Jewish Studies
The Program in Jewish Studies explores Jewish culture, history, society, and thought from a broad, interdisciplinary perspective. The program’s faculty are cutting-edge, engaged scholars and teachers from a variety of fields in the humanities and social sciences. Jewish Studies faculty members seek to inspire students and the larger community, both on and off campus, to connect Jewish thought and text to action and people’s lives.
As Jews have spread across the world over the last two millennia, they have influenced and been influenced by the cultures in which they have resided. The study of Jewish culture, society, history, and religion is, by its nature, comparative. Within the liberal arts, the Jewish Studies curriculum is related to many different areas.
The purpose of the program is to familiarize students with the different facets of Jewish civilization and to see how these facets relate to the larger world. In completing the certificate, students will have a competence in a number of areas of Jewish Studies. The certificate provides students with an opportunity to learn more about this new and growing field of scholarship.
| Required Courses | Semester Hours |
| Students must successfully complete, with a grade of C- or better, 24 hours approved for the certificate. This must include one course from each cluster (literature, history, religious studies, and social sciences) as well as one of the following introductory classes: HEBR 2350-3 Introduction to Jewish Culture or HIST 1108-3 Introduction to Jewish History. |
| Regularly offered Jewish Studies courses include: |
| ANTH 4580 The Holocaust: An Anthropological Perspective | 3 |
| ENGL 3312 Bible as Literature | 3 |
| ENGL 3677 Jewish-American Fiction | 3 |
| GRMN 2301 Inside Nazi Germany | 3 |
| GRMN 2502 Representing the Holocaust | 3 |
| GRMN2601 Kafkaesque | 3 |
| GRMN 3501 German-Jewish Writers: From Enlightenment to the Present | 3 |
| GRMN 5803 Ruins of Modernity | 3 |
| GSLL 3401 The Heart of Europe: Filmmakers and Writers in the 20th Century Europe | 3 |
| HEBR 1010 Beginning Modern Hebrew | 4 |
| HEBR 2110 Intermediate Modern Hebrew | 4 |
| HEBR 2350 Introduction to Jewish Culture | 3 |
| HEBR 2551 Jewish World Literature | 3 |
| HEBR 3010 Third Year Modern Hebrew | 3 |
| HEBR 3202 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Judaism | 3 |
| HIST 1108 Introduction to Jewish History | 3 |
| HIST 4348 Topics in Jewish History | 3 |
| HIST 4433 Nazi Germany | 3 |
| HIST 4544 History of Yiddish Culture | 3 |
| HIST 4803 Topics: Modern European Jewish History | 3 |
| PHIL 2800 Topics in Modern Jewish Thought | 3 |
| RLST 2600 Judaism, Christianity, and Islam | 3 |
| RLST 3100 Judaism | 3 |
| RLST 4050/5050 Hebrew Bible | 3 |
| WRTG 3020 After the Holocaust | 3 |
As the Program in Jewish Studies is growing rapidly, new courses are continually being added. Visit www.colorado.edu/jewishstudies for the most current course information.
