Graduate Certificate in Jewish Studies

The Program in Jewish Studies is an innovative and deeply interdisciplinaryÌýprogram that explores Jewish culture, history, society and thought acrossÌýdisciplinary borders and in a global context.ÌýThis certificate program allowsÌýgraduate students across campus interested in Jewish studies to explore JewishÌýculture, history, society, and thought in a number of disciplines. We also provideÌýintensive mentoring of graduate research and writing projects throughÌýour graduate colloquium.

Admission

This graduate certificate is open to all currently matriculated graduate students.ÌýThey may apply for the graduate certificate at any point in their graduate career atÌýCU. Students may apply by following the link toÌýthe admission form below.

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Completion

Please fill out this form to indicate if you have completed the Graduate Certificate in Jewish Studies. If all elements of your completion application are approved by Jewish Studies' Director of Graduate Studies, we will submit a request for your certificate to be added to your transcript.

The above buttons will redirectÌýto a Google Form. Please fillÌýout the proper form to be considered for admission or completion of the graduate certificate.Ìý

Requirements for Completion

For more information, please contact Professor Hilary Kalisman, Director of Graduate Studies, at
Ìýhilary.kalisman@colorado.edu

Coursework

Successful completion of 3 graduate courses (9 credit hours) with a grade of B orÌýhigher from our list of approved graduate courses, issued every semester, whichÌýcomprises graduate courses crosslisted in the Program in Jewish Studies as well asÌýapproved courses taught by faculty in the Program in Jewish Studies. If you think aÌýcourse is missing from this list, please contact the Director of Graduate Studies.

Students may petition the graduate studies committee to have a maximum ofÌýone graduate level course (including independent study courses) fromÌýoutside this list, if that course contains significantÌýJewish Studies content andÌýthe student’s completed work for that course is related to Jewish Studies.

  • Ethics, Medicine, and the Holocaust: Legacies in Health andÌýSociety
  • Graduate Independent Study in Jewish Studies
  • Russian Jewish Experience
  • ÌýHistory of Yiddish Culture
  • Modern European Jewish History
  • Readings in European History (depending on the semesterÌýsyllabus)
  • Readings in Global History: Global History of GenocideÌý(depending on the semester syllabus)
  • ÌýReadings in Global History: Microhistory (depending on theÌýsemester syllabus)
  • God and Politics in Jewish and Christian Thought
  • Is God Dead?
  • Love and Desire
  • Topics in Judaism
  • Literature and Culture of the United States: Mystics andÌýMessiahs in Early America
  • Early 20th-Century German Society: The Ruins of Modernity
  • Mediterranean Religious Society
  • Medieval Spain: Religion, Culture and Ethnicity
  • Sex, Politics, Religion in the U.S.Ìý

Two semesters of participation in the Program in Jewish Studies Colloquium, whichÌýmeets three times per semester. Participation will be defined as attendance atÌýtwoÌýcolloquium sessions in a given semester, and presentation of a work in progressÌýduring that semester.