Inventory of Undergraduate Courses

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*Courses marked with an asterisk (*) are not counted toward the requirement of no fewer than 18 credits in advanced courses for majors in this department.

§Independent work means not less than three additional hours each week of conference, research, independent reading, and writing as assigned by the instructor. The student's grade is determined in part by the successful completion of this independent work.

In 2010, the college transitioned to a new course numbering system in preparation for the migration to the CUNYfirst platform. Old course numbers - if available - are provided in the parenthesis after the "/" symbol.

• The Jewish Diaspora (JUST 1025)
• Anti-Semitism: The Longest Hatred (JUST 1095)
• Classical Jewish Texts: Moving Toward Modernity (JUST 1145)
• Jewish Approaches to Ethical Issues (JUST 2017)
• American Jewish History (JUST 2047)
• Jews of New York (JUST 2085)
• Yiddish Short Stories and Poetry in Translation (JUST 3624)
• Mishnah (JUST 4027)

Judaic Studies
• Introduction to Judaic Studies (JUST *1001)
• Introduction to the Hebrew Bible (Old Testament/TaNaKh) (JUST 2510)
• Land and Cultures of Israel (JUST 3011)
• Jewish Religion and Tradition (JUST 3012)
• From Ghetto to Emancipation (JUST 3013)
• Introduction to the Talmud (JUST 3014)
• Midrash (JUST 3015)
• Modern Jewish Biographies (JUST 3016)
• The Jewish Woman (JUST 3017)
• Sex and Gender in Judaism (JUST 3020)
• Tower of Babel: Syriac Christianity in Its Babylonian and Rabbinic Contexts (JUST 3021)
• Searching for God: Ancient Greeks, Jews, and Christians (JUST 3022)
• The Bible They Didn?t Publish (JUST 3023)
• Individual versus Community: Struggling with Spinoza & Hashing it out with Herzl in Modern Jewish Thought (JUST 3031)
• Maimonides: Philosopher, Legalist, Physician (JUST 3033)
• Medieval Jewish History (JUST 3035)
• Mystics, Pietists, and Heretics: Topics in Early Modern Jewish History (JUST 3036)
• The Hasidic Movement: Its History and Literature (JUST 3037)
• Messianic Ideas and Movements in Jewish History (JUST 3038)
• Golems, Dybbuks and the Supernatural in Modern Jewish Literature and Culture (JUST 3042 )
• The Shtetl in History and Literature (JUST 3046)
• Jews of Latin America (JUST 3048)
• History of the Holocaust (JUST 3050)
• Readings in Talmud (JUST 3065)
• History of Zionism (JUST 3115)
• Black-Jewish Activism: Coalitions in America (JUST 3124)
• Sages and Scholars (JUST 3135)
• Business Practices and the Jewish Tradition (JUST 3205)
• Making a Living: Jews, Business, and Professions from Antiquity up to the Modern World (JUST 3206)
• Jews in the Muslim World: Sephardic Heritage (JUST 3405)
• Ashkenazic Heritage: Poland, Russia, and Beyond (JUST 3465)
• Jews of Brooklyn (JUST 3489)
• Holocaust Literature (JUST 3535)
• Introduction to Israeli Literature in Translation (JUST 3631)
• Studies in Jewish Customs (JUST 4018)
• Contemporary Issues in Halakhah (JUST 4020)
• Job and the Problem of Evil (JUST 4022)
• The Dead Sea Scrolls (JUST 4024)
• Intermediate Talmud (JUST 4030)
• Kabbalah and Messianism (JUST 4034)
• Religion and the Holocaust: During and After (JUST 4054)
• Seminar in Special Topics (JUST 4071)
• Italian Jewry (JUST 4435)
• Summer Archaeological Field School in Israel (Intensive Program) (JUST 4701)
• Special Topics (JUST 4751)
• Special Topics (JUST 4752)
• Independent Researches I (JUST 5531W)
• Independent Researches II (JUST 5532W)
• Independent Study I (JUST 5581)
• Independent Study II (JUST 5582)

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