(original web document: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/religious_studies/Haas_web/RS112_syl.htm)
Religious Studies 112:
INTRODUCTION TO JUDAISM
An introductory course taught at Vanderbnilt University (5,800 undergraduates and 4,200 graduate and professional students), with an enrollment of 25-30.
MWF 2:10-3:00, Calhoun 320
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Prof . Peter J. Haas |
Office: 301-G Garland Hall |
Phone: 2-6339 |
e-mail: peter.j.haas@vanderbilt.edu |
Office Hours: W 12-2 |
Required Textbooks:
Course Requirements and grading:
ASSIGNMENT | % OF GRADE |
DUE DATE |
---|---|---|
Exam on Bible | 10 |
January 26 |
Review of Potok | 15 |
February 13 |
Synagogue Visit | 15 |
February 27 |
My Jewish Hometown | 15 |
March 20 |
Review of Wiesel | 15 |
April 6 |
Special Project | 15 |
April 17 |
Review of Harris | 15 |
April 29 |
NOTE: Regular attendance and participation in class is expected.
Jan 7-9
I. Introducing Judaism |
Jan 12-16: The Roots of Judaism: the "TANAKH"
II. Classical Judaism as a Religion |
Jan 19-23: A Kingdom of Priests and a Holy People
Jan 26-30: The Classics of the Rabbis Continued
Exploring a Code of Jewish Law
Feb 2-6: How to be Holy
Some more background on Hasidism
Feb 9-13: Jewish Theology: Coming to Terms with God
I want to read more on Jewish belief
What is the Jewish View of Death?
Some more on Jewish concepts of death
Feb: 16-20 Synagogues, Temples and Shuls
III. Judaism as an Ethnicity |
Feb 23-27: The Birth of an American Judaism
A Tour of American Jewish History
Other Web-links for American Jewish History
SPRING BREAK
March 9-13: "Jewish Denominationalism"
What is (fill in the blank)Judaism?
March 16-20: Celebrating Ethnicity: If it Feels Jewish...
IV. Judaism as an Nationality |
March 23-27: A History of a Nation in Exile
Everything You Want to Know About Sepharadim
Mar 30-Apr 3: Out of the Ghetto: Can a Jew be a German?
April 6-10: Zionism -- A "Secular" Theology?
Eveything you ever wanted to know about Zionism
April 13-20: Being Jewish at the Turn of the Millennium
What's in the Jewish News Today
APRIL 29: REVIEW OF HARRIS DUE