What is Your Passion?
The Business on a Mission: Entrepreneurship and Social Change: course explores social entrepreneurship and the role businesses can play in the social sector when driven by a mission and values.
The Innovation and Revolution: The Relationship Between Technology and Society: course investigates innovations and the impacts they have had in society and in Jewish history, focusing on modern technologies and new innovations and their impact on our lives and communities.
The Power of the Press: The Impact and Ethics of Journalism course investigates the media and how and why it influences policy, politics and our lives.
The In Pursuit of Justice: The Theories and Realities of the Legal System course explores the interplay between secular law and Jewish social and moral values.
The Beyond Belief: Exploring World Religions course considers the binaries in various world religions:insiders and outsiders, individuals and community, human and divine, immanence and transcendence, personal and scholarly, sacred and profane.
Genesis Subject Courses
Subject courses at Genesis are unlike any high school classroom learning experience. The courses examine areas of knowledge that begin with an academic discipline and integrate Judaism and Judaic studies. Our faculty lead you through complex, compelling topics that encourage critical thinking and challenge assumptions. Jewish texts, traditions and perspectives infuse your study of subjects ranging from law to technology to world religions. With intellectual vigor, yet without the stress of grades or papers, Genesis courses prompt questions as much as they provide answers. You will help shape your experience by taking responsibility for parts of the course and getting practical experience in your chosen discipline. They extend beyond the classroom, into society, and into your future. The subject courses are structured to provide in-depth learning enriched by hands-on experiences and excursions to relevant institutions in Greater Boston, as well as interactive presentations from experts in the field of study. You will have opportunities to contribute to the course and your questions and interests will help shape the direction of the course and the hands-on projects.
All of the Genesis courses involve:
- Minimum of forty hours of meeting time
- Meetings with professionals in the field
- Field trips to relevant Boston organizations
Genesis brings course faculty from around the world - outstanding educators and professionals with expertise in their discipline. Many of the courses are team-taught, bringing together different experiences and viewpoints. Learn more about our educational staff by viewing their profiles.