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:

HIS 74	Introduction to Jewish History and Cultures	5
HIS 74A	Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History: Ancient to Early Modern	5
HIS 74B	Introduction to Middle Eastern and North African Jewish History, 1500-2000	5
HIS 75	Film and the Holocaust	5
HIS 76	The Holocaust	5
LIT 61J	Introduction to Jewish Literature and Culture	5

Upper-Division Courses

Three upper-division Jewish studies core courses:

HIS 155	History of Modern Israel	5
HIS 163B	Genesis: A History	5
HIS 172A	German History	5
HIS 172B	German Film, 1919-1945	5
HIS 178E	Modern Jewish Intellectual History	5
HIS 185C	Communism, Nationalism, and Zionism: Comparative Radical Jewish Politics	5
HIS 185I	Latin American Jewish History in the Modern Period	5
HIS 185J	The Modern Jewish Experience	5
HIS 185K	Jewish Life in Eastern Mediterranean Port Cities	5
HIS 185L	Where Civilizations Met--Jews, Judaism, and the Iberian Peninsula	5
HIS 185M	Zionism: An Intellectual History	5
HIS 185O	The Holocaust and the Arab World	5
HAVC 135E	Jewish Identity and Visual Representation	5
JWST 185N /HIS 185N	The Holocaust in a Digital World	5
LGST 114	Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System	5
LGST 115	Law and the Holocaust	5
LIT 118A	Hebrew Bible	5
LIT 164A	Jewish Travel Narratives	5
LIT 164B	Hebrew Poetry	5
LIT 164C	Global Jewish Writing	5
LIT 164D	Jewish Diaspora, Ethnicity, and Urban Life	5
LIT 164G	Literature and the Holocaust	5
LIT 164H	Jewish Writers and the European City	5
LIT 164J	Jewish Writers and the American City	5
LIT 181A	Biblical Hebrew, Part 1	5
LIT 181B	Biblical Hebrew, Part 2	5
PHIL 148	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.

HIS 2A	The World to 1500	5
HIS 2B	The World Since 1500	5
HIS 70A	Modern European History, 1500-1815	5
HIS 70B	Modern European History, 1815-present	5
HIS 78	Modern Authoritarianism in Europe and Beyond	5
HIS 167A	The First World War	5
HIS 167B	The Second World War in Europe	5
HIS 172C	History of German Film, 1945 to Present	5
HIS 176	Eastern Europe, 1848-2000	5
HIS 178A	European Intellectual History: The Enlightenment	5
HIS 178B	European Intellectual History: The 19th Century	5
HIS 178C	European Intellectual History, 1870-1970	5
HIS 184B	Racism and Antiracism in Europe: From 1870 to the Present	5
JWST 199	Tutorial	5
LIT 112I	Kafka in Translation	5
MUSC 80I	Music of Modern Israel	5
MUSC 80T	Mizrach: Jewish Music in the Lands of Islam	5
MUSC 80Y	Music, Anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust	5
MUSC 81P	History of Jewish Music	5