Departments & Programs

Jewish Studies

Cross-Listed Courses
College of Arts and Sciences
  • COLL-C 103 Critical Approaches to the Arts and Humanities (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE CAPP 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 (3 cr.) CASE A&H Topic: The Agnostic Bible
  • CMLT-C 301 Special Topics in Comparative Literature (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC Topics: The Agnostic Bible; Poetics of Biblical Narrative; Reading the Prophets
  • CMLT-C 377 Topics in Yiddish Literature (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC 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 (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC 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 (3 cr.) CASE A&H Topics: Job, from the Bible to Kafka; The Poetics of Biblical Narrative
  • CMLT-C 405 Senior Seminar in Comparative Literature (3 cr.; max. of 6 cr.) CASE A&H Topics: The Bible in Western Literature; Job, from the Bible to Kafka; Prophecy and Poetry

English

  • ENG-L 241 American Jewish Writers (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE DUS
  • ENG-L 367 Literature of the Bible (3 cr.) CASE A&H
  • ENG-L 375 Studies in Jewish Literature (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE DUS 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 (3 cr.) Topic: The Poetics of Biblical Narrative

European Studies, Institute for

  • EURO-W 405 Special Topics in European Studies (3 cr.) CASE S&H Topic: War Diaries: 70 Years After World War II (From Anne Frank to Etty Hillesum)
  • EURO-W 406 Special Topics in European Studies (3 cr.) CASE A&H Topic: Anne Frank: Her Diary in Perspective

Fine Arts

  • FINA-A 245 Jewish Art (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
Germanic Studies
  • GER-E 341 Dutch Culture: The Modern Netherlands (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC 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 (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC 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. Students may receive a maximum of 6 credit hours for any combination of E351 and CMLT-C 377.
  • GER-E 352 Topics in Yiddish Culture (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC 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. Students may receive a maximum of 6 credit hours for any combination of E352 and CMLT-C 378.
  • GER-Y 495 Individual Readings in Yiddish Studies: Language, Literature, Culture (1–3 cr.) May be repeated for a maximum of 12 credit hours.

History

  • HIST-A 379 Issues in Modern United States History (3 cr.) CASE S&H Topic: The Holocaust in American History; The Holocaust in American Memory
  • HIST-B 200 Issues in Western European History (3 cr.) CASE S&H 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 (3 cr.) CASE S&H (when Jewish history topic)
  • HIST-B 303 Issues in Modern European History (3 cr.) CASE S&H (when Jewish history topic) Topic: Anti-Semitism in Europe Since the Enlightenment
  • HIST-B 315 European Anti-Semitism from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust (3 cr.) CASE S&H
  • HIST-B 321 European Jews in the Age of Discovery (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-B 322 Jews in the Modern World (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC Topic: Jews in Space: Places of Jewish Encounter in Modernity
  • HIST-B 323 History of the Holocaust (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-B 324 Zionism and the State of Israel (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-B 330 The Jews of Spain (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-B 400 Issues in Western European History (3 cr.) CASE S&H (when Jewish history topic)
  • HIST-C 300 Issues in Classical and Byzantine History (3 cr.) CASE S&H Topics: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in the Medieval Mediterranean; Three Cultures in the Medieval Mediterranean: Interactions between Muslims, Christians, and Jews
  • HIST-D 304 Jews of Eastern Europe (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • HIST-J 300 Seminar in History (3 cr.) CASE S&H (when Jewish history topic) Topics: Economy and the Jews; The Jews of Islam; Jewish History and Modern Jewish Texts; Jewish History in (Auto) Biographies; Perpetrators of the Holocaust; The Sephardic Diaspora; Testimonies of the Holocaust
  • HIST-J 400 Seminar in History (3 cr.) CASE S&H 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

Hutton Honors College

  • HON-H 234 Literature of Time and Place (3 cr.) CASE A&H Topic: Anne Frank and Hitler: Studies in the Representation of Good and Evil; Literature of the Holocaust
  • HON-H 235 Religion in Literature, Music, Art, and Performance (3 cr.) CASE A&H Topic: The Agnostic Bible
  • HON-H 303 Interdepartmental Colloquia (3 cr.) CASE A&H Topics: The Agnostic Bible; The American Jewish Experience; American Jewish Writers; Literature of the Holocaust; Poetics of Biblical Narrative; Understanding Antisemitism

