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 |