Encountering Israel&Palestine

Catalog description

Few places attract as much spiritual and political attention as the Israeli and Palestinian space. This course offers students the possibility of gaining a better understanding of Israeli and Palestinian realities through exploration of lived experience of the local people. Rather than taking a comprehensive historical approach, it allows student to engage in brief yet critical intellectual encounters with central elements of Israeli and Palestinian lives such as religion, politics, violence and the mundane. Offered regularly. Prerequisite: at least one lower level Israel Studies course.