Yiddish Culture (3 cr.) A & H, CSA 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
  • C400 Studies in Comparative Literature (3 cr.) A & H Topics: Job, from the Bible to Kafka; The Poetics of Biblical Narrative
  • C405 Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature (3 cr.; 6 cr. max.) A & H Topics: The Bible in Western Literature; Job, from the Bible to Kafka; Prophecy and Poetry

English

  • L241 American Jewish Writers (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • L367 Literature of the Bible (3 cr.) A & H
  • L375 Studies in Jewish Literature (3 cr.) A & H, CSA Topics: American Jewish Writers; Jewish American Responses to the Holocaust; Literature of the Holocaust; Representations of the Holocaust
  • L460 Seminar: Literary Form, Mode, and Theme (3 cr.) Topic: The Poetics of Biblical Narrative

Fine Arts

  • A200 Topics in Art History (3 cr.) Topic: Introduction to Jewish Art CSA

Germanic Studies

  • E341 Dutch Culture: The Modern Netherlands (3 cr.) S & H, CSB Topic: Anne Frank: Her Diary in Perspective
  • E351 Topics in Yiddish Literature (3 cr.) A & H, CSA 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
  • E352 Topics in Yiddish Culture (3 cr.) A & H, CSA 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
  • Y495 Individual Readings in Yiddish Studies: Language, Literature, Culture (1–3 cr.)

Hutton Honors College

  • H203 Interdepartmental Colloquia (3 cr.) A & H, TFR Topics: The American Jewish Experience: History, Literature, and Culture; Hitler and Anne Frank: Studies in the Representation of Good and Evil
  • H226 Interdepartmental Colloquia (3. cr.) A & H Topic: The Agnostic Bible; Literature of the Holocaust
  • H303 Interdepartmental Colloquia (3 cr.) A & H Topics: The American Jewish Experience; American Jewish Writers CSA; Literature of the Holocaust CSA; Poetics of Biblical Narrative

Jewish Studies

  • C240 Contemporary Israeli Culture (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • C340 The Kibbutz in Fact and Fiction (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • C360 Israeli Film and Fiction (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • H460 Israeli Film and Fiction in Hebrew (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • H480 Modern Hebrew Literature in Hebrew (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • H485 Recent Hebrew Literature in Hebrew (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • H497 Individual Readings in Hebrew (1–4 cr.)
  • J203 Arts and Humanities Topics in Jewish Studies (3 cr.) A & H
  • J303 Arts and Humanities Topics in Jewish Studies (3 cr.) A & H
  • J403 Arts and Humanities Topics in Jewish Studies (3 cr.) A & H
  • L380 Modern Hebrew Literature in English (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • L385 Recent Hebrew Literature in English (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • L390 Biblical Themes in Modern Hebrew Literature (3 cr.) A & H
  • L395 S. Y. Agnon and the Jewish Experience (3 cr.) A & H, CSA

Slavic Languages and Literatures

  • C365 Seminar in Czech and Central European Literatures and Cultures (3 cr.) A & H, CSA Topics: Central European Literature and Culture—Between the Wars; Czech and Jewish Culture in Bohemia: Poetry, Film, and Novel.
  • R345 Jewish Characters in Russian Literature (3 cr.) A & H, CSA

West European Studies

  • W406 Special Topics in West European Studies (3 cr.) A & H Topic: Anne Frank: Her Diary in Perspective CSB

II. History and Society

Anthropology

  • E332 Jewish Women: Anthropological Perspectives (3 cr.) S & H, CSA
  • E371 Modern Jewish Culture and Society (3 cr.) S & H, CSA
  • E382 Memory and Culture (3 cr.) S & H
  • E400 Undergraduate Seminar (3 cr.) Topics: Ethnicities in Israel; Israeli Society and Culture; The Jewish Family; Jewish Women; Migrations and Diasporas

College of Arts and Sciences

  • E103 Topics in Arts and Humanities (3 cr.) A & H, TFR Topic: Power, Politics, and Piety: The Struggle for the Holy Land in Israel/Palestine
  • E104 Topics in Social and Historical Studies (3 cr.) S & H, TFR Topics: Blacks and Jews; What Makes It Jewish?
  • S103 Freshman Seminar in Arts and Humanities (3 cr.) A & H, TFR Topic: Popular Representations of the Holocaust

Communication and Culture

  • C445 Media, Culture, and Politics (3 cr.) Topic: Film, Fascism, and Psychoanalysis

