Bachelor of Arts in Modern Jewish Studies

San Francisco State University

The Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Jewish Studies is designed for students coming from any and all religious and ethnic backgrounds, and for those with no religious background at all. The teaching philosophy in the Department of Jewish Studies is to use academic approaches of disciplines from across the university to study religion, literature, history, culture, language, and all other aspects of Jewish life and experience. The Bachelor of Arts in Modern Jewish Studies program is designed to provide an understanding of Jews and Judaism in terms of the interactions of culture, history, and religion. The challenge of modernity faced by Jews and Judaism over the last two hundred years has transformed traditional Jewish societies and generated a great measure of difference and diversity.

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