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JWST Jewish Studies( Arts and Humanities) JWST141 American Jewish Experience; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course.Also offered as HIST106. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST141 or HIST106. History of the Jews in America from Colonial times to the present. Emphasis on the waves of migration from Germany and Eastern Europe; the changing nature of the American Jewish community and its participation in American social, economic and political life. JWST231 Jewish Texts and Cultures of the Second Temple Period; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Interdisciplinary & Emerging Issues (IE) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST231, JWST219C (Fall 2005), JWST219F (Fall 1998), HIST219C (Fall 2005), or HIST219D (Fall 1998). An introduction to the literature, history, and culture of Jews in the period between the sixth century BCE and the second century CE. Special topics may include the rise of the formation of the biblical canon, scriptural interpretation, sectarian and revolutionary movements, and growth of the diaspora. Also offered as HIST219L. JWST235 History of the Jewish People II; (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 HIST283. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST235 or HIST283. Political, economic, social and cultural development within Jewish history from the end of the Middle Ages to the present. Special attention to the twentieth century developments including the Nazi Holocaust and its aftermath, the Zionist movement and the creation of the State of Israel, and the rise of the contemporary American-Jewish community. Also offered as HIST283. JWST235H History of the Jewish People II; (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 HIST283. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST235 or HIST283. Also offered as HIST283H. JWST272 Jewish Literature in Translation; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Literature (HL) Course. Not open to students who have completed HEBR231. Formerly HEBR 231. A survey of Jewish literature from ancient times to the present. Methods for reading literature in general and Jewish literature in particular will be emphasized. Concern with what makes a literary corpus "Jewish." Readings from the Bible, the Midrash, the Talmud, Medieval Hebrew poetry, as well as modern Hebrew, Yiddish, and English poetry and prose. All texts in English translation. JWST282 Elementary Yiddish II; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: JWST281 or GERM148Y or permission of department. Also offered as GERM149Y. Not open to students who have completed GERM149Y. Continuation of JWST 281. JWST319E Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Reconstructing the Religion of Pre-Exilic Israel; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST319R. JWST319K Special Topics in Jewish Studies: The History of Hasidism; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. JWST319R Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Readings in Hebrew Newspapers and Periodicals; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HEBR382. Prerequisite: HEBR314 or permission of department. JWST324 Biblical History and Culture; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST321. Not open to students who have completed HEBR333 or HIST321. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST324 or HEBR333 or HIST321. Formerly HEBR 333. Study of the political, social, and religious development of the Jewish nation from its inception to its return from exile in Babylonia around 536 C.E. Focus on biblical texts, archeological finds, and source materials from neighboring cultures to reconstruct political history and the development of religious concepts. JWST325 Jews and Judaism in Antiquity I: Sixth Century BCE through the First Century CE; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST370. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST325 or HIST370. Political, social and religious history of the Jews from the Persian Period to the Judean Revolt of 66-70CE. Special attention to the rise of sectarian and revolutionary movements. 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. JWST345 The Holocaust of European Jewry; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST307. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST345 or HIST307. Roots of Nazi Jewish policy in the 1930s and during World War II: the process of destruction and the implementation of the "final solution of the Jewish problem" in Europe, and the responses made by the Jews to their concentration and annihilation. JWST408H (PermReq) Honors Seminar in Jewish Studies; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. JWST409G (PermReq) Research Seminar in Jewish Studies: Masculinity in Jewish Culture; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: permission of instructor. JWST419I Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Immigration and Ethnicity in Israel; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST419P. JWST419J Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Women and Jewish Literature; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as ENGL348J. JWST419K Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Life, Death, and Martyrdom in Post-Talmudic Judaism; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. JWST419L Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Jewish Leadership; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. JWST419Q Special Topics in Jewish Studies: A History of Jewish Education; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST419Q and EDPL488Q. JWST451 Issues in Jewish Ethics and Law; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: three credits in philosophy or Jewish studies (excluding Hebrew language), or permission of department. Also offered as PHIL433. Not open to students who have completed PHIL433 or HEBR451. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: PHIL433 or JWST451 or HEBR451. Formerly HEBR 451. Philosophical and meta-legal questions concerning the nature of Jewish law and its relation to morality. 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. JWST619 (PermReq) Directed Readings in Jewish Studies; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. JWST658G (PermReq) Readings in Jewish Thought and Culture: Maculinity in Jewish Culture; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: By permission only. JWST678J Readings in Jewish Literature: Readings in Jewish Literature: Women and Jewish Literature; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. 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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