OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC AFFAIRS · 2 Course attendance Students may participate each semester in maximum five courses. Attendance is mandatory in all courses. Missing lessons

OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL ACADEMIC AFFAIRS

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Course attendance

Students may participate each semester in maximum five courses. Attendance is mandatory

in all courses. Missing lessons will be reflected in the final grade of the course. Up to three

justified absence from classes will be accepted (for example: emergency matter, doctor's

note). Such cases of absence should be notified to your lecturer immediately. Students are

required to arrive on time for classes. Teachers are entitled to treat any single case of

lateness and/or repeated lateness as an unjustified absence.

Course assignments

Please check the exam/final assignment date/schedule before registering to a course.

Exchange students cannot take exams on different dates than the regular exam date. You

cannot join the course unless you are able to stay in Israel for the final exam. Students will

not be allowed to leave a course early, unless indicated differently.

Regular Hebrew-taught courses at TAU

Students whose Hebrew is good enough and choose to take courses at the regular university

program should check the courses available at the faculties websites, and then check with

the Exchange Office the possibility to register to specific courses.

Important information

Exchange Students can choose English-taught courses from the

programs/departments in the table below (for detailed information regarding the

courses which are open to exchange students in each program please read the

booklet thoroughly).

Bachelor's students (=undergraduate students) can only take Bachelor's level courses

and cannot take master's level courses unless indicated differently.

Master's students (=graduate students) can choose from both bachelor's and

master's


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Registration for courses is pending availability. We will make every attempt to

accommodate your preferences.

Please check the course prerequisites mentioned in this course catalog before

completing the course choices form

Please notice that there may be changes in courses or courses schedules that you

may check directly on the relevant faculty’s website, appearing in each section.

Spring Semester students cannot join full-year courses.

Courses with less than 10 students might be cancelled.

TAU does not permit, under any circumstances, taking final exams early. When selecting courses, it is thus very important to note below if there is an in-class final as this date/exam cannot be changed. Early departures from the program are not approved, nor are early or exception exams

Please remember to check that you are not signing up for overlapping courses

Starting dates, duration, and ending dates of individual courses may

vary from one department to another. Please make sure to check the

dates of the courses you are registered for.

There may be courses that appear on the website of each department

and do not appear in this catalog. These courses are not open for

Exchange Students.


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Comments Degree Program / Department

BA Study Abroad

BA Liberal Arts

BA English and American Studies

BA Humanities Literature

BA Arabic and Islam

Prerequisites in different courses BA Law

Prerequisites in different courses BA Exact Sciences

BA Social Sciences

BA Social work

BA History

BA Architecture

BA and MA Life Sciences

Prerequisites for each course, by course numbers. With every request please make sure to state the requested semester & year, attach transcripts (updated ones) and complete form

BA and MA Engineering

BA and MA Economics

Prerequisites in different courses. All requests to join courses will be asked for a description of the reason for wanting to join the course

year and above rdMA and 3BA

Environmental Studies

MA Conflict Resolution and Mediation

MA Psychological Sciences MA MA TESOL MA Archaeology and History of

the Land of the Bible

MA Public Policy MA Political Science and Political

Communication MA Migration


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List of courses

Please note that the detailed syllabi can be viewed by clicking on the course title.

Please notice that due to space restrictions, there are courses that are not offered for

Exchange Students.

Please notice: On the website you may find courses that are not open for Exchange

students. Courses not available for Exchange Students

03-5300-2122120 The Jewish World in the Modern Era

2120-5301-03 Jewish Gangsters

2120-0533-03 One Hundred Years; History and Memory in Tel Aviv Jaffa-

2120-0128-04 Writing the Experience of Tel- Aviv

2120-0129-03 Fiction Writing: Observing Israel from Within

2120-0101-03 Global Ethics

03-0139-2120 Israel and the Environment

01-8000-2120 BUISNESS AND ENTREPRENURSHIP PROGRAM



The rest of the courses are open as space allows.

Hebrew and Arabic courses are not open to exchange students and offered with an

additional fee, pending availability.

Courses for spring 2020 are here - https://international.tau.ac.il/node/553/?tab=6

All courses are 3 TAU credits

https://international.tau.ac.il/node/553/?tab=6


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Please note that all courses, dates and times below are subject to change. Classroom

locations will be added on this site closer to the courses start date.

Spring Semester

Jewish Studies Course Number

Day Hour Final Location

Contemporary Antisemitism - Dr. K. Beller 2120-0539.03 MON/WED

10:15-11:45

Final Paper TBD

Contemporary Jewish Issues - Dr. M. Gresser 2120.0132.02 TUES/THURS

10:15-11:45

Final Paper TBD

Art After Auschwitz: Representing the Holocaust - Dr. R. Perry

2120.0125.03 MON/WED 10:15-11:45

Final Take-Home Exam

TBD

Israel Studies Course Number


Israeli Politics - Dr. E. Klauber 2120.0112.03 TUES/THURS

12:15-13:45


TBD

The Ultraorthodox in Israeli Society: Differentiation vs. Integration + Service Learning – Dr. Sima Zalchberg Block (6 credits)

2120.1112.03 WED 10:00-

14:00 Final Paper TBD

Middle East Studies Course Number


The Israeli Collective Memory of the Israeli-Arab/Palestinian Conflict - Dr. Rafi Nets

2120.1012.02 MON/WED 16:15-17:45

Final Paper TBD

History of the Middle East in the Modern Period - Dr. B. Friedman

2120.0120.01 TUES/THURS 14:15-15:45

Final Paper TBD

Arab-Israeli Relations - Dr. Daniel Zisenwine 2120.0122.03 TUES/THURS

10:15-11:45


TBD

Iran and Regional Politics – Dr. Elisheva Machlis 2120.1900.03 TUES/THURS

16:15-17:45


TBD

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Contemporary%20Antisemitism%20Syllabus%20Final%20Spring%202020.pdf

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Contemporary%20Antisemitism%20Syllabus%20Final%20Spring%202020.pdf

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Contemporary%20Jewish%20Issues%20Spring%202020.pdf

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Contemporary%20Jewish%20Issues%20Spring%202020.pdf

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/SYLLABUS%20TAU%20Art%20After%20Auschwitz%20Representing%20the%20Holocaust%20in%20Visual%20Culture.pdf



https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Syllabus%20Israeli%20Politics%20Spring%202020.pdf

