Program Overview

Overview

The Jewish Studies Graduate Certificate program is designed for graduate students across campus who are interested in exploring Jewish culture, history, society, and thought in various disciplines. The program provides intensive mentoring of graduate research and writing projects through the Jewish Studies Graduate Student Colloquium.

Requirements

Admission Requirements

This graduate certificate is open to all currently matriculated graduate students. Students may apply for the graduate certificate at any point in their graduate career at CU.

Course Requirements

Successful completion of 3 graduate courses (9 credit hours) with a grade of B or higher from Jewish Studies' list of approved graduate courses. The list includes:

• JWST 5200: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the United States (3 credit hours)
• JWST 5348: Graduate Topics in Jewish History (Modern Childhood in Israel/Palestine) (3 credit hours)
• JWST 5800: Ethics, Medicine and the Holocaust: Legacies in Health and Society (3 credit hours)
• JWST 5378: Jews in and of the Middle East (3 credit hours)
• JWST 5900: Graduate Independent Study in Jewish Studies (1-6 credit hours)
• ENGL 5109: Literature and Culture of the United States (Jewish American Literature) (3 credit hours)
• GRMN 5410: Seminar: Topics in Early 20th Century German Society (Ruins of Modernity) (3 credit hours)
• GRMN 5520: Seminar: Current Issues in German Literature and Media (Depending on Semester Syllabus) (3 credit hours)
• HIST 6012: Readings in Modern European History (depending on the semester syllabus) (3 credit hours)
• HIST 6800: Readings in Global History (Global History of Genocide - depending on the semester syllabus) (3 credit hours)
• HIST 6800: Readings in Global History (Microhistory - depending on the semester syllabus) (3 credit hours)
• RLST 5170: God and Politics (3 credit hours)
• RLST 5180: Is God Dead? (3 credit hours)
• RLST 5190: Love and Desire (3 credit hours)
• RLST 5260: Topics in Judaism (3 credit hours)
• RLST 5820: Interdisciplinary Seminar on Religion (Mediterranean Religious Society) (3 credit hours)
• RLST 5820: Interdisciplinary Seminar on Religion (Medieval Spain: Religion, Culture and Ethnicity) (3 credit hours)

Students may petition the graduate studies committee to have a maximum of one graduate-level course (including independent study courses) from outside this list, if that course contains significant Jewish Studies content and the student's completed work for that course is related to Jewish Studies.

Colloquium

The certificate requires two semesters of participation in the Program in Jewish Studies Graduate Student Colloquium, which meets three times per semester. Participation will be defined as attendance at two colloquium sessions in a given semester and presentation of a work in progress during that semester.