UCF: CAH: Judaic Studies Program

UCF Judaic Studies Program established 1984. For more than 25 years, the Judaic Studies Program at UCF has enhanced Judaic knowledge, scholarship, and awareness in Central Florida. The program offers an interdisciplinary Minor in Judaic Studies and a Certificate in Judaic Studies. Judaic Studies forms an essential component of the university curriculum because the roots of western culture, civilization, and major world religions lie in ancient Jewish thought and practice, as manifested in the Hebrew Bible and subsequent writings.

Featured Courses

The Judaic Studies Program will offer ten courses in the upcoming fall semester, which begins August 20, 2012. There are two new on-line and media courses: Building A Nation - The Challenges to and Accomplishments of the State of Israel is a media course, and Modern Jewish Experience will be taught on-line, for the first time.

The other courses to be offered are: Elementary Modern Hebrew I & II, Intermediate Modern Hebrew I, Dead Sea Scrolls, Jewish People in Antiquity (formerly The History of Jewish People I), Introduction of Modernism into Judaism, History of the Holocaust, and our newest addition to the Judaic Studies curriculum.

See more information about these new courses on the Courses page.

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