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4.00 Credits
This course accelerates the learning of characters begun in Japanese 101-102 and introduces more complex grammatical patterns and expressions, with the goal of refining students' mastery of reading, speaking, writing, and listening. Study includes intensive grammar review and practice of idiomatic expressions. The course is conducted in Japanese. Prerequisite: Japanese 102 or the equivalent.
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Focuses on developing the four skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing, but with a heavy emphasis on reading and writing ability. The course introduces more complex grammatical structures, especially those common to written material, and accelerates character acquisition and advanced vocabulary. Students learn the fundamentals of dictionary use and acquire the skills necessary for speed-reading and accurate composition of written material. The course is conducted in Japanese. Prerequisite: Japanese 202 or equivalent background.
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4.00 Credits
Students deepen their reading skills and engage in essay-writing exercises and formal oral presentations. Materials employed in this course are selected on the basis of student interest and include newspaper articles, handwritten letters, popular songs, haiku, and selections from films.
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4.00 Credits
This course enhances the speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills of third- and fourthyear Japanese language students through the examination of various kinds of cultural material, including literature, history, political analysis, newspaper editorials, poetry, and film. Students are also introduced to higher-level grammatical structures and idiomatic phrases important for reading and writing modern Japanese. Prerequisite: Japanese 302 or equivalent background.
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4.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the language and literature of Japan from earliest times through the middle of the 20th century. While reading, in the original language, some of Japan's most revered works of poetry, fiction, myth, and history, students deepen their linguistic and cultural understanding. Prerequisite: Japanese 301 or equivalent background.
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4.00 Credits
Through practice, students are encouraged to think about the nature and limits of translation within the Japanese context. While focusing on the techniques and craft of translation, students are also introduced to translation theory, both Western and Japanese, and examine well-known translations by comparing source and target texts. Students are introduced to various translation approaches, in different genres, and have the opportunity to complete their own translation projects as part of the class. Prerequisite: Japanese 302 or the equivalent.
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4.00 Credits
The primary focus of this course is the history of the Jewish people and Judaism as a religion, but students also examine topics in Jewish literature, society, and politics. The course treats selected themes from the biblical period to the present, but with a greater emphasis on the medieval and especially the modern period. Among the issues explored: What role has the land of Israel played in Jewish life, and how have Jews responded to their nearly 2,000-year experience of exile and diaspora? How have they negotiated both the "push" of anti-Semitism and the "pull" of assimilation to maintadistinct forms of community and identity? What roles have various types of texts played in Jewish culture, and what is their relationship to lived Jewish experience? Finally, what are the implications of such momentous recent events as the Holocaust, the establishment of the state of Israel, and the rise of the American Jewish community?
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4.00 Credits
This course is an interdisciplinary examination of medieval Jewish civilization, with emphasis placed on introducing (1) methods of studying the Jewish people (through history, religion, literature, and philosophy); (2) the concept of "traditional Jewish society";and (3) the features of Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jewries. After an overview of the development of Judaism through the rabbinic period, the course focuses on the Jewish experience from the rise of Islam through the Spanish expulsion. It addresses both the internal life of medieval Jews (self-government, religious culture, philosophical movements, gender roles) and political, economic, and cultural interactions between Jews and non-Jews in Muslim and Christian lands. Close readings of primary source materials, from rabbinic commentaries and women's prayers to poetry and philosophic tracts, introduce students to the variety of sources through which to explore the Jewish experience and to critical skills of scholarly analysis.
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4.00 Credits
In the premodern world, Jewish identity was centered on religion but was expressed as well in how one made a living, what clothes one wore, and what language one spoke. In modern times, Jewish culture became more voluntary and more fractured. While some focused on Judaism only as a religion, the most radical and the most typical way in which Jewishness was redefined was in secular terms. This course explores the intellectual, social, and political movements that led to new secular definitions of Jewish culture and identity in the modern period. Examples are drawn fromWestern and Eastern Europe, as well as from American and Israeli societies. Topics include the Haskalah (Jewish enlightenment); acculturation and assimilation; modern Jewish politics, including Zionism; and Jewish literature in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages.
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4.00 Credits
American Studies, Historical Studies, SRE From film to literature and from classical music to musical comedy, Jews left an indelible imprint on 20th-century American culture. Do these contributions constitute a distinctive American Jewish culture? Is there such a thing? Focusing on Jewish writers (Antin, Bellow, Roth), filmmakers from the Warner brothers to Woody Allen, performers (Brice, Jolson), composers and lyricists (Gershwin, Hammerstein), and public intellectuals (Howe, Ozick), this course seeks to understand if there is something identifiably "Jewish" about the work of diverse artists and thinkers and what their worksays about the nature of ethnic culture in America.
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