ObjectivesStudents who complete the postgraduate diploma should:
* acquire intensive and high level training in language studies to enable them to continue with research at higher degree levels;
* develop critical and intellectual approaches to Hebrew and related areas of studies;
* gain specialised knowledge and advanced level research skills in areas of particular interest within the discipline of Jewish Studies.
Academic titlePostgraduate Diploma in Arts (Jewish Studies)
Course description * Thesis 12,000 words
* two subjects form list A
* three subjects from list B
Total 100 points - subjects are 12.5 points each, unless indicated otherwise.
Thesis subject
Students to choose either of the following thesis subjects
Subject Semester Credit Points
107-518 Classical Studies and Archaeology Thesis
A thesis of 12 000 words on an approved topic. Semester 1, Semester 2 37.50
131-505 History Thesis
An approved thesis topic selected in consultation with the fourth-year coordinator. Semester 1, Semester 2 37.50
List A elective subjects
Students are to choose two electives from the following list.
Note: Additional subjects are available by negotiation and arrangement with the course coordinator.
Subject Semester Credit Points
131-460 Fascist Europe
This subject is a comparative study of European fascisms from the end of World War I through 1945. The primary focus will be on the fascist movements and regimes in Italy, Spain and Germany, but attention will also be given to the fascist movements i... Semester 2 12.50
183-453 Literature of Destruction
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
183-454 Jerusalem in Jewish Literature
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
183-455 Special Study Research Project
This is a special research project based on a subject taken previously or concurrently. It gives third year students with a strong interest in a particular area the opportunity to extend and deepen their knowledge of the topic, sharpen their critical... Semester 1, Semester 2 12.50
131-412 Jews and Money: Myth and Historiography
Jewish historiography generally tends to highlight religious, cultural and political aspects of the Jewish past more intensively than its economic features. This tendency is all the more striking given the centrality of economics to Jewish life and t... Semester 2 12.50
List B elective subjects
Students are to choose three electives from the following list.
Subject Semester Credit Points
183-118 Hebrew 3B
This subject involves the study of modern literary texts and modern conversational idiom and grammar. Students should complete the subject with an enriched knowledge of the language through the use of modern Hebrew literature, of the modern idiom spo... Semester 2 12.50
183-117 Hebrew 3A
This subject involves the study of modern Hebrew literary texts and modern conversational idiom and grammar. Students should gain an enriched knowledge of the language through the use of modern Hebrew literature, and of the modern idiom spoken in Isr... Semester 1 12.50
183-119 Hebrew Post-Intermediate 3A
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50
183-120 Hebrew Post-Intermediate 3B
This subject will not be available in 2009 12.50