Yeshiva College, BA

Overview

To earn a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yeshiva College, students must complete 128 credits including the General Education, Jewish Studies, major requirements and electives as needed.  Students must also complete courses in one of the four morning Torah Studies programs each full-time semester.

See Residency Requirements.

Requirements

General Education Core

Writing Courses

FYWR 1020First Year Writing

3

Complete one course with a “WI” Writing Intensive attribute

Complete one course from each of the following categories:

Contemporary World Cultures (COWC attribute)

3

Cultures Over Time (CUOT attribute)

3

Interpreting the Creative (INTC attribute)

3

Human Behavior and Social Institutions (HBSI attribute)

3

Natural World (NAWO attribute)

3

And

Experimental and Quantitative Methods (EXQM attribute)

3

Or

One year of laboratory science combined with one year of mathematics

Jewish Studies Requirements

Hebrew Language

All students (except those exempt as indicated below) take the Hebrew placement exam to determine their Hebrew requirement. Depending on their performance on the placement exam, students will be placed into one of the following categories. They will be notified of their placement via email shortly after the placement exam.   

Category 1: Wilf students in IBC, BMP, and MYP must complete the synchronous sections of HEB 1010 and HEB 1020. Students in this category will have satisfied their Hebrew language requirements upon completion of HEB 1020. They are not required to take HEB 1030.

IBC students can opt to take these as part of IBC or as part of their afternoon program.

Category 2: Students must complete HEB 1010 and HEB 1020 (synchronous or asynchronous). Students in this category will have satisfied their Hebrew language requirements upon completion of HEB 1020. They are not required to take HEB 1030

Category 3: Students must complete HEB 1030 (synchronous or asynchronous).

Category 4: Students must complete one advanced course: HEB 1040.

Category 5: Exempt pending writing sample. 

Other exemptions: Bagrut certificate; Jerusalem Exam score of 85% or above

Students in Wilf JSS do not take the main Hebrew placement exam. Rather, they are placed into tracked Hebrew courses within JSS, two-semester sequence, HEB 1203 and HEB 1204

 

Complete one set of Jewish Studies Series requirements:

Jewish Studies Series for MYP, BMP and IBC

Complete at least 12 credits (4-6 courses, as some Jewish Studies courses are 2 credits). One course must come from each of the following three categories:

BIB
Bible

2-3

JHI
Jewish History

2-3

JTP
Jewish Thought and Philosophy

2-3

One or more HEB (in addition to the HEB requirement), BIB, JHI, JST, or JTP courses.

3-6

Jewish Studies Series for James Striar School (JSS)

Complete one course from JUD 1700 - 1709

Complete one course from each subject area: HAL, JHI

Complete two courses from each subject area: HEB, JTH, TAN

Complete any additional course from the following: HAL, JHI, JTH, TAN