March 31 - June 8
Check the university website (http://www.sa.pdx.edu/soc/ ) for locations two weeks prior to the beginning of the term.
Hst 344U JEWS AND JUDAISM IN THE UNITED STATES FROM WORLD WAR TWO TO
THE PRESENT
TTh 2:00 pm - 3:50 pm CRN 64993 L. Maizels
Topics include immigrant culture and memory; antisemitism; postwar
affluence and migration; the counterculture; Jewish-black relations;
liberalism, radicalism, and neoconservativism; feminism and the
transformation of women's roles; the revival of orthodoxy.
Eng 410/510 WRITING THE HOLY LAND
MW 10:15 am - 12:05 pm CRN tba M. Weingrad
A look at American writing about the Holy Land, from Mark Twain and
Herman Melville in the 19^th century, to recent memoirs by American Jews
who have become Israeli citizens.
Psy 410/510 PSYCHOLOGY OF TRAUMA
M 5:30 pm - 9:10 pm CRN 63169/63165 A. Lovenstein
How do events such as war, the Holocaust, terror, and abuse impact
victims, survivors, and their families through generations? Students
learn about trauma and therapeutic strategies (neuro-biology,
resiliency) to prepare for face-to-face interviews of victims and family
or for internet conversations with Israelis (soldiers, settlers,
Holocaust survivors, Palestinians).
Hst 407/507 MEDIEVAL IBERIA
MW 10:00am - 11:50 am CRN 64994/65021 J. Ott
This course examines this "land of three faiths" chronologically and
thematically, covering the post-Hispano-Roman period of the Visigoths
until 1500 or so, when Muslims and Jews were forcibly expelled from the
peninsula or made to convert to Christianity.
