Jewish Studies Minor

Required Courses (12 units)

• RLST 210 - Introduction to Judaism (3)
• RLST 300 - Methods of Studying Religion (3)
• RLST 361 - History and Development of Jewish Thought: Biblical and Rabbinical Eras (3)
• RLST 362 - History and Development of Jewish Thought: Medieval and Modern Eras (3)

Electives (9 units)

• RLST 312 - The Bible as Literature (3) or
• CPLT 312 - The Bible as Literature (3)

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• RLST 412C - History of the Jews (3) or
• HIST 412C - History of the Jews (3)

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• RLST 435A - The Holocaust (3) or
• HIST 435A - The Holocaust (3)

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• HIST 467A - The Middle East in the 19th Century (3)
• HIST 467B - Contemporary Middle East History (3)
• HIST 468A - Women and Gender in Middle East History (3)
• HIST 468B - Eastern Mediterranean 500-900 CE (3)
• RLST 302 - Religion and Ecology (3)
• RLST 320 - The End of the World (3)
• RLST 321 - Psychology of Religion (3)
• RLST 330T - Hebrew Scriptural Studies (3)
• RLST 333 - Religion and Sexuality (3)
• RLST 335 - Judaism, Christianity and Islam Compared (3)
• RLST 358 - Comparative Mysticism (3)
• RLST 375 - Conceptions of the Afterlife (3)
• RLST 380 - Religion and Violence (3)
• RLST 381 - Religion and Politics in the United States (3)
• RLST 400 - Religion, the Media, and Contemporary Culture (3)
• RLST 485T - Major Religious Thinkers and Concepts (3) *
• RLST 499 - Independent Study (1-3) *

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• RLST 458 - Sociology of Religious Behavior (3) or
• SOCI 458 - Sociology of Religious Behavior (3)

Total (21 units)