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: A Global Perspective | 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 |