Jewish Studies is an interdisciplinary area of study focusing on the modern Jewish experience. It brings together various perspectives and approaches from History, Politics, Sociology, Literature, and Law to explore the subject of the Jews - their religion, culture and politics and their interrelations with non-Jews and the wider society - with an emphasis on the past two centuries.

Studying Jewish Studies at UNSW

At an undergraduate level, the study of Jewish Studies is available with the Bachelor of Arts and related combined degree programs. Students may take a major sequence in Jewish Studies as their second major, together with a major in a school-based discipline within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Alternatively, students within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences may take one or more Jewish Studies courses toward the general requirements of their Bachelor degree.

Students in other faculties may also do Jewish Studies courses to fulfil their General Education requirements toward their own degrees. Postgraduate research programs may be available.

For further information on Jewish Studies, please go to our website www.arts.unsw.edu.au/jewishstudies/