Judaic Studies, B.A.
- Judaic Studies, B.A. Program Page
- Judaic Studies, B.A. Four-Year Degree Map for Bulletin Year 2018-2019
- Judaic Studies, B.A. Four-Year Degree Map for Bulletin Year 2019-2020
- Judaic Studies, B.A. Four-Year Degree Map for Bulletin Year 2020-2021
- Judaic Studies, B.A. Four-Year Degree Map for Bulletin Year 2021-2022
Student Learning Outcomes
Students will be able to:
- Situate and analyze primary and secondary sources relating to Jewish History within their historical, political and religious cross-cultural contexts.
- Identify key periods, terms, and geographic areas central to Jewish history and culture.
- Analyze the interrelationship between written and oral teachings (whether legal, mystical, literary, or personal testimonies) at different stages of Jewish history and how these affected Jewish religious and cultural development.
- Recognize the limitations of what we can actually “know” about Jewish history given the expected loss of material over time, the prominence of orality in Jewish culture, and the particularly tumultuous history of this often persecuted and exiled minority.
- Identify and use a variety of scholarly approaches within Judaic Studies, such as social history, literary theory, economics, archaeology, biblical criticism, philology, and gender theory with facility in accessing libraries and archives, both physical and digital, with emphasis on Judaic Studies and relevant contextual studies.
- Read and analyze primary materials in language(s) relevant to their field of study: e.g., Hebrew, Aramaic, Yiddish, Ladino, Arabic, etc.
