Explores the diversity of Jewish civilizations, culture, philosophy, literature, and practices from ancient to modern times, exploring themes such as ethnicity, religious pluralism, diaspora, acculturation, and state-building.

Carolina Core: GHS

An examination of African American and Jewish American inter-ethnic, historical and contemporary connections and disconnections. Implications for educational, social, and social settings are considered.

Cross-listed course: AFAM 218, EDTE 218

Carolina Core: GSS, VSR

Overview of Jewish experiences, beliefs, practices from a contextual point of view.

Explores language and humor, looking at (i) the linguistic structure and psychology of humor, (ii) changing societal standards for humor, (iii) racial, ethnic, religious, and gender-based humor, and (iv) socio-political questions surrounding the use of these.

Modern study of the Hebrew Bible from historical, literary, and archeological points of view. Reading and analysis of texts in translation.

Film, poetry and literature created in response to the Holocaust as the means for a decades long cultural discussion, in European and American societies, of the moral and religious implications of the Holocaust on our self-understandings as religious and moral beings.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 373, RELG 373

Introduction to the life and legacy of Anne Frank (1929-1945). Analysis of her diary and other texts as historical documents related to WWII and the Holocaust.

The religious, cultural, social, and political conditions that shaped the Jewish experience in the Near East and Europe from Late Antiquity to 1500.

Cross-listed course: HIST 383, RELG 381

Case studies of Jewish history in Europe, America, and the land of Israel, 1500 to the present.

Cross-listed course: HIST 384, RELG 382

Jewish-Muslim relations in the Near East and the US; an exploration of Jewish-Muslim encounters, issues of religious law, politics, radical religious ideologies, and their repercussions for today.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy

Historical investigation of kabbalah, a philosophical system and mystical current common to Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, from the medieval period to the present; focus on its formative role in early modern Western cosmology and science, and its ecological implications today.

Cross-listed course: HIST 388, RELG 388

Examination of experiences of Jews in the United States from Colonial Period to late 20th century, especially Jewish immigration, political behavior, social mobility, religious affiliation, group identity formation, and meaning of Anti-Semitism in American and global contexts.

Symbolic visions, tours of heaven and hell, cosmic battles, divine judgment, messianic figures, prophecy, or other forms of revelation as found in literature, art, or social movements from diverse geographical and historical locations.

Intensive study of special topics in Jewish Studies; may emphasize interdisciplinary themes. Maybe be repeated as content varies by title.

Introduction to Nazi Germany’s systematic mass-murder of Europe’s Jews and other minorities during war. Examination of forces that led to the Holocaust, including scientific racism, Nazi policy implementation, and dynamics of annihilation during war.