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JPNSE 1028 - READING JAPANESE 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduce students to reading in Japanese through in-class and out of class activities and assignments for improving basic reading skills: dictionary skills, fluency with Katakana and Hiragana, character recognition and production of a total of 510 kanji, gaining fuller control of grammar, and increasing vocab. Size. Will also learn to recognize text genres and adopt appropriate reading strategies, deal effectively with unknown characters and vocabulary items, form expectations about the meaning of text, and other heuristic skills. Structure: lecture in English, directed in-class reading in a variety of text genres, reading out loud, listening comprehension work, etc.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1029 - READING JAPANESE 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduce students to reading in Japanese through in-class and out of class activities and assignments for improving basic reading skills: dictionary skills, fluency with Katakana and Hiragana, character recognition and production of a total of 800 kanji, gaining fuller control of grammar, and increasing vocabulary size. Students will begin reading with shorter materials, such as signs, correspondence, and recipes, with smaller grammar and lexical demands, and move on to read longer texts, such as short stories and newspaper/web articles, which require more extensive skill in reading comprehension.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1035 - PRAGMATICS OF JAPANESE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will provide an introduction to the usage aspects of Japanese by reading articles on pragmatic aspects of the language. The instructor will lecture on salient points and lead discussion on specific issues and the appropriate use of the language.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1040 - INTRODUCTION TO CLASSICAL JAPANESE 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This classical Japanese language course is studied through readings of prose and poetry texts written during and immediately after the Heian period. Literary and linguistic techniques are discussed and points of contrast with the modern language are analyzed. Also introduced are reference materials dealing with classical Japanese language and literature.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: JPNSE 1021
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JPNSE 1045 - LANGUAGE OF JAPANESE AESTHETICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
For over a thousand years, aesthetic values have been seen by the Japanese as central in defining the particular significance of their civilization & the driving force of these insights into the beauty of truth remains powerful even today. Learning to appreciate the development of traditional Japanese aesthetic sensibilities and their historical manifestations in a variety of art forms such as poetry & painting to theatre and folk art not only helps one to understand Japanese culture but provides a nonwestern model to consider creativity, beauty and life. Readings in English.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1050 - FOURTH YEAR JAPANESE 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A fourth-year Japanese language course for students interested in reading news stories, editorials, journal articles and other special interest items. The goals are to increase vocabulary and to develop the ability to read unfamiliar material as a tool for future research.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: JPNSE 1021 (MIN GRADE ‘C-‘)
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JPNSE 1051 - FOURTH YEAR JAPANESE 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a continuation of Japanese 1050. The student continues to increase vocabulary and develop the ability to read unfamiliar materials selected from journals and newspapers.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: JPNSE 1050 (MIN GRADE ‘C-‘)
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JPNSE 1056 - JAPANESE LITERATURE AND THE WEST
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A critical study of modern Japanese works and selected modern Western literary materials with special emphasis on intensive analysis by means of modern Western criticism. The course is designed to encourage the student to examine significant similarities and differences between Japanese and non-Japanese materials and to judge the content from an oriental as well as a Western perspective.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1057 - JAPANESE CULTURE AND SOCIETY THROUGH CINEMA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides a critical study of selected international prize winning Japanese films and compares these films with Western films dealing with similar themes. The student learns to analyze and interpret films; becomes familiar with particular genres of Japanese films compared with Western; studies the history of Japanese cinema and its place in international cinematography and exposes the inter cultural benefits of judging the content of the films from oriental and Western aesthetic perspectives.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1058 - WESTERNS AND SAMURAI FILMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A focus on the critical comparative study of two filmic genres—the samurai representing Japanese cinema and the Western representing American cinema. The course demonstrates the analytical processes of the film leading to its structural unity; shows the significance of both genres with respect to the history of Japanese, American and European cinema; compares approaches to films of different countries and provides the overall benefits of approaching films from an intercultural standpoint.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1059 - JAPANESE LITERATURE ON SCREEN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will investigate how literature and film treat some major ideological and socio-cultural issues in Japanese society. Readings of pre-modern tales, modern fiction and contemporary novels. Film adaptations will represent the best of Japan’s postwar cinematic tradition. The course is designed for the student interested in Japanese society, culture and intellectual currents through film and literature.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1061 - INTENSIVE JAPANESE 1
Minimum Credits: 10
Maximum Credits: 10
