Jewish Studies Course Catalog
The Jewish Studies Course Catalog is a list of all courses that have been, are currently, or will be offered again in the future. Courses are listed by discipline of study and by what Jewish studies major and minor degree requirements each satisfies. Please see the Jewish Studies Undergraduate Curriculum for a list of courses offered in the current academic year.
Questions about this catalog or the Jewish studies major/minor requirements should be directed to the Jewish studies undergraduate program coordinator.
The information on this list is subject to change. Last updated: 3/22/18
Language Courses
Discipline and Course Number |
Course Title | Instructor | Chronological Requirement |
GE |
---|---|---|---|---|
Hebrew 1 | First-Year Hebrew | Staff | ||
Hebrew 2 | First-Year Hebrew | Staff | ||
Hebrew 3 | First-Year Hebrew | Staff | ||
Hebrew 4 | Second-Year Hebrew | Staff | ||
Hebrew 5 | Second-Year Hebrew | Staff | ||
Hebrew 6 | Intermediate Hebrew | Staff | ||
Hebrew 80 | Introduction to Biblical Hebrew | Staff | Classical | |
Yiddish 1 | First-Year Yiddish | J. Levitow | ||
Yiddish 2 | First-Year Yiddish | J. Levitow | ||
Yiddish 3 | First-Year Yiddish | J. Levitow |
Lower Division Core Courses
Discipline and Course Number |
Course Title | Instructor | Chronological Requirement |
GE |
---|---|---|---|---|
History 74 | Introduction to Jewish History and Cultures | N. Deutsch/ B. Thompson |
ER | |
History 74A | Jewish Life in North Africa and the Middle East | A. Heckman | Classical | CC |
History 74B | Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History, 1500-2000 | A. Heckman | CC | |
History 75 | Film and the Holocaust | B. Thompson | Holocaust | IM |
History 76 | Hitler and the Holocaust | B. Thompson | Holocaust | PE-H |
Jewish Studies 77 | Visualizing American Jewish History Also offered as History 77. Students cannot receive credit for both courses. Enrollment is restricted to first-year students, sophomores, and juniors. |
STAFF | ER | |
Literature 61J | Introduction to Jewish Literature and Culture | B. Thompson | ER |
Upper Division Core Courses
Discipline and Course Number |
Course Title | Instructor | Chronological Requirement |
GE |
---|---|---|---|---|
History 155 | History of Modern Israel | B. Thompson | Modern | CC |
History 163B | Genesis: A History | STAFF | Classical | CC |
History 172A | German History | STAFF | Modern | |
History 172B | German Film, 1919-1945 | STAFF | Modern | IM |
History 178E | Modern Jewish Intellectual History | B. Thompson | Modern | ER |
History 185C | Communism, Nationalism, & Zionism: Comparative Radical Jewish Politics Formerly HIS 194K, Jewish Radical Movements |
A. Heckman | ER | |
History 185H | Women, Gender, and Jewish Modernity (1800-Present) | N. Deutsch | Modern | |
History 185I | Latin American Jewish History in the Modern Period | A. Heckman | Modern | |
History 185J | The Modern Jewish Experience | N. Deutsch | Modern | |
History 185K | Jewish Life in Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities | A. Heckman | Modern | |
History 185L | Where Civilizations Met: Jews, Judaism, and the Iberian Peninsula | A. Heckman | ||
History 185M | Zionism: An Intellectual History | N. Deutsch | ER | |
History 185N | The Holocaust in a Digital World | R. Deblinger | Holocaust | PR-E |
History 185O | The Holocaust and the Arab World | A. Heckman | Holocaust | |
History 194F | Jewish Shanghai | E. Honig | ||
History of Art and Visual Culture (HAVC) 135E | Jewish Identity and Visual Representation | STAFF | Modern | IM |
Legal Studies 114 | Jews, Anti-Semitism,and the American Legal System | R. Coonerty | Modern | |
Legal Studies 115 | Law and the Holocaust | R. Coonerty | Holocaust | |
Literature 118A |
Hebrew Bible |
N. Deutsch | Classical | TA |
Literature 160G | Topics in Literary Theory: Philosophical Encounters with Jewishness Formerly Modern Literary Studies 104 |