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/TAU%20international/00%20Keren/The%20Ultraorthodox%20in%20Israeli%20Society%20Differentiation%20vs.%20Integration%20Spring%202020.pdf




https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Rafi%20Nets-Israeli%20CM%20of%20Conflict%20Final%20Syllabus%20Spring%202020.pdf



https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Introduction%20to%20the%20ME%20in%20the%20Modern%20Period%20SYLLABUS%202019-2020.pdf

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Introduction%20to%20the%20ME%20in%20the%20Modern%20Period%20SYLLABUS%202019-2020.pdf

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Arab-Israeli%20Relations%20TAU%20Syllabus%20Spring%202020.pdf

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Iran%20and%20Regional%20Politics%20Spring%202020.pdf


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Islamic Politics and Terror in the Middle East – Prof. Meir Litvak

2120.0240.03 MON/WED 12:15-13:45


TBD

Psychology

Psychological Thinking in 21st Century Sexuality and Relationships: Global and Israeli Perspectives- Dr. Ilan Tabak Aviram

2120.0537.03 TUES/THURS 14:15-15:45

Final Paper TBD

Creative Arts and Film Studies

Course Number


Israeli Cinema and the Culture of Modern Israel - Dr. S. Duvdevani

2120.0468.03 TUES/THURS 14:15-15:45

Final In-class Exam

TBD

Business, Economics Course Number


Business Ethics - Dr. S. Smila-Sened 2120.0100.03 TUES/THURS

10:15-11:45


TBD

The Israeli Economy - Dr. P. Rivlin 2120.0117.03 MON/WED

14:15-15:45

Final Paper TBD

International Relations, Communication

Course Number


Nuclear Nonproliferation and Security in the 21st Century - Dr. Azriel Bermant

2120.1017.03 MON/WED 14:15-15:45

Final Paper

Media, Conflict and Politics - Dr. Erga Atad 2120.0536.03 THURS

16:00-20:00

Final Paper TBD

Public Diplomacy and the Media in a Changing World – Dr. Michal Hatuel Radoshitzky

2120.0500.03 MON/WED 12:15-

13:45

Final Paper and In-class Presentation

TBD

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Syllabus%20Islam%20Politics%20and%20Terrorism%20Spring%202020.pdf

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Syllabus%20Islam%20Politics%20and%20Terrorism%20Spring%202020.pdf

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Psychological%20Thinking%20in%2021st%20Century%20Sexuality%20and%20Relationships.pdf




https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Israeli%20Cinema%20and%20the%20Culture%20of%20Modern%20Israel%20Sp2020.pdf

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Israeli%20Cinema%20and%20the%20Culture%20of%20Modern%20Israel%20Sp2020.pdf

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Business%20Ethics%20Syllabus%20Spring%202020.pdf

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/The%20Israeli%20Economy%20Spring%202020.pdf

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Nuclear%20Nonproliferation%20and%20Security%20in%20the%2021st%20Century%20-%20Syllabus%202020.pdf



https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Media%20and%20Conflicts%20-%20Erga%20Atad%20Spring%202020.pdf

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/Media%20and%20Conflicts%20-%20Erga%20Atad%20Spring%202020.pdf

https://international.tau.ac.il/sites/english.register.tau.ac.il/files/media_server/all-units/TAU%20Intl%20Public%20Diplomacy%20Spring%202020%20Syllabus.pdf




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Please note that the details may include workshops and 3rd year seminars which may be

open to non-liberal arts students provided that they have relevant background and by

permission of the program head.

Registration for courses is pending availability though we will of course endeavor to

accommodate your requests.


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Important:

Please check the program page online.

Some courses are short term courses, others last longer and run in parallel with the regular TAU calendar.

Students are welcome to take any of the other courses on the list, however, it will

be their responsibility to make sure that if fits their schedule and that they’re able

to stay for the duration of the course otherwise they risk forfeiting the grade.

