Browsing Stern College for Women Syllabi -- Spring and Fall 2021-2022 courses by Title
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HIST 1102 - L The Transformations of Europe, 1648-1989
(2021-01)Survey of European history from the age of absolutism to the European Union of today. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours --- This course is designed to introduce students to the history of Europe and of Europe’s relations ... -
HIST 1201 - M Survey of U.S. History
(2021-01)Course Aims: This introductory course will explore the settlement and establishment of the American colonies, and their evolution into an independent nation. The purpose of the course is to provide students with a ... -
HIST 2109: Kings and Queens in Early Modern Britain
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-01)Course description: This course will examine the history of Britain in the early modern period (1450-1700), with special focus on the rulers. It will introduce the main political developments in this period, the main ... -
HIST 2141 - L Holocaust
(2021-09)This course examines the fate of European Jewry between 1933 and 1945. We shall cover the rise and fall of the democratic Weimar Republic in the 1920s, the Nazi seizure of power, anti-Jewish policy and legislation in Nazi ... -
HIST 2154: History of Modern Russia
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-01)This course examines the history of modern Russia from the second half of the nineteenth century to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1992. Topics include the Great Reforms of the 1860s, the period of reaction and ... -
HIST 2159H: History of modern Germany: 1871 To the present
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)“Germany? But where is it? I know not how to find the country” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Friedrich Schiller, Xenien, 1797) This course is designed to introduce students to the history of Germany from the age of ... -
HIST 2225 - D1 Social Movements in US History
(2021-01)Course description: Social movement shave become a familiar presence in our contemporary political landscape. Who hasn’t heard of Colin Kaepernick who started a movement protesting police brutality by refusing to stand ... -
HIST 2231: History of New York City: People, communities, politics, culture
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course explores the history of New York from colonial times as a Dutch colony in 17th century, to 21st century and its current character of a postindustrial city. The course will proceed chronologically, ... -
HIST 2303 - B History of Palestine ; JHIS 1505 - B History of Palestine
(2021-09)History of modern Jewish settlement in Palestine under the Ottoman rule and the British Mandate, until the establishment of the state in 1948. Topics include: encounters and relations of the yishuv with Palestinian Arabs ... -
HIST 2303: History of Palestine, 1917-1948
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)The course will examine the history of modern Jewish settlement in Palestine under the Ottoman rule and the British Mandate, up to the establishment of the state in 1948. We will begin with a discussion of Zionism, its ... -
HIST 2304 - B Modern Israel / JHIS 1511 - B Modern Israel
(2021-01)COURSE DESCRIPTION: While the course will address the topic of Israel and the Middle East and the Arab-Israeli conflict, our discussions will include topics of social, cultural, and political history of Israel since 1948 ... -
HIST 2503: New World encounters: Narratives of discovery and conquest from Columbus and beyond
(Stern College for Women, Yeshiva University, 2022-09)The arrival of Columbus’ caravels to the Caribbean islands of Guanahaní, Haiti and Cuba in the Fall of 1492 forever changed the course of world history. There could be no turning back for either the Europeans or the ... -
HIST 2821/SOCI 1206 Introduction to Archaeology: A Survey of World Prehistory
(2021-01)Course Prospectus: This course is an introduction to world prehistory, with an emphasis on the rise of social and political complexity. We begin with the cultural remains of nomadic peoples of the Upper Paleolithic. We ... -
HIST 2909 - L Media Revolutions: From Scroll to Screen ; ENGL 1728 - L Media Revolutions: From Scroll to Screen
(2021-09)Surveys the history of media from the papyri scrolls of ancient Greece to the internet of the digital age. 0.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours This course surveys the history of media from the ancient world to the present. ... -
HIST 3001 - C Ideas of History I
(2001-01)Course description: Why read or write history? How can we know about the past? What can historians’ work tell us about the period in which they wrote? This course is designed to address these questions, which are fundamental ... -
The Individual in Society - 15428 - JUDS 1573 - D2
(2021-09)Course Purposes: This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the varied approaches in the history and literature of Jewish Law to issues in Social and Political ethics, and their contemporary ... -
Intro to Jewish Philosophy - 14097 - JPHI 1131 - F
(2021-09)Course Objectives 1. This course allows students to engage with fundamental questions about Jewish thought that pertain to critical issues, such as: ● Should our religious beliefs be based upon rational arguments or ... -
Intro to Judaism - 13915 - JUDS 1001 - J
(2021-09)Basic Jewish concepts; analysis of the fundamental principles of Jewish legal history and thought. 2.000 TO 5.000 Credit hours This course covers the following basic tenets of Jewish thought: Section I: The Development ... -
Intro to Statistics - 15539 - STAT 1021 - K
(2021-09)Sources of data; descriptive statistics: data display, univariate measures of location and variability; basic probability, normal curve and its applications; correlation and regression. Sampling distributions. Inferential ... -
Introduction to Clinical Psychology PSYC 2430 - J
(2021-09)This course will introduce you to the major topics in clinical psychology including the history and evolution of the field, psychological testing, clinical assessment/diagnosis/intervention, clinical research, and ethical ...