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College of Letters and Science Faculty Document No. 613
April 11, 2002 2001-2002 UWM Certificate Program in Jewish Studies Annual Report The committee of the Program consists of 3 members who also are members of the Advisory Board of UWM Center for Jewish Studies. The latter convenes at least twice during each semester. Twice a year, the Center's Administrator communicates with all students enrolled in the Program and reminds and encourages them to update their files (meaning, add to their files courses approved for the Program in which they enrolled and met successfully all their formal requirements). Currently, 27 students are fully enrolled in the Program. Although some of them are more active than others (reporting their accomplishments in Jewish/Hebrew Studies courses approved by the Program) all of the 27 students are enrolled formally in the Program. Such an enrollment is singularly impressive per se, as well as in the context of the unique character of UWM as an urban university, in which a dramatically "meek" minority (quantity wise) consists of "regular" students, those who are enrolled fully in UWM while pursuing a degree to be earned in the course of 4 years. The latter is further stressed by the fact that very few students in UWM are of a Jewish background, or are devout Christians, as those students are usually the natural potential target audience of a program such as Jewish Studies. The Program offers an admirable choice of courses, taught in a variety of departments that relate to Jewish/Hebrew fields of study. Courses are offered by departments/ programs such as FLL, Archaeology, Anthropology, Music, Social Sciences, Political Sciences, Comparative Literature, Comparative Study of Religion, History, Philosophy, Middle Eastern and North African Studies, and more. Eight students already have completed successfully the Program's requirements and, correspondingly, have earned a Certificate in Jewish Studies. Some of those students have accepted excellent jobs that were offered to them while taking into account their successful completion of UWM Certificate Program in Jewish Studies. Hence, in light of the above, I feel comfortable in taking the liberty of arguing as plausibly as possible that UWM Certificate Program in Jewish Studies is doing splendidly well while meeting handsomely its mission and its academic/educational/cultural/scholarly goals. Cordially, Yair Mazor, Ph.D Professor* and Director of UWM Center of Jewish Studies Coordinator, UWM Certificate Program in Jewish Studies Coordinator, UWM Hebrew Studies Program *Recipient of the UWM Undergraduate Distinguished Teaching Award (1999); and the National Award, "The Most Distinguished Scholar of Hebrew Literature in USA" (1998). |
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