Courses
JWST Minor Requirements:
in addition to JWST 2003, twelve (12) hours of Jewish Studies electives are needed. Other courses with significant Jewish Studies-related content and the possibility for an additional Jewish Studies project (for example Religious Studies courses, Middle East Studies courses, or appropriate literature or cinema courses), subject to approval by the chair of the Jewish Studies program, will also be considered.
The Holocaust might seem far away from us--but it isn't. It affected nearly everything we think about, and continues to affect us today. In this seminar, we will look at how the Holocaust connects to numerous topics, from music and mathematics to Southern history, African and African American Studies, immigration law and gaming. Students will focus on a research project of their own interest. Grad students will conduct additional Jewish Studies research.
Taught by Dr. Jennifer Hoyer. Tues/Thurs 2:00 - 3:15. jhoyer@uark.edu
This seminar examines multiethnic, multilingual, multi denominational layers of Ukrainian history and culture during the last two hundred years. It explores themes of ethnic violence, blood libel accusations, pogroms, revolution, Civil War, WWI, the Holodomor, WWII, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and the current war. The course includes such writers as Gogol, Bergelson, Babel, Ansky, and Grossman, who wrote in Ukrainian, Yiddish, Hebrew, and Russian. All readings are in English.
Taught by Dr. Nadja Berkovich. Tues/Thurs 2:00 - 3:15. nadezdab@uark.edu
jhoyer@uark.edu
JWST 475V Independent Investigations in Jewish Studies
MRST 3013 - Special Topics in Medieval Studies:Representations of Jews in the Middle Ages
GERM 4013 - Germany and the Holocaust: The Significance of the Holocaust in Differentiated Contexts
HIST 3043 - History of the Modern Middle East
HIST 3473 - Palestine and Israel in Modern Times
HIST 4143 - Intellectual History of Europe Since the Enlightenment
HIST 4493 - Religion in America to 1860
GREK 2003 - Plato's Apology of Socrates or Greek New Testament or Both
GREK 4093 - Biblical and Patristic Greek
HUMN 425V Colloquium The Land of Israel in Jewish Thought
HUMN 425V Colloquium Jewish-Christian Relations
HUMN 425V Colloquium Intensive Biblical Hebrew
WLIT 3623 - The Bible as Literature