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JWST Jewish Studies( Arts and Humanities) 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.Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST283, HIST283H, JWST235, or JWST235H. 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. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HIST283, HIST283H, JWST235, or JWST235H. Also offered as HIST283H. 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 JWST281. JWST319P Special Topics in Jewish Studies: In Search of the Religions of Ancient Israel; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST319P. JWST319R Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Reading in Israeli Media; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HEBR382. Prerequisite: HEBR314 or permission of department. JWST319Y Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Yiddish Theater and Film; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. 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 HEBR333. 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. JWST333 Jews in Early Modern Times 1450-1750; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Recommended: HIST282/JWST234. Also offered as HIST373. Not open to students who have completed HIST418C/JWST419C (Fall 2006, Fall 2004) or HIST419C/JWST419Y (Spring 2001). Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST333, HIST373, HIST418C/JWST419C (Fall 2006, Fall 2004) or HIST419C/JWST419Y (Spring 2001). Formerly JWST419C. Emergence of new powerful population centers, religious and cultural creativity, new forms of community, and radical messianic 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. JWST409R Research Seminar in Jewish Studies: Jewish Rationalists and their Opponents; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. JWST409Z Research Seminar in Jewish Studies: Museums, Memory and Interpretation of History: America and Israel; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. JWST418 (PermReq) Honors Thesis Research in Jewish Studies; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. JWST419A Special Topics in Jewish Studies: History of Jewish Women's Spirituality; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST419T and WMST498T. JWST419B Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Hasidism and Its Opponents; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: HEBR212 or permission of department. JWST419E Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Jews of Eastern Europe, 1580-1939; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST419Q. JWST419F Special Topics in Jewish Studies: History of the Hebrew Language; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: HEBR211 or equivalent, or permission of instructor. Also offered as HEBR498B. JWST419L Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Jewish Leadership; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as EDCP418F. JWST419P Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Culture of Israeli-Palestine Conflict; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HEBR498A. JWST419R Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Construction of Jewish Knowledge; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Also offered as HIST419R. JWST419T Special Topics in Jewish Studies: Honors Thesis; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. JWST453 Philosophy of Spinoza; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: six credits in philosophy or permission of department. Also offered as PHIL424. Not open to students who have completed PHIL424. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST453 or PHIL424. An investigation of the metaphysical, ethical, and political thought of the 17th century philosopher Benedict Spinoza. JWST468P Readings in the Hebrew Bible: Psalms; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: HEBR313 or permission of department. JWST478E Readins in Modern Hebrew: Exile and Homecoming in Modern Hebrew Literature; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG/P-F/AUD. Prerequisite: HEBR212 or permission of department. 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. JWST658 Readings in Jewish Thought and Culture: Rationalists and their Opponents; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. JWST678E Readings in Jewish Literature: Exile and Homecoming in Modern Hebrew Literature; (3 credits) Grade Method: REG. Prerequisite: HEBR212 or permission of department. 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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