The first step in Japanese language study. The student will acquire a basic competence in speaking, understanding, reading and writing. Emphasis is placed on speaking and understanding as the student learns the sound system, basic vocabulary and essential sentence patterns. Writing will include the katakana and hiragana syllabaries.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1062 - INTENSIVE JAPANESE 2
Minimum Credits: 10
Maximum Credits: 10
Students will continue to develop all four skills begun in Japanese 1061—speaking, understanding, reading and writing with continued emphasis on content useful in everyday communications. Writing will include selected kanji characters.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: JPNSE 1061 or JPNSE 0002
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JPNSE 1070 - WORLD OF JAPAN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will receive a grounding in basic principles of Japanese classical literature, poetry and aesthetics. They will read the entire text in English of the tale of the Genji and examine important works in Japanese literature composed in later periods.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1071 - THE WORLD OF JAPAN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers the period between 1570 and 1870. Beginning with the unification of Japan under sixteenth century military war lords and ending with the collapse of the Tokugana Shoganate. Students will read selections from the major scholarly literature on the period.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1080 - GHOSTS, MASKS AND ACTORS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A critical study of three major dramatic genres of Japan—NOH, Bunraku and kabuki—in cultural origins. Areas to be explored are the use of masks in the world of the NOH theatre, the kabuki with its female impersonators and the near-life-size puppets of the Bunraku. Also discussed is the impact that NOH and Kabuki have had on modern Japanese and non-Japanese theatrical and film genres.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1081 - FORMS OF JAPANESE THEATRE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will provide a survey of various major forms of Japanese theatre using English language materials. Students will have access to relatively ancient forms of Japanese theatre such as Kagura and no, kabuki drama and the Bunraku puppet theatre through film and videocassette. The modern and avant-garde theatre are also accessible through translation and videocassette material. This course is designed for upper-class majors in theatre arts and non-majors in related fields.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1085 - INTRODUCTION TO EAST ASIAN CINEMA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course investigates the ways in which film addresses and treats the major socio-cultural issues in modern society through a critical study of the works of Chinese and Japanese master filmmakers. The course focuses on changes in marriage and family patterns, women’s roles and the plight of youth.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1700 - INTRODUCTION TO THEORY AND PRACTICE OF TRANSLATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an introductory course that answers to a growing interest in the theory and practice of translation from Japanese to English. The genres of texts that will be dealt with include literary works of various kinds (novels, poems, children’s books), magazine and newspaper articles, web posts, manga, subtitling of anime and other videos, and texts of technical nature. Students will first learn broadly about the discipline of translation studies, including a history of translation and issues in translation (invisibility of the translator, culturally specific translatability issues, etc.). Students will then learn specific types of translation issues that come up when translating Japanese into English, using excerpts from a variety of genres as case studies. Special attention is paid to the structural differences between Japanese and English, cross-cultural differences in stylistics, writing with clarity, reference work, etc.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1800 - SPECIAL TOPICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course aims to deepen the student’s understanding of the Japanese language and sharpen language skills in areas which have traditionally been difficult to learn and to understand. This will be accomplished through reading relevant literature, examining linguistic data and by in-class discussions.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
An individual study under the guidance of a department faculty member. For the student whose topic is not covered by regular course work.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1906 - JAPANESE INTERNSHIP
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
This course places the student in a work setting where they can gain practical experience in a supervised training environment.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1908 - DIRECTED WRITING FOR MAJORS
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
In addition to whatever written assignments are required of those enrolled in the course, this directed writing practicum provides students with an opportunity to contribute writing designed in terms of the intellectual strategies of the course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JPNSE 1999 - CAPSTONE PROJECT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Goal of course is to plan and complete a student-directed academic project (capstone project) that requires the command and synthesis of the knowledge and skills learned in the undergraduate career in order to analyze an intellectual problem or topic in the student’s interest. The students will plan, find and use appropriate resources, make and execute plans to bring a capstone project to fruition in consultation with the course instructor and a faculty mentor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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JS 0013 - ELEMENTARY HEBREW 1
Minimum Credits: 5
Maximum Credits: 5
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of the Hebrew language. We study basic vocabulary, grammar and sentence structure, and learn to read and write Hebrew. Emphasis is learning to speak the language.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 0014 - ELEMENTARY HEBREW 2
Minimum Credits: 5
Maximum Credits: 5
Continuation of the introductory work begun in Hebrew 1. Students further develop their reading, writing and speaking skills with the greatest emphasis being placed on oral communication.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 0025 - INTERMEDIATE HEBREW 3
