Jewish Studies (JWST)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.
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- Schedule of Classes - January 19, 2016 6:14PM EST
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Classes
JWST 1101
Course Description
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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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MTWRF White Hall B14
Instructors
Shoer, S
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Additional Information
For scheduling conflicts, contact instructor.
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 1101
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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- MTWRF White Hall B14
Instructors
Shoer, S
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Additional Information
For scheduling conflicts, contact instructor.
JWST 1103
Course Description
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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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWR White Hall B14
Instructors
Shoer, S
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Additional Information
For scheduling conflicts, contact instructor.
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 1103
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWR White Hall B14
Instructors
Shoer, S
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Additional Information
For scheduling conflicts, contact instructor.
JWST 1913
Course Description
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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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- MW Noyes Lodge - Beebe Lake 102
Instructors
Battig von Wittelsbach, K
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Additional Information
For more information about First-year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute
JWST 2501
Course Description
The course will provide an introduction to the kosher and halal food laws and their application to the American food industry with limited coverage and home practices. The distance-learning component examines ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FDSC 2500
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Morrison Hall 146
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Regenstein, J
JWST 2601
Course Description
The pyramids and mummies of Egypt, the ziggurats of Babylonia, and the armies of Assyria are all part of the legacy of the ancient Near East. This course serves as a basic introduction to the history, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 2601
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Rockefeller Hall 103
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Tenney, J
JWST 2629
Course Description
This course provides a literary and historical introduction to the earliest Christian writings, most of which eventually came to be included in the New Testament. Through the lens of the gospel narratives ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 2613, NES 2629, RELST 2629
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 142
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Haines-Eitzen, K
JWST 2661
Course Description
A survey of the history and development of ships and seafaring as revealed by shipwrecks, boat burials, texts, art, and other evidence. The role of nautical technology and seafaring among the maritime ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 2661, NES 2661
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Malott Hall 228-Bache Aud
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Monroe, C
JWST 2674
Course Description
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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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW Ives Hall 105
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Fahmy, Z
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- F Lincoln Hall B08
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Stepp, R
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- F Lincoln Hall B08
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Stepp, R
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- F Rockefeller Hall B16
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Lemoine, P
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- F Rockefeller Hall 127
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Szabla, C
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- F White Hall B14
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Lemoine, P
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 283
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Szabla, C
JWST 2687
Course Description
Centrally located between two continents; the Middle East is drawn by nature to many environmental challenges that are related 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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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR White Hall 106
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Ababneh, L
JWST 2711
Course Description
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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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Baker Laboratory 219
Instructors
Case, H
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- R Lincoln Hall B08
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Staff
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- F Comstock Hall-Academic II B106
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Staff
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- F Lincoln Hall B08
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Staff
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- R Goldwin Smith Hall 122
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Staff
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- R Hollister Hall 372
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Staff
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- F Hollister Hall 362
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Staff
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- F Uris Hall G88
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Staff
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- R Morrill Hall 110
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Staff
JWST 3101
Course Description
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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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- MW White Hall 114
Instructors
Scharf, N
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Additional Information
For scheduling conflicts, contact instructor.
JWST 3108
Course Description
This course is intended to continue the development of all aspects of the language. Emphasis on reading and discussion of Modern Literary works. Reading include adapted as well as authentic literary and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 3108
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Credits and Grading Basis
2-4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- T White Hall 114
Instructors
Scharf, N
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Additional Information
For scheduling conflicts, contact instructor.
JWST 3629
Course Description
A weekly seminar that may be taken in addition to NES 2629 - New Testament/Early Christian Literatures 357492. The seminar will provide an opportunity to read portions of the New Testament and other early ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 3629, NES 3629, RELST 3629
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
JWST 3687
Course Description
This seminar examines the history of the United States' involvement with the conflict between Israelis and Arabs, from 1948 to the present. Recently a great deal of attention has been paid to political ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3687, GOVT 3687, NES 3687
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- M Washington, DC
Instructors
Brann, R
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Additional Information
Taught in Washington, DC.
Department Consent Required (Add)
JWST 3697
Course Description
This course examines the history of the conflict between two peoples with claims to the same land (Palestine/Israel), from the rise of their national movements at the turn of the 20th century and their ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3977, NES 3697, SOC 3970
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G64-Kau Aud
Instructors
Brann, R
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Additional Information
Open to all students, including freshmen.
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- F White Hall B06
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Alhabian, R
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- F Lincoln Hall 117
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Alhabian, R
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- F Kennedy Hall 105
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Epstein, E
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- F White Hall B02
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Kovacs, D
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- F Goldwin Smith Hall 144
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Epstein, E
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- F White Hall B14
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Kovacs, D
JWST 3720
Course Description
This course will employ a range of methods in approaching the subject of women in ancient Israel. We will use biblical, archaeological, and ancient Near Eastern textual evidence to reconstruct aspects ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 3720, NES 6720, RELST 3720
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 104
Instructors
Monroe, L
JWST 4180
Course Description
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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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G20
Instructors
Zacher, S
JWST 4520
Course Description
This course at the intersection of studies in Jewish and urban culture draws on a wide range of textual and other evidence, from the Babylonian Talmud to contemporary American literature, to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4620, ANTHR 7620, JWST 7520, NES 4520, NES 7520
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- R Uris Hall 382
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Boyarin, J
JWST 4545
Course Description
From the ringing of Tibetan singing bowls to the quiet of desert monasticism, religious imagination and ritual is replete with sound and silence. Cityscapes resound with church bells and calls from the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 4644, MUSIC 4345, NES 4545, NES 7545, RELST 4545
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- T Lincoln Hall B08
Instructors
Haines-Eitzen, K
JWST 4739
Course Description
The meaning of the Talmud has been a hotly debated topic by both Jews and Christians for more than 1500 years. This course will use a series of animated short films based on stories found in the Talmud ... view course details
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Graded)
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- W White Hall B06
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Septimus, Z
JWST 4950
Course Description
In 1615, Cervantes published the Second Part of his already famous Don Quixote. Four hundred years later, Spanish anthropologists have been excavating the crypt of a Madrid church in order to recover ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4550, NES 4950, SPAN 4550
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- T Morrill Hall 110
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Garces, M
JWST 6180
Course Description
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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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G20
Instructors
Zacher, S
JWST 7520
Course Description
This course at the intersection of studies in Jewish and urban culture draws on a wide range of textual and other evidence, from the Babylonian Talmud to contemporary American literature, to ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4620, ANTHR 7620, JWST 4520, NES 4520, NES 7520
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Student Option)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Uris Hall 382
Instructors
Boyarin, J