Where to Find Course Offerings, Transfer Credits, and Student Awards on the Rutgers Jewish Studies Site

The Department of Jewish Studies at Rutgers University publishes four navigation links on its homepage that lead directly to the practical information you need: Undergraduate Academics, Current Course Offerings, Student Awards, and Transfer Credits. All four appear as labeled sections or links on the department's home page, so you can reach them without digging through a site menu. The sections below explain what each one covers and how to use it.

Current Course Offerings

The Current Course Offerings link is the entry point for seeing what the department is teaching in a given term. According to the department, its courses address "the historical, social, cultural, religious, linguistic, and political life of the Jewish people from antiquity to the present" and examine "the interactions of Jews with other peoples."

Named courses listed by the department include:

• Antisemitism
• History of the Holocaust
• Between Nazism and Communism
• Jews, Heretics, and the Inquisition
• Holocaust Memory
• Muslims, Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain
• Modern Jewish History

Use this section when you want to confirm whether a specific topic is being taught, check the term a course runs, or build a schedule around a subject area. If you are comparing courses before registering, start here rather than with a general university catalog, because this page is maintained by the department itself.

Transfer Credits

The Transfer Credits link covers how credit from another institution is handled toward Jewish Studies requirements. This is the section to open if you have taken a Jewish studies, history, religion, or language course elsewhere and want to know whether it counts.

Before you rely on it, gather the materials a transfer review typically needs:

1. The course title, number, and institution where you took it.
2. A syllabus or course description showing topics and readings.
3. Your official transcript or proof of completion.

The department page tells you where to send these and who reviews them. Confirm the outcome before you assume a course will satisfy a requirement, since transfer decisions are made case by case.

Student Awards

The Student Awards section recognizes student achievement in the department. The homepage references a student awards image ("Group_Student_Awards_2022.jpg") and a Student Awards link, indicating the department publicizes award recipients and related announcements.

Use this section if you want to:

• See what awards the department gives and to whom.
• Check whether a specific award has eligibility criteria you might meet.
• Find past recipients as a reference point for the department's areas of strength.

If you are a current student, this is also where award announcements are likely to appear, so it is worth checking near the end of an academic year.

Undergraduate Academics

Undergraduate Academics is the broader hub that ties the other sections together. It covers the undergraduate program in Jewish Studies, including the department's interdisciplinary approach and its course structure. The department describes itself as taking "an interdisciplinary approach to the academic study of all aspects of Jewish life," taught by seven core faculty members plus twelve affiliated faculty from eight other departments and visiting faculty sponsored by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life.

Start here if you are:

• Considering a major or minor and want the overall program picture.
• Looking for how the department organizes its requirements.
• Trying to understand which faculty and affiliated departments support the program.

From this hub you can move to Current Course Offerings for term-specific listings and to Transfer Credits for credit questions.

Quick Reference

A Note on the Department's Scope

The department also maintains a public statement on addressing antisemitism, which explains that it teaches students of all backgrounds about the history and changing manifestations of antisemitism, and lists courses such as Antisemitism, History of the Holocaust, and Holocaust Memory among the ways it does so. That statement sits alongside the academic sections above and is useful context if you are choosing courses in this area.