Graduate Certificate in Jewish Studies

The Program in Jewish Studies is an innovative and deeply interdisciplinary program that explores Jewish culture, history, society and thought across disciplinary borders and in a global context. This certificate program allows graduate students across campus interested in Jewish studies to explore Jewish culture, history, society, and thought in a number of disciplines. We also provide intensive mentoring of graduate research and writing projects through our graduate colloquium.

Admission

This graduate certificate is open to all currently matriculated graduate students. They may apply for the graduate certificate at any point in their graduate career at CU. Â鶹ÒùÔº may apply by following the link to the admission form below.

 

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 redirect to a Google Form. Please fill out the proper form to be considered for admission or completion of the graduate certificate. 

Requirements for Completion

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

Coursework

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

Â鶹ÒùÔº 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.

  • Ethics, Medicine, and the Holocaust: Legacies in Health and Society
  • Graduate Independent Study in Jewish Studies
  • Russian Jewish Experience
  •  History of Yiddish Culture
  • Modern European Jewish History
  • Readings in European History (depending on the semester syllabus)
  • Readings in Global History: Global History of Genocide (depending on the semester syllabus)
  •  Readings in Global History: Microhistory (depending on the semester 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 and Messiahs 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. 

Two semesters of participation in the Program in Jewish Studies 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.