This course is designed to give students a broad-based understanding of the international issues and the goals and methods of international development since World War II.
Students provided quality assistance to at-risk children in public elementary schools.
IDEV 3200
Approaches to Sustainable Development
Anna Monhartova
This course is designed to examine the impact of macroeconomic policy and political structure on environment, gender, communications, modernization and cultural change, basic needs, democratization, and appropriate technologies.
Students provided academic support and aided with character development/life skills for children in local elementary schools or worked on a project with the community partner.
IDEV 3300/4950
Social Entrepreneur & Development
Anna Monhartova
First, this course will study the theoretical foundations that help us understand strategies and approaches that lead to sustainable solutions. Second, it will analyze social entrepreneurs and development practitioners who contribute more effectively to the Millennium Development Goals of poverty reduction and human development.
The service-learning component of this class collaborated with A’s & Aces, which works with several public schools (e.g., ARISE Academy, Arthur Ashe Charter, Edward Hynes Charter, Lafayette Academy, and Milestone SABIS Academy).
IDEV 4900
Organizational Leadership
Various
This course is an elective course which is designed to give students the opportunity to develop the leadership and management skills necessary for International Development policy and field work.
Students assisted a non-profit organization to complete a project that served at-risk children in public elementary schools and middle schools.
This course explores how certain non-religious features, such as shared culture, language, custom, dress, and education played an integral part in the definition of Jews and Judaism from their inception and examines the role played by these features in the constitution of variant secular forms of Judaism and secular Jewish orientations in the modern period.
Students volunteered at agencies that support the local Jewish community.
In this class, students will complete an analysis and interpretation of Judaism in modern times. The meanings of religiosity and secularity are explored through analysis of several Jewish responses to modernity: religious reform, Jewish socialism, political and cultural Zionism, assimilationism. Integration of these diverse responses produces a coherent picture of how a religion is transformed through interaction with modern culture.
Students analyzed the balance of Jews within a Jewish community with their lives as citizens of larger societies. Students interacted with retirees at the Woldenberg Village, tutored students at Lafayette Charter, and facilitated recruitment efforts for Gift of Life.
JWST 3210
American Jewish History
Michael Cohen
The course examines the nature of religion in modern and contemporary times, using Judaism in America as an example. How did the American Jewish community come into being? What is American about it? What is Judaic, that is, carrying forward aspects of classical Judaism? What is the meaning of the ethnic, social, and cultural traits emergent in contemporary Jewish life? Answers to these questions provide a picture of the character of American Judaism and of the complexities of contemporary religious life.
Students analyzed the balance of Jews within a Jewish community with their lives as citizens of larger societies. Students interacted with retirees at the Woldenberg Village, tutored students at Lafayette charter, and facilitated recruitment efforts for Gift of Life.
In this course, students will study the work of one path-breaking Jewish intellectual, studying both his/her oeuvre and intellectual context. Of particular importance is the relationship of the intellectual’s work as part of a dialogue with the works of Jewish and non-Jewish contemporaries. Among the subjects are Heinrich Graetz, Simon Dubnov, Israel Zinberg, Jacob Katz, and Salo Baron.
Students assisted a Jewish institution in the city by providing logistical support at organizational and community meetings, completing library and internet searches, compiling oral histories, and producing outreach materials such as brochures, press releases, and newsletters.
JWST 4810
Jewish Youth and Cultural Change
Michael Cohen
This course will cover special offerings in Jewish history, religious thought, and literature.
Students volunteered at agencies that support the local Jewish community, particularly the youth.
