Resources
Official course descriptions are maintained by the Office of the University Registrar. Follow these links:
- Course descriptions from the Brandeis University Bulletin (course catalog)
- Near Eastern and Judaic Studies course list from Registrar's Web site
Spring 2012 Course Brochure
Printable Course Brochure, 3 pages (pdf)
Cross-Registration for Graduate Students
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Courses
Spring 2012
Course syllabi can be found in LATTE.
| Professor | Course Number |
Course Name |
| Abusch | NEJS 101b |
Old Babylonian Texts |
| Abusch | NEJS 202b |
Akkadian Mythological/Religious Texts II |
| Decter | NEJS 140a |
Under Crescent and Cross: Jews in the Middle Ages |
| Decter | NEJS 177b |
Judeo Arabic Literature |
| El-Tobgui | ARBC 103b |
Advanced Literary Arabic II |
| El-Tobgui | ARBC 40b | Advanced Intermediate Literary Arabic |
| Feige | NEJS 189b |
Memory Wars: Collective Memory, Political Myths and History |
| Fishman | NEJS 173b | American Jewish Writers in the Twentieth Century |
| Freeze |
NEJS 141a |
Russian Jews in the Twentieth Century |
| Freeze | WMGS 5a |
Women and Gender in Culture and Society |
| Karjala | ARBC 20b (sec. 1) | Continuing Literary Arabic |
| Karjala | ARBC 20b (sec. 2) | Continuing Literary Arabic |
| Kellman |
NEJS 171a |
Modern Jewish Literatures: Text, Image, and Context |
| Kellman | YDSH 20b |
ContinuingYiddish |
| Kellman | YDSH 40a |
AdvancedYiddish |
| Kimelman |
HUM 10a |
The Western Canon: Understanding Evil and Human Destiny |
| Kimelman | NEJS 126b | Agadic Literature: The Ethics of the Fathers |
| Levisohn |
NEJS 235b |
Philosophy of Jewish Education |
| Lumbard | NEJS 186a |
Introduction to the Qur'an |
| Lumbard | NEJS 195a | Muhammad: The History of a Prophet |
| Makiya | IMES 105a |
War and Revolution in the Middle East |
| Makiya | NEJS 197b | Political Cultures of the Middle East |
| Rivo | NEJS 181a |
Jews on Screen: Cohen's Fire Sale to the Coen Brothers |
| Sarna | NEJS 162a | American Judaism |
| Sheppard |
NEJS 135a |
The Modern Jewish Experience |
| Smith |
NEW! |
Exhibiting Religion |
| Szobel | NEJS 174b |
Line of Resistance: Israeli Women Writers on War and Peace |
| Szobel | NEJS 177a |
The Holocaust in Israeli and Jewish Literature |
| Wright | NEJS 104a | Comparative Semitic Languages |
| Wright | NEJS 113a |
The Bible in Aramaic |