Curriculum

Related Courses For Credit Toward the Major

Courses with an asterisk (*) require the permission of the instructor if the course is to be counted by Jewish Studies.

 

ANTH 242* ‘Civilization' and ‘Barbarism' during the Bronze Age, 3500-2000 B.C.E.

ANTH 247* Societies and Cultures of Eurasia

EXTD 101A-102A Elementary Arabic

EXTD 201A-202A Intermediate Arabic

HIST 115  First-Year Seminar. Routes of Exile--Jews and Muslims

HIST 217 The Making of European Jewry 1085-1815

HIST 218 Jews in the Modern World, 1815-Present

HIST 219 The Jews of Spain and the Lands of Islam

HIST 245 Germany in the Twentieth Century

HIST 326 Seminar. American Jewish History

HIST 327 Zionism and Irish Nationalism: A Comparative Perspective

HIST 328 Anti-Semitism in Historical Perspective

HIST 332 Europe under German Occupation, 1939-1945: Resistance, Collaboration, and Genocide

HIST 334* Seminar. European Cultural History

HIST 338* Seminar. European Resistance Movements in World War II

HIST 343 Seminar. History of Israel

REL 104 Study of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

REL 105 Study of the New Testament

REL 140 Introduction to Jewish Civilization

REL 160* Introduction to Islamic Civilization

REL 201 Myth and Magic in the Ancient Near East

REL 202 Biblical Poetry

REL 205 The Book of Genesis

REL 241 Emerging Religions: Judaism and Christianity, 150 B.C.E.-500 C.E.

REL 242 Introduction to Rabbinic Literature

REL 243 Women in the Biblical World

REL 244 Jerusalem: The Holy City

REL 245 The Holocaust and the Nazi State

REL 302 Ritual in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament

REL 303 Seminar. The Sacrifice of the Beloved Child in the Bible and Its Interpretations

REL 342 Seminar. Archeology of the Biblical World

REL 343 Seminar. Apocolypse and Armageddon

SPAN 252* Christians, Jews, and Moors: The Spirit of Spain in Its Literature

SPAN 267* The Writer and Human Rights in Latin America

SPAN 279 Jewish Women Writers of Latin America

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