Required Course Distribution

Year One

FALL
Hebrew
Biblical Literature and Religion (BIB 6571)
Talmud (six credits)
Year One Seminar I (PRO 6101)
Mikraot Gedolot (BIB 6307)
Halakhah le Ma’aseh (CDE 6812)
Integrating Seminar (PRO 7101)
Forty-hour Jewish communal agency rotation (e.g., Federation, JBFCS, United Synagogue)

January Minimester (alternating years with second-year students)
      A. The Conservative Movement and Religious Leadership for the Conservative Movement
 (PRO TBD)
      B. Prayer Life and Leading Prayer (PRO 7510)

SPRING
Hebrew
Ancient Jewish History (HIS 6117)
Talmud (six credits)
Year One Seminar II (PRO 6102)
Mikraot Gedolot (BIB 6308)
Halakhah le Ma’aseh (CDE 6813)
Integrating Seminar (PRO 7102)
Forty-hour Jewish communal agency rotation (e.g., Federation, JBFCS, United Synagogue), if not completed in the fall semester

Year Two

August (during orientation week)
Speech and Communications Seminar (for students who are taking Homiletics in the fall)

FALL
Biblical Text and Grammar (BIB 6561) or Homiletics (PRO 7206)
Biblical Theology (BIB 6130)
Biblical Israel (BIB 6011)
Medieval Jewish History (HIS 6313)
Talmud Text (six credits)
Skills for Teaching (EDU 5031) (this course has a practicum component, which fulfills the forty-hour education rotation requirement [EDU 5475])
Integrating Seminar

January (during winter break)
Speech and Communications Seminar (for students who are taking Homiletics in the spring)

January Minimester (alternating years with first-year students)
      A. The Conservative Movement and Religious Leadership for the Conservative Movement
 (PRO TBD)
      B. Prayer Life and Leading Prayer (PRO 7510)

SPRING
Biblical Text and Grammar (BIB 6561) or Homiletics (PRO 7206)
Introduction to Exegesis (MDS 6101)
Shabbat and Holiday Liturgy for Rabbis
Theology
Talmud Text (six credits)
Basics of Pastoral Care and Counseling (PAS 7431)
Rotations (PRO 6401) (includes no classroom time)
Integrating Seminar
Forty-hour Jewish communal agency rotation: congregational

Year Three (in Israel)

FALL
Talmud Text (six credits)
Bible
Intro to Halakhah (six credits)
Midrash Text
Israel Year Seminar
Israeli Society (includes volunteer project with Masorti Movement)
Hebrew
The Jewish People and Its Land: Sources and Field Trips

SPRING
Talmud Text (six credits)
Bible
Intro to Halakhah (six credits)
Midrash Text
Israel Year Seminar: Focus on Israel, Zionism, and the Conservative Movement
Volunteer project with Masorti Movement
Hebrew
The Jewish People and Its land: Sources and Field Trips

Year Four

FALL
Medieval Jewish Literature (LIT 7033)
History of Religious Ideas (MDS 6105 or 6106)
Professional Internship I (PRO 7401)
Religious Leadership Colloquium I (PRO 7407)
Two concentration/elective courses
Recommended electives:
Talmud Bekiut (TAL 7002)
Advanced liturgy course

January Minimester (alternating years with fifth-year students)
      A. Social Justice and Developing a Voice in the Public Arena (PRO 7550)
      B. Pastoral Care and Counseling (PRO TBD)

SPRING
Modern Jewish History (HIS 6406)
Modern Jewish Literature (LIT 7034)
Professional Internship II (PRO 7402)
Religious Leadership Colloquium II (PRO 7408)
Theology 
One concentration/elective course
Recommended electives:
Talmud Bekiut (TAL 7002)
Advanced liturgy course

Year Five

FALL
Year Five Codes (CDE 6811) (six credits) 
Four concentration/elective courses
Fifth-Year Seminar (PRO 7409)

January Minimester (alternating years with fourth-year students)
      A. Social Justice and Developing a Voice in the Public Arena (PRO 7550)
      B. Pastoral Care and Counseling (PRO TBD)

SPRING 
Five concentration/elective courses
Fifth-Year Seminar (PRO 7410)

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