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JWST Jewish Studies( Arts and Humanities) JWST219Q Special Topics in Jewish Studies: History of Ancient Egypt; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD.Also offered as HIST219C. 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 HIST282. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST234 or HIST282. 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. JWST234H 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 HIST282. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST234 or HIST282. JWST250 Fundamental Concepts of Judaism; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Humanities (HO) Course. Also offered as PHIL234. Not open to students who have completed PHIL234. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST250 or PHIL234. A conceptional introduction to Judaism, analyzing its fundamental concepts from both analytical and historical perspectives. Discussion of "normative" Judaism as well as other conceptions of Judaism. Topics include: God, the Jewish people, authority, ethics, the sacred and the profane, particularism and universalism. JWST263 Hebrew Bible: Poetry and Prophecy; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Literature (HL) Course. USP Distributive Studies Area C: Literature and the Arts Course. Also offered as ENGL263. Not open to students who have completed HEBR224. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST263 or ENGL263. Formerly HEBR 224. Readings of poetic and prophetic selections from the Hebrew Bible. Analysis of devices and their rhetorical effect. Comparison of biblical poetry with other poetry of the ancient Near East. In English; no Hebrew required. JWST281 Yiddish I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. USP Distributive Studies Area A: Cultural and Historical Course. Also offered as GERM148Y. Not open to students who have completed GERM148Y. 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. JWST342 History of Zionism and the State of Israel; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST376. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST342 or HIST376. Ideological and political factors leading to the establishment of a secular Jewish state in 1948; Zionist thought of Herzl, Ahad Haam, the socialist and religious Zionists, and the revisionists; diplomatic activities; Arab-Israel conflict; post-1948 Israeli society. JWST344 Modern Jewish History II: World Jewry Since 1870; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST375. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST344 or HIST375. Continuation of JWST 343: Social, political, economic, and cultural change in the Jewish world since 1870. Emphasis on emancipation, assimilation, and new forms of Jewish identity in Western and Eastern European Jewry from the 19th Century to the present. JWST409C Research Seminar in Jewish Studies: The Construction of Jewish Knowledge; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. JWST419C Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Early Modern Jewish History.; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. JWST419D Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Law and Identities; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as AASP499L, AAST498D, LASC448L, LGBT448L, and WMST498C. JWST419R Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Readings in Israeli Society and Culture; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: HEBR314 or permission of the instructor. JWST419T Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Yiddish Culture in Russia; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. JWST468I (PermReq) Readings in the Hebrew Bible: The Book of Isaiah; (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. JWST600 General Seminar in Jewish Studies; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Introduce graduate students to the fields, problems, and basic methods of research in the comtemporary practice of Jewish Studies. Consideration of chronological and historiographical problems, questions of the development of Jewish thought and literature and Jewish religious and cultural history in four rough chronological periods: Biblical Israel, Judaism in Antiquity, Judaism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, and Modern Judaism. JWST619 (PermReq) Directed Readings in Jewish Studies; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. JWST648 Readings in Jewish History: Jews and German Culture: The Dilemas of Ethnic and National Identity; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Also offered as HIST798. JWST699 (PermReq) Independent Graduate Readings in Jewish Studies; (1-3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. JWST799 (PermReq) Masters Thesis Research; (1-6 credits) Grade Method: REG/S-F. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number.
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