Modern Jewish: Curriculum
Course offerings vary from year to year. Students are required to take at least one two-quarter research seminar and a mix of graduate colloquia and mixed graduate-undergraduate lecture-discussion classes. All graduate students in the history department read three fields for the oral preliminary examinations. Particular stress in laid on language competency. The university offers courses in modern and classical Hebrew, Yiddish, and Arabic as well as other relevant languages.
Among courses currently or recently offered are:
- Hist 17902 - American Jewish History, 1881-1999
- Hist 23401 - Genocide of European Jews 1933-1945
- Hist 23400 - Modern European Jewish History
- Hist 23501 - European War and Genocide
- Hist 24300 - Nazi Germany and the Genocide of the Jews
- Hist 25902/35902 - History of the Israeli-Arab Conflict
- Hist 29401/39401 - Reading Hannah Arendt
- Hist 29600 - Nazi War, Genocide, War Crimes
- Hist 32700 - Jewish Life in France and Germany
- Hist 43100 - Nation, Migration, Resettlement, 1918-1947
- Hist 53200 - Colloquium: Catastrophic Nationalism
- Hist 65700 - Colloquium: History and Memory in the Twentieth-Century
- Hist 73501 - The Politics of Memory in France and Germany
- Hist 790001-02 - Seminar: Arabs and Jews in Palestine 1831-1939