Spring semester courses 2019-2020

You may check the syllabus here

https://liberal-arts.tau.ac.il/

https://liberal-arts.tau.ac.il/schedule_spring_20

https://liberal-arts.tau.ac.il/liberal-arts/curriculum_2019-20


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Core

Professor Course Number Day Time Location Start date

End date

Credits

Dr. Robin Shochat Bagon

Critical Theory 1662.1117.01

Tuesday 10.00-12.00

Gilman 317

08.03.20 26.06.20

4

Thursday

Prof. Michael Zakim

A Political History of the Economy

1662.1108.01 Tuesday 16.00-20.00

Gilman 456

08.03.20 04.06.20

3

Dr. Sonia Weiner

Academic Writing 1662.1102.02

Monday 10.00-12.00

Webb 105 08.03.20 26.06.20

4

Wednesday

Dr. Yoav Fromer

Modernity and its Discontents

1662.1111.01

Monday 16.00-18.00

Gilman 306

08.03.20 26.06.20

4

Thursday Gilman 220

Dr. Ido Yavetz

Planets, Stars and Cosmic Order in Western Culture

1662.1115.01 Wednesday 12.00-14.00

Gilman 279

08.03.20 26.06.20

4

Digital Culture and Commnucation


End date

Credit

Dr. Sharon Avital

Theories in Communication and New Media

1662.1503.01 Monday 12.00-16.00

Rosenberg 002

08.03.20 04.06.20

3

Dr. Ofer Nur Techno Utopia 1662.1501.01

Monday 18.00-20.00

Gilman 281

08.03.20 26.06.20

4

Wednesday

Dr. Inbar Kaminsky

The Crises of Visual Culture

1662.1507.01 Thursday 16.00-18.00

Gilman 362

08.03.20 26.06.20

2

Dr. Carmel Vaisman

Digital Religion 1662.3504.01

Sunday

14.00-16.00

Gilman 262

08.03.20 26.06.20

4

Tuesday


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Middle Eastern Studies


End date

Credit

Dr. Elisheva Machlis

Intro to Islam 1662.1202.01

Sunday 14.00-16.00

Gilman 306

08.03.20 26.06.20

4

Thursday Gilman 277

Dr. Hay Eitan Cohen Yanorocek

Modern Turkey from Atatürk to Erdoğan

1662.2227.01 Tuesday 10.00-12.00

Rosenberg 106

08.03.20 26.06.20

2

Dr. Itamar Radai

Palestinians Arabs under the Mandate

1662.2228.01 Sunday 16.00-18.00

Rosenberg 104

08.03.20 26.06.20

2

Prof. Miri Shefer Mossensohn

Health and the Natural Environment in the Middle East

1662.3205.01

Sunday 12.00-14.00

Gilman א317

08.03.20 26.06.20

4

Thursday Gilman א362

Modern Jewish and Israel Studies


End date

Credit

Dr. Netanel Kupfer

Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought

1662.1300.01 Wednesday 14.00-18.00

Rosenberg 002

08.03.20 26.06.20 4

Prof. Barbara Meyer

Jewish and Christian Feminist Thought

1662.1303.01 Monday 12.00-14.00

Gilman 317

08.03.20 26.06.20

2

Dr. Michal Mach

Jewish Philosophy in Greek Langauge

0616.2011.01 Monday 12.00-14.00

Rosenberg 206

08.03.20 26.06.20

2

Dr. Martin Wein

Peoples of the Book

1662.1305.01 Monday Wednesday

10.00-12.00

Gilman 261

08.03.20 26.06.20

4

Gilman א319

Philosophy


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End date

Credits

Dr. Itay Snir Introduction to Early Modern Philosophy

1662.1403.01 Sunday 16.00-20.00

Rosenberg 106

08.03.20 26.06.20

4

Dr. Rona Cohen

Contemporary Moral Problems

1662.3206.01

Monday 16.00-18.00

Rosenberg 002

08.03.20 26.06.20

4

Wednesday

Alma Itzhaky

Truth in Politics 1662.2428.01 Thursday 14.00-16.00

Gilman 278

08.03.20 26.06.20 2

Dr. Rachel Kantz Feder

Islamic Philosophy in the Modern Era

1662.2214.01 Monday 14.00-16.00

Gilman 280

08.03.20 26.06.20

2

Dr. Naftally Israeli

Language and Experience

1662.2429.01 Monday 12.00-14.00

Gilman 361

08.03.20 26.06.20

2

Psychology


End date

Credit

Dr. Lisa Armon

Psychopathology 1662.1601.01

Tuesday

12.00-14.00

Gilman 306

08.03.20 26.06.20

4

Thursday

Dr. Ori Rotlevy

Walter Benjamin: philosophy, media and cultural critique

1662.1506.01 Tuesday 16.00-18.00

Gilman 362

08.03.20 26.06.20

2

Dr. Deborah Deitcher

Personality Theories

1662.2609.01 Thursday 10.00-12.00

Gilman 306

08.03.20 26.06.20

2


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Dr. Alana Siegel

Dangerous Group Dynamics

1662.2431.01 Wednesday 10.00-12.00

Gilman 279

08.03.20 26.06.20

2

Dr. Rony Berger

Psychology and Political Conflict

1662.3600.01 Wednesday 12.00-16.00

Dan David 212

08.03.20 26.06.20

4

Literature


End date

Credit

Dr. Dara Barnat

Walt Whitman's World

1662.2220.01 Tuesday 12.00-14.00

Rosenberg 205

08.03.20 26.06.20

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https://www30.tau.ac.il/yedion/syllabus.asp?year=2019&course=1662222001

https://www30.tau.ac.il/yedion/syllabus.asp?year=2019&course=1662222001


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Beginning and end of semester 8.3.20-26.6.20

Link to Syllabus https://humanities.tau.ac.il/yedion/english/ma/courses

https://humanities.tau.ac.il/yedion/english/ma/courses


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Course Number

Course Name Lecturer (s) Day from to Room

# Location Credit

626127801 Introductionמבוא לתרבות אנגליה א'

to British Culture 1 Dr Jonathan

Stavsky Monday 10 12 1 Webb 4

Thursday 10 12 1 Webb

Narrative Analysisניתוח סיפורת 626120801Prof Elana

Gomel Sunday 12 14 1 Webb 4

Wednesday 12 14 1 Rosenber

g

626125001 Introduction toמבוא לתיאוריה

Theory Dr Nir Evron Sunday 14 16 1 Webb 4

Wednesday 14 16 1 Webb

626500501 Confessional Poetry Dr Roi

Tartakovsky Monday 10 12 277 Gilman 4

Thursday 10 12 277 Gilman

626500601 Death and Mourning in

Victorian Literature and Culture MS Annael

Jonas-Paneth Monday 12 14 278 Gilman 4

Thursday 12 14 280 Gilman

626500701 The American Novel Since 2000 Dr Spencer

Morison Wednesday 10 12 103 Webb 4

Sunday 10 12 103 Webb

626239201 Transnational Literature Dr Sonia Weiner

Tuesday 14 16 277 Gilman 2

626295501 Shakespeare's Narrative Poems Prof Shirley

Zisser Monday 14 16 105 Webb 4


626293201 Literature and Disability

Studies: Cognitive Disabilities Dr Dalit

Alperovich Tuesday 10 12 2

Rosenberg

2

626293301 Mourning in America: History

and Culture of the 1980s Dr Yoav Fromer

Sunday 14 16 2 Rosenber

g 2

626299801 Reimagining History in

Contemporary American Literature

Dr Sonia Weiner

Tuesday 12 14 277 Gilman 2

626426001 Hollywood and Politics Prof Steven

Ross Sunday 10 14 105 Webb 4

Wednesday 10 14 107 Rosenber

g

626426101 Why Trump? Prof David

Sheinin Tuesday 16 19 401 Webb 4



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Course

Number Course Name

Lecturer

(s)

Day

Hour

Locatio

n Credit Link to Syllabus

0680144601 Of Monsters and Men -

Traveling By Sea in the Middle

Ages

Dr. Ariel

Zinder

Monday

, 10-12

Gilman,

361

2 https://www30.tau.ac.il/yedion

/syllabuse.asp?course=0680144

601&year=2019

https://www30.tau.ac.il/yedion/syllabuse.asp?course=0680144601&year=2019




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Link to Syllabus

https://www30.tau.ac.il/InternetFiles/yedion/syllabus/06/2019/0631/0631247601_063124

syl.pdf_7601

Course

Number Course Name

Lecturer

(s)

Day

Hour Location Credit

Link to

Syllabus

Pre-

requisites

0631247601

Contemporary

Issues in

Arabic and

Islamic Studies

Mr.

Fabian

Spengler

Wed

10:00-

12:00

Rosenberg

105 2

See

above

none

https://www30.tau.ac.il/InternetFiles/yedion/syllabus/06/2019/0631/0631247601_0631247601_syl.pdf


http://www2.tau.ac.il/yedion/syllabus.asp?course=1231334002&year=2018



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Courses Website

https://en-law.tau.ac.il/TAU_Law_Exchange_Program/admission/?tab=1


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We calculate TAU credits as follows:

• 1 credit equals 13 academic hours. Each academic hour is composed of 45 minutes.

