First semester Hebrew is a beginning level course designed for students who have little or no prior knowledge of Hebrew. Begins with learning the Hebrew alphabet and immediately starts developing rudimentary Hebrew conversational, reading and writing skills. By the end of the semester students are expected to have attained basic understanding and expressive abilities in Hebrew.
Second semester builds on Hebrew skills introduced in the first semester, with a focus on speaking, comprehension, reading and writing. Students learn new verbal tenses and paradigms. The course blends a communicative method with formal grammatical instruction. By the end of this semester students are expected to be able to converse in, comprehend, and produce written basic Hebrew. Prereq., HEBR 1010 (min. grade C-) or instructor consent.
This course is designed to enable students to read the Hebrew Bible in the original language. The focus will be the ability to read the various genres of the text, utilizing both the tools of modern language acquisition and the study of classical grammar methods. Same as JWST 1030.
Building on HEBR/JWST 1030, this course continues to build expertise in reading the Hebrew Bible. Modern language acquisition and classical grammar study methods equip students with the tools to translate and read the various genres of the Biblical material. Prereq., HEBR/JWST 1030 or instructor consent. HEBR 1040 and JWST 1040 are the same course.
Third semester Hebrew builds on skills introduced in the first two semesters and focuses on speaking, comprehension, reading and writing. Students learn new veral tenses and paradigms, modes of expression and syntactical forms. The course blends a communicative method with formal grammatical instruction. By the end of the semester students are expected to be able to converse in, comprehend, and produce written Hebrew at an intermediate level. Prereq., HEBR 1020 (min. grade C-) or instructor consent. Approved for GT-AH4. Meets MAPS requirement for foreign language.
Focuses on texts, while still developing speaking, comprehension and writing skills. Students build on grammatical understanding while learning some of the more sophisticated verbal paradigms and nominal patterns. The course blends a communicative method with some formal grammatical instruction. By the end of this semester students are expected to converse in, comprehend, and produce written hebrew at an intermediate level. Prereq., HEBR 2110 (min. grade C-) or instructor consent.
Explores the development and expressions of Jewish culture as it moves across the chronological and geographical map of the historic Jewish people, with an emphasis on the variety of Jewish ethnicities and their cultural productions, cultural syncretism, and changes. Sets the discussion in a historical context, and looks at cultural representations that include literary, religious, and visual texts. Taught in English. Same as JWST 2350. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.
Explores the major historical events and socio-cultural themes in modern Jewish history including the French Revolution, the rise of modern anti-semitism, the international migration of Jews, the Holocaust, and the establishment of Israel. Taught in English. Recommended prereq., HEBR 2350.
Study the work of Jewish writers in English and English translation. Looks at a broad spectrum of texts which show the various ways Jewish authors and poets across time and space have understood the world. Themes will include questions of secularity and tradition, diaspora, exile and citizenship, and the changes of modernity (social and political emancipation, world-wide wars, cultural transformation, new homelands). HEBR 2551 and JWST 2551 are identical courses. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.
Focuses on students' active Hebrew language skills acquired in the first four semesters of Hebrew at CU Boulder in weekly conversation and composition sessions. Develops grammatical understanding with a further exploration of the root, verbal and noun systems. Students are introduced to texts in contemporary Hebrew fiction and poetry, as well as some biblical readings. Prereq., HEBR 2120 (min grade C-) or instructor consent.
Focuses on students' Hebrew language skills acquired in the first five semesters of Hebrew at CU Boulder in weekly conversation and composition sessions. Develops grammatical understanding with a further exploration of the root, verbal and noun systems. Students are introduced to texts in contemporary Hebrew fiction and poetry, as well as some biblical readings, academic texts and Israeli newspapers. Prereq., HEBR 3010 (minimum grade C-) or instructor consent.
Reads some of the ways Jewish texts and traditions look at women, gender and sexuality from biblical times to the present. Starts with an analysis of the positioning of the body, matter and gender in creation stories, moves on to the gendered aspects of tales of rescue and sacrifice, biblical tales of sexual subversion and power, taboo-breaking and ethnos building, to rabbinic attitudes towards women, sexuality and gender and contemporary renderings and rereadings of the earlier texts and traditions. Taught in English. Same as JWST 3202. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.
Explores topics in Hebrew and Jewish literature and cultures. These may include topics such as diasporic literatures, Jewish artists and thinkers, courses on specific authors, figures or communities. Topics change each semester. May be repeated up to 9 total credit hours. Taught in English. HEBR 4101 and JWST 4101 are the same course.
Examines the creation and development of Israeli literature from its pre-State beginnings to the present day, from the writings of immigrants for whom Hebrew was not their mother tongue to a literature written by native Hebrew speakers. Considers texts written by Israeli Jewish and Arab writers and explores how ideas of exile, nation, and home play into the Israeli experience. Recommended prereqs., ENGL/JWST 3677, GRMN/JWST 2502; GRMN/JWST 3503; HEBR/JWST 2551; WRTG/JWST 3020. Same as JWST 4203. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.
Explores the development of European Jewish culture from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusing on Jewish life in the city of Venice, Italy. Emphasis is on the development of Venetian print culture and emergence of Italy as a center of Jewish publishing in both the religious and secular world. The course examines a variety of cultural and historical material including early printings of the Talmud, the creation of Yiddish popular literature, Hebrew rabbinic literature, responses to political turmoil, and the aftermath of the Nazi genocide. Taught in English. Prereq., HEBR/JWST 2350. HEBR 4301 and JWST 4301 are the same course. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: literature and the arts.