D. Bell | Modern | |
Literature 160G | Topics in Literary Theory: Jews in Theory Formerly Modern Literary Studies 104 |
D. Bell | Modern | |
Literature 164A |
Jewish Travel Narratives |
STAFF | Modern | |
Literature 164B | Hebrew Poetry Formerly Modern Literary Studies 144E |
STAFF | Modern | CC |
Literature 164C | Global Jewish Writing Formerly Modern Literary Studies 144G |
STAFF | Modern | |
Literature 164D | Jewish Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Urban Life Formerly Modern Literary Studies 144A |
B. Thompson | Modern | ER |
Literature 164G | Literature and the Holocaust Formerly Modern Literary Studies 144C |
N. Deutsch | Holocaust | |
Literature 164H |
Jewish Writers and the European City |
STAFF | Modern | ER |
Literature 164J | Jewish Writers and the American City Formerly Modern Literary Studies 144D |
B. Thompson | Modern | ER |
Literature 181A | Biblical Hebrew, Part 1 Formerly Pre- and Early Modern Literature 153A |
D. Selden | Classical | |
Literature 181B | Biblical Hebrew, Part 2 Formerly Pre- and Early Modern Literature 153B |
D. Selden | Classical | |
Philosophy 148 | The Holocaust and Philosophy | P. Roth | Holocaust |
Comprehensive Exit/DC Courses
Discipline and Course Number |
Course Title | Instructor | Chronological Requirement |
GE |
---|---|---|---|---|
History 194K | Jewish Radical Movements | A. Heckman | DC in Jewish Studies | |
History 194L | Exile, Diaspora, and Displacement: Jewish Lives from North Africa to the Middle East | A. Heckman | DC in Jewish Studies | |
History 196G | Topics in Modern Germany and Europe | STAFF | Modern | DC in Jewish Studies |
History 196M | Shtetl: Eastern European Jewish Life | N. Deutsch | Modern | DC in Jewish Studies |
History 196N | Eastern European Jewish Social History | B. Thompson | Modern | DC in Jewish Studies |
History 196P | Hitler and Stalin | STAFF | Holocaust | DC in Jewish Studies |
History 196R | Social World of Roman Palestine | STAFF | Classical | DC in Jewish Studies |
Jewish Studies 195A | Thesis Research | STAFF | ||
Jewish Studies 195B | Thesis Writing | STAFF | DC in Jewish Studies | |
Literature 190Y | Topics in Jewish Literature and Culture Formerly Modern Literary Studies 190Y |
B. Thompson | DC in Jewish Studies |
Elective Courses
Discipline and Course Number |
Course Title | Instructor | Chronological Requirement |
GE |
---|---|---|---|---|
History 2A | The World to 1500 | B. Breen | CC | |
History 2B | The World Since 1500 | M. Matera/ G. O'Malley |
CC | |
History 70A | Modern European History, 1500-1815 | STAFF | CC | |
History 70B | Modern European History, 1815-Present | STAFF | CC | |
History 107 | Religion and Modernity | N. Deutsch | Modern | CC |
History 167A | The First World War | B. Thompson | Modern | TA |
History 167B | The Second World War in Europe | STAFF | Modern | CC |
History 172C | History of German Film, 1945 to Present | STAFF | IM | |
History 172D | Hitler and the Third Reich | STAFF | Modern | |
History 176 | Eastern Europe, 1848-2000 | STAFF | CC | |
History 178A | European Intellectual History: The Enlightenment | STAFF | ||
History 178B | European Intellectual History: The 19th Century | B. Thompson | ||
History 178C | European Intellectual History, 1870-1970 | B. Thompson | CC | |
History 184B | Racism and Antiracism in Europe: From 1870 to the Present | M. Davis | TA | |
History 196X | National Socialism and the Third Reich | STAFF | Modern | |
Jewish Studies 199 | Tutorial: Independent Study | STAFF | ||
Literature 112I | Kafka in Translation Formerly Modern Literary Studies 167K |
A. Bivens | Modern | TA |
Music 80I | Music of Modern Israel | A. Tchamni | Modern | CC |
Music 80P | History of Jewish Music | A. Tchamni | Modern | CC |
Music 80T | Mizrach: Jewish Music in the Lands of Islam | A. Tchamni | CC | |
Music 80Y | Music, Anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust | A. Tchamni | Holocaust | IM |