Graduate Certificate in Jewish Studies

The Program in Jewish Studies is an innovative and deeply interdisciplinary program that explores Jewish culture, history, society and thought across disciplinary borders and in a global context. This certificate program allows graduate students across campus interested in Jewish studies to explore Jewish culture, history, society, and thought in a number of disciplines. We also provide intensive mentoring of graduate research and writing projects through our graduate colloquium.

Admission

This graduate certificate is open to all currently matriculated graduate students. They may apply for the graduate certificate at any point in their graduate career at CU. Students may apply by following the link to the admission form below.

Apply for Admission to the Graduate Certificate in Jewish Studies  

Completion

Please fill out this form to indicate if you have completed the Graduate Certificate in Jewish Studies. If all elements of your completion application are approved by Jewish Studies' Director of Graduate Studies, we will submit a request for your certificate to be added to your transcript.

Apply for Completion of Graduate Certificate in Jewish Studies 

The above buttons will redirect to a Google Form. Please fill out the proper form to be considered for admission or completion of the graduate certificate. 

Requirements for Completion

For more information, please contact Professor Hilary Kalisman, Director of Graduate Studies, at
 hilary.kalisman@colorado.edu

Coursework

Successful completion of 3 graduate courses (9 credit hours) with a grade of B or higher from our list of approved graduate courses, issued every semester, which comprises graduate courses crosslisted in the Program in Jewish Studies as well as approved courses taught by faculty in the Program in Jewish Studies. If you think a course is missing from this list, please contact the Director of Graduate Studies.

Students may petition the graduate studies committee to have a maximum of one graduate level course (including independent study courses) from outside this list, if that course contains significant Jewish Studies content and the student’s completed work for that course is related to Jewish Studies.

  • JWST 5800 Ethics, Medicine, and the Holocaust: Legacies in Health and Society
  • JWST 5900 Graduate Independent Study in Jewish Studies
  • RUSS 5401 Russian Jewish Experience
  • HIST 5544 History of Yiddish Culture
  • HIST 5803 Modern European Jewish History
  • HIST 6012 Readings in European History (depending on the semester syllabus)
  • HIST 6800 Readings in Global History: Global History of Genocide (depending on the semester syllabus)
  • HIST 6800 Readings in Global History: Microhistory (depending on the semester syllabus)
  • RLST 5170 God and Politics in Jewish and Christian Thought
  • RLST 5180 Is God Dead?
  • RLST 5190 Love and Desire
  • RLST 5260 Topics in Judaism
  • ENGL 5109 Literature and Culture of the United States: Mystics and Messiahs in Early America
  • GRMN 5410 Early 20th-Century German Society: The Ruins of Modernity
  • RLST 5820 Mediterranean Religious Society
  • RLST 5820 Medieval Spain: Religion, Culture and Ethnicity
  • WGST 6290 Sex, Politics, Religion in the U.S. 

Two semesters of participation in the Program in Jewish Studies Colloquium, which meets three times per semester. Participation will be defined as attendance at two colloquium sessions in a given semester, and presentation of a work in progress during that semester.