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JWST 408 Honors Seminar in Jewish Studies (3). Prerequisite: permission of department. Junior standing. An in-depth exploration of a theme in Jewish history, literature, culture or thought. Course subject and readings will vary from year to year, but will generally cut across periods, locations, or disciplines. Students are expected to engage the course material critically and to use the seminar as an opportunity to develop an independent research agenda.
JWST 409 Research Seminar in Jewish Studies (3-4). Prerequisite: Two upper-level courses in an appropriate area of Jewish Studies or permission of department. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Formerly JWST 309. A capstone course for Jewish Studies. Guides students through advanced source material and subject matter, research skills, and presentation techniques. A substantive paper based on independent research and analysis is one expected outcome.
JWST 419 Special Topics in Jewish Studies (3). Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs.
JWST 451 Issues in Jewish Ethics and Law (3). Prerequisite: three credits in philosophy or Jewish studies (excluding Hebrew language), or permission of department. Also offered as PHIL 433. Not open to students who have completed PHIL 433 or HEBR 451. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: PHIL 433 or JWST 451 or HEBR 451. Formerly HEBR 451. Philosophical and meta-legal questions concerning the nature of Jewish law and its relation to morality.
JWST 452 The Golden Age of Jewish Philosophy (3). Prerequisite: three credits in Philosophy or permission of department. Also offered as PHIL 417. Not open to students who have completed PHIL 417. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST 452 or PHIL 417. Jewish philosophy from Maimonides in the twelfth century to the expulsion of the Jews from Spain at the end of the fifteenth century. Topics include the limitations of human knowledge, creation of the world, foreknowledge and free will, and the existence of God.
JWST 453 Philosophy of Spinoza (3). Prerequisite: six credits in philosophy or permission of department. Also offered as PHIL 424. Not open to students who have completed PHIL 424. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST 453 or PHIL 424. An investigation of the metaphysical, ethical, and political thought of the seventeenth-century philosopher, Benedict Spinoza. JWST 466 Readings in Medieval Hebrew (3). Prerequisite: HEBR 212 or permission of department. Not open to students who have completed HEBR 472. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HEBR 472 or JWST 466. Formerly HEBR 472. Introductory readings in Medieval Hebrew texts. Language of instruction English; all texts in Hebrew.
JWST 466 Readings in Medieval Hebrew (3). Prerequisite: HEBR212 or permission of department. Not open to students who have completed HEBR472. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HEBR472 or JWST466. Formerly HEBR 472. Introductory readings in Medieval Hebrew texts. Language of instruction English; all texts in Hebrew.
JWST 468 Readings in the Hebrew Bible (3). Prerequisite: HEBR 212 or equivalent. Formerly HEBR 441 and HEBR 442. Not open to students who have completed HEBR 441 and HEBR 442. Readings in the Hebrew text of the Bible. Emphasis in close reading, grammar analysis, and modern interpretations of the Bible. Language of instruction English; all texts in Hebrew.
JWST 469 Readings in Rabbinic Hebrew (3). Prerequisite: HEBR 212 or equivalent. Repeatable to 9 credits if content differs. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: HEBR 471 or JWST 469. Introductory readings in Mishnaic and Talmudic Hebrew texts. Language of instruction English; all texts in Hebrew.
JWST 471 Modern Hebrew Literature in Translation (3).
An exploration of modern Hebrew prose, poetry, and literary essays written from the 1880s through the present in Europe, Palestine, and Israel. An investigation of the challenges confronting authors such as Mendele Mokher Sforim, Avraham Mapu, Chaim Nahman Bialik, Dvorah Baron, S.Y. Agnon, and David Fogel as they tried to create a contemporary secular literature out of an ancient sacred language. All texts in English translation.
JWST 491 Judaism and the Construction of Gender (3). Also offered as WMST491. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST419X, JWST491 or WMST491. Formerly JWST 419X.
The study of Jewish culture, religious practice, communal authority, and literature through the frame of such critical categories of analysis as gender, sexuality, masculinity, power, ethics, and the feminine.
JWST 493 Jewish Women in International Perspective (3). Prerequisite: WMST 200 or WMST 250. Also offered as WMST 493. Credit will be granted for only one of the following: JWST 493 or WMST 493. Using memoirs, essays, poetry, short stories, films, music and the visual arts, course will interrogate what it means/has meant to define oneself as a Jewish woman across lines of difference. Focus is largely on the secular dimensions of Jewish women's lives but will also explore the implications of Jewish law and religious practices for Jewish women. Our perspective will be international, including Ashkenazi and Sephardi women.
JWST 499 Independent Study in Jewish Studies (1-3). Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 6 credits if content differs. |
