Honours Bachelor of Arts in Jewish Studies (Specialist) - St. George

Our undergraduate program provides students with a comprehensive education in Jewish Studies, a field that aims to situate the cultural, social, and economic diversity of the Jews and their faith within broader cultural contexts. Students who take our courses are trained in various methodological and disciplinary approaches across historical periods, geographical regions, textual corpora, and literary genres. Consequently, our students are pursuing education in Jewish history (ancient, medieval, modern, and contemporary), Jewish literary and artistic creativity, and Jewish languages (mainly Modern Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew, and Yiddish) but also about Judaism, Jewish thought, theology, philosophy, mysticism, and modern Israel.
The program is interdisciplinary, each student can pick and choose courses that broaden their disciplinary knowledge. The program provides intensive training in the historical, religious, cultural, and political experience of Jewish communities in their diverse civilizational contexts. A primary objective of our three undergraduate programs in Jewish studies has been to provide students with forward-thinking tools to shape their interaction with and understanding of questions through Jewish prisms while at the same time encouraging them to think with the potentialities found in the Jewish historical experience. We teach students how to use a variety of methodologies to explore the experiences of Jews through interdisciplinarity, transnationally, historically, and contemporarily.