Jewish Studies (JWST)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.
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- Schedule of Classes - January 14, 2015 6:16PM EST
- Course Catalog - January 14, 2015 6:21PM EST
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JWST 1101
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Intended for beginners. Provides a thorough grounding in reading, writing, grammar, oral comprehension, and speaking. Students who complete the course are able to function in basic situations ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 1101
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MTWRF White Hall B14
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Shoer, S
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Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 1101
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MTWRF White Hall B14
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Shoer, S
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JWST 1103
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Sequel to NES 1101-NES 1102. Continued development of reading, writing, grammar, oral comprehension, and speaking skills. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 1103
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MTWR White Hall B14
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Shoer, S
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Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 1103
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MTWR White Hall B14
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Shoer, S
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JWST 1913
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The Jewish community of Rome is the oldest one in all of Europe, dating back to 200 B. C., and the authors of some of the most important twentieth century works of Italian literature are Jewish. In this ... view course details
FWS Session. Combined with: ITAL 1113
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3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MW Noyes Lodge - Beebe Lake G03
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Battig von Wittelsbach, K
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JWST 2634
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This course examines the cultural and historical interaction of Muslims and Jews from the emergence of Islam in the seventh century through the classical age of Islam down to the turn of the thirteenth ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 2634, COML 2634, NES 2634, RELST 2634
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR White Hall 106
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Brann, R
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JWST 2644
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In this course, students will survey the development of Judaism from its roots in ancient Mesopotamia to modernity. Rather than thinking of Judaism as static and easily definable, we will explore a history ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 2644, RELST 2644
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW White Hall 106
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Grossberg, D
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JWST 2674
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This course examines major trends in the evolution of the Middle East in the modern era. Focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries and ending with the "Arab Spring," we will consider Middle East history ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ASRC 2674, GOVT 2747, HIST 2674, NES 2674
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW Malott Hall 253
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Kinney, D
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- F Lincoln Hall B08
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Staff
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- F White Hall B14
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- F White Hall B14
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- F White Hall 104
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 158
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- F Rockefeller Hall 189
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JWST 2687
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Centrally located between two continents; the Middle East is drawn by nature to many environmental challenges that are re-lated to its unequal distribution of natural resources associated with its geological ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: BSOC 2681, GOVT 2583, NES 2687
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Morrill Hall 106
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Ababneh, L
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JWST 2711
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This course provides a survey of Europe's 20th-century history with special emphasis on violence and its interpretation. Types of violence to be considered include warfare, terrorism, genocide, uprisings, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 2716, HIST 2711
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 132-HEC Aud
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Case, H
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- F Stimson Hall 119
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- R Kennedy Hall 105
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- F Uris Hall G88
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- F Uris Hall 498
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JWST 2777
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This course offers an overview of Rabbinic Literature from the first century BCE through the eight century of the Common Era. Each class will combine broad historical background with the close reading ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 2631, NES 2777, RELST 2777
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3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MWF White Hall 110
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Septimus, Z
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JWST 3101
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Successful completion of NES 3101 fulfills Option 1 language requirement. Advanced study of the Hebrew Language both orally and through the analysis of mostly unedited texts of social, political, and cultural ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 3101
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW White Hall 114
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Scharf, N
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JWST 3108
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This course is intended to continue the development of all aspects of the language. Emphasis, however, will be placed on speaking skills and understanding by using text material relevant to Israeli contemporary ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 3108
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2 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- T White Hall 114
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Scharf, N
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JWST 3637
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This course traces the historical development of Christianity from its roots in 1st century Palestinian Judaism to the emergence of Islam in the early 7th century, with special emphasis on the period prior ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 3637, MEDVL 3637, NES 3637, NES 6637, RELST 3637
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Lincoln Hall 107
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Haines-Eitzen, K
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JWST 3700
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This course will analyze the meaning of the Holocaust from three vantage points: that of European history; that of Jewish history; and that of those states and religious institutions that shared responsibility ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 3700
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Morrill Hall 106
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Caron, V
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JWST 3767
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In the media we read about conflict in Iraq between Sunnis, Shiites, and Kurds; strife between Muslims and Copts in Egypt; rebellion in Syria against the ruling Alawite minority; and violence between Israelis ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: GOVT 3766, NES 3767, SOC 3760
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR White Hall 110
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Starr, D
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JWST 4180
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When did anti-Semitism begin? The medieval period invented shocking fictions about Jews--that they killed and ate Christian babies; that they desecrated the Host; that they were the murderers of Christ. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4180, ENGL 6180, JWST 6180, MEDVL 4180, MEDVL 6180
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 236
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Zacher, S
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JWST 4410
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There is an astonishing discrepancy between our perception of the Holocaust as a central event of the twentieth century and its marginal place in postwar culture. It is during those years, nevertheless, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4415, COML 6415, FREN 4415, FREN 6415, GERST 4411, GERST 6411, GOVT 4786, GOVT 6786, HIST 4233, HIST 6233, JWST 6415, ROMS 4410, ROMS 6410
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- T White Hall 104
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Traverso, E
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JWST 4557
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How and why do landscapes come to inspire the religious imagination? And how do sensory landscapes, more specifically-territories of sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell-inform, inflect, and engage the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4677, MEDVL 4557, NES 4557, RELST 4557
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- T White Hall B06
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Haines-Eitzen, K
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JWST 4670
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Early states emerged when select groups gained control over wealth and power and institutionalized that control. How this was accomplished is a question of political economy that we can approach ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 4670, NES 4670
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall 156
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Monroe, C
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JWST 4910
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An autonomous, diasporic Jewish culture flourished in Eastern Europe from the early modern period through the mid-twentieth century and beyond. It is the ancestral culture of the vast majority of American ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4810, ANTHR 7810, JWST 7910, NES 4910, NES 7910
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- M McGraw Hall 215
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Boyarin, J
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JWST 6180
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When did anti-Semitism begin? The medieval period invented shocking fictions about Jews--that they killed and ate Christian babies; that they desecrated the Host; that they were the murderers of Christ. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ENGL 4180, ENGL 6180, JWST 4180, MEDVL 4180, MEDVL 6180
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 236
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Zacher, S
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JWST 6221
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This seminar presents an introduction to Judeo-Arabic through the study of selected classical texts and the study of its grammar and lexicon. Because Judeo-Arabic combines elements of Hebrew and Arabic ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 6221
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
JWST 6415
Course Description
There is an astonishing discrepancy between our perception of the Holocaust as a central event of the twentieth century and its marginal place in postwar culture. It is during those years, nevertheless, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4415, COML 6415, FREN 4415, FREN 6415, GERST 4411, GERST 6411, GOVT 4786, GOVT 6786, HIST 4233, HIST 6233, JWST 4410, ROMS 4410, ROMS 6410
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4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- T White Hall 104
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Traverso, E
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JWST 7910
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An autonomous, diasporic Jewish culture flourished in Eastern Europe from the early modern period through the mid-twentieth century and beyond. It is the ancestral culture of the vast majority of American ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4810, ANTHR 7810, JWST 4910, NES 4910, NES 7910
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4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- M McGraw Hall 215
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Boyarin, J
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