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students continue to develop the skills acquired in Hebrew 2 with emphasis on speaking and on understanding the spoken language. Readings this term include short stories and articles.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 0026 - INTERMEDIATE HEBREW 4
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students continue to develop their Hebrew reading and speaking skills. Sophisticated Hebrew texts are introduced.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 0037 - ADVANCED HEBREW 5
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is for advanced level students and uses Hebrew language literature, print and electronic media, film, and TV shows. Emphasis is placed on conversation, modern Hebrew literature, and composition.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 0040 - INTRODUCTION YIDDISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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JS 0090 - MYTHOLOGY IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The myths of the ancient near East are among the earliest written interpretations of the world and human existence. They are also among the most enduring, although they have only been unearthed in the last 200 years. In this course, we read myths from ancient Mesopotamia, Ugarit, and Israel. We study the myths as literary works, representative of the ideas and issues of the original cultural context in which they were shaped. These myths offer insight into the religious mentality of the ancient near east, as well as societal and political issues. We examine themes such as the presentation of the life of the gods, the relationship between the human and divine worlds, the issues of mortality and immortality, existence, fertility, kingship, and ethics. The primary goal of this course is to better understand these myths as they existed and developed in their ancient settings. Of course, because the myths are expressions of human thought, we may find that in studying them we also come to better understand ourselves.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 0283 - US AND THE HOLOCAUST
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
With increasing interest in the Holocaust in Europe, this course focuses on the American side of the Atlantic - on issues of anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant sentiment in this country and on America’s response to the Holocaust. We will also look at some post-holocaust issues as well.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 0625 - DETECTIVE FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines detective fiction in terms of its history, its social meaning and as a form of philosophizing. It also seeks to reveal the place and values of popular fiction in our lives.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1065 - BIBLICAL HEBREW
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the grammar, syntax and vocabulary of Biblical Hebrew.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1100 - ISRAEL IN THE BIBLICAL AGE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the history and development of the people of Israel in ancient times. What do we know about the Israelites and how do we know it? Students will read both biblical and extra-biblical materials and study the remains of key archaeological sites. They will learn about everyday life in ancient Israel, the role of class and gender, life-cycle events, religious festivals, political institutions, systems of belief, and famous personages in history and lore. The trajectory of the course will begin with the Near Eastern origins of the people, continue through the rise of the Israelite and Judahite monarchies, and end with the post-exilic reestablishment of the Second Temple commonwealth in the Persian period.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1102 - THE HISTORY OF GOD
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
God has a history. In the earliest days of that history, God was worshiped as one of a plethora of deities controlling various spheres of cosmic activity or the human world. Students in this course will learn about this ancient pantheon - how gods functioned in society and how their presence was experienced by those devoted to them. They will then trace the evolution of the God of Israel from a mountaintop deity of the southern Levant in the late second millennium BCE to a supreme deity worshiped by a small group of absolute monotheists based in Jerusalem in the mid-first millennium BCE. Students will become more sophisticated readers of biblical texts in the process. The sources of the Hebrew Bible reflect not a homogeneous monotheism, but rather a diverse set of belief systems tending toward henotheism or even polytheism. By appropriating and reinterpreting the religious myths of their neighbors, the Israelites arrived at a character of the divine that has proven problematic to many contemporary theologians, particularly on issues of LGBT rights, women’s rights, and the environment.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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JS 1160 - JERUSALEM: HISTORY AND IMAGINATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the political, religious, and cultural history of Jerusalem, focusing primarily on Jerusalem as a concrete and conceptual phenomenon in the premodern period.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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JS 1210 - JEWS AND JUDAISM IN THE ANCIENT WORLD
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers the development of Classical Judaism from the Second Temple Period, beginning with the end of the Babylonian Exile in the 6th century BCE, and continues up through the emergence of Rabbinic Judaism, culminating with the redaction of the Babylonian Talmud in the 6th century CE. We cover both the major historical trends as well as the major religious developments. The course also introduces students to the major Jewish texts of both the Second Temple Period and the Rabbinic Period, emphasizing close readings of primary texts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1220 - JEWS AND JUDAISM IN THE MEDIEVAL WORLD
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to the facets of medieval and early modern Jewish life.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1222 - JEWISH MYSTICISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Mystical traditions in Judaism through the early modern period are assessed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1227 - MEDIEVAL SPAIN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1228 - EXODUS AND PASSOVER
