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RELI 209 Introduction to Judaism
Course Number RELI 209
Title Introduction to Judaism
Instructors Gregory Kaplan
Status Course Status - 1
Category School of Humanities
Level School of Humanities
Other Level
Description The published description states, "Post-biblical Judaism reflected in ancient rabbinic (legal space and non-legal) literature More...
Prerequisites none
Required Course 0
Required For
Class Schedule MWF 10:00AM - 10:50AM 
Textbooks and Required Materials Maimonides Reader, 1 (ed.), Twersky
On Being a Jew, 1 (ed.), Kugel
Talmud: Selected Writings, 1 (ed.), Bokser
Bla More...
Typical Student Enrollment 15
Profile of Students Enrolling All are undergraduates, many are religious studies majors, and several are freshmen. 
Major Topics "Introduction to Judaism" is a survey course covering all aspects of the Jewish religion:its history, basic concepts, doctrin More...
Course Objectives Professor Kaplan has taught the class several times, and its plan is more or less set as a chronological treatment of importa More...
Reasons for selecting Shoah Archive Professor Kaplan imagines the archive could answer very specifically how German Jews identified themselves before the war. D More...
Objectives for use of Archive In the "Introduction to Judaism," Professor Kaplan takes a long view of Jewish history and typically devotes no more than one  More...
Relationship of Shoah objectives to Course objectives  
Primary Instructional Strategy Introducing selections from the archive into the class would unfold over a week or two. First, Professor Kaplan would lectur More...
Expected Student Outcomes In actual fact, the class did carry through the assignment more or less as planned. Professor Kaplan selected four videos fr More...
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