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