Accordingly, a one credit course will meet for 585 minutes.

• A two-credit course equals 26 academic hours, i.e.1170 minutes.

Further, TAU Law's drop/add policy is quite strict and we would like to emphasize our policy:

• Semester-long courses: Add/drop during the first two weeks ONLY.

• Quarter-long & condensed courses: Add/drop must be done before the third lesson

ONLY. (Class may meet twice/week, so the period is shorter).

Class attendance is mandatory. Students who miss more than three meetings of a

semester course, or more than five sessions of an annual course, or attended less than

75% of the meetings in condensed courses, will not be eligible to take the final exam.

Workshops and Seminars: class attendance is mandatory.

We would like to emphasize that several courses have certain prerequisites. (see course description).

Please make sure that you have the prerequisites needed otherwise you might not be able to attend the class.

Generally, classes conducted in English do not overlap, but in the rare case of a conflict, it will not be possible to take classes with conflicting meeting times.

You should be aware that most of the courses are intensive courses, running over a short period of time, and may contain two or three class meetings per week (Changing). This entails a heavy reading and work load during the duration of the course.

Please check « changing » courses schedule within the course description at the website (the website will be adequate in a little while)

TH - Take Home Exam;

RP - Reaction Papers;

FP - Final Paper;

IC - In Class examFinal Paper Due date : Second semester & yearly - 24.9.2020


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2019-20 Course List

Professor's

Name Course

Time of

Year Credits

Course Number

Schedule Room Exam Exam Date TBC

2nd Semester

2

Dr. Eliav Leiblich & Dr. Tamar Meggido

Workshop: International Law

semester 2

3 1411739601 Mon 16:15-17:45 RP

3

Prof. Hanoch Dagan & Prof. Avihay Dorfman

Workshop: Private Law Theory

semester 2

3 1411750501 Thu 16:15-17:45 RP

4

Prof. Avraham Tabbach & Dr. Shay N. Lavie

Workshop: Economic Analysis of Law

semester 2

3 1411750601 Wed 16:15-17:45 RP

5 Dr. Ido Baum Seminar Business Law: Transnational Perspectives

semester 2

3 1493102001 Mon 8:15 - 9:55 202 Paper+Presentation

3rd Quarter

1 Prof. Gregory Alexander

Property Theory quarter3 2 1411752750 Changing Schedule FP

2 Prof. Francesco Biagi

Comparative Constitutional Law

quarter 3

2 1411752850 Changing Schedule IC May 15, 2020

3 Prof. Laurent Manderieux

Intellectual Property as a Toolkit for Technology Transfer

quarter 3

2 1411753050 Changing Schedule TH May 14, 2020


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4 Prof. Jack Rakove

The American Approach to Religious Freedom: History and Law

quarter 3

2 1411753150 Changing Schedule FP

5 Prof. Patrick Macklem

Human Rights and their Critics

quarter 3


6 Prof. Yang Sun

Intellectual Property in a Digital Age

quarter 3

2 1411753250 Changing Schedule TH May 12, 2020

7 Prof. Amir Khoury

International Intellectual Property Law

quarter 3

2 1411656901 Mon

16:15-17:55

Thu 14:15-15:55

IC

May 10, 2020 @14:00

8 Dr. Rachel Friedman

The Welfare State:Philosophy, Politics and Law

quarter 3

2 1411744501 Sun 16:15-

17:55

Wed 16:15-17:55

TH May 20, 2020

9 Dr. Daphna Shraga

International Legal Perspectives on the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

quarter 3

2 1411707101 Mon

14:15-15:55

Thu 16:15-17:55

IC May 17, 2020

10 Adv. David Mirchin

Licensing of Intellectual Property

quarter 3

2 1493101101 Mon 8:15 - 11:55 304 TH May 11, 2020

11 Dr. David Schorr

History of English Law quarter 3

2 1411670001 Sun 14:15-

15:55

Wed 14:15-15:55

IC+Paper May 13, 2020

12 Prof. Suzanne Stone

The Role of Religion in War and Peacebuilding

quarter 3

2 1411751101 Mon

18:15-19:55

Wed 18:00-20:00

TH May 18, 2020


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4th Quarter

1

Prof. Lucie White and Prof. Jeremy Perelman

Development, Inequality and Human Rights

quarter 4

2 1411753450 Changing Schedule IC June 16, 2020

2 Prof. Jonathan Simon

Punishment and Modern Society: an Introduction

quarter 4


3 Prof. Orly Lobel

Corporate Innovation and Legal Policy

quarter 4

2 1411695250 Changing Schedule IC June 26, 2020

4 Prof. Eric Helland

Introduction to Empirical Legal Studies

quarter 4


5 Prof. Helena Alviar

Contemporary Critical Legal Thought: Perspectives from the Periphery

quarter 4


6 Prof. Kurt Siehr

Visual Arts and the Law quarter 4

2 1411558850 Changing Schedule IC

June 25, 2020 @9:00

7 Dr. Melanie Levy

Health and Human Rights

quarter 4

2 1411744401 Tue 14:15-

15:55

Thu 14:15-15:55

IC July 8, 2020

8 Prof. Gregg Bloche

The Mind and the Law quarter 4

2 1411753650 Changing Schedule TH June 17, 2020

9 Prof. Edward Rock, Dr. Kobi Kastiel

Reading Corporate Law Cases: Delaware and Israel

quarter 4

2 1411753950 Changing Schedule RP

TH - Take Home Exam; RP - Reaction Papers; FP - Final Paper; IC - In Class examFinal Paper Due date : Second semester & yearly - 24.9.2020


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Please enter the following link and indicate the course number (without dots), the press the

word סילבוס and only then you will be able to change into English on the top right.

https://www20.tau.ac.il/yedion/


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Spring Semester

Department Pre-requisites Credit Course No Course Name

Chemistry

2 0351.2212

Horizons in Chemistry

Chemistry Organic Chemistry 2 0351.2305

2 0351.3819

Carbohydrate Chemistry

Geophysics Introduction to Atmospheric Sciences 0341.1200 Introduction to Earth Sciences 0341.1201

3 0341.3018 Natural Hazards

Mathematics Linear Algebra 2a Calculus 2a

4 0366.2103 Ordinary Differential Equations 1


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Beginning and end of semester 8.3.20- 26.6.20

Course Number Course Name Lecturer

(s) Day Hour Location Credit Link to Syllabus

Pre-

requisites

1009.1103

Hope: Human Odyssey

to Political

Existentialism

Dr. Uriel

Abulof &

Michal

Rotem

Tuesday

From 4pm to

6pm

Naftali

Building

Ze'ev Staff

Hall 003

4

seme

ster

hours

https://www30.tau

.ac.il/InternetFiles/

yedion/syllabus/10

/2019/1009/10091

10301_100911030

1_syl.pdf

An interview

with the

Professor










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Course

Number Course Name

Lecturer

(s) Day Hour Location Credit

Link to

Syllabus

Pre-

requisites

1110-2121-01

Principles of Social

Psychology

Dr. Hisham

Abu Riya Wednesd

ay, 10-12

001,

Social

Work Bldg.

