The purpose of the program is to instigate a vibrant community of honors students early in their academic path, who will conduct their work in an environment which encourages intellectual cooperation. For this purpose, students are granted full stipends as well as exemption from tuition, as well as a private workspace within the Mandel building. Mandel MA students also enjoy a unique curriculum taught by faculty teachers as well as guest scholars from Israel and abroad. Mandel students also enjoy special social and academic activities.
An essential prerequisite for acceptance to the program is being an excellent student during one’s undergraduate studies. Scholarship recipients are awarded a stipend throughout the two years of graduate studies in the academic track, whose purpose is to allow students to complete their studies in a timely manner. A call for proposal for applications is published every year at the beginning of the spring semester.
Applications are submitted via the University’s Scholarship and Awards System.
The following courses are mandatory for Mandel School MA students:
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.
30913 Humanities: Methods, Sources, Research
Instructor: Prof. Abigail Jacobson
Turing this course the students will be exposed to the different methods and sources that are being used in the Humanities. The course will be divided into modules according to types of sources:
Text
Sound
Visual-material
Inter-disciplinary
The Course is taught in Hebrew.
30900 Colloquium for Mandel School Students
Instructor: Dr. Abigail Jacobson
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.
The Course is taught in Hebrew.
Mandatory Courses
11055 Academic Writing for Students in the Mandel School
This course will closely examine the formal elements and stylistic nuances of scholarly discourse in English.
We will analyze prose models in order to understand the conventions that facilitate clear communication in academic writing.
Participants will also have the opportunity to give a presentation on their research in English.
Course taught in English.
30912 Conservatism, interpretation and innovation
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.
30900 Colloquium
The course 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.