2025 Spring Jewish Studies Schedule of Classes

For the most up to date schedule, please visit the UCLA Registrar’s Office website at: http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/

FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE JEWISH STUDIES MAJOR/MINOR OR THE ISRAEL STUDIES MINOR

Please Contact:

Tiffany Chen
UCLA Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
(310) 825-4165

chen@humnet.ucla.edu

 

Spring 2025

ANCIENT NEAR EAST 12W
Jerusalem: Holy City
Instructor: Schniedewind, W.M.
Lec TR (2pm-3:15pm) Public Affairs Building 1041

ANCIENT NEAR EAST M135 / RELIGION M135
Religion in Ancient Israel
Instructor: Smoak, J.D.
Lec TR (12:30pm-1:45pm) Public Affairs Building 1256

ANCIENT NEAR EAST 162
Archaeology, Identity, and Bible
Instructor: Burke, A.A.
Lec TR (2pm-3:15pm) Haines Hall A18

ANCIENT NEAR EAST 230
Ancient Syria/Palestine
Instructor: Burke, A.A.
Sem T (3:30pm-6:20pm) Kaplan Hall 398

INTERNATIONAL AND AREA STUDIES 160
National Security vs Human Rights: Israel in Comparative Perspective
Instructor: Hofnung, T.
Lec MW (5pm-6:15pm) Public Affairs 2250

COMP LIT 191
Introduction to Israeli and Palestinian Literature
Instructor: Pack, E.R.
Lec TR (12:30pm-1:45pm) Kaplan A48

ENGLISH 111C
Topics in Biblical Literature: Desert Spirituality in Philosophy and Literature
Instructor: Kaufman, E.K.
Lec MW (2pm-3:50pm) Online

ENGLISH 244
Old and Medieval English Literature
Instructor: Chism, C.N.
Sem T (9am-11:50am) Kaplan Hall A56

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY 91Z
Open Ensemble: Klezmer Music Ensemble
Instructor: Markham, J.E.
Act W (7pm-9:50pm) Schoenberg 1440

ETHNOMUSICOLOGY 161Z
Advanced World Music Performance Organizations: Open Ensemble: Klezmer Music Ensemble
Instructor: Markham, J.E.
Act W (7pm-9:50pm) Schoenberg 1440

HEBREW 1C
Elementary Hebrew
Instructor: Birnbaum, S.H.
Lec MTWRF (10am-10:50am) Bunche Hall 2156

HEBREW 102C
Intermediate Hebrew
Instructor: Birnbaum, S.H.
Lec MTWRF (9am-9:50) Bunche Hall 2156

HEBREW 111A
Israeli Society through Hebrew Song and Video
Instructor: Birnbaum, S.H.
Lec TR (12:30pm-1:45pm) Bunche Hall 3123

HEBREW 188FL
Special Studies: Readings in Hebrew
Instructor: Smoak, J.D.
Sem T (2pm-3:15pm) Boelter Hall 9436

HEBREW 220
Studies in Hebrew Biblical Literature
Instructor: Schniedewind, W.M.
Sem W (3:30pm-6:20pm) Kaplan Hall 398

HISTORY 105C
Survey of Middle East, 500 to Present: 1700 to Present
Instructor: Gelvin, J.L.
Lec MWF (10am-10:50am) Dodd Hall 170

HISTORY 109B
History of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1881 to Present
Instructor: Gelvin, J.L.
Lec MWF (11am-11:50am) Haines Hall 220

HISTORY 179A
Variable Topics in History of Medicine: Medicine and Empire
Instructor: O’Brien, E.
Lec MW (9:30am-10:45am) Haines Hall A25

SEMITIC 240
Akkadian Language
Instructor: Konstantopoulos, G.
Sem M (3pm-5:50pm) Math Sciences 3915G

SOCIOLOGY 122
Sociology of Violence
Instructor: Luft, A.R.
Lec MW (2pm-3:15pm) Fowler Museum A103B

SOCIOLOGY 180B
Sociology of Gender: Israel as Microcosm of Global Trends
Instructor: Hofnung, T.
Lec MW (2pm-3:15pm) Public Affairs 2232

YIDDISH 101C
Elementary Yiddish
Instructor: Koral, M.R.
Lec TR (10am-11:50am) Bunche Hall 2174

YIDDISH 131C
Three Cities as Fertile Ground for 20th-Century Yiddish Literature
Instructor: Koral, M.R.
Lec TR (10am-11:50am) Kaufman Hall 136