2.00

https://www30.

tau.ac.il/yedion/

syllabus.asp?co

urse=11102125

year=2019&01

Introduction

to

Psychology



https://www30.tau.ac.il/yedion/syllabus.asp?course=1110212501&year=2019






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Link to Syllabus

https://www30.tau.ac.il/yedion/syllabus.asp?course=0621338001

Semester /

Module

Course

Number Course Name

Lecturer

(s)

Day


Link to

Syllabus

Pre-

requisites

Semester b

\ seminar

0621338001

Nazism and

the City:

Space and

Ideology in

the “Third

”Reich

Dr.

Teresa

Walch

Sunday

16:00

–

20:00

Room no.

101

Dan

David

Building

4

hours

Advanced

course. For

advanced

BA students

with basic

knowledge

in history

and writing

papers in

history

https://www30.tau.ac.il/yedion/syllabus.asp?course=0621338001




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Link to Syllabus

Link to Syllabus


Course Number Course Name Lecturer (s) Day Hour Location Credit

0881-1217-01

History of Architecture II and III: From Early Christianity to the

Centuryth 17

Dr. Noam

Shoked

Tuesday

12:00-15:00

Mexico

Building room

206A

3

points





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Some courses (where it is indicated maybe weekly courses that will take place

one week in July).

Course Name Course Number Location Hours Credits

Global change ecology

455.3082

003 Sherman Wednesday 15-17 BA 3

Sensory Systems

455.309 006 Britania Monday 9-12 BA 4

Neuroethology

455.3064

003Sherman

Tuesday 13-14 ,Thursday 10-12 BA 3

https://lifesci-cms.tau.ac.il/yedion/2019-20/course04553082







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Course Name Course Number Location Hours Credits

Methods in Structural Biology

421.3804

632 Sherman Thursday 14:00-16:00 MA 3

Selected chapters in cancer biology

421.3811

005 Britania Monday 14-16 MA 2

Mechanisms of Enzymatic Catalysis

421.3814

632 Sherman Thursday 10-13 MA 3

Molecular Biology of Membranes

421.413

632 Sherman Monday 12-14 MA 2

From the DNA to the population 0453.3394

01 Green Thursday 14-17 MA 3

Advanced cell biology: Cellular responses to stress in health diseases

440.3125

222 Britania Wednesday 8-10 MA 2

Tools in bioinformatics

452.3123

009 Sherman Sunday 13-15 MA 2

Theories and tools for Spatial Biology

431.3128

105 Sherman Sunday 12-14 MA 3

Food Security Policy and Economics

466.4006

1 week, 5.5 hours / day The course will take place on July.The exact dates will be published MA 2

Introduction to Food Security

466.4003


Bioethics

466.4004

not published yet MA 2

Food Security and Nutrition

466.4007


Selected Topics in Plant Sciences

411.4614

Botanic Garden Tuesday 12-14 MA 2


























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Students should consider prerequisites for each course they chose.

Students that are taking courses from the B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering as part of an exchange route should track the following process & information. International school of engineering Website

Academic Calendar Please note that STEM courses are listed properly and separately. Please read this thoroughly, while considering the start date of semester and end of exams period.

The Process:

1) Be in touch with your perspective office (Exchange) & fill out the STEM registration form,

as per the needed steps.

2) Contact should be made directly with your perspective office and not with the EE

program office.

3) Once courses are confirmed, please follow the steps with your perspective office to

confirm your final registration to exchange or study abroad.

Upon arrival to campus, please follow the steps below:

1. Email the EE program office; Ronit & Jennifer, [email protected] /

[email protected] and schedule to meet to review all information about the

EE courses.

2. During the meeting, review course registration, student details, program calendar,

etc.

Things to remember:

1. Changes to schedules are implemented into the EE Google Calendar, which will be

provided to you during your meeting with the EE program office.

2. All students are allowed to take up to 2 exams: Moed A and Moed B. If a student is

not present during one of the exams, the final grade will be calculated throughout

https://international.tau.ac.il/engineering/

https://international.tau.ac.il/academic_calendar/%3Ftab%3D2?tab=2

mailto:[email protected]

mailto:[email protected]


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the other exam. If a student decides to take both exams, it is important to

remember that the final grade will be based on the second exam (Moed B).

Therefore: If a student passes first exam (Moed A) and fails the second (Moed B)

then the final grade for the course will remain the later one (failure). No other

chances exist to pass the course.

3. Classes schedule might change before and during the semester, extra classes specially. This will be communicated to the student via the Moodle system and/or the personal information site (of TAU).

4. Exams schedule can be changed at any moment and students will be made aware as early as possible via the student’s personal info site and/or the EE Google calendar. Students should make all efforts to be here for both sets of exams, just in case.

5. It is forbidden to be in touch with the teaching staff during/ after the exams period, and ask for a change of grade or another chance. These are university laws which can result in a judiciary hearing within the faculty and also failing the course. Only option to update the grade will be via the system appealing process, right after exams grades & notebooks are uploaded.

6. If a student decides to leave the course for any reason, please email your perspective office along with the EE program office and include your full name, student ID number and request, so we can remove you from the course. You can be removed from a course up to 3 weeks into the semester. If a student leaves without notice, he will receive a no-show grade (260) which is equal to a failure as far as we are concerned.

7. Once a student is on campus, they cannot ask to change requested courses/be registered for a course they didn’t originally sign up for and/or received its confirmation.