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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JS 1232 - MODERN EASTERN EUROPEAN JEWRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This upper level undergraduate course surveys the history of the historically most numerous portion of European Jewry from the medieval period to the present, emphasizing the modernization of east-central European Jews as minorities in the context of their host societies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1240 - JEWS AND THE CITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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JS 1241 - GENDER AND JEWISH HISTORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will highlight the impact of gender in modern Jewish history, revealing the divergent experiences of Jewish women and Jewish men as they adapted to the modern world. We will take an international approach to this history, tracing the ways in which circumstances in Europe, America, and the Middle East shaped how Jews understood and responded to gender roles.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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JS 1250 - JEWS AND JUDAISM IN THE MODERN WORLD
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Here we examine the specific challenges that the modern period posed to existing Jewish life and the nature of the responses made by Judaism to those challenges.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1252 - HOLOCAUST HISTORY AND MEMORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
We take a long-range view of the holocaust as we examine it within the contexts of both European and Jewish history.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1253 - INTRODUCTION TO HOLOCAUST LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the central texts of the literature of the holocaust, while introducing students to the main issues and preoccupations of holocaust testimony in literature and film.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1260 - AMERICAN JEWISH EXPERIENCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
We analyze the Jewish experience in America since the middle of the 18th century.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1270 - GERMANY TODAY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1383 - POLITICS OF CONTEMPORY MIDDLE EAST
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The main emphasis of the course will be on conflict and conflict resolution in the middle east. Conflict has been a constant feature of the region since 1945. This course will be primarily concerned with how and why these conflicts are generated, escalate, become protracted, and are resolved.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1475 - RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
What is the best way to accommodate religious and cultural diversity within a nation-state and in civil society? How should individual rights to practice religion be balanced with communal needs? Should freedom from religion be protected as much or more than freedom of religion? These are pressing contemporary issues in many countries, including the United States, but issues of religious diversity and questions of whether and how to tolerate religious minorities have a long history. In this course, we will examine the toleration of minority religions in particular historical settings, and the issues and problems (both doctrinal and social/political) that societies grappled with as they confronted diverse religious landscapes. We will also use these historical precedents as a lens to examine contemporary examples of religious pluralism, diversity, and conflict. Case studies will mainly be drawn from pre-modern Europe and modern Europe and North America, but we will also look at Mughal and modern India and discuss religion in pre-modern China.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1644 - CHRISTIAN MUSLIMS JEWS IN THE MIDDLE AGES: CONNECTION & CONFLICT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The emergence of Christianity from Judaism and the implications of the relationship between Christianity and Judaism have been of critical importance in the history of Europe and the world and both Christians and Jews continue to grapple with the theological, political, and cultural impacts of that relationship in today’s world. This course surveys the relationships between Jews and Christians from the time of Jesus through the modern era, as viewed by Jews, Christians, and sometimes those in neither category. Topics include the Jewish origins of Christianity; rabbinic views of Christianity and church fathers’ views of Judaism; the status of Jews and Jewish communities in the Roman empire and in medieval Europe, medieval persecution of Jews; interreligious disputations and polemics; the impact of the reformation and the enlightenment; Jewish-Christian relations in modern ‘secular’ states; the rise of new forms of anti-Semitism; the holocaust; and post-holocaust dialogue and new theologies of interreligious encounter. We will discuss not only the significance of Jewish-Christian interactions for European and American history but also assess Jewish-Christian relations as a case study in the broader history of religious diversity, pluralism, and conflict.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1645 - THE HISTORICAL JESUS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the complex and often polarized relationship between Jesus and Jews (and by extension, Christianity and Judaism) in both ancient and modern contexts. Students will interact with a wide range of primary sources centered on the figure of Jesus `from the Christian gospels through rabbinic discussions of Jesus to modern portrayals of Jesus and the Jews in cinema and scholarship.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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JS 1680 - HISTORY AND MEMORY IN THE JEWISH TRADITION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will be introduced to the manner in which historians have studied and understood the Jewish experience from antiquity through the modern age. The role of historical study in the formation of Jewish identity will be especially highlighted.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1681 - INVENTING ISRAEL: ZIONISM, ANTI-ZIONISM, AND POST-ZIONISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course, we will study the origins and development of Zionism as a form of modern Jewish nationalism, the emergence of different Zionist ideological streams, and non-Zionist, ant-Zionist, and post-Zionist views of Jews and non-Jews. We will also explore Zionism as a case study of relations of religion and nationalism in modernity. This course is an opportunity to carefully study and to contextualize writings and ideas of religious and political thinkers that have been both influential and controversial. The goal is to offer students historical background to ideas and issues of contemporary importance as well as skills in interpretation and contextualization of complex texts that continue to inform public discourse.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1762 - THE GUIDE TO THE PERPLEXED
