Browsing Straus Center Sponsored Undergraduate Courses (SCW and YC) by Title

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    • BIBL4931HC: Genesis & Ethics - Fall 2021 

      Lerner, Dov (2021-01)
      This course will provide a comprehensive survey of and meditation on the book of Genesis, specifically through the lens of ethics. We will begin with some introductory material concerning the genre of Genesis and narrative, ...

    • ENG 3042: Milton and Religion 

      Lavinsky, David; Lerner, Dovd (2019-09)
      This course focuses on the life and work of John Milton (1608-74), with special attention to Paradise Lost in its literary and historical contexts. We will seek to understand how Milton's religious knowledge illuminates ...

    • JHIS 4938H - A Topics: Malbim & Modernity / JPHI 1918H – A Topics: Malbim & Modernity 

      Lerner, Dov (2021-01)
      Course Overview The aim of this class is to explore the thought of one of the most well-known Jewish exegetes of the nineteenth century—Malbim—with a heavy emphasis on his historical and intellectual context. We will ...

    • JHIS 4940H - C Topics: Psalms & Sonnets 

      Koenigsberg, Chaya Sima; Trapedo, Shaina (2021-01)
      Course Description: This course will survey the interplay between poetry and prayer in Jewish tradition from Tanakh to the modern era. Using classical meforshim, we will examine the style and significance of biblical ...

    • JPHI1650H: Maimonides and his Enemies 

      Lerner, Dov (The Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought ; Stern College for Women, 2022-01)
      COURSE OVERVIEW This semester we will explore the legacy of perhaps the most renowned and influential Jewish thinker in history: Maimonides. Over the first half of the course, we will examine his historical and intellectual ...

    • JTP1479: Malbim and Modernity 

      Lerner, Dov (The Straus Center and Yeshiva College, Yeshiva University., 2022-08)
      Course Description: The aim of this class is to explore the thought of one of the most well-known Jewish exegetes of the nineteenth century—Malbim—with a heavy emphasis on his historical and intellectual context. We will ...

    • POL 1401: Great Political Thinkers: Ancient Political Thought 

      Rogachevsky, Neil (2021-01)
      Course Description It has been commonly said that Western Civilization—of which America has long been considered a part—was formed through the combination of, or creative tension between, the ideas typified by two cities: ...

    • POLI 1401: Great Political Thinkers: Introduction to Political Thought 

      Rogachevsky, Neil (Stern College for Women / Straus Center, Yeshiva University, 2022-01)
      Political philosophy examines the fundamental problems faced by human beings both as individuals and as members of associations that, in the Western tradition, have come to be called political. They ask two fundamental ...

    • Topics: Philosophy of Rabbi Sacks - 15412 - JPHI 4934H - E 

      Lerner, Dov (2021-09)
      Course Overview The aim of this class is to explore the thought of perhaps the most renowned and influential teachers of Judaism at the start of the twenty-first century: the late Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. With such a ...

    • Topics: Psychology & Jewish Thought - 15413 - JPHI 4935H - M 

      Schiffman, Mordechai (2021-09)
      _Course Description_ This course will explore the connections between Torah sources and modern psychological theories and research on essential topics of human nature. Topics will cut to the core of what it means to be ...