JWST at Cornell University

A suggested order for the 16 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate JWST coursework.

• JWST 2100Intermediate Modern Hebrewopens 6 courses (1 directly)
• JWST 3101Advanced Modern Hebrew Iopens 5 courses (4 directly)
• JWST 3102Advanced Modern Hebrew IIopens 4 courses (4 directly)
• JWST 1777Elementary Yiddish IIopens 1 course (1 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate JWST work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 16 JWST and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 198 more JWST courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Concentration routes

The concentrations and majors that build on JWST, and how their requirements are structured. Expand a program to see which courses satisfy each group, then plan it in the Planner.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in JWST. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 5 courses deep, ending at JWST 3103

  1. JWST 1103Elementary Modern Hebrew III
  2. JWST 2100Intermediate Modern Hebrew
  3. JWST 3101Advanced Modern Hebrew I
  4. JWST 3102Advanced Modern Hebrew II
  5. JWST 3103Advanced Hebrew Through Media

• 3 courses deep, ending at JWST 2276

  1. JWST 1776Elementary Yiddish
  2. JWST 1777Elementary Yiddish II
  3. JWST 2276Intermediate Yiddish

• 2 courses deep, ending at JWST 1102

  1. HEBRW 1101Elementary Modern Hebrew I
  2. JWST 1102Elementary Modern Hebrew II

• 2 courses deep, ending at JWST 3629

  1. NES 2629New Testament/Early Christian Literatures
  2. JWST 3629Greek New Testament Readings

Grade medians

Teaching in Fall 2026

Instructors on JWST sections in Fall 2026, from the registrar's schedule.

• Alexandra Blackman
• Alla Goldfeld
• Christine Leuenberger
• Cynthia Robinson
• David Forman
• Deborah Starr
• Elliot Shapiro
• Jan Burzlaff
• Jason Mokhtarian
• Jonathan Boyarin
• Menachem Rosensaft
• Olga Litvak
• Rhona Burns
• Ross Brann
• Shalom Shoer

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under JWST yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

JWST does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Cornell campus feed.