Folklore and Ethnomusicology

  • F252 Folklore and the Humanities (3 cr.) A & H Topic: Musical Theater and Ethnic Representations: Jews and African Americans
  • F358 Jewish Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music (3 cr.) A & H, CSA Topics: American Jewish Popular Music; Music in Judaism
  • F359 Exploring Jewish Identity Today (3 cr.) S & H, CSA

History

  • A379 Issues in Modern U.S. History (3 cr.) S & H Topic: The Holocaust in American Memory
  • B200 Issues in Western European History (3 cr.) S & H Topic: History of Jerusalem: Three Faiths, Three Thousand Years
  • B300 Issues in Western European History (3 cr.) S & H (when Jewish history topic) Topic: The Jews of Spain; Sephardic History and Culture
  • B303 Issues in Modern European History (3 cr.) S & H (when Jewish history topic) Topic: Anti-Semitism in Europe Since the Enlightenment
  • B315 European Anti-Semitism from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust (3 cr.) S & H
  • B321 European Jews in the Age of Discovery (3 cr.) S & H, CSA
  • B322 Jews in the Modern World (3 cr.) S & H, CSA
  • B323 History of the Holocaust (3 cr.) S & H, CSA
  • B324 Zionism and the State of Israel (3 cr.) S & H, CSA
  • B330 The Jews of Spain (3 cr.) S & H, CSA
  • B400 Issues in Western European History (3 cr.) S & H (when Jewish history topic)
  • C300 Issues in Classical and Byzantine History (3 cr.) S & H Topics: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean; Three Cultures in the Medieval Mediterranean: Interactions between Muslims, Christians, and Jews
  • D304 Jews of Eastern Europe (3 cr.) S & H, CSA
  • H251 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to Spanish Expulsion (3 cr.) S & H, CSA
  • H252 Introduction to Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to the Present (3 cr.) S & H, CSA
  • J300 Seminar in History (3 cr.) S & H (when Jewish history topic) Topics: The Jews of Islam; The Jews of Spain: Jewish Life under Christianity and Islam; Perpetrators of the Holocaust; The Sephardic Diaspora; Testimonies of the Holocaust
  • J400 Seminar for History Majors (3 cr.) S & H Topics: Anti-Semitism and Jewish Responses; Jewish Cultural History of the Modern Era; Jewish Emancipation; The People of the Book: Jewish History and Modern Jewish Texts; Perpetrators of the Holocaust

Hutton Honors College

  • H203 Interdepartmental Colloquia (3 cr.) A & H, TFR Topics: The American Jewish Experience: History, Literature, Culture; American Jewish Writers; Hitler and Anne Frank: Studies in the Representation of Good and Evil; Literature of the Holocaust; Understanding Antisemitism
  • H226 Interdepartmental Colloquia (3 cr.) Topic: Literature of the Holocaust
  • H303 Interdepartmental Colloquia (3 cr.) A & H Topics: The American Jewish Experience; American Jewish Writers CSA; Literature of the Holocaust

Jewish Studies

  • C240 Contemporary Israeli Culture (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • C340 The Kibbutz in Fact and Fiction (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • C360 Israeli Film and Fiction (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • J251 Introduction to Jewish History: From the Bible to Spanish Expulsion (3 cr.) S & H, CSA
  • J252 Introduction to Jewish History: From Spanish Expulsion to the Present (3 cr.) S & H, CSA
  • H460 Israeli Film and Fiction in Hebrew (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • H480 Modern Hebrew Literature in Hebrew (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • H485 Recent Hebrew Literature in Hebrew (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • J203 Arts and Humanities Topics in Jewish Studies (3 cr.) A & H
  • J204 Social and Historical Topics in Jewish Studies (3 cr.) S & H
  • J303 Arts and Humanities Topics in Jewish Studies (3 cr.) A & H
  • J304 Social and Historical Topics in Jewish Studies (3 cr.) S & H
  • J403 Arts and Humanities Topics in Jewish Studies (3 cr.) A & H
  • J404 Social and Historical Topics in Jewish Studies (3 cr.) S & H
  • L380 Modern Hebrew Literature in English (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • L385 Recent Hebrew Literature in English (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • L395 S. Y. Agnon and the Jewish Experience (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • P300 Professional Leadership and the Jewish Community (3 cr.)

