Feedback from our Fall Seminar Students completed the seminar feeling galvanized, inspired, and with a new sense of comradery. We know because they told us. In a post-seminar survey, 90% of participants said they felt energized by the seminar and the great majority felt part of a community of learning.
What did they like best? Being with their cohort—and meeting others Learning together Lively discussions Access to world-class faculty The thoughtfulness of the Spertus staff
MA in Jewish Professional Studies North American Cohort with Spertus President Dr. Dean P. Bell (back row, bright blue mask) and Dean and Chief Academic Officer Dr. Keren E. Fraiman (back row, far left). We’ve been told on good authority that there are big smiles under those masks! Photo by Barry Kafka.
Plans for our Spring Seminar New for this seminar, unique cross-program, cross-cohort mini-courses are being presented on a diverse range of timely topics, all related to the Jewish experience, all taught by talented faculty members at the top of their fields.
Among the mini-courses being offered: What is Jewish Spirituality? with Rabbi Josh Feigelson, Executive Director of the Institute for Jewish Spirituality People of the Comic Book with New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein (see p23) Judaism, the Earth, and Climate Change with Dr. Rachel Havrelock, Director, Freshwater Lab at UIC When Change is the Only Constant with Dr. Claire Sufrin, co-author of the award-winning New Jewish Canon Fairytales, Fables & Fantasies in Holocaust Film & Fiction with Dr. Danny Cohen, Professor, Northwestern University, and specialist, Holocaust memory Talking about Jesus with Jews and Christians with Rabbi Dr. Devorah Schoenfeld, Professor of Theology, Loyola University 15
