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First-Year Courses in Hebrew and Jewish Cultural StudiesThis page was created at 12:14 PM on Thu, Oct 4, 2001. Fall Academic Term, 2001 (September 5 - December 21)Open courses in Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies Wolverine Access Subject listing for HJCS Fall Term '01Time Schedule for Hebrew and Jewish Cultural Studies. HJCS 100 / AAPTIS 100 / ACABS 100 / HISTORY 132. Peoples of the Middle East.
General Near Eastern StudiesSection 001.Instructor(s): Kathryn Babayan (babayan@umich.edu) , Gary M Beckman (sidd@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU).
Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: https://cgi.www.umich.edu/~nes100/F01/ See Arabic, Armenian, Persian, Turkish, and Islamic Studies 100.001.
HJCS 101. Elementary Modern Hebrew, I.Modern Hebrew: Language CoursesSection 001, 002.Instructor(s): Pauli Weizman (pauliw@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (5). (LR). Credits: (5). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The focus of instruction is on the development of basic communication skills in standard modern Hebrew. Speaking, writing, reading, and listening comprehension are emphasized in classroom activities in an appropriate cultural context. This course is taught in small sections. The final grade is based on class activities, students’ presentations, written assignments, and unit tests: midterm and final. Class discussions and activities are exclusively in Hebrew.
HJCS 101. Elementary Modern Hebrew, I.Modern Hebrew: Language CoursesSection 003, 004.Instructor(s): Milka EliavPrerequisites & Distribution: (5). (LR). Credits: (5). Course Homepage: http://www.umich.edu/~heb101/f00 The focus of instruction is on the development of basic communication skills in standard modern Hebrew. Speaking, writing, reading, and listening comprehension are emphasized in classroom activities in an appropriate cultural context. This course is taught in small sections. The final grade is based on class activities, students’ presentations, written assignments, and unit tests: midterm and final. Class discussions and activities are exclusively in Hebrew.
HJCS 200 / ACABS 200 / AAPTIS 200 / RELIGION 201. Introduction to World Religions: Near Eastern.
General Near Eastern StudiesSection 001 – Religions of the Book: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.Instructor(s): Ralph G Williams (fiesole@umich.edu) , Alexander D Knysh (alknysh@umich.edu) , Yaron Z Eliav (yzeliav@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: (4). (HU). Credits: (4; 3 in the half-term). Course Homepage: http://coursetools.ummu.umich.edu/2001/fall/acabs/200/001.nsf See Ancient Civilizations and Biblical Studies 200.001.
HJCS 201. Intermediate Modern Hebrew, I.Modern Hebrew: Language CoursesSection 001, 002.Instructor(s): Doron Lamm (dlamm@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: HJCS 102. (5). (LR). Credits: (5). Course Homepage: http://www.umich.edu/~heb101/f00 The focus of instruction is on the development of advanced language skills with an emphasis on oral and written communication and in standard modern Hebrew. In addition to reading texts, relevant cultural materials are provided through the use of video and technology based materials. This course is taught in small sections and class discussion. The final grade is based on class activities, students presentations, written assignments, and unit tests: midterm and final. Class discussions and activities are exclusively in Hebrew.
HJCS 201. Intermediate Modern Hebrew, I.Modern Hebrew: Language CoursesSection 003, 004.Instructor(s): Ilan Rosenberg (ilanr@umich.edu)Prerequisites & Distribution: HJCS 102. (5). (LR). Credits: (5). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The focus of instruction is on the development of advanced language skills with an emphasis on oral and written communication and in standard modern Hebrew. In addition to reading texts, relevant cultural materials are provided through the use of video and technology based materials. This course is taught in small sections and class discussion. The final grade is based on class activities, students presentations, written assignments, and unit tests: midterm and final. Class discussions and activities are exclusively in Hebrew.
HJCS 270 / JUDAIC 270. Introduction to Rabbinic Literature.
Judaic Cultural Studies in EnglishSection 001.Instructor(s): Yaron Z EliavPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (HU). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. The writings that comprise rabbinic literature are considered by many to be masterpieces of the ancient world (on a par with the Bible, New Testament, and the Classical Literature). This course will explore the history and substance of these writings on three levels. First, we will situate the rabbinic enterprise within a broader cultural, historical, and religious context. Second, we will examine the various genres that constitute rabbinic literature and get acquainted with the sages, an elite group of Jewish intellectuals, who created this corpus during the Roman and Byzantine periods. Finally, we will trace the gradual process in subsequent generations that shaped these texts to their current format and endowed them with their unique status. Readings for the course (which all include English translations) will introduce us to the complex world of the sages and help us understand the dynamics that shaped their literary venture.
HJCS 276 / JUDAIC 205. Introduction to Jewish Civilizations and Culture.
General HJCSSection 001 – Meets with HJCS 576.001.Instructor(s): Gabriele BoccacciniPrerequisites & Distribution: No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in HJCS 576. (4). (HU). Credits: (4). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted.
HJCS 301. Advanced Hebrew, I.Modern Hebrew: Language CoursesSection 001.Instructor(s): Edna A CoffinPrerequisites & Distribution: HJCS 202. (3). (Excl). Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. This is the third-year course within the Hebrew language sequence at the University of Michigan. As such, it constitutes a transitional stage from the lower levels – in which the concern is with learning introductory grammar and acquisition of functional vocabulary – to the more advanced levels in which we will focus on the more complex linguistic structures. At this level we will treat original texts which will serve as the jumping-off point for in-class discussion and the basis for composition of essays at home. The goal is to expose the student to a wide range of texts as a window unto “the Israeli Experience.” The course will incorporate other communications media, e.g., material recorded on audio tape, video clips, and multi-media.
HJCS 373 / JUDAIC 373. Israeli Culture and Society.
General HJCSSection 001 – BETWEEN WAR AND APOCALYPSEInstructor(s): Sidra DeKoven EzrahiPrerequisites & Distribution: (3). (SS).
Credits: (3). Course Homepage: No homepage submitted. A comparison of literary representations of 'war' and 'catastrophe' or 'holocaust' as reflective of fundamentally opposite cultural constructs. We look briefly at the "poetry of lamentation" in the Bible and its transformation in modern Hebrew literature; the cultural spaces of the martyr and the hero; the claims of private vis-à-vis collective memory; the sites and performances of memory as they relate to the Holocaust and the modern Wars of Israel. We will look at the aesthetic and ethical vocabularies invoked in the shifting definitions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict between 'war' and 'apocalypse.' Brief comparisons are drawn with representations of war in classical Greek and in modern western literature. Contemporary Hebrew writers under consideration include David Grossman, Aharon Appelfeld, Dan Pagis, Yehoshua Sobol and a sampling of the 'war poets' and writers (S. Yizhar, Natan Alterman, Amir Gilboa, Yehuda Amichai, Dalia Ravikovitch).
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