|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An exploration of distinctive Jewish approaches to questions of gender, sexuality, and the body, as formulated in their historical, religious, ethical, imaginative, and comical dimensions. Emphasis on received traditions (Bible, Talmud, and Kabbalah), shifting definitions of gender roles and identities in changing social contexts, and contemporary transformations in Jewish thought and practices. Topics include 'body of God,' circumcision, laws of purity, rites of passage, feminist theology, masculine/ feminine stereotypes, Freud & Judaism, and today's variety of lifestyles. Primary and secondary readings, contemporary films.
-
0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Students will achieve a basic ability to read the prose sections of the Hebrew Bible in their original language. During the semester, students will learn the script and the grammar, develop a working vocabulary, and read passages from the Bible itself.
-
0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Students will achieve a basic ability to read the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament in its original language. During the semester, students will continue studying grammar and developing vocabulary. Upon completing the grammar textbook, students will read large passages from the Bible from all genres.
-
0.00 - 4.00 Credits
In this course we will discuss the Bible's status in modern political thought. The aim of the seminar is to explore the following issues: To what extent is the Bible admitted in modern political thought? What is authority of the Bible? What are the new ways of reading the Bible? Is reading and interpreting the Bible a political act? Can we speak about modern European political thought as independent of the Bible? Is the Bible a book for secular politics? We will discuss religious opposition to the Bible as a political authority.
-
0.00 - 4.00 Credits
For 3000 years the city that is holy to all three monotheistic religions has known little peace and tranquility and has been the site of wars, conquests and division. By drawing on historical, literary, religious and cinematic sources, this course will explore the history of Jerusalem from antiquity to the modern period. It will examine its place in the religious imagination of Jews, Muslims and Christians and trace the political history of a city that continues to be one of the most inflammable places on earth. The course will look at the conditions in today's 'united' Jerusalem and explore the different contingencies to bring peace to it.
-
0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course examines the formation and development of modern Israel, following the transition in Israel from a conformist society dominated by Zionist ideology to a society seriously questioning its values, ideals, and norms. It will focus on these changes in a wide range of sources: political and diplomatic, cultural, literary, cinematic, and more. The course will focus on the role of: the ideological origins of Zionist ideology; the Holocaust; the Arab-Jewish conflict; the Ashkenazi-Mizrahi; and the secular-religious divide on the development of contemporary Israeli society.
-
0.00 - 4.00 Credits
An intensive introduction to modern Japanese stressing oral-aural facility, but including an introduction to written Japanese.
-
0.00 - 4.00 Credits
Continuation of JPN 101, which emphasizes the basic four skills to achieve survival proficiency level.
-
0.00 - 4.00 Credits
This course aims to give a thorough mastery of modern colloquial Japanese grammar (Tokyo speech) by consistent review and reinforcement of major grammatical points and control of a more advanced vocabulary through aural-oral drills, readings, and written exercises. Emphasis will be increasingly on readings, but aural-oral exercises will still be a fundamental part of the course. Supplementary reading materials will be used as necessary.
-
0.00 - 4.00 Credits
The course aims at a thorough mastery of modern colloquial Japanese by consistent review and reinforcement of major grammatical points covered in JPN 101, 102, and 105. It is also intended to give students advanced vocabulary and expressions through aural-oral drills, readings, and written exercises. Emphasis will increasingly be on reading, but oral work will still comprise fundamental aspect of the course.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2024 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|