Pertinent Academic Courses
Union recently hired a director for its emerging Religious Studies Department. Further development of the department should enhance opportunities for minoring in religious studies and for developing rich interdepartmental majors. Professor Steven Berk serves as the Henry and Sally Schaffer Professor of Holocaust and Jewish Studies. Typical courses of particular interest to Jewish students offered in recent years or being offered at present at Union include:
- Hebrew I
- Hebrew II
- Hebrew III
- The American Jewish Experience
- Modern Jewish History
- The Modern History of the Middle East
- The Early History of the Jews
- The Holocaust
- Jewish Women Writers
- Yiddish Literature in Translation
- The World of the Bible
- Shoah: Literary, Artistic and Film Representations of the Holocaust
- Middle East Politics
- Politics of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- Judaism/Christianity/Islam
- Humanities: the Origins
- World Religions and Music
- Philosophy of Religion
- Problem of Evil
- Religion and Politics
- Psychology of Religion
- Anthropology of Religion
More advanced Hebrew courses can be taken for credit through the State University of New York at Albany.