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Minor

Minor in Jewish Studies

University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science 76 courses

About This Program

Minor The Jewish Studies minor is open to all UC Berkeley students and is designed to give students an overview of some of the major themes in Jewish Studies. Students may choose offerings from a large number of disciplines including arts and humanities, social sciences, and law. After completing an introductory survey course, participants in the minor may take classes, seminars, and language courses, engage in hands-on experiential learning at The Magnes Collection for Jewish Art and Life, and take relevant courses offered in over 20 departments and colleges across campus, including, but not limited to: American Studies; Comparative Literature; Development Practice; Dutch; Economics; Education; German; Geography; Hebrew; History; Jewish Studies; Legal Studies; Letters and Science; Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures; Music, Political Science; Rhetoric; Theater Dance, and Performance Studies; Slavic; Sociology; Spanish; and Yiddish. The program allows students to work closely with members of the faculty, to be mentored by graduate students, and to participate in the intellectual life of the broader Jewish Studies community on campus. Application instructions for the minor . Declaring the Minor For information on declaring the minor, please contact the Center for Jewish Studies here . Visit Group Website

Degree Requirements

Upper Division: Core

Complete at least 1 of the following.

Upper Division: Electives

Complete at least 4 of the following. Any JEWISH 100-196 level course

Code Course Title Credits
COMLIT 120 The Biblical Tradition in Western Literature 4
COMLIT 155 The Modern Period 4
DEVP 246 Transboundary Water Conflict Resolution: The Israeli/Arab Case 3
DUTCH 166 Anne Frank and After: World War II and the Holocaust in the Netherlands 4
DUTCH 176 The Jews of the Low Countries 3
DUTCH C179 The Jews of the Low Countries 3
FRENCH 171A A Concept in French Cultural History 4
GEOG 170 Special Topics in Geography 3
GERMAN 145 Jewish Writers 3
GERMAN 157D Adorno, Benjamin, Habermas 4
GERMAN 158 In Treatment: Freud and His Cultural Legacies 4
GERMAN 168 Yiddish Literature and Culture in Translation 3
GERMAN 185 Thinking in Images 4
GLOBAL 142 Jews and Muslims 4
HEBREW 1A Elementary Hebrew 5
HEBREW 1B Elementary Hebrew 5
HEBREW 20A Intermediate Hebrew 5
HEBREW 20B Intermediate Hebrew 5
HEBREW 100A Advanced Hebrew 3
HEBREW 100B Advanced Hebrew 3
HEBREW 102A Postbiblical Hebrew Texts 3
HEBREW 102B Postbiblical Hebrew Texts 3
HEBREW 104A Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture 3
HEBREW 104B Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture 3
HEBREW 105B The Structure of Modern Hebrew 3
HEBREW 106A Elementary Biblical Hebrew 3
HEBREW 106B Elementary Biblical Hebrew 3
HEBREW 107A Biblical Hebrew Texts 3
HEBREW 107B Biblical Hebrew Texts 3
HEBREW 148A The Art and Culture of the Talmud: Advanced Textual Analysis 3
HEBREW 190B Special Topics in Hebrew 3
HEBREW 201A Advanced Biblical Hebrew Texts 3
HEBREW 201B Advanced Biblical Hebrew Texts 3
HEBREW 202A Advanced Late Antique Hebrew Texts 3
HEBREW 202B Advanced Late Antique Hebrew Texts 3
HEBREW 204A Advanced Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture 3
HEBREW 204B Advanced Modern Hebrew Literature and Culture 3
HEBREW 206 Ancient and Modern Hebrew Literary Texts 3
HISTORY 100M Special Topics in the History of the Middle East 4
HISTORY 103 Proseminar: Problems in Interpretation in the Several Fields of History 0
HISTORY 103U Proseminar: Problems in Interpretation in the Several Fields of History: Comparative History 4
HISTORY 164C Modern European Intellectual History: European Intellectual History 1870 to the Present 4
HISTORY 167C Modern Germany: Germany 1914 to the Present 4
HISTORY 174B Topics in the History of Eastern Europe: Poles and Others: the Making of Modern Poland 4
HISTORY 175B Jews in the Modern World 4
HISTORY 175C Jews and Judaism: From Paris to Jerusalem and Beyond 4
HISTORY 175D Muslim-Jewish Encounters: From the Beginnings of Islam to Today 4
HISTORY 178 History of the Holocaust 4
HISTORY C175A Jewish Civilization: Middle Ages 4
HISTORY C175B Jewish Civilization: Modern Period 4
JEWISH 5 Jewish Life and Literature 4
JEWISH C179 The Jews of the Low Countries 3
LEGALST 174 Comparative Constitutional Law: The Case of Israel 4
LEGALST 190 Seminar on Topics in Law and Society 1-4
MELC 132 Biblical Poetry 4
MELC 135 Literature and History in the Hebrew Bible 4
MELC 137 Modern and Contemporary Jewish Thought 4
MELC 139 Modern Jewish Literatures 4
MELC 190C Special Topics in Fields of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures: Jewish Studies 4
MELC 192C Undergrad Seminar: Problems and Research in Middle Eastern Studies: Jewish Studies 2-4
MESTU 150 Advanced Study in the Middle East 4
POLSCI 124A War! 4
POLSCI 124B War in the Middle East 4
RELIGST C134 Jewish Civilization: Middle Ages 4
RELIGST C135 Jewish Civilization: Modern Period 4
SOCIOL 179 Selected Topics in Area Studies 4
SPANISH 109A Elementary Judeo-Spanish 4
UGIS C154 Jewish Civilization: Middle Ages 4
UGIS C155 Jewish Civilization: Modern Period 4
YIDDISH 102A Elementary Yiddish 2 4
YIDDISH 104 History of Yiddish Civilization 4
YIDDISH 101 Elementary Yiddish 4
YIDDISH 102 Elementary Yiddish (Yiddish 2) 5
YIDDISH 103 History of Yiddish Culture in English 3

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