First year courses are being scheduled by the Israeli program, faculty of Engineering. These courses will not be part of the Google calendar, but information should be available via Moodle. Exams schedule is defined by the Israeli program, faculty of Engineering. These exams might

not be a part of the Google calendar, but information should be available via Moodle &

personal info site at TAU

Please read carefully the following notes before completing your selection:

1. Please send course selection by mail to the Exchange office by indicating at the “subject” section: Engineering course selection – full student name With every request please make sure to state:

The requested semester

Attach transcripts (updated ones)

Filled form in a Word document (do not scan or save as PDF). The form will be attached separately to the email sent to you regarding the course selection or can be asked for by mail

2. The student can send up to 2 forms.

mailto:Exchange%20TAU%20%[email protected]%3e

mailto:Exchange%20TAU%20%[email protected]%3e


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3. Requested courses are maximum of 4. -If a second request form is made: suggested courses (we suggest them in section B) should be added to requested courses, section C (assuming student is interested). -A suggested course is considered an approved course.

4. Section C of the form should be filled in by the student only after he/she is approved for the program, and he/she chose the courses out of the approved ones from section B of the form.

5. I do recommend that the student applies to courses within similar fields of study and year (for example 2nd year student should apply to 1st year & 2nd year courses). I recommend this action since the dean will possibly approve an advanced course to a 3rd year / 4th year student and not prior, due to prerequisites. this is also good for the student that might not be sure what are the course prerequisites.

6. Communication – student should communicate directly to the international office (Exchange programs, not EE office) up to the point they arrive to Israel to study in the program.

7. Names and numbers to the EE courses should be supplied to the student prior to filling in the form. a correct list for this upcoming Semester is just below. Please note the changes regarding Year 1.

YEAR 1 overall schedule, curriculum & content of courses- will be determined by the faculty

of Engineering, and are subject to change at any time. The EE English program does not

take the responsibility to any conflict caused by the possible changes, nor to the initial

published information.

We will have the courses schedule of year 1 only in September 2019, and also then, the

faculty might decide to make changes that are out of our hands.

Registration to Y1 courses will be made upon arrival of the student to campus, and

agreement to the terms.

*please note the courses will be taught in English, but they do not include only English

speakers, as they are open to Israeli students as well.

Years 2 to 4 are being planned by us, and will also be updated from time to time, as per the

faculty limitations. Students must be aware of that, before they are asking to be part of the

exchange program. Final schedule will be published after Year 1 schedule is complete (as

some students from years 2+3 are re-taking courses).

Registration to Y2-4 courses will be made upon arrival of the student to campus.

The list includes the Prerequisites courses, to which students can find online syllabus/

description at: https://international.tau.ac.il/engineering/?id=term-0

Students should consider prerequisites for each course they chose to apply.

https://international.tau.ac.il/engineering/?id=term-0


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Course# Course Name Prerequisite #

Prerequisite name Sem. Year Credits

512.1821 Programming 2 – C Language

509.182 Programming-Python (Python)

2 1 3

509.1829 Physics 2A 509.1118 Classical Mechanics for Electrical Engineering

2 1

5

509.1745 Ordinary Differential Equations

0509.1724 + 1746

Linear Algebra + Calculus 1B

2 1

3.5

509.1747 Calculus 2B 509.1746 Calculus 1B 2 1 5

512.3561 Digital Logic Systems (DLS)

509.1724 Linear Algebra 2 1 3.5

595.2508 Electronic Devices

595.283 Quantum and Solid state Physics

4 2 5

595.251 Data Structures and Algorithms

0512.1821 + 3561

Programming 2 – C Language + Digital Logic Systems

4 2

3.5

595.2525 Electromagnetic Fields

0509.1829 + 0595.2843 + 2846

Physics 2A + Harmonic Analysis + Partial Differential Equations

4 2

4

595.2801 Introduction to Probability and Statistics

509.1747 Calculus 2B 4 2

4

595.2835 Signals and Systems

0595.2832 + 2508

Matlab solution of engineering programs + Electronic Devices

4 2

4

595.2846 Partial Differential Equations

0509.1745 + 0595.2843 + 2844

Ordinary Differential Equations + Harmonic Analysis + Complex Functions

4 2

3


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Course

Number Course Name

Lecturer

(s)

Day


Pre-requisites

1011.3191.01

Introduction to

Financial

Economics

Prof. Bergman, Nittai

Sunday

0900-

1200

Location:

Berglas,

Room No.

010

3

Prerequisites: Intermediate Micro – A,

Intermediate Micro - B

Introduction to Financial Economics, 1011-3191-01

Prof. Nittai Bergman

Prerequisites: Intermediate Microeconomics (A) and Intermediate Microeconomics

(B)

This course will provide an introduction to modern financial economics, covering

fundamental topics in corporate finance and asset pricing. Among the topics to be

discussed are state-contingent prices; NPV; No Arbitrage; the CAPM; the term

structure of interest rates; the pricing of bonds, stocks, futures, and options; the

Modigliani and Miller Theorem, the Tradeoff Theory of Capital Structure, asymmetric

information in financing decisions, capital budgeting, and corporate governance.

The course final grade will be comprised of the final exam grade (80%) and

homework assignments (20%).

The course will not follow a single textbook, but two useful ones are:



https://econ.tau.ac.il/undergrad/schedule/sm_b




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Principles of Corporate Finance, by Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers, and Franklin

Allen, McGraw-Hill Irwin

Corporate Finance, by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo, Pearson

A tentative class schedule, subject to change, is as follows:

# Topic

1 Intro, Time Value of Money, and NPV

2 State Prices; Interest Rates; Bond, Equity, and Derivative Valuation

3 Loans and Annuities, Term Structure

4 Capital Budgeting (including Diamond Case)

5 Risk and diversification

6 Optimal portfolios and the cost of capital

7 Market pricing of risk and the CAPM

8 Financial Options

9 Financing investments 1: Frictionless markets and taxes

10 Financing investments 2: Costs of Financial Distress

11 Asymmetric Information

12 Valuation

13 Valuation (continued) and Case: Dixon

14 Corporate Governance and Review


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Website https://en-econ.tau.ac.il/graduate/en-courses

Semester /

Module Course Number Course Name Lecturer (s) Day Hour Location Credit

Link to

Syllabus

Pre-requisites

spring

1011.4390 .0

1

Economic

Theory in the

Age of

Behavioral

Economics

Prof. Spiegler,

Ran

. Dates:

Sundays

16:00-19:00

Location:

Berglas,

Room No.

