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Print Materials (PDFs)
Minor Worksheet
2007-2008 Courses

Also visit the Jewish Studies Website for more information about the program and upcoming events.

Minor Requirements

The minor requires a total of eight courses and must include the following:

• Three lower-division courses, two of which may be satisfied through the study of Hebrew language.
• Two courses from the upper-division Jewish Studies core courses sequence.
• Three additional upper-division courses from the Jewish Studies curriculum.

Students, especially those who plan to continue their studies in graduate school, may wish to gain proficiency in Yiddish, German, or Spanish, depending on their area of interest. The lower-division course The Bible as Literature (Literature 80A) is strongly recommended, as is developing language proficiency in Hebrew.
Transfer students can petition to have upper-division courses substituted for the lower-division requirement.
Students who participate in the UC Education Abroad Program (EAP) may petition to apply up to three courses from EAP toward the minor. Petition forms are available in the History Department office.

Jewish Studies Curriculum

Hebrew Language Courses

Hebrew 1-2-3, Introduction to Modern Hebrew
Hebrew 4-5-6, Intermediate Modern Hebrew
Hebrew 80, Introduction to Biblical Hebrew
Hebrew 106, Israel's Struggle for Identity as seen through Israeli Cinema

Core Courses

Context Courses

Feminist Studies:
1, Introduction to Feminisms

History:
5B, History of Early Christianity
44, Intro to the Cultures of the Ancient Near East
74, Introduction to Modern Jewish History
75, Film and the Holocaust
80W, Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry
155, History of Modern Israel
156, Intro to the Archeology of Israel
163, History of Sin
167, Imperial Spain
178E, Modern Jewish Intellectual History
185A, Conflict of Interest: War, Holocaust, and Industry in the Lodz
185B, Rethinking the Holocaust: Bioscience, Race Theory and Genocide
185D, Jewish Social Movements (Also taught as HISC 118)
185E, Historiography of the Holocaust
194J, Canaanite Society, Art and Religion
196N, Eastern European Jewish Social History
196P, Hitler and Stalin
196R, Social World of Roman Palestine

History of Art and Visual Culture:
172, Jewish Identity and Visual Representation

History of Consciousness:
118, Jewish Social Movements (Also taught as HIS 185D)
122, German–Judaism

Literature:
80A, Biblical Narratives
81A, Aspects of the American Jewish Experience: Studies in Literature
80L, The Holocaust: The Destruction of European Jewry
120, Xenophobia & German Culture
168B, Nazism & Literature
168D, Germany in War and Peace
190P, Parable & Midrash

Legal Studies:
114, Jews, Anti-Semitism, and the American Legal System
115, Law and the Holocaust

Music:
80I, Music of Modern Israel
80P, History of Jewish Music

Philosophy:
148, Holocaust & Philosophy
170, The Interpretation of Religion

Theater Arts:
163Y, History of Yiddish Theater

Declaration of Minor Procedure

(See Academic and Administrative Calendar for declaration of major/minor deadlines.)

1. Pick up two forms:
• A declaration of major/minor form at advising.ucsc.edu. Make sure that Section 1 (monitoring of completed GEs) is completed with your college adviser.
• A Jewish Studies minor planning worksheet, available at the History Department or online.
2. Complete the declaration requirements for your major(s).
3. Meet with one of the Jewish Studies faculty advisers to plan an individualized program of study. Obtain your faculty adviser's signature in Section II of the declaration of major/minor form and on your minor planning worksheet.
4. Go to the History Department with your signed declaration of major/minor form and your minor planning worksheet. The undergraduate adviser will complete Section III. If no further advising from other departments is required, the adviser will then forward the completed declaration to the Registrar, your college office, and second department of study.

Faculty Advisers

Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History and Literature
276 Stevenson
459-3467
brucet@ucsc.edu

Gildas Hamel, Lecturer in History
241 Cowell College
459-2669 voice/459-2609 message
gweltaz@ucsc.edu

Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, Lecturer in Hebrew
274 Stevenson
459-4727 voice/ 459-1924 message
tbenjami@ucsc.edu

Associated Faculty and Professional Interests

Bettina Aptheker, Professor of Women's Studies

Murray Baumgarten, Professor of English & Comparative Literature

Raoul Birnbaum, Professor of Art History

Margaret Brose, Professor of Literature

Barbara Epstein, Professor of History of Consciousness

Stanley Flatté, Emeritus Professor of Physics

Laurel Fox, Professor of Biology

Robert Goff, Emeritus Associate Professor of Philosophy

Gildas Hamel, SOE Lecturer in Classical Languages and History

Margo Hendricks, Professor of Literature

Peter Kenez, Professor of History

Marc Mangel, Professor of Environmental Studies

Loisa Nygaard, Associate Professor of Literature

Tammi Rossman–Benjamin, Lecturer in Hebrew

Dan Selden, Associate Professor of Literature

Francesco Spagnolo, Lecturer in Music

Catherine Soussloff, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture

Michael Thaler, Professor of Pediatric Medicine and History of Science, UCSF

Bruce Thompson, Lecturer in History and Literature

Assaf Yasur-Landau, Professor in History