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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JS 1800 - SPECIAL TOPICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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JS 1900 - INTERNSHIP
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Internships for credit with community organizations can be arranged.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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JS 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 4
Jewish Studies Certificate students write their capstone thesis under this section and should register for 3 credits. Permission of the Jewish Studies coordinator is required.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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JS 1902 - DIRECTED STUDY-UNDERGRADUATE
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 4
Students may undertake a variety of individual reading or research projects under the close supervision of a faculty member. Regular meetings are required. Permission of the Jewish Studies coordinator and the faculty member required.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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JS 1903 - DIRECTED RESEARCH-UNDERGRADUATE
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 4
Students may undertake a variety of individual research projects under the close supervision of a faculty member. Regular meetings are required. Permission of the Jewish Studies coordinator and the faculty member is required.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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JS 1904 - UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 4
Students serve as an undergraduate teaching assistant under the supervision of a faculty member. 1-4 credits available depending on number of hours per week worked. Credits earned will be s/n only. Permission of the Jewish Studies coordinator and the faculty member is required.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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JS 1905 - UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 4
Students serve as an undergraduate teaching assistant in Hebrew 1 or 2 under the supervision of the language instructor. 1-4 credits available depending on number of hours per week worked. Credits earned will be s/n only. Permission of the Religious Studies DUS and the language instructor is required.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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KOREAN 0001 - FIRST YEAR KOREAN 1
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
The greatest part of the first term will be devoted to the presentation and practice of the basic sound patterns of the language, its fundamental sentence patterns, and sufficient vocabulary to illustrate and practice them. An introduction to the writing system will be offered together with the opportunity to acquire elementary writing and reading skills.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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KOREAN 0002 - FIRST YEAR KOREAN 2
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
At the end of the second term of the first year of study the student should be able to produce all the significant sound patterns of the language, to recognize and use the major grammatical structures within a limited core vocabulary. The student should be able a) to engage in simple conversations with native speakers about a limited number of everyday situations and b) to read and write simple material related to the situations presented.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: KOREAN 0001 or 1001 (MIN GRADE ‘C-‘)
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KOREAN 0003 - SECOND YEAR KOREAN 1
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
The first term of the second year will concentrate on the further development of fluency in oral production and the improvement in the student’s ability to understand the flow of speech as uttered by a native speaker. Increased attention will be paid to reading as a means of augmenting a recognition vocabulary and writing as a drill and as a means of consolidating and communicating the knowledge gained.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: KOREAN 0002 or 1002; MIN GRADE: ‘C-’ FOR LISTED COURSES
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KOREAN 0004 - SECOND YEAR KOREAN 2
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
At the end of the second term of the second year the student should be able to converse comfortably with a native speaker on a variety of non-specialized subjects. The student will be offered an opportunity to experience and more fully understand the culture of the people who use the language through readings of various types. More complex writing tasks will be expected at this level.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: KOREAN 0003 or 1003; MIN GRADE: ‘C-’ FOR LISTED COURSES
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KOREAN 0005 - THIRD YEAR KOREAN 1
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Students will build on previously learned material and learn increasingly complex grammar patterns and build more sophisticated vocabulary for everyday interactions in all learning skill areas: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Will read texts that focus on Korean society and history.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: KOREAN 0004 or 1004; MIN GRADE: ‘C-’ FOR LISTED COURSES
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KOREAN 0006 - THIRD YEAR KOREAN 2
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Students will build on previously learned material and learn increasingly complex grammar patterns and build more sophisticated vocabulary suitable for everyday interactions, and apply them in all language skill areas (speaking, listening, reading, and writing). By reading texts that focus on Korean society and history, students will learn some representative aspects of Korean culture. Approximately two hours per week to develop aural/oral skills using a communicative method.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: KOREAN 0005 or KOREAN 1005; MIN GRADE: ‘C-’ FOR LISTED COURSES
