A minimum of fifteen credit hours is required to graduate with a minor in Jewish Studies. Courses for the minor are approved by the Advisory Committee of the Jewish Studies Program. The courses must be from at least two departments, at least three must be upper level courses
(200 level or above). No more than six credit hours of Hebrew or another Jewish language can be counted toward the minimum number of courses required.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| COM 339 | Practices of Citizenship * | 3 |
| ENG 364 | Advanced Studies in Literary Criticism * | 3 |
| ENG 371 | American Ethnic Literature * | 3 |
| ENG 377 | American Jewish Literature * | 3 |
| GER 212 | Introduction to German Short Fiction | 3 |
| GES 337 | Myth and National Identity Formation | 3 |
| GER 350 | German-Jewish Literature and Culture | 3 |
| GES 351 | German-Jewish Literature and Culture | 3 |
| HST 235 | The History of European Jewry from the Middle Ages to the Present | 3 |
| HST 236 | The Nazi Holocaust to 1941 (Rise of Nazism, Jewish Responses, Global Reaction) | 3 |
| HST 237 | The Nazi Holocaust from 1941 (War, Genocide, and Aftermath) | 3 |
| HST 239 | Jewish History in the Americas | 3 |
| HST 305 | Medieval & Early Modern Iberia | 3 |
| HST 310 | 20th Century Eastern Europe * | 3 |
| HST 312 | Jews, Greeks and Romans | 3 |
| HST 320 | Write and Record! Diaries and Memoirs of the Nazi Holocaust | 3 |
| HST 321 | Zionism, Palestine, and Israel in Historical Perspective | 3 |
| NLL 111 & NLL 112 | Elementary Hebrew and Elementary Hebrew | 6 |
| NLL 153 | Intermediate Hebrew | 3 |
| NLL 211 & NLL 212 | Hebrew Literature and Hebrew Literature II | 6 |
| NLL 311 | Aramaic | 3 |
| NLL 314 | Readings from the Rabbis | 3 |
| POL 242 | Topics in Comparative Politics (The Politics of Exile or The Politics of Exile and Diaspora) * | 3 |
| POL 259 | Palestine and the Arab-Israeli Conflict | 3 |
| REL 113 | Introduction to Jewish Traditions | 3 |
| REL 308 | Sacred Scripture in the Traditions of Abraham | 3 |
| REL 310 | The Prophetic Literature | 3 |
| REL 312 | The Critical Study of the Pentateuch | 3 |
| REL 315 & REL 316 | Field Research in Biblical Archeology and Field Research in Biblical Archeology | 6 |
| REL 317 | Wisdom Literature * | 3 |
| REL 328 | Jewish-Christian Relations and the New Testament | 3 |
| REL 355 | Jewish Identities: Religion, Race, and Rights | 3 |
| REL 356 | Faces of Modern Judaism | 3 |
| REL 357 | Jews in the United States | 3 |
| SPA 331 | Medieval Spain: A Cultural and Literary Perspective * | 3 |
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Indicates the course must be approved by the instructor and the Jewish Studies director.