Schedule of Classes
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Fall '99Section seat counts current as of: Sep 22 09:30JWST Jewish Studies( Arts and Humanities) JWST219D Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Jews in the City; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.Also offered as HIST 219I. JWST219W Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Introduction to the Study of World Religions; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. JWST227 Reconstructing the Civilization of Ancient Mesopotamia; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Also offered as HIST 280. Not open to students who have completed HEBR 440. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST 227 or HIST 280. Formerly HEBR 440. History and culture of Ancient Mesopotamia, as reconstructed from archeology, language, and texts of the region. Emphasis on culture, literature, religion, and institutions. JWST234 History of the Jewish People I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course. USP Distributive Studies Area A: Cultural and Historical Course. Also offered as HIST 282. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST 234 or HIST 282. Political, economic, social and cultural development within Jewish history from the Biblical period to the late Middle Ages. Special attention to the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism and its subsequent encounter with medieval Christian and Islamic civilizations. JWST262 The Hebrew Bible: Narrative; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Literature (HL) Course. USP Distributive Studies Area C: Literature and the Arts Course. Not open to students who have completed HEBR 223. Formerly HEBR 223. Selected readings from narrative sections of the Hebrew Bible stressing the new literary approaches to the biblical text. In English; no knowledge of Hebrew required. Also offered as ENGL 278B. JWST281 Yiddish I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. USP Distributive Studies Area A: Cultural and Historical Course. Also offered as GERM 148Y. Not open to students who have completed GERM 148Y. Introduction to the Yiddish language, with emphasis on speaking, reading, and writing skills. Students will also learn the history of the language, its significance to Jewish culture, its origins and basic structure. JWST309 Research Seminar in Jewish Studies: Marranos, Mystics and Messiahs in Early Modern Jewry; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST309M. JWST343 Modern Jewish History I: The Road to Emancipation, 1650-1870; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST 374. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST 343 or HIST 374. Social, political, economic, and cultural change in the Jewish world since 1650. Emphasis on emancipation, assimilation, and new forms of Jewish identity in Western and Eastern European Jewry from the 17th to the 20th centuries. JWST419G Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Geography of the Bible; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as GEOG 498A. JWST419Q Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Images of Gender in Yiddish Literature over a Millenium; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as WMST498M and GERM449D. JWST468 Readings in the Hebrew Bible; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. JWST499 (PermReq) Independent Study in Jewish Studies; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
JWST719C
Readings in Jewish Studies:
Social and Religious Change in Modern Jewry;
(3 credits)
Grade Method: REG/AUD.
JWST719D Readings in Jewish Studies: General Seminar in World History: Ethnicity, Nation and Identity; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/AUD. Also offered as HIST605. Back to the Schedule of Classes |
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