Bachelor of Arts in Modern Jewish Studies

The Bachelor of Arts in Modern Jewish Studies allows students to focus on the histories, languages, literatures, and cultures of the Jews as they have negotiated modernity. Consequently, the degree encompasses courses that reflect the particular strengths of Department faculty in Jewish History, American Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, the Holocaust, Judaism, Modern Jewish Thought, and Jewish Literatures. Majors develop a broad background in Modern Jewish Studies as an interdisciplinary project within higher education; moreover, the degree’s breadth encourages students to locate Jewish experience in relation to other ethnic, religious, or racial minorities’ groups globally, to contrast Jewish experiences both at the nation’s margins and in the case of Israel, at its center.