2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
    Nov 17, 2024  
2024-25 Undergraduate Catalog
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HIS 361 - Jews in the Ancient World

Intellectual and political history of the Jewish people to the compilation of the Talmud in the third century. Prerequisite: HIS 100, 101, 110, 111, 150 or JST 140. Also listed as JST 361. (3 cr. hr.)
Frequency code O = offered occasionally

Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

  1. Explain the historical significance of key themes, events, and people relevant to the history of Jewish people, culture, and religion, as well as their reception in the ancient Mediterranean world.
  2. Assess historian's interpretation of Jews in the ancient world, as well as ancient Greek, Roman, Persian, Jewish, and Egyptian sources of Jewish history and culture.
  3. Analyze and interpret primary source evidence to make claims about the past.
  4. Organize and present their own historical arguments verbally and in writing, based on their own analysis of primary sources.



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