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KOREAN 0007 - INTRODUCTION TO KOREAN CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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KOREAN 0070 - WORLD OF KOREA: PAST AND PRESENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Intro to Korean society/culture through study of acclaimed film “Chunhy-ang, based on famous 18thc Korean literature work, providing complex window to late Korean traditional culture, literature and performing arts. Students will ac quire tools to understand diversity in aspects of many cultures, as well as a changing political system. Topics include: family structure and marriage, gender issues, class system, agricultural life of Korean society, education, relations to other neighboring cultures and various forms of art expression.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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KOREAN 0075 - INTRODUCTION TO KOREA THROUGH FILMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduces Korean cinema to students in broader (and at times narrow) cultural, social, and aesthetic contexts to investigate transnational media production and circulation, globalization, consumer culture, commercialization, and construction of national, ethnic and gender identities. Through this course, students will learn more about specific issues pertaining to Korea and its people, as well as gain familiarity with some prominent film directors of Korea’s. They will develop a critical and historical consciousness of Korean visual culture, assessing the worth and content of the films.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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KOREAN 0084 - INTRODUCTION TO MODERN KOREAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students examine major Korean writers from the early 20th century to the present through identifying key thematic and formal issues in modern Korean literature and to situate them within a larger historical and cultural context.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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KOREAN 1001 - FIRST YEAR KOREAN 1
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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KOREAN 1002 - FIRST YEAR KOREAN 2
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: KOREAN 0001 or 1001
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KOREAN 1003 - SECOND YEAR KOREAN 1
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: KOREAN 0002 or 1002; MIN GRADE: ‘C-’ FOR LISTED COURSES
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KOREAN 1004 - SECOND YEAR KOREAN 2
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: KOREAN 0003 or 1003; MIN GRADE: ‘C-’ FOR LISTED COURSES
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KOREAN 1005 - THIRD YEAR KOREAN 1
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: KOREAN 0004 or 1004; MIN GRADE: ‘C-’ FOR LISTED COURSES
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KOREAN 1006 - THIRD YEAR KOREAN2
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: KOREAN 0005 or 1005; MIN GRADE: ‘C-’ FOR LISTED COURSES
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KOREAN 1023 - ASPECTS OF THE KOREAN LANGUAGE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will examine and explore essential topics in Korean linguistics such as the Korean scripts and sounds, genetic affiliation, historical development, word structure, grammatical structure, discourse, honorific and speech styles, and first/second language acquisition. Upon completion of this course, students will i) understand how the Korean language developed, and what kind of relationship the Korean language has with other languages, ii) have an ability to critically analyze basic word, phrasal and sentence structures as well as discourse structures, iii) have a general understanding of how the Korean language works as a communication system.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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KOREAN 1050 - FOURTH YEAR KOREAN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Designed to advance students to greater strengths in reading and writing skills and socio-cultural knowledge of Korean beyond high intermediate level. Students will develop skills in reading and listening to various authentic materials, and enhance speaking and writing skills to discuss issues of contemporary Korean society and culture. The goals of the course also include furthering aural comprehension of contemporary television documentaries, news and drama with decreased reliance on pedagogical aids. This course is student centered and students will develop their knowledge of Korean lexicon (including Chinese characters of Sino-Korean) and grammar through their own readings/writings and class discussions. Students will write short research papers throughout the semester. Class will be conducted in Korean exclusively, and uses a combination of lectures and discussions. Both lectures and discussions are based on assigned readings and discussion topics that will be distributed through bi-weekly schedules.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: KOREAN 0006 or 1006 (MIN GRADE ‘C-‘)
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KOREAN 1051 - FOURTH YEAR KOREAN 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Goals: advance students to greater strengths in reading and writing skills and socio-cultural knowledge of Korean beyond high intermediate level; develop skills in reading and listening to authentic materials; enhance speaking and writing skills to discuss issues of contemporary Korean society and culture; furthering aural comprehension of contemporary television documentaries, news and drama with decreased reliance on pedagogical aids. Course is student centered class and students will develop their knowledge of Korean lexicon (including Chinese characters of Sino-Korean) and grammar. Class will be conducted in Korean exclusively.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: KOREAN 1050 (MIN GRADE ‘C-‘)
