Graduate Certificate Program

Students will be expected to have reading knowledge of at least one Jewish language. Proficiency will be measured via testing or the completion of language instruction through the 200-level (e.g., Yiddish 202, HJCS 202). These include Hebrew, Yiddish, Aramaic, Ladino, Judeo-Arabic, Judeo-Persian. Documentation of this status is to be provided to Judaic Studies and certified by the Judaic Studies Graduate Student Advisor.

Credits earned from language instruction will not be applied to the certificate’s 15-credit requirement. If you have questions about this, please reach out to the Student Services Coordinator or Associate Director.

Judaic 601: Introduction to Methods and Topics in Judaic Studies
The mandatory core introductory course introduces students to the various questions, texts, methodologies, and perspectives that constitute the broad field of Jewish studies. It ranges from antiquity to the modern period, reading Biblical and rabbinic texts, as well as medieval and modern ones. The focus is on interactions between Jews and others: on the ways in which Jews have understood themselves in relation to the societies in which they lived, the peoples with whom they interacted, the languages they acquired. (3 credits)

Judaic 890: Capstone Research Course                                                                                                            The mandatory capstone workshop course requires students to share work-in-progress from their dissertation, providing and receiving feedback. In this process, participants consider how their work engages current research and debates in the various fields of Jewish studies. Throughout the course, students also participate in professionalization workshops including article publication, the job market, and digital self-promotion. The culminating project for the course can be an article draft or a professional website (3 credits). 

Three (3) additional graduate-level courses are required from among those offered by Judaic Studies faculty. At least one of these must be in a field outside of the student’s primary department.

Not more than one-sixth of the credits required for any given master's may be double-counted between a certificate and master's program, and double-counted credits must not exceed one-half of the certificate credit hour requirement. View the full double-counting of credits policy here.