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CLA: Jewish Studies

Caspersen School of Graduate Studies

Undergraduate Required Courses

(1) Jewish Studies 33:   Perspectives on the Holocaust:
A Multidisciplinary Core Course

This course provides multiple perspectives on the Holocaust, the near extermination of European Jewry and the brutal persecution of an extended mosaic of victims. As a watershed event, the Holocaust has radically affected our fundamental conceptions of human nature, the dimensions of evil, religious faith, the uses and abuses of language, and the moral and political outlook for the future. Readings span the disciplines of history, psychology, literature, theology, and political science, each providing its own distinctive illumination. Course requirements include exams, papers, journal entries, and a field trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
(Offered every spring semester)

A study of world war and the great dictators in the 20th-century Europe. Focuses on the failures of interwar diplomacy and the rise of totalitarianism in the Soviet Union, Italy, Spain, and Germany. Devotes special attention to the Russian revolution, Stalin's terror, the Nazi Holocaust, and the peace settlement of 1945.
(Offered every spring semester)

A study of the Jewish experience through history, as displayed through secular and sacred texts as well as through artistic expressions of this experience. Introduces religious/ethnic customs and practices.
(Offered every spring semester)

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A study of the social and cultural experiences of Jews and Jewish communities from the Enlightenment to the present. Explores the diversity of Jewish experiences in Western Europe, Russia, America, the Arab lands, and Israel, beginning with a survey of the major developments in European and American history that have shaped Jewish identities.
(Offered every other fall semester)

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