- Students will learn to understand the breadth and variety of Jewish Culture and history across many cultures, from the Middle East and within the Islamicate, to Europe and the Americas, and as far afield as the Far East and South Asia as well as Oceania.
- Students will gain a foundational understanding of the ancient roots and sources of Jewish life and thought, and then of the Jewish people's dispersion across lands and continents, and their later development of a wide variety of cultural and linguistic expressions and worlds.
- Students will be able to take courses in a number of cultural expressions, including but not confined to Jewish literature and history, philosophy, anthropology, sociology, government, religion, and psychology.
- Students will have opportunities to pursue both breadth and depth by working with faculty on research projects as well as taking a variety of courses. They will become familiar with multiple methods and disciplines that address a wide variety of aspects of Jewish thought and history.
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