Jewish Studies Minor
Students whose major area of interest is not Jewish studies may nonetheless find that a minor in Jewish studies makes an invaluable contribution to their studies. This introduction to Jewish studies is helpful for students who plan to do graduate work in Jewish studies, whether through traditional academic disciplines or in Jewish studies programs, and also for students who plan to attend rabbinical schools or to find work with Jewish communities. For others with an interest in Jewish topics, but without such plans, a minor in Jewish studies offers intellectual enrichment and a focus within the student’s chosen field.
Course Requirements
The minor requires a minimum of eight courses. A minimum of 5 upper-division courses must be completed within the Jewish studies minor course requirements. In consultation with a faculty adviser, students will plan a program of study to fulfill the following distribution of courses:
Lower-Division Courses
One of the following Jewish studies core courses:
HIS74 | Introduction to Jewish History and Cultures | 5 |
HIS74A | Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History: Ancient to Early Modern | 5 |
HIS74B | Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History, 1500-2000 | 5 |
HIS75 | Film and the Holocaust | 5 |
HIS76 | The Holocaust | 5 |
LIT61J | Introduction to Jewish Literature and Culture | 5 |
Upper-Division Courses
Three upper-division Jewish studies core courses:
HIS155 | History of Modern Israel | 5 |
HIS163B | Genesis: A History | 5 |
HIS172A | German History | 5 |
HIS172B | German Film, 1919-1945 | 5 |
HIS178E | Modern Jewish Intellectual History | 5 |
HIS185I | Latin American Jewish History in the Modern Period | 5 |
HIS185J | The Modern Jewish Experience | 5 |
HIS185K | Jewish Life in Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities | 5 |
HIS185L | Where Civilizations Met--Jews, Judaism, and the Iberian Peninsula | 5 |
HIS185M | Zionism: An Intellectual History | 5 |
HIS185O | The Holocaust and the Arab World | 5 |
HIS194F | Jewish Shanghai | 5 |
HAVC135E | Jewish Identity and Visual Representation | 5 |
JWST185N
/HIS 185N
| The Holocaust in a Digital World | 5 |
LGST114 | Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System | 5 |
LGST115 | Law and the Holocaust | 5 |
LIT118A | Hebrew Bible | 5 |
LIT164A | Jewish Travel Narratives | 5 |
LIT164B | Hebrew Poetry | 5 |
LIT164C | Global Jewish Writing | 5 |
LIT164D | Jewish Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Urban Life | 5 |
LIT164G | Literature and the Holocaust | 5 |
LIT164H | Jewish Writers and the European City | 5 |
LIT164J | Jewish Writers and the American City | 5 |
LIT181A | Biblical Hebrew, Part 1 | 5 |
LIT181B | Biblical Hebrew, Part 2 | 5 |
PHIL148 | The Holocaust and Philosophy | 5 |
Electives
Four additional core or elective courses from the Jewish studies curriculum, two of which must be upper-division.
The following courses are electives only. Students may satisfy their Jewish studies elective requirements by taking additional lower-division core and/or upper-division core courses from the Jewish studies curriculum. Jewish studies minors may also apply lower-division Hebrew or Yiddish language courses to their elective requirements.
HIS2A | The World to 1500 | 5 |
HIS2B | The World Since 1500 | 5 |
HIS70A | Modern European History, 1500-1815 | 5 |
HIS70B | Modern European History, 1815-present | 5 |
HIS167A | The First World War | 5 |
HIS167B | The Second World War in Europe | 5 |
HIS172C | History of German Film, 1945 to Present | 5 |
HIS172D | Hitler and the Third Reich | 5 |
HIS176 | Eastern Europe, 1848-2000 | 5 |
HIS178A | European Intellectual History: The Enlightenment | 5 |
HIS178B | European Intellectual History: The 19th Century | 5 |
HIS178C | European Intellectual History, 1870-1970 | 5 |
HIS184B | Racism and Antiracism in Europe: From 1870 to the Present | 5 |
JWST199 | Tutorial | 5 |
LIT112I | Kafka in Translation | 5 |
MUSC80I | Music of Modern Israel | 5 |
MUSC81P | History of Jewish Music | 5 |
MUSC80T | Mizrach: Jewish Music in the Lands of Islam | 5 |
MUSC80Y | Music, Anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust | 5 |