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KOREAN 1060 - LANGUAGE AND SOCIETY IN KOREA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Focus on fundamental knowledge of sociolinguistics, language variations, varieties and codes of inherent sociality cultural implements. With substantial differences between eastern and Western cultures, students will study linguistic behavior and social groups, social class, effects of gender, address and reference terms, politeness strategies and style of language form used both in English and Korean in comparative study. Materials arranged to explain and evaluate the interaction of language, society and culture, the process of how people use language to construct social meaning and how those processes influence linguistic structure as well as cross-cultural communication.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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KOREAN 1065 - METAPHOR IN KOREAN LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Metaphor in Korean language and thought is an introduction course to the study of meaning, which focuses on the basic findings in the field of conceptual metaphor research. Metaphor is pervasive in everyday life, not just in lg but also in thought and culture. Metaphors also play a role in ethnic and cultural identity. In this course, we will examine how metaphor differences across cultures affect how people in different cultures think and consequently use lg differently. Korean will be the main LG to be studied throughout the course but other LGs such as English, Japanese and Chinese will also be discussed in order to maintain cross-linguistic and cross-cultural comparisons.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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KOREAN 1800 - SPECIAL TOPICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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KOREAN 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Student will undertake a specific research topic regarding language, literature, or culture of Korea. Faculty will approve an independent study agreement and student will make a midterm and final report to instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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KOREAN 1906 - KOREAN INTERNSHIP
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
This course places the student in a work setting where they can gain practical experience in a supervised training environment.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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LATIN 0011 - BEGINNING LATIN 1
Minimum Credits: 5
Maximum Credits: 5
This course is the first half of a two-term sequence introducing students to the morphology and syntax of classical Latin. Its purpose is to move students as quickly as possible to the reading of simple Latin prose.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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LATIN 0021 - BEGINNING LATIN 2
Minimum Credits: 5
Maximum Credits: 5
This course is the second half of a two-term sequence introducing students to the morphology and syntax of classical Latin. Its purpose is to move students as quickly as possible to the reading of simple Latin prose.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: LATIN 0011
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LATIN 0031 - MEDIEVAL LATIN AUTHORS 1 WRITING PRACTICUM
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Writing practicum for students who are taking Latin 0030 as a writing course
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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LATIN 0210 - INTERMEDIATE LATIN: PROSE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course students consolidate their grasp of Latin grammar and develop their skills of comprehension through close reading of selected prose texts, most usually drawn from Caesar and Cicero.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: LATIN 0021 or 1021
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LATIN 0220 - INTERMEDIATE LATIN: VERSE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course students are introduced to Latin verse through close reading of selected portions of Virgil’s Aeneid.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: LATIN 0210
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LATIN 1011 - BEGINNING LATIN 1
Minimum Credits: 5
Maximum Credits: 5
This course is the first half of a two-term sequence introducing students to the morphology and syntax of classical Latin. Its purpose is to move students as quickly as possible to the reading of simple Latin prose.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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LATIN 1021 - BEGINNING LATIN 2
Minimum Credits: 5
Maximum Credits: 5
This course is the second half of a two-term sequence introducing students to the morphology and syntax of classical Latin. Its purpose is to move students as quickly as possible to the reading of simple Latin prose.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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LATIN 1032 - MEDIEVAL LATIN AUTHORS 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course students read selected works by medieval Latin authors. The specific authors and works vary from term to term.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: LATIN 0210 or 0220
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LATIN 1033 - MEDIEVAL LATIN AUTHORS 2: WRITING PRACTICUM
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This is the writing practicum for the course medieval Latin authors 2.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: LATIN 0210 or 0220
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LATIN 1300 - LATIN AUTHORS 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course students read selected works by Roman authors. The specific authors and works vary from term to term; the course may be repeated for credit when the material covered is different.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: LATIN 0210 and 0220
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LATIN 1301 - LATIN AUTHORS 1: WRITING PRACTICUM
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Writing practicum for students taking Latin 1300 as a writing course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: LATIN 0210 and 0220
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LATIN 1302 - LATIN AUTHORS 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course students read selected works by Roman authors. The specific authors and works vary from term to term; the course may be repeated for credit when the material covered is different.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: LATIN 0210 and 0220
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