Jewish Studies Minor

Students whose major area of interest is not Jewish studies may nonetheless find that a minor in Jewish studies makes an invaluable contribution to their studies. This introduction to Jewish studies is helpful for students who plan to do graduate work in Jewish studies, whether through traditional academic disciplines or in Jewish studies programs, and also for students who plan to attend rabbinical schools or to find work with Jewish communities. For others with an interest in Jewish topics, but without such plans, a minor in Jewish studies offers intellectual enrichment and a focus within the student’s chosen field.

Course Requirements

The minor requires a minimum of eight courses. A minimum of 5 upper-division courses must be completed within the Jewish studies minor course requirements. In consultation with a faculty adviser, students will plan a program of study to fulfill the following distribution of courses:

Lower-Division Courses

One of the following Jewish studies core courses:

HIS 74Introduction to Jewish History and Cultures

5

HIS 74AIntroduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History: Ancient to Early Modern

5

HIS 74BIntroduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History, 1500-2000

5

HIS 75Film and the Holocaust

5

HIS 76The Holocaust: A Global Perspective

5

LIT 61JIntroduction to Jewish Literature and Culture

5

Upper-Division Courses

Three upper-division Jewish studies core courses:

HIS 155History of Modern Israel

5

HIS 163BGenesis: A History

5

HIS 172AGerman History

5

HIS 172BGerman Film, 1919-1945

5

HIS 178EModern Jewish Intellectual History

5

HIS 185CCommunism, Nationalism, and Zionism: Comparative Radical Jewish Politics

5

HIS 185ILatin American Jewish History in the Modern Period

5

HIS 185JThe Modern Jewish Experience

5

HIS 185KJewish Life in Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities

5

HIS 185LWhere Civilizations Met--Jews, Judaism, and the Iberian Peninsula

5

HIS 185MZionism: An Intellectual History

5

HIS 185OThe Holocaust and the Arab World

5

HAVC 135EJewish Identity and Visual Representation

5

JWST 185N
/HIS 185N
The Holocaust in a Digital World

5

LGST 114Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System

5

LGST 115Law and the Holocaust

5

LIT 118AHebrew Bible

5

LIT 164AJewish Travel Narratives

5

LIT 164BHebrew Poetry

5

LIT 164CGlobal Jewish Writing

5

LIT 164DJewish Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Urban Life

5

LIT 164GLiterature and the Holocaust

5

LIT 164HJewish Writers and the European City

5

LIT 164JJewish Writers and the American City

5

LIT 181ABiblical Hebrew, Part 1

5

LIT 181BBiblical Hebrew, Part 2

5

PHIL 148The Holocaust and Philosophy

5

Electives

Four additional core or elective courses from the Jewish studies curriculum, two of which must be upper-division.

The following courses are electives only. Students may satisfy their Jewish studies elective requirements by taking additional lower-division core and/or upper-division core courses from the Jewish studies curriculum. Jewish studies minors may also apply lower-division Hebrew or Yiddish language courses to their elective requirements.

HIS 2AThe World to 1500

5

HIS 2BThe World Since 1500

5

HIS 70AModern European History, 1500-1815

5

HIS 70BModern European History, 1815-present

5

HIS 78Modern Authoritarianism in Europe and Beyond

5

HIS 167AThe First World War

5

HIS 167BThe Second World War in Europe

5

HIS 172CHistory of German Film, 1945 to Present

5

HIS 176Eastern Europe, 1848-2000

5

HIS 178AEuropean Intellectual History: The Enlightenment

5

HIS 178BEuropean Intellectual History: The 19th Century

5

HIS 178CEuropean Intellectual History, 1870-1970

5

HIS 184BRacism and Antiracism in Europe: From 1870 to the Present

5

JWST 199Tutorial

5

LIT 112IKafka in Translation

5

MUSC 80IMusic of Modern Israel

5

MUSC 80TMizrach: Jewish Music in the Lands of Islam

5

MUSC 80YMusic, Anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust

5

MUSC 81PHistory of Jewish Music

5