The Courses

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Hebrew Language & Literature Courses

110, 120 Elementary Modern Hebrew I & II
111, 121 Elementary Biblical Hebrew I & II
126, 246 Intensive Modern Hebrew I & II
230, 240 Intermediate Modern Hebrew I & II
301, 302 Advanced Modern Hebrew I & II
344, 345 Hebrew through the Media I & II
351, 352 Readings in Modern Hebrew I & II
361, 362 Modern Hebrew Literature I & II

Judaic Studies Courses

101 The Jewish Experience I: Ancient to Medieval (HS, DG) 4 cr
102 The Jewish Experience II: Medieval to Modern (HS, DG) 4 cr
301 The Bible and Archaeology
305 Judaism and Christianity in the Ancient World (HS)
313 Transformation and the Jews: Jewish History Through Biography
318 Family and Sexuality in Jewish History and Culture (HS)  4 cr
319 Representing the Holocaust (AL, DG) 4 cr
320 Jewish Humor (AT, DG) 4 cr
322 American Diversity  (HS, DU) 4 cr
323 Jewish Utopia/Dystopia
324 Slavery in Comparative Religious Perspective (HS, DG) 4 cr
325 Jews, Christians and Muslims in the Middle Ages (HS, G) 4 cr
326 Sustainability in Comparative Religious Perspectives (HS, DG) 4 cr
333 Jewish Philosophers of the 20th Century
335 The Jewish Experience in Europe
343 American Jewish Diversity (HS, G)
344 Film and Society in Israel (AT, DG) 4 cr
345 Jews and the Challenges of Modernity (HS, DG) 4 cr
350 Jewish Law and Society (SB) 4 cr
353 Sephardic Cultures and Literatures of the Spanish Diaspora
354 Film, Theater, Jews (AT, DG) 4 cr
360 Biblical Tales and Legends
363 Religion and State (4 cr)
364 Cinema of the Holocaust (HS, DG), 4 cr
365 Antisemitism in Historical Perspective (HS, DG), 4 cr
366 Modern Israel: History, Society, Culture
367 Israel in the 20th Century: Society and Literature
373 Jewish Travelers and Travel Liars: Exploration and Imagination, Ancient to Modern Times (HS, DG) 4 cr
375 The Jewish Experience in the Atlantic World (HS, DG) 4 cr 
376 Post-Holocaust Thought, 4 cr
377 Popular Culture in Israel and Palestine (AT) 4 cr
383 Women, Gender, Judaism, 4 cr
385 The Jews of Eastern Europe (HS, DG)  4 cr
386 Jewish Art (AT, DG) 4 cr
387 The Holocaust (HS, DG) 4 cr
394MI Major Issues in Jewish Life (IE)

History

387 History of the Holocaust (HS, DG) 4 cr
390C Jewish Mysticism
390I Popular Culture in Israel and Palestine
390K Jews in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
391B Jewish-American Literature
391C The Proverb
391E The Holocaust and Jewish Identity
391F Jewish Women Writers
392D Judaism, Secularism, Modernity
392F Secularization in Modern Israel
392L Jews of Muslim Lands: Responses to Modernity
393J American Jewish History
394C Ritual and Belief in Judaism

Anthropology

397AA Archaeology of Israel & Palestine
397J Observing Jewish Cultures
397R Jewish Folklore
494JI Jews in Greco-Roman Antiquity (IE) 4 cr

Yiddish Language & Literature Courses

101, 102 Elementary Yiddish I & II
197A Introduction to Yiddish
197S Yiddish Songs
397A Readings in Yiddish Literature and Culture