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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. JWST219Z Women and Gender in Israel; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Social or Political History (SH) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course. Also offered as HIST219N. JWST227 Reconstructing the Civilization of Ancient Mesopotamia; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST280. Not open to students who have completed HEBR440. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST227 or HIST280. 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. 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. 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. JWST262 The Hebrew Bible: Narrative; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Literature (HL) Course. Also offered as ENGL262. Not open to students who have completed HEBR223. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST262 or ENGL262. 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. JWST270 Fantasy and Supernatural in Jewish Literature; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. CORE Literature (HL) Course. CORE Diversity (D) Course. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HONR219O, JWST219O, or JWST270. Formerly JWST 219O. An examination of Jewish fantastical and supernatural literature from ancient to modern times, tracing how such stories have addressed essential questions of good and evil, power and powerlessness within a Jewish framework. Topics include intersections of Jewish and non-Jewish cultures. 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. JWST281 Yiddish I; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. 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. JWST319M Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Traditionalist Jewish Responses to the Crisis of Modernity; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST319T. JWST319T Special Topics in Jewish Studies: American Jewish Literature; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as ENGL379A. JWST409C Research Seminar in Jewish Studies: Anti-Semitism and Jewish Responses; (3-4 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST408Y. JWST418 (PermReq) Honors Thesis Research in Jewish Studies; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Individual Instruction course: contact department or instructor to obtain section number. JWST419C Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Israeli Cinema; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HEBR498M. JWST419E Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Public Culture in Israel; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST419X. JWST419J Special Topics in Jewish Studies: History of Jewish Religion in America; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST419T. JWST469K Readings in Rabbinic Hebrew: Human Dignity Versus Ritual Law in Talmudic and Post-Talmudic Hebrew Texts; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: HEBR313 or permission of instructor. 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. JWST648M Readings in Jewish History: The MOdernization of Jews; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Also offered as HIST798. 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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