Media School, The

  • MSCH-F 309 Images of War and Peace in Public Culture (3 cr.) CASE A&H
  • MSCH-F 445 Media, Culture, and Politics (3 cr.) (Approved topics only)

Musicology (Jacobs School of Music)

  • MUS-M 410 Composer or Genre (3 cr.) Topics: American Jewish Popular Music; Music in Judaism
Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
  • NELC-N 214 Multiple Voices of Israeli Society (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • NELC-N 216 Israeli Equality in Context (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • NELC-N 260 Literary Masterpieces of Muslim Spain (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC Credit given for only one of NELC-N 260 or JSTU-J 260.
  • NELC-N 303 Issues in Middle Eastern History (3 cr.) CASE S&H Topic: Jewish Philosophy in the Medieval World: The Jews of Islam; Muslim Spain
  • NELC-N 304 Issues in Middle Eastern Culture and Society (3 cr.) CASE S&H Topic: Gender and Differences in Israel
  • NELC-N 305 Issues in Middle Eastern Literature (3 cr.) CASE GCC Topic: Solitary Life in the Pre-Modern World: Muslim and Jewish Sources
  • NELC-N 360 Muslim Spain and Portugal: History and Memory (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC P: One year of Arabic, Hebrew, Latin, or Spanish language study

Philosophy

  • PHIL-P 205 Modern Jewish Philosophy (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • PHIL-P 305 Topics in the Philosophy of Judaism (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC

Political Science

  • POLS-Y 352 The Holocaust and Politics (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE GCC
  • POLS-Y 361 Contemporary Theories of International Politics (3 cr.) CASE S&H Topic: The Politics of Israel

Religious Studies

  • REL-A 202 Issues in African, European, and West Asian Religions (3 cr.) CASE A&H 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 (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • REL-A 220 Introduction to the New Testament (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • REL-A 230 Introduction to Judaism (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC Credit given for only one of JSTU-J 230 or REL-A 230.
  • REL-A 300 Studies in African, European, and West Asian Religions (3 cr.) CASE A&H 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 (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC (If Jewish Studies is one-third or more of course material.)
  • REL-A 315 Prophecy in Ancient Israel (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • REL-A 317 Judaism in the Making (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • REL-A 318 Rabbinic Judaism: Literature and Beliefs (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • REL-A 321 Paul and his Influence in Early Christianity (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • REL-A 335 Introduction to Jewish Mysticism (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • REL-A 375 Women in the Bible (3 cr.) CASE A&H
  • REL-A 415 Topics in Ancient Israelite Religion (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC Topics: Biblical Justice; The Poetics of Biblical Narrative; Studies in Rabbinic and Talmudic Literature
  • REL-A 430 Topics in the History of Judaism (3 cr.) CASE A&H 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 (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC Credit given for only one A440 or REL-R 421.
  • REL-A 450 Topics in the History of Christianity (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC Topics: The Bible and Slavery; Jews and Christians
  • REL-C 230 American Jewish History (3 cr.) CASE S&H, CASE DUS
  • REL-C 323 Jews and Race in the United States (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE DUS
  • REL-D 300 Studies in Theory, Ethics, and Comparison (3 cr.) CASE A&H Topic: Dilemmas of Modern Judaism
  • REL-D 362 Religious Issues in Contemporary Judaism (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC
  • REL-D 410 Topics in Religious Philosophy (3 cr.) CASE A&H (Topics related to Jewish Studies)
  • REL-R 152 Jews, Christians, Muslims (3 cr.) CASE A&H, CASE GCC Topic: The Binding of Isaac in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
  • REL-R 300 Studies in Religion (3 cr.) CASE A&H Topic: Jewish Critics of Zionism

Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures

  • SLAV-S 320 Special Topics in Slavic Studies (3 cr.) Topic: Russian Jewish Writers