Jewish Studies

Courses in Jewish Studies are regularly offered in a variety of departments. Jewish Studies courses are available to our majors and minors, to students fulfilling College or University requirements, and to students with an interest in Judaica.

The following is a list of all Jewish Studies courses offered in the major and minor:

COURSE NAME	COURSE DESCRIPTION
ENGL 264	The Bible as Literature
ENGL 462	The Bible as Literature: The Old Testament
ENGL 463	The Bible as Literature: The New Testament
ENGL 583	Jewish-American Fiction
HEBR 101	Modern Hebrew I
HEBR 121	Biblical Hebrew I
HEBR 102	Modern Hebrew II
HEBR 122	Biblical Hebrew II
HEBR 201	Modern Hebrew III
HEBR 221	Biblical Hebrew III
HEBR 202	Modern Hebrew IV
HEBR 222	Biblical Hebrew IV
HEBR 380	Modern Israel: Cinema, Literature, Politics, and History
HEBR 284	Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture
HEBR 383	Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism: Secret Knowledge in Judaism
HEBR 385	The Holocaust in Modern Hebrew Literature
HIST 102	Introduction to the Ancient World
HIST 103	Introduction to the Medieval World
HIST 245	Introduction to Middle Eastern History and Culture
HIST 312	The Crusades
HIST 338	History of Human Rights
HIST 345	The Modernization of the Middle East
HIST 390	Jews in the Modern World
HIST 408	The History of Europe Since 1920
HIST 427	History of Spain and Portugal
HIST 525	Hitler and Twentieth-Century Germany
HIST 545	The Middle East in the Twentieth Century
HIST 589	History of Religion in America
HIST 595	The Holocaust and Genocide
JWST 330	Introduction to Jewish Studies (Undergraduate Core Curriculum/Humanities)
JWST 590	Directed Readings in Jewish Studies
PHIL 206	Philosophy of Religion
PHIL 430	Modern Religious (Jewish) Thought
PHIL 505	Islamic and Jewish Philosophy and the Classical Tradition
POL 540	Selected Problems in Comparative Politics
REL 202	Interpretation of the Old Testament
REL 231	Religions of the West
REL 317	Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity
REL 318	The Bible and Its Early Interpreters
SOC 310	Racial and Ethnic Diversity
SOC 367	Religion in America
SOC 514	Racial and Cultural Minorities
SOC 567	Religion in Social Context
SOC 568	Religion and Society