Schedule of Classes Undergraduate / Spring 2008 / Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

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(1-99) Primarily for Undergraduate Students

Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
NEJS 9A 1 The World of the Ancient Near East
[ hum ]
See Course Catalog for Special Notes
T,F 12:10 PM–1:30 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies302
Open
14 / 999 / 0
Wright, David
 

(100-199) For Both Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
HUM 125A 1 Topics in the Humanities
[ hum wi ]
Topic for spring 2008: Eros and Modern Fiction. An examination of the ideal of erotic love and its place in the fiction of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Works by Austen, Goethe, Kiekegaard, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Flaubert, Fontane, Schnitzler, Colette, Duras, Thomas Mann, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, and Cormac McCarthy.
Spring 2008 topic: Eros and Modern Fiction, has been approved for the writing intensive requirement.
M,W 2:10 PM–3:30 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies002
Open
33 / 999 / 0
Dowden, Stephen
NEJS 101B 1 Intermediate Akkadian
[ hum ]
Instructor's Signature Required
See Course Catalog for prerequisites.
M,W 5:10 PM–6:30 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies103
Open
Consent Req.

3 / 999 / 0
Taylor, Kynthia
NEJS 102A 1 Elementary Hittite
[ hum ]
T 3:10 PM–6:00 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies103
Open
7 / 999 / 0
Wright, David
NEJS 111A 1 The Hebrew Bible/Old Testament
[ hum wi ]
M,W,Th 10:10 AM–11:00 AM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies301
Open
43 / 60 / 0
Brettler, Marc
NEJS 112A 1 The Book of Genesis
[ hum ]
See Course Catalog for prerequisites.
M,W 2:10 PM–3:30 PM
Rabb Graduate Center203
Open
5 / 999 / 0
Abusch, I. Tzvi
NEJS 118B 1 The Book of Psalms
[ hum ]
See Course Catalog for prerequisites.
M,W,Th 1:10 PM–2:00 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies302
Open
9 / 18 / 0
Brettler, Marc
NEJS 123B 1 Classical Biblical Commentaries
[ hum ]
See Course Catalog for prerequisites.
M 2:10 PM–5:00 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies302
Open
7 / 20 / 0
Decter, Jonathan P.
NEJS 126B 1 Agadic Literature: The Ethics of the Fathers
[ hum ]
T,F 10:40 AM–12:00 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies103
Open
10 / 999 / 0
Kimelman, Reuven R
NEJS 127B 1 The Jewish Liturgy
[ hum ]
See Course Catalog for prerequisites.
T,F 12:10 PM–1:30 PM
Schneider & FamilyBldg G4
Open
32 / 999 / 0
Kimelman, Reuven R
NEJS 137A 1 The Destruction of European Jewry
[ hum ]
M,W,Th 11:10 AM–12:00 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies203
Open
36 / 999 / 0
Polonsky, Antony
NEJS 149A 1 The Jews of Muslim and Christian Spain
[ hum ]
See Course Catalog for Special Notes
T,F 10:40 AM–12:00 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies302
Open
5 / 25 / 0
Decter, Jonathan P.
NEJS 153B 1 Abraham Joshua Heschel: Spirituality and Action
[ hum wi ]
M,W 3:40 PM–5:00 PM
Golding Judaica Center109
Open
20 / 999 / 0
Kaplan, Edward K
NEJS 159A 1 Major Trends in Modern Jewish Philosophy
[ hum ]
M,W,Th 11:10 AM–12:00 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies302
Open
7 / 999 / 0
Sheppard, Eugene R
NEJS 161B 1 Representations of the City in Literature, Art, and Architecture
[ hum nw ]
T,F 9:10 AM–10:30 AM
Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr104
Open
6 / 999 / 0
Makiya, Kanan Mohamed
NEJS 176A 1 Seminar in American Jewish Fiction: Philip Roth and Cynthia Ozick
[ hum wi ]
See Course Catalog for Special Notes
T 4:40 PM–7:30 PM
Golding Judaica Center107
Open
5 / 999 / 0
Fishman, Sylvia
NEJS 177A 1 Representing the Holocaust in Hebrew Literature
[ hum ]
Taught in English.
M,W 5:10 PM–6:30 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies302
Open
9 / 999 / 0
Szobel, Ilana
NEJS 178A 1 When a Man Loves a Woman: Love, Power, and Gender in Modern Hebrew Literature
[ hum ]
May be repeated for credit.
See Course Catalog for prerequisites.
Taught in Hebrew.
M,W 6:40 PM–8:00 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies302
Open
6 / 999 / 0
Szobel, Ilana
NEJS 181A 1 Jews on Screen
[ hum ]
T 4:40 PM–7:30 PM
Sachar International Ctr 117
Th 5:10 PM–6:30 PM
Shiffman Humanities Ctr201
Open
17 / 999 / 0
Rivo, Sharon Pucker
NEJS 188B 1 The Destruction of the Ottoman Empire, 1800-1923
[ hum nw ]
See Course Catalog for Special Notes
M,W 3:40 PM–5:00 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies203
Open
22 / 30 / 0
Levy, Avigdor
NEJS 190A 1 Describing Cruelty
[ hum wi ]
See Course Catalog for Special Notes
T 1:40 PM–4:30 PM
Shiffman Humanities Ctr122
Open
14 / 15 / 0
Makiya, Kanan Mohamed
NEJS 191A 1 Introduction to Islamic Theology
[ hum ]
T,Th 5:10 PM–6:30 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies302
Open
9 / 999 / 0
Nguyen, Martin Tran
NEJS 193B 1 Fundamentalism in Comparative Perspective
[ hum ]
Th 2:10 PM–5:00 PM
Lown Cntr for JudaicStudies203
Open
27 / 999 / 0
Inbari, Motti
NEJS 194A 1 Civil Society in the Middle East
[ hum nw ]
T,F 1:40 PM–3:00 PM
Golding Judaica Center109
Open
16 / 999 / 0
Eligur, Banu
 

Cross-Listed in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies

Course # Course Title Time
Location
Enrl / Lim / Wait Instructor(s)
WMGS 140A 1 Diversity of Muslim Women's Experience
[ ss ]
T,F 9:10 AM–10:30 AM
Olin-Sang Amer Civ Ctr116
Open
11 / 999 / 0
Shavarini, Mitra K.