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Undergraduate Required Courses

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CLA: Jewish Studies

Caspersen School of Graduate Studies

Undergraduate Elective Courses

Choice of 8 credits from the following:

(1) English 35:  Ethnic Literature: American Jewish Literature

(Offered every other spring semester)

Focus will be on novels, memoirs, poems, and stories dealing with the Holocaust.
(Offered every other spring semester)

(Offered every fall semester)

Critical discussions of issues in contemporary moral philosophy in the areas of applied ethics, normative ethics, and meta-ethics. At the most highly theoretical level are considerations about the meaning of moral terms that give rise to cognitive and non-cognitive theories of ethics. At a more immediate level are problems of practical concern having to do with such issues as euthanasia, abortion, animal rights, and world hunger. Readings are from 20th-century philosophers, most of whom are alive today.
(Offered every spring semester)

An interdisciplinary study of international human rights norms in national and international contexts. Topics will be selected from the following list:universalism and cultural relativism, the correlation of rights and duties, civil and political rights, economic and social rights, intergovernmental and non-governmental institutions, universal and regional regimes, human rights and foreign policy, democratization, women's rights, individual criminal responsibility, development, and the transformed conceptions of statehood and sovereignty.
(Offered every year)

Focus will be on the psychology of perpetrators, survivors, rescuers and bystanders.
(Offered every other spring semester)

(Offered on a periodic basis)

In addition, relevant special topics, courses in any department, independent study and field work projects, January and summer term topics, and other additional courses offered irregularly may be applicable.

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