History and Religion of Ancient Israel. Topics in the Study of Judaism. The Arab-Israeli Conflict. Knowledge about the Arab-Israeli conflict is the focus of the course. Lectures address the history of the conflict from the perspective of general social science ideas.
Discussion sections give students a forum for assessing the relationship between events and ideas.
The course discusses the Gulf War as it bears on the Arab-Israeli conflict. There are no prerequisites. There is a midterm exam and a final. There is extensive use of conferencing on the web, COW, in order to make use of the Internet to explore war and peace scenarios in the Arab-Israeli and Gulf zones. Back to the Judaic Studies Course Guide Archive .