Jewish Studies Minor

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Program Director: Jessica Cooperman, Ph.D., Associate Professor and Chair of Religion Studies
Associate Professor: Nash

Minor Requirements

The Jewish Studies minor consists of six courses approved by the program director. The six courses counted toward the minor must be taken in at least three different departments or programs. Not more than one of these credits can be fulfilled with language classes, except with permission of the program director.

List of Courses

In addition to the courses listed below, each semester “Special Topic” courses are given in many departments. Some of these may count toward the Jewish Studies major or minor. Questions about specific courses should be discussed with the your advisor.

ENG 253 - Modern Jewish Writers Course unit(s): 1
GRM 257 - Freud’s Vienna Course unit(s): 1
HBW 101 - Elementary Hebrew I Course unit(s): 1
HBW 102 - Elementary Hebrew II Course unit(s): 1
HBW 203 - Intermediate Hebrew I Course unit(s): 1
HBW 204 - Intermediate Hebrew II Course unit(s): 1
HBW 430 - Hebrew Literature in Translation Course unit(s): 1
HST 111 - Introduction to History: Holocaust in Cinema Course unit(s): 1
HST 277 - Modern Middle Eastern History Course unit(s): 1
HST 369, 370 - Jewish Latin America & the Caribbean Course unit(s): 1
HST 393 - Israel, Palestine, & their Neighbors Course unit(s): 1
ITL 323 - Jewish Italy Course unit(s): 1
JST 109, 111 - Jewish Experience in a Secular Age Course unit(s): 1
JST 201 - American Jewish Life & Culture Course unit(s): 1
JST 203, 204 - From Zion to Zionism: History of Jewish Nationalism Course unit(s): 1
JST 450-469 - CUE: Jewish Studies Capstone Culminating Undergraduate Experience Seminar Course unit(s): 1
JST 970 - Jewish Studies Independent Study/Research Course unit(s):
PSC 248, 249 - Governments & Politics of the Middle East Course unit(s): 1
REL 115, 116 - Monotheism: Creating God Course unit(s): 1
REL 201, 202 - Theory & Method in the Study of Religion Course unit(s): 1
REL 229 - Jewish Traditions Course unit(s): 1
REL 252 - Hebrew Bible Course unit(s): 1
REL 254 - New Testament Course unit(s): 1
REL 353, 354 - Gender & Sexuality in Judaism Course unit(s): 1
REL 357, 358 - The Holocaust: Nazi Germany & the Jews Course unit(s): 1
REL 371 - Paths in Jewish Thought Course unit(s): 1
THR 221 - Jewish Drama Course unit(s): 1