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The College of Letters and Sciences stipulates a total of five upper-division courses to be taken for a minor, one of which must be a unifying course (viz., Introduction to Jewish Studies). At least three of these courses must be UCB courses. All five courses must be taken for a letter grade.
Introduction to Jewish Studies (2 units, two 75-minute sessions weekly). This class is team-taught by the Jewish Studies faculty. The aim of this class is to present an overview of the major periods and the appropriate disciplinary perspectives in Jewish Studies.
two courses from the existing sequence of four courses offered through Near Easter Studies (the first two courses) and History (the last two courses)
The Biblical Period
Late Antiquity
The Medieval and Early Modern Periods
The Modern Period
two courses from the following:
History 174A-B Jewish History
History 178 History of the Holocaust
History 103 History of anti-semitism
NES 137 Modern Jewish Literature
NES 138 The Hero in the Bible and the Ancient Near East
German 145 German-Jewish Writers
German 168 Yiddish Literature and Culture
German 185 The Holocaust in Film
(The following courses, which require a relatively advanced knowledge of Hebrew, may also be used toward the minor requirement.)
Hebrew 102 Rabbinic Texts
Hebrew 104 Modern Hebrew Texts
Hebrew 105 The Structure of Modern Hebrew
Hebrew 107 Biblical Texts
Hebrew 148 The Art and Culture of the Talmud
One GTU course may be substituted for a course in this group of options beyond the four-course sequence with the approval of the undergraduate advisor.