Bachelor Jewish Studies (639 [4] - Version 2019)

1. Group of Compulsory Modules: Introductory and Orientation Period (17 ECTS)

1a. Compulsory module: Principles of Thinking in Historical and Cultural Studies (5 ECTS)

• EXAM STEOP Module examination "Basics of Historical and Cultural Thinking"
• 070201 VO STEOP: Basics of Historical and Cultural Thinking

1b. Compulsory Module: Introduction to Jewish Cultural History (4 ECTS)

• EXAM 1 b Compulsory Module: Introduction to Jewish Cultural History

1c. Compulsory Module: Biblical Hebrew for Jewish Studies Students (8 ECTS)

2. Compulsory Module: Academic Methodology (9 ECTS)

• 060008 PS Scientific Writing

3. Compulsory Module: Hebrew (20 ECTS)

• 060006 UE Biblical Hebrew for Jewish Studies Students 2
• 060007 UE Modern Hebrew 3
• 060015 UE Modern Hebrew 1
• 060016 UE Modern Hebrew 2

4. Compulsory Module: History, Culture, Literature and Religion of Judaism (16 ECTS)

• 060009 VO Jewish Cultural History in the Middle Ages
• 060010 VO Jewish History from the Modern to the Contemporary Period

5. Compulsory Module: Main Sources of Jewish Cultural History (24 ECTS)

• 060011 SE The Canonical and Textual History of the Hebrew Bible
• 060012 SE Lamentations in Bible and Midrash
• 060021 SE Matriarchs and Other Biblical Women: Reception in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• 060023 SE Sefer Yetsirah ("Book of Creation") - its reception and commentaries

6. Compulsory Module: Module chosen according to interest: Jewish Cultural History (24 ECTS)

• 060003 VO Introduction: Visual Jewish Cultural History - (Jüdische Kulturgeschichte in Film und Medien)
• 060004 VO Israeli LGBTQI Cinema - Lecture and Film Series - (Jüdische Kulturgeschichte in Film und Medien)
• 060005 VO An Ancient Hatred - The Persecutions of Jews from their Beginnings until Today
• 060018 VO Jews as the First and Last Europeans - European Summer-University in Hohenems, 07.06.-12.06.2020
• 060020 SE American-Jewish Cultural History
• 060022 VO Made in Austria - xxx
• 060025 VO The Jewish Body: an inernal and external view
• 060026 SE Combating Antisemitism
• 060028 VO A History of the Diaspora from its Beginnings until the Arab Conquest
• 060040 SE Modern Jewish Thought - An Introduction

7. Compulsory Module: Final Module (10 ECTS)

• 060013 SE Propaganda as Entertainment - Film in the Third Reich - Seminar with Bachelor's paper