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A major in Jewish studies has as a prerequisite one year of Modern Hebrew
The major consists of at least 30 credits in Jewish Studies courses, Hebrew courses, or courses in related fields.
The major must include:
- JWST 1010 - Introduction to Jewish Civilization
as well as one course in each of the following periods:
Ancient
- JWST 2100 - Introduction to the Hebrew Bible - Old Testament
- JWST 3140 - Select Readings in the Hebrew Bible
- JWST 3150 - Second Temple Judaisms
- JWST 3520 - The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry II: Christian Spain
- JWST 3600 - Women in the Hebrew Bible
- JWST 4250 - The Dead Sea Scrolls
Medieval
- JWST 3500 - The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry I: Moslem Spain
- JWST 3520 - The Golden Age of Spanish Jewry II: Christian Spain
- JWST 3530 - Jewish Life and Thought in the High Middle Ages
- JWST 3540 - Jewish Life and Thought from the Renaissance to the Age of Reason
- JWST 4110 - Rabbinic Judaism
- JWST 4350 - Rashi, Halevi, Maimonides: Rabbinical Luminaries of the
- Middle Ages
Modern
- JWST 2200 - Modern Jewish History
- JWST 3210 - American Jewish History
- JWST 3220 - The Arab-Israeli Conflict
- JWST 3340 - Early American Jewish History
- JWST 3440 - Representing the Holocaust: Literary and Filmic Depictions of the Undepictable
- JWST 3750 - Jewish Identity in Modern Literature
- JWST 4300 - The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict in Culture and Literature
Note(s):
At least one course should be at the 4000-level or above. Courses taken to fulfill Tulane's foreign language proficiency requirement cannot be counted toward the major.