University Catalog > Undergraduate Programs > General Education and Jewish Studies Requirements > Yeshiva College, BA
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.
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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 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:
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