These general descriptions are for classes that the Jewish Studies department offers.
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JWST 600 General Seminar in Jewish Studies (3)
Introduce graduate students to the fields, problems, and basic methods of research in the comtemporary practice of Jewish Studies. Consideration of chronological and historiographical problems, questions of the development of Jewish thought and literature and Jewish religious and cultural history in four rough chronological periods: Biblical Israel, Judaism in Antiquity, Judaism in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, and Modern Judaism.

JWST 619 Directed Readings in Jewish Studies (3)
Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 12 credits if content differs. Independent Study in Jewish Studies. Readings and papers.

JWST 648 Readings in Jewish History (3)
Repeatable to 09 credits if content differs. Focus on the central issues in Jewish history as well as the key historiographical debates on those issues.

JWST 658 Readings in Jewish Thought and Culture (3) Repeatable to 09 credits if content differs. Examines key issues in the development of Jewish thought and culture.

JWST 678 Readings in Jewish Literature (3)
Repeatable to 09 credits if content differs. Examines selected themes or literatures in the development of Jewish literary traditions.

JWST 699 Independent Graduate Readings in Jewish Studies (1-3) Prerequisite: permission of department. Repeatable to 12 credits if content differs. Independent readings or guided research in a field of Jewish Studies with a member of the Jewish Studies graduate faculty.

JWST 719 Readings in Jewish Studies (3)
Repeatable to any number of credits if content differs. Course exposes students to significant primary and secondary material on selected topics as well as the major methodological problems covered by professional scholars working on these topics.

JWST 799 Masters Thesis Research (1-6)
Repeatable to 6 credits. Research and Writing the Masters Thesis in Jewish Studies.

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