101

3

Sylabus

are in

hebrew

but you

can

check

the

reding

material

s in

English

ebsiteW

Prerequisites :

Micro Economic

Theory

Parallel requisite:

Game Theory and

Economics of

Information I

spring

1011. 4700 .0

1

Mechanism

Design

Prof zvika

neeman

Dates:

Wednesdays

9:00-12:00

Location:

Berglas,

Room No.

011

3

Website

Prerequisites :

Micro Economic

Theory

Parallel requisite

:Game Theory and

Economics of

Information I

spring

1011. 4163 .0

1

Empirical Law

and Economics

Prof Alma

Cohen

Dates:

Sundays

14:00-16:00

Location:

Berglas,

Room No.

011

2

Website

Prerequisites :

Econometrics I

https://en-econ.tau.ac.il/graduate/en-courses



https://www30.tau.ac.il/InternetFiles/yedion/syllabus/10/2018/1011/1011439001_%D7%AA%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%94%20%D7%9B%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%AA%20%D7%91%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%93%D7%9F%20%D7%9B%D7%9C%D7%9B%D7%9C%D7%94%20%D7%94%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%94%D7%92%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%99%D7%AA_%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%99%20%D7%A9%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%A8_syl.pdf

https://www30.tau.ac.il/InternetFiles/yedion/syllabus/10/2019/1011/1011470001_%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%90%D7%A8%20%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%99_%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%95%D7%91%20%D7%9E%D7%9B%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%96%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9D_%D7%A6%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A7%D7%94%20%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%9F_syl.pdf

https://www30.tau.ac.il/InternetFiles/yedion/syllabus/10/2017/1011/1011416301_%D7%A1%D7%95%D7%92%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA%20%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA_%D7%90%D7%9C%D7%9E%D7%94%20%D7%9B%D7%94%D7%9F_syl.pdf


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Every year, several guest lecturers present highly concentrated mini-courses. The

subjects and lectures vary from year to year.

Course Number Course Name Lecturer (s) Day Hour Location Credit Link to

Syllabus

Pre-requisites

Trade

and

Foreign

Direct

Investme

nt

Prof . Elhanan

Helpman

Dates:

MON.'11/5/20 ,

19-16 .

MON. 18/5/20 ,

19-16.

WED . 13/5/20 ,

19-16.

WED 20/5/20 ,-16

19.

Berglas

Roon No. -

101

1 TBA

Micro Economic

Theory+

Econometrics I

1011.4603.01

Recent

Advances in

Empirical Labor

Economics

Prof.

Konstantinos

Meghir

Mon. 8 June 2020

, a 150 min.

meeting starting

at 16:00

Tue. 9 June 2020

, a 150 min.

starting at 16:00

Wed. 10 June

2020 , a 150 min.

meeting at 16:00

Thu. 11 June 2020

, a 90 min.

meeting at 08:30

Berglas

Roon No. 101

1 TBA

Econometrics I




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:Course Description

1011.4390.01 – Economic Theory in the Age of Behavioral Economics- Prof. Spiegler,

Ran:

In recent decades, idea from cognitive and social psychology have had growing impact on

economics, mainly through the behavioral-economics movement. In this course we examine

new developments in economic theory that reflect this overall trend.

Specifically, we will review:

1. Models of competitive or monopolistic markets in which consumer behavior departs from the rational-choice model (time-inconsistent or context-specific preferences, difficulties to decipher complex pricing)

2. Developments in choice theory (with an emphasis on eliciting psychological phenomena like temptation, limited attention or hidden mental states from observed choice behavior).

3. Developments in game theory (solution concepts that capture "non-rational expectations and their implications for industrial organization, monetary theory or political economics)

1011.4700.01 – Mechanism Design - Prof zvika neeman :

The course provides an introduction to the theory of mechanism and information design.

Topics covered include implementation, VCG mechanisms, optimal auctions, and Bayesian

persuasion.

1011.4163.01 – Empirical Law and Economics - Prof Alma Cohen : Will be published


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1011.4694.01- Trade and Foreign Direct Investment- Prof . Elhanan Helpman:

After reviewing traditional approaches to foreign trade, the course will focus on recent

developments. These include firm-level analysis of trade flows, the role of labor market

frictions in the transmission of trade shocks, the impact of trade on inequality, and the role

of globalization in growth and inequality:

1011.4603.01- Recent Advances in Empirical Labor Economics- Prof. Konstantinos Meghir :

Understanding the process of human capital development and the way that interventions

can affect outcomes is central to designing policies that can improve equal opportunity,

reduce inequality and prevent the intergenerational transmission of poverty. To study this

problem we the economist needs a large toolkit: we need to understand the nature of the

human capital production function, how parents make decisions on child investments and

what they know and understand about the child production function and finally how

interventions can affect outcomes. This short course will consist of three parts. First, we will

consider the design of experiments and experimental evidence on child development.

Second, we will consider the estimation of Human capital production functions and we will

discuss some empirical results in this direction; Finally, we will discuss dynamic economic

models of parental investments and child outcomes


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Spring Semester - March 8 2020-July 17 2020 (including exam period)


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Requirements:

MA students with an average of 83 and above

Third year BA students with an average grade BA of 83 and above

Sufficient English level

A description of the reason for wanting to join the course

In order to apply for courses in this department, please complete this form The request will be forwarded to the Professor for approval

Schedule is subject to change *

Link to all Syllabi for 2019-2020 academic year

Semester

/ Module

Course

Number Course Name Lecturer (s) Day Hour

Loca

tion Credit Pre-requisites

spring 0920.6360.01 Environmental Aspects of

Bioengineering

Dr. Alex

Golberg Wed

12:15-

13:45 106 2

spring 0920.6130.01 Environmental economics Dr. Zvi Baum Mon 12:15-

13:45 106 2

spring 0920.6300.01

Marine systems of the

Mediterranean Region:

Environmental challenges

Prof. Yehuda

(Hudi)

Benayahu and

Dr. Omer Polak

Thu

13:15-

14:45

(Hudi),

13:15-

16:30

(Omer)