Political Science

  • Y352 The Holocaust and Politics (3 cr.) S & H, CSA

III. Religion and Thought

College of Arts and Sciences

  • E103 Topics in Arts and Humanities (3 cr.) A & H, TFR (topics relating to Jewish Studies) Power, Politics, and Piety: The Struggle for the Holy Land in Israel/Palestine; Theism, Atheism, and Existentialism; Who Wrote the Bible?
  • S103 Freshman Seminar in Arts and Humanities (3 cr.) A & H, TFR Topic: Genesis and Myth

Comparative Literature

  • C100 Freshman Seminar (3 cr.) A & H Topic: The Agnostic Bible
  • C301 Special Topics in Comparative Literature (3 cr.) A & H Topics: The Agnostic Bible; Poetics of Biblical Narrative; Reading the Prophets
  • C405 Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature (3 cr.) A & H Topics: The Bible in Western Literature; Job, from the Bible to Kafka; Prophecy and Poetry

English

  • L367 Literature of the Bible (3 cr.) A & H
  • L460 Seminar: Literary Form, Mode, and Theme (3 cr.) Topic: The Poetics of Biblical Narrative

Folklore and Ethnomusicology

  • F359 Exploring Jewish Identity Today (3 cr.) S & H, CSA

History

  • C300 Issues in Classical and Byzantine History (3 cr.) S & H Topics: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean; Three Cultures in the Medieval Mediterranean: Interaction Between Muslims, Christians, and Jews

Hutton Honors College

  • H226 Interdepartmental Colloquia (3 cr.) A & H Topic: The Agnostic Bible
  • H303 Interdepartmental Colloquia (3 cr.) A & H Topic: Poetics of Biblical Narrative

Jewish Studies

  • J203 Arts and Humanities Topics in Jewish Studies (3 cr.) A & H
  • L390 Biblical Themes in Modern Hebrew Literature (3 cr.) A & H

Philosophy

  • P205 Modern Jewish Philosophy (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • P305 Topics in the Philosophy of Judaism (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • P490 Readings in Philosophy (1–3 cr.) (In agreement with instructor, intensive readings related to one or a group of philosophers who explore in their writings Jewish themes and topics.)

Religious Studies

  • R152 Jews, Christians, Muslims (3 cr.) A & H, CSA Topic: The Binding of Isaac in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
  • A202 Issues in African, European, and West Asian Religions (3 cr.) A & H Topics: Biblical Justice; Hell and Heaven in Judaism
  • A210 Introduction to the Old Testament/Hebrew Bible (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • A220 Introduction to the New Testament (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • A230 Introduction to Judaism (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • A300 Studies in African, European, and West Asian Religions (3 cr.) A & H Topics: The Book of Job and the Crisis of Faith; History of God; Introduction to Rabbinic Literature; Issues in the Study of the Hebrew Bible; Revelation in Rabbinic Literature
  • A305 Ancient Mediterranean Religions (3 cr.) A & H, CSA (If Jewish Studies is one-third or more of course material.)
  • A315 Prophecy in Ancient Israel (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • A317 Judaism in the Making (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • A320 Jesus and the Gospels (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • A321 Paul and his Influence in Early Christianity (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • A335 Introduction to Jewish Mysticism (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • A395 The Bible and Slavery (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • A415 Topics in Ancient Israelite Religion (3 cr.) A & H, CSA Topics: Biblical Justice; The Poetics of Biblical Narrative
  • A420 Religions of Ancient Rome (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • A430 Topics in the History of Judaism (3 cr.) A & H Topics: The Struggle for the Holy Land: Power, Piety, and Politics in the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict; Talmud
  • A440 Judaism and Gender: Philosophical and Theological Perspectives (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • A450 Topics in the History of Christianity (3 cr.) A & H, CSA Topics: The Bible and Slavery; Jews and Christians
  • D300 Studies in Theory, Ethics, and Comparison (3 cr.) A & H Topic: Dilemmas of Modern Judaism
  • D362 Religious Issues in Contemporary Judaism (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • D385 Messianism and Messiahs in Comparative Perspective (3 cr.) A & H, CSA
  • R474 Capstone Seminar in Religion (3 cr.) A & H Topic: Mysticism in Religious Traditions

Additional Elective Courses

  • JSTU-J498 Internship in Jewish Studies (1–6 cr.) S/F grading
  • JSTU-P180 Leadership in Jewish Studies (1 cr.)