The following courses are mandatory for Mandel School MA students:
11055 Academic Writing For Masters Degree Mandel School
Instructor: Ms. Helen Levy
This course will closely examine the formal elements and stylistic nuances of scholarly discourse in English.
We will analyze prose models and participants' writing with regards to grammatical consistency, word choice, sentence and paragraph structures, English punctuation and rhetorial conventions.
Participants will also have the opportunity to give a presentation in English.
Course taught in English.
30912 Conservatism, Interpretation and Innovation
Instructor: Dr. Naphtali Meshel
The course examines a selection of interpretive processes—in theoretical and contemplative literature, in sacred scripture, in literature and in the arts, from antiquity to contemporary times. Through these test examples we will examine the phenomenon of interpretation, its underlying assumptions, and the tension between conservatism and innovation in interpretative works.
Course taught in Hebrew.
8910 Colloquium for Mandel School Students
Instructor: Prof. Daniel R. Schwartz
The coarse aims to afford the MA students (1) experience in making scholarly presentations and (2) the opportunity to receive and to offer, respectably, helpful criticism and suggestions from their peers and from the teacher, which will contribute to improving the thesis prior to its submission.
Course taught in Hebrew.