While UNM does not have a Jewish or Mideast studies program per se, several departments and instructors make a point of offering individual courses in the area of Jewish studies. Here is a catalog of current and upcoming courses, incomplete at this point, but constantly updated.
If you know of others, please email Lynn so they can be added to this list.
If you are interested in these classes, please be sure to sign up for the ones that interest you, if at all possible. As the effort to offer Jewish Studies classes at UNM is in its early stages, the more people taking the classes each semester, the better.
Fall 2008
JUDAISM AND MODERNITY: IDENTITIES BEYOND RELIGION
RELIG:447: 003 Thursdays 5:30–8PM Dane Smith Hall Rm 233
BEGINS 8/28.
INFO: UNM RELIGIOUS STUDIES PROGRAM: 277-4009.
This course considers the major streams of Jewish thought from the 18th C. to the present day. We will study thinkers of the Jewish Enlightenment, the development of Reform, Conservative and Orthodox movements, and how Jewish socialists, secular intellectuals and Zionists attempted to redefine themselves beyond the bounds of religion. All were seeking the answer to the question: who is a Jew? Finally, we will look at how Jews have created a new Jewish culture in America. The Holocaust and its impact will be included in the course but will not be the main focus. INSTRUCTOR: Michael Nutkiewicz, Ph.D. takes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of religious ideas and thinkers. He focuses on the intersection of religion, mass movements, and politics.
