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Jewish Studies
Jewish Studies is an
interdepartmental program that allows students to study
the Jewish experience from several different
perspectives. Course offerings range over diverse
aspects of the Jewish experience: language (Hebrew and
Yiddish), literature in translation and in the original
language, the history and culture of the Jewish people
from biblical Israel to 20th-century America and modern
Israel, the exploration of Jewish law and the role of
women and feminism in contemporary Judaism. These
courses apply a variety of disciplinary approaches to
the study of Jewish civilization with many different
foci. The goal of the major is the acquisition of the
knowledge and skills necessary to integrate these
perspectives and varieties of knowledge in order to
understand the Jewish experience.
In addition to the major and
minor within the Jewish Studies Program, students may
pursue
• The Jewish History
concentration within the History Department,
• The Hebraica/Judaica
concentration within the Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations and
• The Judaism
concentration within the Department of Religious
Studies.
Latin American and Latino Studies
Penn’s program in Latin
American and Latino studies gives students access to
scholarly research on Latin American and Latino
cultures in all their diversity of expression—not
only “high culture” but also folk and other
forms, from pre-Columbian times to the present, from
Rio de Janeiro to New York and beyond. The program is
not limited by geography or specific periodization:
Ibero-America is taken as a focal point from which
students approach research on the pre-Columbian
societies of the Americas, Spain and Portugal, the
non-Hispanic Caribbean and Latino communities in the
United States. The Latin American and Latino studies
major is an interdisciplinary major, in which a
student’s credits are spread across three course
clusters: social science, cultural criticism and
history.
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Linguistics
The major in linguistics is
intended to acquaint students with the methods and
findings of the scientific study of human language and
its relationships to cognition, society and history. It
serves as a preparation for graduate training in
linguistics or related areas, and as part of a rigorous
general education. Linguistic training is relevant to
work in anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and
language and literature, as well as to careers in such
fields as education, computer science and law.
Logic, Information and
Computation
The Logic, Information and
Computation Program offers students the opportunity to
engage in a systematic, integrative program of study
within the School of Arts and Sciences. Logic is one of
the core disciplines in investigations of information
and computation. Indeed, logic is playing a major role
in advances in computer security, database technology,
networking and software engineering. Moreover, logic
has expanded its role within mathematics beyond
foundational studies and now enjoys rich connections
with areas as diverse as algebra, analysis and
combinatorics. In light of the current importance of
the investigation of computation and information from a
scientific, as well as from a technological point of
view, the major and minor provide students with a
strong background to pursue computational aspects of
the natural, biological and social sciences, as well as
preparing them for careers in information technology.
Mathematics
Mathematics is at the core of
modern theoretical science. For centuries, it has
provided an expressive language as well as a
theoretical framework for advances in the physical
sciences, and it has more recently become central in
the life and social sciences. Most recently, computer
science has provided fertile ground for the development
of new mathematical ideas and techniques. Mathematics
at Penn is a lively, wide-ranging discipline taught in
a highly ranked department by
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