Courses in Foreign Languages

The Faculty of Humanities encourages students to take courses in foreign languages. These courses are offered as part of a larger worldview that highlights multiculturalism and aims at sharpening students' cultural adaptability.  As language and culture are inevitably intertwined, studying courses in foreign languages will enrich students' understanding of said language and culture. Students who take these courses will be better prepared for the university's exchange programs in said languages.

 

List of courses in Foreign languages: 2022-23 School Year

List of courses in Foreign languages (German, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, French, Italian), 2021-22 School Year:List of courses in Foreign languages (German, Spanish, Arabic, Russian, French, Italian), 2021-22 School Year:

for syllabi please visit the Hebrew University Course Catalogue.

English

Introduction to the Dead Sea Scrolls

English

The Ten Plagues then and Now

English

Conceptual Thinking in Ancient Judaism: The Hellenistic Period

English

Biblical Apocalyptic Literature: Studies in Daniel 7-12 -Michael Segal

English

Law in the New Testament

English

The Population of Israel

English

 Identity, Religion and Community in the Modern Era

English

The History of the Jewish Book in Early Modern Europe

English

Dangerous Liasons: The Vatican and the Jews after WWII

English

1948 in Hebrew Fiction, Poetry and Life Writing

English

City of Love and Darkness: Jerusalem in Israeli Literature

English

Topics in Jewish Political Thought

English

Graduate Seminar in German-Jewish Thought and Culture

English

Monarchy in Classical Jewish Thought

English

Freedom and Slavery in the First Century CE

English

Rosenzweig and Schelling

English

Comparative Existentialisms: From Sartre to Soloveitchik

English

Pragmatics

English

Comparative Semitic Linguistics: Phonology and Morphology

English

Egyptian-Israeli Encounters in Modern History, Literature, and Cinema

English

Saudi Arabia Through the Eyes of Its People

English

Armenians in the Early Modern Islamic Empires (Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal): 16th-18th Centuries

English

Turkey at 100: Challenges and Limitations

English

The Israeli Palestinian Conflict

English

The Study of Early Islamic History: Selected Topics

English

History of Students in the Middle East

English

Turks, Franks, Armenians, Mongols: War and Diplomacy in the ME

English

Judeo-Persian Literature in Translation

English

From China to Sogdiana (4th-8th centuries CE): the "Silk Road"

Arabic

Classical and Modern Arabic Literature – Text Readings

Arabic

Modern literary genres

Arabic

Introduction to Classical Arabic Poetry

Arabic

Classical Arabic Poetry: Text Readings

English

Sayyid Qutb: From Modern Literature to the Theory of God's Sovereignty

Arabic

Arab Society in Israel

English

Golden Age Karaite Bible Exegesis

English

Indonesian For Beginners

English

Advanced Indonesian

English

Pali For Beginners

English

Classical Tibetan  for Beginners

English

Women and Gender Dynamics in Southeast Asia

English

 Islam in a Global Context: Democracy, Islamism and Secularity

English

Ethnographies of Global Health and  Humanitarianism in Southeast Asia

English

The Desi Sangye Gyatso and the Tibetan State

English

 China and International Security

English

Intensive Korean -  level a 

English

Intensive Korean- level   b

English

Cultures In Comparison: Social Institutions, Communication, And Technology In Japan And Israel

English

Consumption Culture in Modern Korea and Japan

English

 "Musical and Cultural Politics: Modernity and Modernism in Japan and Korea"

English

 The Chinese Family under Revolution and Reform (1900-49)

English

Research Methods In Chinese History

English

Traditional Chinese Political Culture

English

Gender, Family, and the State in the People’s Republic of China

English

Contacts, Interactions And The Transfer Of Knowledge Across The Asia Continent

English

Buddhism and Chinese Society: Cultural Contacts and Cultic Contexts

English

Great Walls, Borders and Frontier Zones in Asia: Archaeological and Historical Perspectives

English

Food in Asian History, Politics, and Culture

English

Science and Fiction on the Korean Peninsula

English

The Rationality of Emotions

English

Rationality, Reasons, and Moral Responsibility

English

The Post Modal Approach to Metaphysics

English

Altruism and Impartiality in Ancient Western Philosophy

English

Philosophy of Language

English

Systematic Philosophy: Prospects and Problems

English

The Epistemology of Perception

English

Topics in Contemporary Political Philosophy

English

How to read the Qur'an? Reading sources in Islam

English

The Afterlife in the Abrahamic Religions

English

Islam as Living Religious Tradition

English

Introduction to Tibetan Religions

English

Reading Buddhist Scriptures

English

Early Christianity's Jewish Matrix: Gospels&Acts

English

Buddhist Ritual

English

Can God be seen? Concepts of vision and the vision of God in Islamic traditions

English

Interlinear translation from a global perspective

English

The Buddhist Cosmos across Asia

English

Methodological seminar in the study of religion

English

The highest cognition: brain mechanisms for language and arithmetic

English

Middle Egyptian for Beginners

English

Essence and Functions of Ancient Images (Egypt)

English

Tales of the Voiceless: 1. The Eloquent Peasant

English

Between the Living and the Dead

English

Old Babylonian letters

English

Mesopotamian rituals: history, texts, performance

English

Sumerian For Beginners

English

Advanced Sumerian - Gudian's Inscriptions

English

The old-Persian Version of the Behistun  inscription Language, History and culture

