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Centre for Jewish Studies

Program

Certificate in Jewish Studies

This certificate is open to currently registered Dalhousie and King's students in all faculties.

The Certificate in Jewish Studies offers students enrolled in any undergraduate degree program at pilipili漫画 or the University of King鈥檚 College an opportunity to pursue an area of specialization in Jewish cultures, history, texts, and languages from ancient to contemporary contexts from a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective.

Jewish Studies is a well-established multidisciplinary academic area. Scholars of Jewish Studies come from diverse fields and use methods and approaches from history, linguistics and philology, literary studies, critical theory, art history, philosophy, sociology and anthropology, political science, and other disciplines to study Jewish cultures and histories.

The Certificate will allow students to pursue a specialization in the cultures, history, and texts of Jews and Judaism in a comparative context, while complementing and enriching their degree program(s) with interdisciplinary perspectives.

Learning Outcomes:

Students who complete the Certificate in Jewish Studies will be able to:

  1. Describe the historical development of Judaism, Jewish communities, and Jewish identity over time
  2. Discuss the global and local diversity of Judaism and Jewish communities on matters of culture, religion, politics, race and ethnicity, identity, and other aspects
  3. Analyze the relations and interactions between Jewish and other communities historically and today
  4. Discuss the study of Jews and Judaism from multiple disciplinary perspectives
  5. Identify and explain the development and significance of key sources and/or languages central to Judaism and Jewish communities historically and today
  6. Explain how Jewish communities contribute to diversity locally and globally, and demonstrate a commitment to support diversity initiatives and cross-cultural understanding

Requirements:

This certificate is a 15-credit-hour certificate. Students must take at least one of two core classes (3 credit hours):

RELS2001: Judaism (will be offered every year or every other year)
OR
RELS1002: Judaism, Christianity, Islam 鈥� Abrahamic Religions (will be offered every year or every other year)

Exceptions to this requirement may be granted by prior written approval of the coordinator for students who

  1. are unable to take either class before graduating because of scheduling conflicts with courses required for their degrees, AND
  2. can demonstrate equivalent knowledge through a combination of other academic course work.

Elective Requirements:

Choose an additional 12 credit hours of elective courses from the following list. If students take both RELS1002 and RELS2001, one of those courses may be used as an elective toward these 12 credit hours. At least two 3-credit-hour courses must be taken at the 3000 level or higher to ensure depth of learning.

  • CLAS 1500 Death and the Afterlife in the Ancient Mediterranean World
  • CLAS 1901 Introductory Classical Hebrew
  • CLAS 1902 Introduction to Classical Hebrew II
  • CLAS 2901 Intermediate Hebrew I
  • CLAS 2902 Intermediate Hebrew II
  • CLAS 3310 The Bible and its Interpreters
  • CLAS/RELS 4011 Jewish Philosophy: Maimonides
  • CLAS/RELS 4019 Philo Judaeus
  • CLAS/RELS/PHIL 3382 Medieval Philosophy from Arabic and Jewish Thinkers to Aquinas
  • CTMP 3145 Leo Strauss and his Intellectual Context
  • CTMP 3316 Spinozisms: From Early Modernity to the Contemporary World
  • CTMP 3321.03: Representations of the Holocaust: Bearing Witness
  • CTMP 3322 Representations of the Holocaust: Remembrance
  • CTMP 4125 Hannah Arendt: Terror, Politics, Thought
  • CTMP 4126 Kafka, Scholem, Benjamin: On Law and Crisis in 20th Century Jewish Thought
  • CTMP 4330 Ethics after the Holocaust
  • CTMP 4340 Giants of 20th Century Jewish Thought聽
  • HIST 2520/RELS 2220 Ancient Israel
  • HIST 3053 Fascist and National Socialist Movements in Europe, 1900-1945
  • HIST 3056 The Holocaust
  • HIST3088/HIST5088 History and Memory in Modern Russia and the West
  • RELS 3020/GWST 3020 Gender and Sexuality in the Bible
  • RELS 3018 Meetings between Hellenism and the East to Philo the Jew
  • RELS 3019 Meetings between Hellenism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam until the Renaissance
  • RELS 3022 Jews and Muslims: Cultures and Coexistence
  • RELS 3050 The Dead Sea Scrolls

Check to see which courses are being offered this year.

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