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The Jewish Studies minor at Elon requires one course (REL 205) and a minimum of 16 additional semester hours in Jewish Studies. No more than 12 total credit hours from one department may count towards the minor. (This means that, in addition to REL 205, only 8 other hours can come from Religious Studies.) Students may count up to 12 credit hours toward minors in both Middle East Studies and Jewish Studies. Up to 12 credit hours of study abroad courses in Jewish Studies may count for the minor, as approved by the program coordinator.
The minor in Jewish Studies requires:
REL 205: Jewish Traditions (4 sh)
And sixteen semester hours selected from the following courses or other approved courses:
ARH 375: Cultures in Contact and Conflict: The Art and Architecture of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
ENG 255: Literature of the Holocaust
GST 218: Kafka and the Kafkaesque (with an appropriately focused research paper)
GST 227: Holocaust Perpetrators
GST 240-IS/ENG 240-IS: Holocaust Journey
GST 289: Israel, Palestine and Jordan: Living Stones of Peace
GST 311: Modern Zionism
GST 320: Israeli Cinema
GST 359: The Media and the Middle East (with an appropriately focused research paper)
HEB 170: Elementary Modern Hebrew I
HEB 171: Elementary Modern Hebrew II
HEB 172: Intermediate Modern Hebrew I
HST 316: The Modern Middle East
HST 338: Germany: War, Democracy and Hitler, 1914-1945
HST 339: A History of the Holocaust
HST 460: Seminar: Nazi Germany
PHL 339: Martin Buber and the Eclipse of God
PHL 350: The Spirit of Israel
PHL 361: Themes in the Films of Woody Allen
PHL 373: Philosophy and the Holocaust
PHL 373/GST 355: The New Anti-Semitism
POL 366: Middle East Politics
REL 211: The Hebrew Bible
REL 212: Introduction to the New Testament and Early Christian Literature
REL 239: Judaism and the Environment
REL 270: Death and the Body in the Biblical Worlds
REL 271: American Jews Across the Color Line
REL 273: Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths
REL 274: Peace and Violence in the Bible
REL 324: Theodicy: The Problem of Evil in Ancient Jewish and Christian Literature
REL 325: The Apocalyptic Imagination, Ancient and Modern
REL 326: Sex Lives of Saints: Sex, Gender and Family in Early Christianity
REL 327: Messiahs, Martyrs, and Memory
REL 366: Jews and Muslims: Symbiosis, Cooperation, and Conflict
REL 367: Religion and Empire in Late Antiquity
REL 379: Jewish-Christian Dialogue
REL 382: Jewish Ethics
REL 383: Jewish Mysticism and Philosophy: Guiding the Perplexed
REL 384: Modern Jewish Thought
REL 376: Monotheism, Polytheism, and Idolatry in Western Religions
REL 461: Slavery in and around the Bible
SOC 341: Race and Ethnic Relations (with an appropriately focused research paper)
Descriptions for each of these courses are available here.
To declare a minor in Jewish Studies, stop by the Academic Advising Center in Duke 108 or fill out and send in a Minor Declaration Form.