2025-26 Graduate Course Handbook - WORKING DRAFT
Please note this handbook is in progress and updates will continue to be made throughout August.
*Please note that students need an add/drop form to enroll in courses listed in the Graduate Handbook that are not given by their home department.
Add/Drop Form for Course Enrollment (pdf)
Courses Offered by the Centre
M4–7/ Czendze, O and Yirmiya, O.
This year-long, half-credit course exposes students to advanced methods employed in understanding texts, contexts, and concepts in the main areas of Jewish Studies. A diverse team of scholars from a range of academic disciplines will model methods such as textual exegesis and criticism; history of interpretation; social history; cultural studies; comparative approaches; and analysis of philosophical and theological problems and arguments. Students participate in group discussions after the twelve, scheduled guest lectures and write three short responses each semester to specific presentations.
M4–7/ Czendze, O and Yirmiya, O.
This year-long, half-credit course exposes students to advanced methods employed in understanding texts, contexts, and concepts in the main areas of Jewish Studies. A diverse team of scholars from a range of academic disciplines will model methods such as textual exegesis and criticism; history of interpretation; social history; cultural studies; comparative approaches; and analysis of philosophical and theological problems and arguments. Students participate in group discussions after the twelve, scheduled guest lectures and write three short responses each semester to specific presentations.
CJS1012H1: Jewish Studies Directed Reading Course - MA level
A directed reading course at the MA level designed by a graduate faculty member in Jewish Studies in collaboration with a graduate student on a topic in Jewish Studies. The course will include individual consultations, discussion of existing literature in the specific discipline and preparation of extensive paper and bibliography.
CJS2010H1: Jewish Studies Directed Reading Course - PhD level
A directed reading course at the PhD level designed by a graduate faculty member in Jewish Studies in collaboration with a graduate student on a topic in Jewish Studies. The course will include individual consultations, discussion of existing literature in the specific discipline and preparation of extensive paper and bibliography.