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4037 - Graduate Certificate in Modern Israel Studies

This course entry should be read in conjunction with information provided in the Faculty information section of this Handbook by the managing faculty for this course

Abbreviated titleGradCertModIsraelStd
Managing facultyArts
Study location and modeOn-campus (Caulfield)
Total credit points required24
Duration (years)0.5 years FT, 1 year PT
Contact detailsmark.baker@arts.monash.edu.au
Course coordinatorProfessor Fania Oz-Salzberger

Description

Students undertaking this course will be made acquainted with a broad range of topics incorporating Israeli history, politics, international relations, public affairs, economy, cultures and arts, set within a range of global perspectives. Both teaching and research supervision will be conducted by Monash University staff alongside overseas visiting professors.

Objectives

Students completing this course will demonstrate:

  • a familiarisation with the contemporary social milieu of modern Israeli culture
  • an appreciation of the intellectual history of pre-state (Yishuv) and early Israeli Hebrew thought
  • a general acquaintance with a broad view of Israeli history, politics, society and culture.

Structure

Students complete one core unit and 12 points of elective studies.

Requirements

Students complete the core unit:

  • JWM4020 Between homeland and Holy Land: the place of Israel in Jewish thought

plus one 12 point elective from the following:

  • HYM4195 Israelis and Palestinians between war and peace (intensive summer abroad unit)
  • JWM4030 Jewish history, Jewish memory: Writing and reading the Jewish past
  • JWM4540 Israeli culture through cinema and literature
  • HYM4135 Facing history: representing the Arab-Israel conflict.

Progression to further studies

Students who complete the graduate certificate with a minimum credit average, may apply to transfer to the related graduate diploma.

Award(s) received on completion *

Graduate Certificate in Modern Israel Studies

* Where more than one award is listed, or in the case of double degrees, where more than one award is listed for one or both components of the double degree, the actual award/s conferred may depend on units/majors/streams/specialisations studied, the level of academic merit achieved (eg in the case of 'with honours' programs), or other factors relevant to the individual student's program of study.

 

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