English

Mesopotamian Commentaries

English

The Archaeology of Canaanite Cult

English

Egyptian-Levantine Interconnections 4000-1500 BC

English

Technological workshop: Flint knapping

English

Geographic information system (GIS) for archaeological research

English

Practical training for the MA studies

English

Sacred Space in the Desert Land: The Churches of the Byzantine Towns in the Negev

English

Labs for beginners

English

Labs for advanced students

English

Quantitative  Methodsin Archaeology

English

Stonehenge and the Neolithic of the Britain and Ireland

English

Beginning of Agriculture

English

Human Evolution in its bio physiological aspects

English

The Persian period in Israel

English

The Caves of Qumran: A Material Approach to the Qumran Quest

English

Past News: Processes of inventions and innovations in the prehistoric record

English

Topics In Prehistory

English

 Biblical Archaeology Seminar

English

African American History from 1865

English

Beggars, Priests, Sex Workers, Craftspeople, and Merchants– Social Groups in Medieval European Towns

English

Healers and their Plagues: The History of Medicine between 1346 and 1800

English

Medieval People

English

Occupied Germany and the Human Rights Revolution of the 1940s

Portuguese

Portuguese for beginners a

Portuguese

Portuguese for beginners b

Portuguese

Advanced Portuguese a

Spanish

Sex, drugs and rock and roll in the Spanish transition (1973-1986

Portuguese

Advanced Portuguese b

Spanish

Modern Spanish through texts

Spanish

In the footsteps of "Don Quijote": A journey to the Spanish Golden Age Fiction

Spanish

Principles of the Spanish Grammar

Spanish

Landmarks in Uruguayan Fiction

Spanish

Don Quixote in Latin American Literature IV

English

The poetics of Borges

English

Authoritarianism in Latin America

English

Rebellion under Authoritarianism: The Sixties in Latin America

Spanish

Women's Literature in Brazil

English

Catalonia and Beyond - Comparing Self-Determination Movements in Contemporary Europe

Russian

Russian Conversation for Beginners

Russian

Reading In Russian Culture

Russian

Interdisciplinary Seminar in Russian Studies

English

Jews of Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages 

English

sober - at home – alone A trilogy on everyday German life

English

Peter Handke: Selected texts from the 1970s The years of true feeling as the heyday of German litera

German

German Theater - theatrical techniques, from reading to performing    

German

Reading of masterpieces in the original language

English

German Modernism in Literature and Theory

English

Enlightenment and Tolerance Reading cource with Lessing

English

Walter Benjamin’s »Passagen-Werk« Four decades later

German

Creative writing in German 

English

Minimum moralia. 120th birthday of Theodor W. Adorno Reflections from the damaged life

English

The Laws of History

English

English: Advanced Composition

English

Sophocles, Ajax

English

Secret Agency: The British Cold-War Novel

English

Classic Science Fiction

English

Becoming Women: The Female Bildungsroman

English

Writing Women in the Age of Chaucer

English

Monsters, Magic, and Mysteries from Beowulf to Milton

English

American Women’s Poetry

English

Cli-Fi: Literary Representations of Climate Change

English

Introduction to Poetry

English

Introduction to Fiction

English

Academic Writing in English

English

Historical Approach 1: Middle Ages and Renaissance

English

Seventeenth-Century Poetry

English

Principles of Formal English 1

English

Principles of Formal English 2

English

Historical Approach 3: Modernism and Beyond

English

 The English and the American novel - 20th century

English

Principles of Formal English - Advanced

English

Historical Approach 2: Enlightenment, Romanticism, the Victorian era

English

Shakespeare: Selected plays

English

Gender, Postcolonialism and Postmodernism

English

 The English and the American novel - 19th century

English

American Literature and Culture

English

Radcliffe, Austen, Scott: Romanticism and the Gothic

English

Puritan, Romantic and Victorian Childhood

English

Image/Culture

English

Making It New in Renaissance England

English

Post-Apartheid Literature

English

Midlife Nabokov

English

Reading Shakespeare’s Tragedies for the Stage

English

Twentieth Century Literary Theory

English

Narcissus on the Liffey: Image and Identity in the Modern Irish Novel

English

Wordsworth And Coleridge

English

Personalized training in English

English

 Will literature save us from extinction? Italian Literature and the Climate Crisis   

Italian

A

Italian

Introduction to Itali language

Italian

Made in Italy

Italian

The language of literature and history in Italian

English

Between Theory and Practice

English

The Lives of the Voice

English

 Reading the Signs Around Us: Introduction to Semiotics   

English

Semantics

English

Language and Cognition: Introduction to Issues in Language Acquisition and Processing

English

Grammar and Natural Logic

English

Context

English

Formal approaches to ellipsis

English

The structure and emergence of sign languages

English

Language contact: theory, methods and case studies

English

Linguistic typology

English

Introduction to the structure of Afrikaans A

English

Chechen and Northeast Caucasian - B

English

Topics in Bantu morpho-syntax

English

Areal linguistics

English

Introduction to quantitative methods in linguistics B

English

 Advanced investigations in historical linguistics

English

Israeli Art in the Third Millennium

English

Rembrandt and his Audience: Creation and Consumption of Paintings and Prints

English

 Musics of the Caribbean: Roots and Routes

English

More than just a Game: Sports and Politics in Modern Africa

English

Animals: Between Philosophy and Literature

English

Academic Writing in English for Amirim Students