Spring 2027

What Is Jewish Studies?

Introduces Jewish studies as an interdisciplinary field, examining history, culture, and thought through major guiding questions. Students complete a substantial research project.

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Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Nina Caputo

Summary

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.50 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.73 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Demonstrate knowledge of the major questions and concerns of modern Jewish studies

  • Discern and integrate divergent and contradictory perspectives, identify and question assumptions, and assess evidence and methods

  • Develop close reading skills with which to analyze Jewish studies texts; write original, coherent, and compelling arguments that push beyond summary to analysis; engage in reflective writing practices; respond critically to feedback; and assess one’s own communicative strengths

  • Engage in deep discussion with peers in a respectful and empathetic manner; ask each other constructive questions; and develop a shared vocabulary with which to speak about Jewish studies

Source: UW Guide

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Prerequisites

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Sophomore standing

  • Sophomore standing
JEWISH 350

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  • Sophomore standing

Professors

Spring 2027
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Calendar & sections

Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 3.50 GPA, 85.7% A/AB (n=7 letter grades); Spring 2024: 3.73 GPA, 92.3% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Jewish history, culture, thought, practice, texts, diaspora, antisemitism, and Jewish identity.
  • Responses from scholars, writers, theologians, and artists.

Skills

  • Think transhistorically by integrating biblical, medieval, modern, and contemporary perspectives.
  • Complete a substantial research project anchoring inquiries in Jewish studies.
  • Discern and integrate divergent perspectives, question assumptions, and assess evidence and methods.

Grades

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Sources & history

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JEWISH 350 · Spring 2027

What Is Jewish Studies?

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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