Courses

Intensive study in a selected field of Jewish Studies. As part of the seminar, students will undertake and complete an individual research problem in their field of special interest under the direction of an instructor in their area of Jewish concentration.

This culminating course is designed as a synthesis of both field work and course work. It addresses three purposes: to enable students to articulate beliefs and relate those beliefs to teaching practice, to complete the pre-professional portfolio, and to prepare for entry into the professional field.This course has an M&T Fee. For more info visit: http://qc.cuny.edu/?id=JU9F

Topics to be announced. (No student is permitted to enroll in more than one seminar per semester.) May be repeated for credit provided the topic is different.Prereq.: Advanced standing in sociology

Topics to be announced. (No student is permitted to enroll in more than one seminar per semester.) May be repeated for credit provided the topic is different.Prereq.: Advanced standing in sociology

Topics to be announced. (No student is permitted to enroll in more than one seminar per semester.) May be repeated for credit provided the topic is different.Prereq.: Advanced standing in sociology.

This course allows the instructor and a small group of advanced English majors to pursue in depth a topic in literature or literary theory.

Under the supervision of a faculty mentor and the support of one additional faculty member (not in the sub-discipline of the planned project), the student will prepare a senior thesis that either presents the research performed by the student or expands (using current literature) the project investigated in CHEM 387 or 388. Upon completion of the thesis, an oral presentation will be given to the department.

How the sensory systems code and perceive environmental stimuli. Topicsinclude the visual system, the auditory/vestibular systems, speech perception, the cutaneous senses, and the chemical senses. Similarities and differencesacross the systems are highlighted and discussed, especially in terms of how stimuli for each sense are transduced into neuronal signals and how areas in the brain are specifically organized to receive and process these signals.

Sephardic Jewish history from 1492 to modern times.

The class will explore cultural, political, and social implications of works by writers from throughout the Middle East. Readings in English translation of the literature of Sephardic, Middle Eastern Jews from the late nineteenth century to the present.