2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Jewish Studies and World Affairs Minor

Dr. Gilbert Kahn, Program Coordinator

Jewish Studies and World Affairs

Room: J-103I

Email: gkahn@kean.edu

Phone: 908-737-3996

The minor in Jewish World Affairs at Kean University is an 18 credit interdisciplinary program that can be taken in conjunction with any major academic curriculum. Jewish studies minors develop a skill-set that is attractive to all employers. Especially attractive is the ability to see the world from multiple perspectives and to grasp the complexities of different cultures. Graduates with a Jewish Studies background pursue careers in law, journalism, public service, education, social work, Jewish communal service, and the rabbinate. The Jewish Studies and World Affairs program inspires inquiry into the Jewish cultural interaction with the larger world and is a unique approach to cross-cultural understanding informed by one of our civilization’s fundamental and seminal cultures.

Total 18

Required Courses 9

Three courses, selected from the following:

ENG3723THE AMERICAN JEWISH NOVELIST

3

HEBR 1101ELEMENTARY HEBREW I

3

HEBR 1102ELEMENTARY HEBREW II

3

HIST 3620MODERN ISRAEL

3

HIST 3860JEWISH HISTORY TO 1789

3

HIST 3861JEWS IN MODERN EUROPE

3

HIST 3863JEWS IN AMERICA: THE GREAT EXPERIMENT

3

PS 3418THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

3

REL 2702WESTERN RELIGIONS: JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, ISLAM

3

REL3706MAJOR TRNDS JEWISH PHIL 19/20C

3

HIST 3862: 1 credit service learning component

Electives 9

Three courses—at least two in any one concentration shown below — selected from the following:

Community Relations

PSY 2630PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PREJUDICE & RACISM

3

PSY 3630SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY

3

SOC 2300AMERICAN ETHNIC & RACIAL GROUPS

3

Holocaust Studies

ENG 3380LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST

3

HIST 3244THE NAZI ERA-GERMANY BEFORE THE HOLOCAUST

3

HIST 4238GERMANY EMPIRE AND WAR, 1850 -1920

3

HIST 3245THE HOLOCAUST 1939-1945

3

ID 1800THE HOLOCAUST, GENOCIDE, AND MODERN HUMANITY

3

World Perspectives

AH 3760MEDIEVAL ART

3

AH 3771BYZANTINE ART

3

MUS 4105MUSIC HISTORY II - WE

3

REL 4700ISSUES IN MODERN RELIGION

3

SOC4450SOC OF EXTREME SITUATIONS

3