4024 - Graduate Certificate in Judaic Studies

The Graduate Certificate in Judaic Studies offers specialised units in Jewish theology, philosophy, history and literature. Spanning the biblical, rabbinic, medieval and modern periods, this course offers students the opportunity to pursue advanced Jewish studies and pursue independent research. Taught by the research professors and lecturers of the Centre for Jewish Studies, this course draws specifically on the research expertise of the centre's staff and presents students with access to some of the key issues and themes in Jewish scholarship today.

Students completing this course will demonstrate:

• broad familiarity with Jewish history, philosophy, theology and literature
• an understanding of the historical and cultural significance of key Jewish texts and be able to situate these texts in their broader intellectual milieu
• a familiarity with key debates and central issues in Jewish scholarship today.

Students complete one core unit and 12 points of elective studies.

Students complete the core unit:

• JWM4030 Jewish history, Jewish memory: Writing and reading the Jewish past

plus a further 12 points of elective units from the following:

• HSY4165 Final journey: the life and death of European Jews, 1900-1945
• HYM4175 Interpreting the Bible: Jewish and Christian perspectives
• HYM4260 Medieval dialogues: reason, mysticism, society
• JWM4020 Between homeland and Holy Land: the place of Israel in Jewish thought
• JWM4040 Jewish literature of subversion
• JWM4260 Jewish literature of destruction.

Students may also choose units from related Masters programs in Holocaust Studies, Interreligious Studies and Israel Studies.

Students who complete the graduate certificate with a minimum credit average, may apply to transfer to the related graduate diploma.

Graduate Certificate in Judaic Studies

* Where more than one award is listed, or in the case of double degrees, where more than one award is listed for one or both components of the double degree, the actual award/s conferred may depend on units/majors/streams/specialisations studied, the level of academic merit achieved (eg in the case of 'with honours' programs), or other factors relevant to the individual student's program of study.