Jewish Studies Program
University of Houston
613 Agnes Arnold Hall
Houston, TX 77204-6000

Contact:
Marie-Theresa Hernandez
mthdz@uh.edu 

Courses

The University of Houston presently offers an array of courses in Jewish Studies in fields such as World Cultures and Literature (WCL), Religious Studies, History, German, English, and Classics. A sampling of these courses includes:

  • WCL 6364: Representations of the Holocaust
  • WCL 4367: Voices of the Exile and Diaspora
  • RELS 2330: Judaism
  • RELS 2335: Rabbinic Biblical Interpretation
  • HIST 3358: Twentieth Century Germany
  • HIST 3397: Pictures and Words: Palestine-Israel Conflict Through Film
  • HIST 3398: Modern Middle East
  • GERM 3364: Writing Holocausts
  • ENGL 3366: Jewish-American Literature
  • CLAS 3375: Roman, Jew, and Christian: The Politics and Sociology of Religion in the First Century A.D.

UH Faculty members are busy developing proposed courses such as:

  • American Jewish Culture
  • Introduction to Jewish Studies
  • Jewish Women through Biography
  • The Jewish-American Novel
  • Eastern European Jewish Culture
  • Jewish-American Short Fiction
  • Jewish Expulsion from Spain
  • Jewish-American Poetry
  • Jewish Nobel Prize Winners