Jewish Studies

For the purposes of the Jewish Studies, I examined Indiana Unversity’s major in Jewish Studies. According to the College of Arts and Sciences catalog, “The Jewish Studies Program has as its objective the study of Jewish civilization from antiquity to the present and its interaction with and impact on world civilization. There is broad agreement that the various facets of Jewish culture-literature, history, religion, philosophy, languages, and other constituent features of Judaism-comprise one of the richest complexes within the whole of recorded cultural history.”
The description also goes on to describe the various departments within the College of Arts and Sciences which identifies Jewish Studies as history, religion, literature, political science etc. According to the standards created by IU, a student wishing to major in Jewish Studies needs the following:

2 semesters of Hebrew
Intro to Judaism or Jewish History: Bible to Spanish Expansion
Jewish History: Spanish Expansion to Modern
A specialization in Literature, History or Religion

This means that the university divides ‘Jewish Studies’ into language, religion, history and literature. Additionally, the school offers classes with Jewish topics in the folklore, philosophy, political science, anthropology etc. Additionally, the language of the Jewish people extends into Germanic and Slavic language.