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 31003 - Introduction to Jewish Languages
JWST 40003 - Modern Jewish Thought
JWST 40103 - Contemporary Jewish Thought
JWST 4700V - Special topics in Jewish Studies
JWST 4750V - Independent Investigations in Jewish Studies
MRST 30103 - Special Topics in Medieval Studies:Representations of Jews in the Middle Ages
GERM 40103 - Germany and the Holocaust: The Significance of the Holocaust in Differentiated Contexts
GREK 20103 - Intermediate Ancient Greek I
GREK 40903 - Biblical and Patristic Greek
HIST 30403 - History of the Modern Middle East
HIST 34703 - Palestine and Israel in Modern Times
HIST 41403 - Intellectual History of Europe Since the Enlightenment
HIST 42003 - History of the Holocaust
HIST 44903 - Religion in America to 1860
HUMN 4250V Colloquium The Land of Israel in Jewish Thought
HUMN 4250V Colloquium Jewish-Christian Relations
HUMN 4250V Colloquium Intensive Biblical Hebrew