Curriculum 2020-21
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Digital Culture and Communication
Fall
- Theories in Communication and New Media (Required)
- Digital Discourse: New Media Language and Dynamics (Required)
- Persuasion and Argumentation
- Consciousness and the Electronic Mind
- Memes and Digital Culture
- Film and Postmodernism (Seminar)
Spring
- Techno Utopia (Required)
Me Too: Political and Corporate Messaging in the #SocialJustice Era(cancelled)- Narrative in the Digital Age
- Film and Philosophy: Coming out of the Cave
- Do Algorithms have Imagination?
- OSP - Media, War and Peace
OSP - Public Diplomacy and the Media in a Changing World- Digital Religion (Seminar)
Middle Eastern Studies
Fall
- Social and Cultural History of the Middle East (Required)
- OSP - History of the Middle East in the Modern Period (Required)
- The Shi‘i Crescent: History, Culture and Religion
- OSP - Islamic Politics and Terror in the Middle East
- OSP - Oil, Water and the Middle East Economy
- Culture and Politics in Modern Egypt
- Arabic Beginners
- Spoken Arabic
- Hebrew
- The History and Politics of Weapons of Mass Destruction in the Middle East (Seminar)
Spring
- Introduction to Islamic Civilization (Required)
- OSP - History of the Middle East in the Modern Period (Required)
- Politics, Climate and Football in the Middle East and Northern Africa
- Key Issues in the History of Modern Iraq: The Quest for the State and the Search for National Identity
- US Foreign Policy in the Middle East
- Modern North Africa: the Challenges of Colonialism and Independence
OSP - Public Diplomacy and the Media in a Changing World- OSP - Islamic Politics and Terror in the Middle East
OSP - Oil, Water and the Middle East EconomyOSP - Nuclear Nonproliferation and Security in the 21st Century- OSP - Media, War and Peace
- Arabic Beginners
- Hebrew
- Minorities and the State in the Middle East (Seminar)
- State and Stateness in the Modern Middle East (Seminar)
Modern Jewish and Israel Studies
Fall
Theories of Public Policy and Health Systems: Israel and the US in Comparative Perspective(cancelled)- Understanding and Treating Trauma in Israel
- Interreligious Theory
- OSP - History of Antisemitism
- OSP - The Essence of Judaism
- OSP - Israeli Politics
- OSP - Israel and the Environment
- OSP - The Israeli Economy
- Arabic Beginners
- Spoken Arabic
- Hebrew
- Reading the Zohar (Seminar)
Spring
- Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought (Required)
- Feminist Interreligious Thought: From Abrahamic to Hagaric Discourse
- The Palestinian Century
- Introduction to Classical Jewish Philosophy
- US Foreign Policy in the Middle East
OSP - Jewish Gangsters- OSP - Contemporary Antisemitism
- OSP - Contemporary Jewish Issues
OSP -Art After Auschwitz: Representing the Holocaust- OSP - Israeli Politics
OSP - The Ultraorthodox in Israeli Society: Differentiation vs. Integration (Service learning)OSP - Arab-Israeli RelationsOSP - Israeli Cinema and the Culture of Modern IsraelOSP - Writing the Experience of Tel Aviv- OSP - Israel and the Environment
- OSP - The Israeli Economy
- Human Stains: Jewish American Literature After 1945
- Reading the Bible through Other Eyes
- Arabic Beginners
- Hebrew
- Double Vision: Readings in Palestinian and Hebrew/Jewish Fictions (Seminar)
Philosophy
Fall
- Guided Readings in Philosophical Texts: Descartes' Meditations (Required)
- Consciousness and the Electronic Mind
- Queer Theory
- Introduction to Moral Philosophy
- Social Metaphysics
- Reading course: David Lewis's "On the Plurality of Worlds"
- Theories of the Public Sphere
- Film and Postmodernism (Seminar)
Spring
- Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy (Required)
- Introduction to Greek Philosophy (Required)
- Introduction to Classical Jewish Philosophy
- OSP - Business Ethics
- Film and Philosophy: Coming out of the Cave
- Women Philosophers, Suffragettes, Psychologists, and Artists
- Friendship
- Contemporary Moral Problems (Seminar)
Psychology
Fall
- Introduction to Psychology (Required)
- Introduction to Statistics
- Understanding and Treating Trauma in Israel
- Consciousness and the Electronic Mind
- From Theory to Therapy: Clinical aspects of psychology
- Personality Assessment (Seminar)
Spring
- Psychopathology (Required)
- Research Methods (Required)
- Motivation and Achievement
- Coping with Failure
- Women Philosophers, Suffragettes, Psychologists, and Artists
- Key Psychological Themes through the Lens of the Camera
- Developmental Psychology
- OSP - Psychological Thinking in 21st Century Sexuality and Relationships: Global and Israeli Perspectives
- Psychology and Political Conflict (Seminar)
Literature
Fall
- Introduction to American Culture (Required)
- Poetry Analysis (Required)
- Introduction to British Culture 2 (Required)
- American Modernism
- Drama and Creative Writing
- Psychoanalysis and Poetics
Whiteness and the Study of American Literature- What is American Studies?
- Making and Unmaking the Self in Victorian Novels
- African American Literature (Seminar)
- Apocalypse and Dystopia in American Culture (Seminar)
Spring
- Introduction to British Culture 1 (Required)
- Narrative Analysis (Required)
- Introduction to Theory (Required)
- The American Novel of Manners in Three Acts: Howells
- American literature and popular culture
- Cold War American Literature and Culture
- Major and Minor Poets of the 20th century
- Shakespeare's Classical World
- Identity in American Poetry
- Poets Respond to America
- Marriage at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
- Myths of the Origin of Language
- Reading the Bible through Other Eyes
- Realism, Influence and the Classic: The Case of Coetzee and Defoe
- Human Stains: Jewish American Literature after 1945
- Tradition and Identity in Swift and Defoe (Seminar)
- Poetic Forms, Formulas and Formulations (Seminar)
- Whiteness and the Study of American Literature (Seminar)
- Theories of Love (Seminar)
