Curriculum 2019-20
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Digital Culture and Communication
Middle Eastern Studies
Fall
- Social and Cultural History of the Middle East (required)
- History of the Middle East in the Modern Period (required)
- Educating in the Middle East in the Age of Empire 1811-1956
- Digital Anthropology
- Iran and Regional Politics
- Islamic Politics and Terror in the Middle East
- Youth, civil society and Culture in the ME 1980-present
- Modern North Africa: The Challenges of Colonialism and Independence
- State and Stateness (seminar)
Spring
- Introduction to Islam (required)
- History of the Middle East in the Modern Period (required)
- Modern Turkey from Atatürk to Erdoğan
- Islamic Philosophy in the Modern Era
- Arab-Israeli Relations
- Iran and Regional Politics
- Islamic Politics and Terror in the Middle East
- Nuclear Non-proliferation in the 21st Century
- Media, Conflict and Politics
- Public Diplomacy and the Media in a Changing World
- Palestinians Arabs under the Mandate
- Health and the Natural Environment in the Middle East (seminar)
Modern Jewish and Israel Studies
Fall
- The Jewish World in the Modern Era (required)
- Educating the Middle East in the Age of Empire 1811-1956
- History of Antisemitism
- The Essence of Judaism
- One Hundred Years: History and Memory in Tel-Aviv Jaffa
- Israeli Cinema and the Culture of Modern Israel
- Writing the Experience of Tel Aviv
- Israeli Politics
- Israel and the Environment
- The Israeli Economy
- The Reality of Immigration in Israel (plus service learning)
- Between Bible and Mishna: Jewish Thought
- Biblical Reception in the Arts and Popular Culture
- Jesus the Jew in Memory and History (seminar)
Spring
- Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought (required)
- The Jewish World in the Modern Era (required)
- Jewish and Christian Feminist Thought
- Jewish Gangsters
- Contemporary Antisemitism
- Contemporary Jewish Issues
- Art After Auschwitz: Representing the Holocaust
- Israeli Politics
- The Israeli Collective Memory of the Israeli-Arab/Palestinian Conflict
- One Hundred Years: History and Memory in Tel-Aviv Jaffa
- Arab-Israeli Relations
- Israeli Cinema and the Culture of Modern Israel
- Writing the Experience of Tel Aviv
- Israel and the Environment
- The Israeli Economy
- The Ultraorthodox in Israeli Society: Differentiation vs. Integration
- Palestinian Arabs under the Mandate
- Jewish Philosophy in Greek Langauge
- Peoples of the Book (seminar)
Philosophy
Fall
- Introduction to Greek Philosophy (required)
- Guided Readings (required)
- Good and Evil
- Business Ethics
- What is Real? Philosophy and Virtual Reality
- Nietzsche and Foucault on Power and Subjectivation
- A Love that is More than Love
- What is Real? Philosophy and Virtual Reality
- Film and Postmodernism (seminar)
- Scientific Explanation (seminar)
Spring
- Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy (required)
- Walter Benjamin: Philosophy, Media and Cultural Critique
- The Crises of Visual Culture
- Introduction to Ethics
- Truth in Politics
- Islamic Philosophy in the Modern Era
- Business Ethics
- Global Ethics
- Language and Experience
- Jewish Philosophy in Greek Langauge
- Contemporary Moral Problems
Psychology
Fall
- Freud and Beyond (required)
- Psychology as a Science (required)
- Cognitive Psychology
- Specters
- A Love that is More than Love
- Personality Assessment (seminar)
Spring
- Psychopathology (required)
- Walter Benjamin: Philosophy, Media and Cultural Critique
- Personality Theories
- Language and Experience
- Dangerous Group Dynamics
- Social Psychology: Issues on Cross Cultural Research
- Psychological Thinking in the 21st Century: Sexuality and Relationships, Global and Israeli Perspectives
- Psychology and Political Conflict (seminar)
Literature
Fall
- Introduction to American Culture (Required)
- Poetry Analysis (Required)
- Humanist Shakespeare
- Edith Wharton: The Major Works
- Literary Theory from Antiquity to Modernity
- Theories of the Signifier
- Translation and the Literary Imagination
- Drama and Creative Writing
- Postcolonial Science Fiction: the Empire Strikes Back
- What is American Studies?
- The Holocaust in American Culture
- Alternative Comics and American Identities
- Early Modern English Devotional Poetry (Seminar)
Spring
- Introduction to British Culture (Required)
- Narrative Analysis (Required)
- Confessional Poetry
- Death and Mourning in Victorian Literature and Culture
- The American Novel Since 2000
- Literary Theory from Antiquity to Modernity
- Walt Whitman's World
- Literature and Disability Studies: Cognitive Disabilities
- Shakespeare's Narrative Poems
- Poetry and Protest
- Contemporary Fiction
- Reimagining History in Contemporary American Literature
- Mourning in America: History and Culture of the 1980s
- The Secret Problems and Pleasures of Poetry (Seminar)
- The American West as Setting, Theme and Value (Seminar)
- Lacan's Hamlet (Seminar)
