Jewish Studies Minor
The undergraduate minor in Jewish studies is an interdisciplinary curriculum that explores the history, literature, culture, and religious life of Jews in their interaction with other peoples from ancient times to the present. It also offers students an opportunity to become more knowledgeable about selected areas of the Jewish experience.
Requirements
In addition to the program requirements listed below, students must:
- take at least nine hours of their minor "core" requirements at UNC–Chapel Hill
- earn a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.000 in the minor core requirements. Some programs may require higher standards for minor or specific courses.
For more information, please consult the degree requirements section of the catalog.
The minor consists of five courses, which must be taken in at least two different departments.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Core Requirements | ||
| JWST 100/RELI 123 |  Introduction to Jewish Studies (core course) | 3 |
| Four elective courses selected from the list below. Of these four courses, one must be a course numbered 400 or higher, and at least one must fulfill the world before 1750 (WB) General Education requirement. | 12 | |
| The Jewish South: Race, Region, and Religion | ||
| A Social History of Jewish Women in America | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Israeli Culture and Society: Collective Memories and Fragmented Identities | ||
| Language, Exile, and Homeland in Zionist Thought and Practice | ||
| Israeli Cinema: Gender, Nation, and Ethnicity H | ||
ASIA/JWST 357/PWAD 362 | ||
| Beyond Hostilities: Israeli-Palestinian Exchanges and Partnerships in Film, Literature, and Music | ||
| The Archaeology of Palestine in the New Testament Period | ||
| Ancient Synagogues | ||
| German Culture and the Jewish Question | ||
| Jewish American Literature and Culture of the 20th Century | ||
| Traditions in Transition: Jewish Folklore and Ethnography | ||
| Jewish Belonging/s: The Material Culture of Jewish Experience | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Germans, Jews, and the History of Anti-Semitism | ||
| Popular and Pious: Early Modern Jewish Literature | ||
| Literature of Atrocity: The Gulag and the Holocaust in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe | ||
| Advanced Composition and Conversation: Immigration, Ethnicities, and Religious Traditions | ||
| Advanced Composition and Conversation: Zionism and the Hebrew Language | ||
| From the Bible to Broadway: Jewish History to Modern Times | ||
| The Renaissance and the Jews | ||
| Jesus and the Jews: From the Bible to the Big Screen H | ||
| From Fiddler on the Roof to the Holocaust: East European and Soviet Jewish History | ||
| History of the Holocaust: The Destruction of the European Jews | ||
| Capstone Course: Themes and Methodologies in Jewish Studies | ||
| From Communism to Capitalism: 20th- and 21st-Century Polish Literature and Culture | ||
| Introduction to the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Literature H | ||
| Introduction to Early Judaism | ||
| Introduction to Modern Judaism | ||
| Judaism in Our Time | ||
| Prophecy and Divination in Ancient Israel and Judah H | ||
| Classical Hebrew I: A Linguistic Introduction to the Hebrew Bible | ||
| Classical Hebrew II: A Linguistic Introduction to the Hebrew Bible | ||
| Modern Jewish Thought H | ||
| Introduction to American Judaism | ||
| Religion in Modern Israel | ||
| Post-Holocaust Ethics and Theology H | ||
| Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Judaism | ||
| Exploring the Dead Sea Scrolls H | ||
| What Is Scripture? Formations of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Canon | ||
| Imagined Jews: Jewish Themes in Polish and Russian Literature | ||
| Coming to America: The Slavic Immigrant Experience in Literature | ||
| First-Year Seminar: Reading the Bible: Now and Then | ||
| Classic Jewish Texts: From Bible and Dead Sea Scrolls to Kabbalah and Hassidism | ||
| History and Culture of Ancient Israel H | ||
| Ancient Biblical Interpretation H | ||
| Christian-Jewish Relations throughout the Ages | ||
| The History of the Bible in Modern Study | ||
| Medieval Jews and the Bible | ||
| Islamic and Jewish Legal Literature | ||
| The Messiah and the Apocalypse | ||
| Sexuality in Jewish Tradition and History | ||
| Argentine Jewish Culture | ||
| Argentine Jewish Film | ||
| Total Hours | 15 | |
| H | Honors version available. An honors course fulfills the same requirements as the nonhonors version of that course. Enrollment and GPA restrictions may apply. |
Additions to this list must be approved by the director of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies. Only courses in modern Hebrew at the fifth-semester level or higher can count toward the minor. For students minoring in both Jewish studies and religious studies, only two courses can overlap between the two minors.
Although this minor is housed in the Department of Religious Studies, the director of Jewish studies is responsible for advising all students who minor in Jewish studies.
Department Programs
Majors
Minors
- Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Minor
- Jewish Studies Minor
- Religious Studies Minor
- Study of Christianity and Culture Minor
Graduate Programs
Chair
Barbara Ambros
