The History Department at Yeshiva University in New York City provides students with a comprehensive understanding of the past, exploring events from ancient times through the modern era. The program features particular strengths in Jewish, American, and European history, offering a rich curriculum designed to cultivate deep historical knowledge and analytical skills. Students learn from active scholars in a supportive environment, often benefiting from small class sizes that allow for meaningful interaction with faculty. The department emphasizes the development of critical thinking, rigorous research methods, and clear writing, preparing graduates for diverse career paths in fields such as education, law, business, and public service, or for advanced academic study.
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Yeshiva University is a private Orthodox Jewish university with four campuses in New York City. The university's undergraduate schools—Yeshiva College, Stern College for Women, Katz School of Science and Health, and Sy Syms School of Business—offer a dual curriculum inspired by Modern/Centrist Orthodox Judaism's hashkafa (philosophy) of Torah Umadda ("Torah and secular knowledge"), combining academic education with the study of the Torah. While the majority of students at the university identify as Modern Orthodox, many students, especially at the Cardozo School of Law, the Sy Syms School of Business, and the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, are not Jewish.