Jewish Studies (JWST)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.
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Classes
JWST 1102
Course Description
Intended for beginners. Provides a thorough grounding in reading, writing, grammar, oral comprehension, and speaking. Students who complete the course are able to function in basic situations ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HEBRW 1102
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWRF White Hall B14
Instructors
Shoer, S
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Additional Information
For scheduling conflicts, contact instructor.
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HEBRW 1102
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MTWRF White Hall B14
Instructors
Shoer, S
JWST 1987
Course Description
Why were Jews virtually invisible in films produced during the Hollywood's "golden age"? Is this a surprise, given the leading role played by American Jews in founding the studio system? Writing about ... view course details
FWS Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Balch Hall - Tatkon Ctr 3343
Instructors
Shapiro, E
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Additional Information
For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.
JWST 2100
Course Description
The course is aimed at training students in exact and idiomatic Hebrew, expanding vocabulary and usage of grammatical knowledge, and acquiring facility of expression in both conversation and writing. Uses ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HEBRW 2100
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall B14
Instructors
Shoer, S
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Additional Information
For scheduling conflicts, contact instructor.
JWST 2156
Course Description
Does hatred have a history? Historians insist that Europe invented a tradition of hating Jews and Judaism; some go so far as to argue that the destruction of European Jewry during the Holocaust was the ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HIST 2156, RELST 2156
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Litvak, O
JWST 2575
Course Description
This course will survey the cultic practices and beliefs of ancient Babylonia and Assyria, the two major civilizations of Mesopotamia. We will examine the major myths of this region, e.g., Ishtar's Descent ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: NES 2575, NES 6575, RELST 2575
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall G76-Lewis
Instructors
Tenney, J
JWST 2580
Course Description
How is the memory of the Holocaust kept alive by means of the literary and visual imagination? Within the historical context of the Holocaust and how and why it occurred, we shall examine major and widely ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2580, ENGL 2580
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 236
Instructors
Schwarz, D
JWST 2793
Course Description
Film industries in the Middle East, as in much of the rest of the world, emerged out of efforts at the national level. In the Arab world and Israel, the film industries reflect upon struggles ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 2293, NES 2793, PMA 2493, VISST 2193
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 106
Instructors
Starr, D
JWST 3105
Course Description
In this advanced Hebrew course we will be reading selected and relevant articles dealing with life in Israel. Students will focus on language skills and interests while paying attention to vocabulary building, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HEBRW 3105
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W White Hall 114
Instructors
Scharf, N
JWST 3588
Course Description
The purpose of the course is to place the Bible within the context of a larger ancient world that can be explored by systematic excavation of physical remains. Students will become familiar with archaeological ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARKEO 3588, NES 3588, NES 6588, RELST 3588
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MWF White Hall 110
Instructors
Monroe, L
JWST 3655
Course Description
This course examines the historic diversity of the modern Middle East, exploring histories of inter-communal contact and conflict. We begin by investigating the legacy of the Ottoman Empire and the impact ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 3743, NES 3655, NES 6655
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR White Hall 106
Instructors
Starr, D
JWST 3719
Course Description
This course will explore the relationship between DNA and Jewish life. We will conceive of Jews and Judaism broadly, in terms of religious, ethnic, and national discourses as we consider theories of kinship ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 3719, RELST 3719, STS 3719
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Lincoln Hall 107
Instructors
Rock-Singer, C
JWST 4102
Course Description
From the Garden of Eden to Noah's Ark, from Abraham's journey from Haran to Joseph's coat of many colors, the book of Genesis contains stories that are at once familiar to Western readers, and foreign ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: HEBRW 4102, HEBRW 6102, RELST 4102
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: Biblical Hebrew Prose: Genesis
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W Lincoln Hall 117
Instructors
Monroe, L
JWST 4410
Course Description
There is an astonishing discrepancy between our perception of the Holocaust as a central event of the twentieth century and its marginal place in postwar culture. It is during those years, nevertheless, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4415, COML 6415, FREN 4415, FREN 6415, GERST 4411, GERST 6411, GOVT 4786, GOVT 6786, HIST 4233, HIST 6233, JWST 6415, ROMS 4410, ROMS 6410
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Traverso, E
JWST 4473
Course Description
This course combines Jewish religious history with studies in the philosophy of modernity, focusing on changing conceptions of time and history. We will interrogate possible or implicit connections between ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4473, ANTHR 7473, GERST 4473, GERST 7473, JWST 7473, NES 4473, NES 7473
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall 204
Instructors
Boyarin, J
JWST 4533
Course Description
American Jews have frequently been touted as a "model minority." This course will take a more critical look at the historical interactions between Jewish immigration, United States industrialization, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4533, ANTHR 4733, ILRLR 4533, ILRLR 7533, JWST 7533, NES 4533, NES 7533
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Lincoln Hall B08
Instructors
Sampson, E
JWST 4721
Course Description
This course focuses on issues of conflict, peace, and reconciliation in Israel and the Palestinian Territories as well as Sub-Saharan Africa. Both regions exemplify how issues ranging from nationalism ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ASRC 4721, DSOC 4721, GOVT 4723, IARD 4721, NES 4721, STS 4721
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- R Washington, DC
Instructors
Leuenberger, C
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Additional Information
Taught in Washington, DC. This is part of the Cornell in Washington program.
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JWST 4790
Course Description
Spinoza was excommunicated, wrote under death threats, and has remained a scandal to philosophy, psychoanalysis, politics, ethics, literature. "Every philosopher has two philosophies, his own and Spinoza's" ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4090, GERST 4290, GOVT 4769
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR Goldwin Smith Hall 142
Instructors
Waite, G
JWST 4992
Course Description
For undergraduates who wish to obtain research experience or do extensive reading on a special topic. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise ... view course details
JWST 6415
Course Description
There is an astonishing discrepancy between our perception of the Holocaust as a central event of the twentieth century and its marginal place in postwar culture. It is during those years, nevertheless, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 4415, COML 6415, FREN 4415, FREN 6415, GERST 4411, GERST 6411, GOVT 4786, GOVT 6786, HIST 4233, HIST 6233, JWST 4410, ROMS 4410, ROMS 6410
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M McGraw Hall 145
Instructors
Traverso, E
JWST 7473
Course Description
This course combines Jewish religious history with studies in the philosophy of modernity, focusing on changing conceptions of time and history. We will interrogate possible or implicit connections between ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ANTHR 4473, ANTHR 7473, GERST 4473, GERST 7473, JWST 4473, NES 4473, NES 7473
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Uris Hall 204
Instructors
Boyarin, J
JWST 7533
Course Description
American Jews have frequently been touted as a "model minority." This course will take a more critical look at the historical interactions between Jewish immigration, United States industrialization, and ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4533, ANTHR 4733, ILRLR 4533, ILRLR 7533, JWST 4533, NES 4533, NES 7533
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- T Lincoln Hall B08
Instructors
Sampson, E