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4.00 Credits
Film Studies involves the critical analysis of the pictorial and narrative qualities of motion pictures, film theory, and film history, understanding film as both industry and creative art. This course unconventionally focuses on the tangible object at the origin of the onscreen image, and what we can learn about the social, cultural and historical value of motion pictures and national film cinemas through an understanding of “Film” as an organic element with a finite life cycle. Focus is on the photographic element, but includes a consideration of alternative “capture media.”
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4.00 Credits
Zen Buddhism was the core around which many of Japan’s greatest cultural achievements evolved. From the medieval period on, with its importation from China, the culture of Zen served as the primary context for much of Japanese metaphysics, architecture, landscape and interior design, medicine, ink painting, noh drama, haiku poetry, as well as the entire cultural complex known as the tea ceremony. Along with the Zen doctrinal and textual roots of these remarkable achievements, this course will examine the vibrant culture fostered in the medieval Zen monastic temple institution known as the Gozan and its dispersal into the culture at large.
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4.00 Credits
This seminar course is based on research on and discussion of a variety of issues of contemporary concern in Japan, including national, ethnic and racial identity; changing gender and sex roles; the family and generational conflict; immigration and work; the emperor system, war, and memory; cultural authenticity; and Japan's changing roles in Asia and in the world. Readings on issues begin with articles in the online English-language editions of Japan's main news media, extend outward to reports in the US news media, and eventually to popular and scholarly English-language studies of the issues involved. Grading is based on participation in informed discussion of issues raised in class (20%), and on four papers on issues to be chosen by each student with the intructor¿s permission (20% each).
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4.00 Credits
Direct continuation of Hebrew 101 with emphasis on enhancing reading, writing, and speaking skills. May not be taken for credit by anyone who has successfully completed HEB 103 or higher.
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4.00 Credits
This is a fourth semester course in the Hebrew language series designed to enhance and advance conversational skills using various sources including Israeli newspapers, Hebrew stories, and topical discussions based on students' interests and Israeli life.
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3.00 Credits
This course will make students familiar with the long and glorious history of Jewish communities in Poland as well as with the period from 1939 to 1945 (the Holocaust). Post-Holocaust history of the Jews and Jewish culture in Poland will also be covered, with emphasis on Jewish-non-Jewish relations and anti-Semitism, and recent revival of the Jewish life in Poland.
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4.00 Credits
This course is an advanced seminar which focuses on religious conflict among Jews, Pagans, and Christians in the ancient world. We begin by examining the status of Jews in the Greco-Roman world and by investigating pagan responses (negative and positive) to Judaism. We study the rise of a new Jewish movement in the first century, namely, the Jesus Movement and focus on the development of the conflict between Jewish and non-Jewish followers of Jesus. The Jesus Movement eventually separates itself from its Jewish origins and emerges, as Christianity, as a significant new religious group in the ancient world. How do Christians distinguish themselves from Jews in the eyes of pagans? How do Jews respond to the challenges presented by the emergence of Christianity? Why is Christianity perceived as such a threat by the Romans? We will explore all of these questions as well as the difficult issues of the nature of religious conflict, the problem of religious polemic, and the origins of anti-semitism.
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4.00 Credits
This course surveys the development of Jewish Music -- the Music of Judaism and the Jewish People -- from earliest times until the present, relating its various phases and genres to their historical context. These will include the music of the Bible and Ancient Israel, musical foundations of the synagogue (cantillation, psalmody, the cantor), rabbinic attitudes toward music, the impact of Islam (philosophic discourse, magam and metrical poety), music of Jewish mysticism, art music in Renaissance Italy, Hasidic music, music of the Jewish life cycle and non-synagogue (Modern Orthodox, Reform and Conservative Judaism) in Europe and the United States, the music of the Holocaust, Zionism and the State of Israel. The aim of the course is to reveal how music not only reflected, but also played a significant role, in shaping the character of Jewish historical, religious and cultural experience. No prior course in Jewish Studies or Music is required.
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4.00 Credits
How does one represent the unrepresentable? This is the key question we will explore as we look at films and literature about the Holocaust. As we look at fictional films, novels, documentaries and memoirs, we will discuss topics including memory, trauma, truth and representation. This course offers a look at the ways in which artists and their audiences negotiate the themes of loss, horror and redemption within the context of the Holocaust and its aftermath.
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0.00 Credits
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