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 five 5-credit upper-division courses must be completed within the Jewish studies minor course requirements. Students are allowed to complete up to two of their minor courses for pass/no pass grades. 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 74	Introduction to Jewish History and Cultures	5
HIS 74A	Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History: Ancient to Early Modern	5
HIS 74B	Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History, 1500-2000	5
HIS 75	Film and the Holocaust	5
HIS 76	The Holocaust: A Global Perspective	5
LIT 61J	Introduction to Jewish Literature and Culture	5

Upper-Division Courses

Three 5-credit upper-division Jewish studies core courses:

HIS 155	History of Modern Israel	5
HIS 163B	Genesis: A History	5
HIS 172A	German History	5
HIS 172B	German Film, 1919-1945	5
HIS 178E	Modern Jewish Intellectual History	5
HIS 185C	Communism, Nationalism, and Zionism: Comparative Radical Jewish Politics	5
HIS 185I	Latin American Jewish History in the Modern Period	5
HIS 185J	The Modern Jewish Experience	5
HIS 185K	Jewish Life in Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities	5
HIS 185L	Where Civilizations Met--Jews, Judaism, and the Iberian Peninsula	5
HIS 185M	Zionism: An Intellectual History	5
HIS 185O	The Holocaust and the Arab World	5
HAVC 135E	Jewish Identity and Visual Representation	5
LGST 114	Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System	5
LGST 115	Law and the Holocaust	5
LIT 118A	Hebrew Bible	5
LIT 164A	Jewish Travel Narratives	5
LIT 164B	Hebrew Poetry	5
LIT 164C	Global Jewish Writing	5
LIT 164D	Jewish Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Urban Life	5
LIT 164G	Literature and the Holocaust	5
LIT 164H	Jewish Writers and the European City	5
LIT 164J	Jewish Writers and the American City	5
LIT 181A	Biblical Hebrew, Part 1	5
LIT 181B	Biblical Hebrew, Part 2	5
PHIL 148	The Holocaust and Philosophy	5

Electives

Four courses chosen from the list below or any courses not already taken in the above lower- or upper-division core requirements. Two of the electives must be 5-credit upper-division courses.

HEBR 1	First-Year Hebrew	5
HEBR 2	First-Year Hebrew	5
HEBR 3	First-Year Hebrew	5
HEBR 4	Second-Year Hebrew	5
HIS 2A	The World to 1500	5
HIS 2B	The World Since 1500	5
HIS 70A	Modern European History, 1500-1815	5
HIS 70B	Modern European History, 1815-present	5
HIS 78	Modern Authoritarianism in Europe and Beyond	5
HIS 167A	The First World War	5
HIS 167B	The Second World War in Europe	5
HIS 169	Dutch and Belgian History, 1500 to Present	5
HIS 172C	History of German Film, 1945 to Present	5
HIS 174	Spies: History and Culture of Espionage	5
HIS 176	Eastern Europe, 1848-2000	5
HIS 178A	European Intellectual History: The Enlightenment	5
HIS 178B	European Intellectual History: The 19th Century	5
HIS 178C	European Intellectual History, 1870-1970	5
HIS 184B	Racism and Antiracism in Europe: From 1870 to the Present	5
HIS 190G	Comparative History of Redress and Reparations	5
HIS 196E	Modern Irish History	5
HIS 196S	Special Topics in Ancient History	5
JWST 199	Tutorial	5
LIT 112I	Kafka	5
MUSC 80I	Music of Modern Israel	5
MUSC 80T	Mizrach: Jewish Music in the Lands of Islam	5
MUSC 80Y	Music, Anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust	5
MUSC 81P	History of Jewish Music	5
YIDD 1	First-Year Yiddish	5
YIDD 2	First-Year Yiddish	5
YIDD 3	First-Year Yiddish	5