A practicum course intended to provide training for students planning, initiating, and conducting programming of a Jewish cultural, social, religious, educational, and/or community service nature with and for Jewish students in their residential areas. Student programmers plan events, serve as resources, and are the catalyst for Jewish student life in their residential areas.

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The history of the Jewish graphic novel, including the role of Jewish secularism in its development, and major antecedents and related works including illustrated books, journalistic cartoons, and comics and sequential art.

A comparative and historical study of the role of Jews and Jewish secularism in the Labor movement in the United States, drawing on Labor history, primary sources, fiction, sweatshop poetry, and film.

This course will examine Israeli-Palestinian relations through a lens of popular culture in order to give students an understanding of the region beyond news headlines. The topics include cinema, TV, music, sports, food, literature, tourism, and printed and electronic media in Israel and Palestine. The students will learn about major personalities and celebrities in both cultures, as well as about most popular movies, papers, songs, and other cultural products. All readings and film excerpts are in English.

Jewish life in Poland, Russia, and East Central Europe. Origins of Ashkenazic culture, communal institutions and folkways, interaction with the surrounding society, immigration, Jews under communism, destruction of East European Jewish life. Readings from various historical and literary sources. (Gen.Ed. HS, G)

This course focuses on the shifting historical constructions (from biblical to contemporary times) of women's and men's gender roles and in Judaism and their cultural and social consequences.

The emergence of modern Jewish identity and culture, focusing on the socio-economic, political, and intellectual forces which led to improved treatment of Jews. Topics include: Hasidim, Enlightenment, and the impact of the French Revolution. Analysis of the implications of modernity for the Jewish community and family, the synagogue, secular Judaism, and Jewish-Gentile relations. (Gen.Ed. HS, G)