105 2

Ecology course

(was offered in

the first

semester)

spring 0920.6475.01 Seminar - Climate Change Prof. Colin

Price Wed

9:15-

11:45 106 3

spring 0920.6421.01

Policy and political aspects

of transboundary water

resources management in

Israel and the Middle East

Dr. Clive

Lipchin Thu

9:00-

10:30 105 2

spring 0920.6326.01 Waste Management Dr. Vered Blass We

d

14:15-

15:45 106 2

spring 0920.6325.01 Environmental Law Dr. Tamara

Lotner Lev Thu

11:15-

12:45 105 2

https://tlimor.wufoo.com/forms/m895bb804af9p1/

https://en-environment.tau.ac.il/International/courses?free=&op=Search&form_build_id=form-1da5DHr-LUIAGTMSIdkgUuFvmZ3NVsuzuehQIoPeTio&form_id=feature_index_search_form


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Semester dates are March 8 - June 14 2020

Course description will be available at a later stage

Nationalism and Ethnic Conflicts - limited

spots available

Dr. Evgeni

Klauber

March 9th -

June 18th

2020

Monday

9:00am -

11:30am

3 (seminar)

Israeli Politics and Society

Dr. Udi

Sommer

March 9th -

June 18th

2020

Monday

12:00pm -

2:30pm

3 (seminar)

Leadership and Conflict - limited spots

available

Dr. Nimrod

Rosler

March 9th -

June 18th

2020

Thursday

2:00pm -

4:30pm

3 (seminar)

Judicial Decision Making - limited spots

available

Prof. Udi

Sommer

March 9th -

June 18th

2020

Monday

2:45pm -

4:15pm

2

Advanced Sociopsychology - limited spots

available. Previous course in Psychology

needed.

Dr. Dennis

Kahn

March 9th -

June 18th

2020

Tuesday

11:00am -

12:30pm 2


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Bad Democracies Vs. Good Dictatorships?

Migration, Populism, Corruption, and

Gender Politics in Contemporary Societies

- limited spots available Dr. Ina Kubbe

March 9th -

June 18th

2020

Wednesday

9:00am -

10:30am 2

Humanitarian Aid Dr. Beaudoin

March 9th -

June 18th

2020

Wednesday

2:00pm -

3:30pm 2

Democracy in Ethnically Divided Societies

Dr. Steven

Klein

March 9th -

June 18th

2020

Wednesday

4:00pm -

5:30pm 2

Dangerous Group Dynamics

Dr. Alana

Siegel

March 9th -

June 18th

2020

Wednesday

6:00pm -

7:30pm 2

Game Theory

Dr. Maya

Diamant

March 9th -

June 18th

2020

Thursday

9:00am -

10:30am 2

Palestinian Politics - limited spots available.

Previous course in M.E. Studies required

Adv. Mostafa

Elostaz

March 9th -

June 18th

2020

Thursday

5:00pm -

6:30pm 2


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Course

Number Course Name

Lectur

er (s) Day Hour Location Credit Link to Syllabus

1071-4748

Decision-Making:

Theories,Models and

Cognitive Processes

Prf.

Marius

Usher

Monday

16:00-18:00

Naftali

206

2

https://moodle.tau.ac.il/pluginfile.php

mod_resource/content/3/DM/197808/

syllabus.pdf_17

https://moodle.tau.ac.il/pluginfile.php/197808/mod_resource/content/3/DM17_syllabus.pdf




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th26 June -th8 March semester of end and Beginning

Course

Number

Course

Name (s) Lecturer

Day


requisites-Pre

07590951

Immigration

and

Minorities:

Linguistic,

Psychological

and

Educational

Aspects

Dr. Michal

Tannenbaum Monday 4:45-2:15

David Dan 104 3

07599834

Language

Policy:

English in the

Global

World

Elana Prof. Shohamy

Wednesday 5:00-2:30

David Dan 104 3

07590964

Teaching

EFL to

Learners with

Learning

Disabilities

and ADHD

Rita Dr.Kulick-Zeltsman

Wednesday11:00-8:30

Davd Dan104

3

English proficiency and English teaching

experience / training or be in a program for a teaching certificate /

linguistics or psychology




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Spring Semester: 08.03.19-26.06.19

Course

Number Course Name

Lecturer

(s)

Day

Hour Location Credit Link to Syllabus

1671-4046

The archaeology

and history of the

land of Israel

throughout the

periods: Late

Persian and

Hellenistic Periods

Dr. Meir

Edrey

Tuesday

12:00-

14:00

Gilman

room 304 2

-https://en

-humanities.tau.ac.il/MA.Arch.Curriculum2019

20



https://en-humanities.tau.ac.il/MA.Arch.Curriculum2019-20




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Beginning and end of semester__8.3.2020 - 26.6.2020

Link to Syllabus

Link to Syllabus (if there is one link for all courses)


Seme

ster /

Mod

ule

Course

Numbe

r

Cours

e

Name

Lect

urer

(s)

Da

y

Ho

ur

Loca

tion

Cre

dit Link to Syllabus

B

2019

1082.4

178.01

Sustain

ability

and

Public

Policy

Prof.

Alon

Tal

Tue

16:

00-

19:

00

Naftali

106 3

https://www30.tau.ac.il/yedion/syllabus.asp?

course=1082417801&year=2019







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Beginning and end of semester March 2nd till June 18th

Semester /

Module

Course

Number Course Name Lecturer (s) Day Hour Location Credit

Spring

semester 1034-

4027

Religion and politics in the

modern age: Israel in

comparative perspective

Prof. Yoav Peled

Monday

13:15-15:45 Room 107 3

Spring

semester 1034-

4014

Politics and Media: Political

Theories and the Institutions

through Cinematic Eyes

Dr. Yael Shomer

Thursday

12:30-15:00 Room 107

3

Spring

semester 1034-

4012

Populist Leadership in

Fascist, Marxist and

Democratic Regimes

Seminar

Dr. Alberto

Spektorowski

Thursday

16:15-18:45 Room 421

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Course Description:

Some course descriptions will be published at a later stage

Religion and Politics in the Modern Age:

Israel in Comparative Perspective

Prof. Yoav Peled

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature,

the heart of a heartless world, the soul of soulless

existence. It is the opium of the people.

Karl Marx

De-secularization of the public sphere is a well-known and widely commented upon

phenomenon in much of the world. According to José Casanova, in the 1980s "religion,

leaving its assigned place in the private sphere, had thrust itself into the public arena of

moral and political contestation." Students of de-secularization have explained the

resurgence of public religion largely in terms of the failure of secular ideologies, such as

nationalism, liberalism, socialism, etc., to provide normative and emotive foundations for

collective action and the failure of scientific approaches such as rationalism, positivism,

methodological individualism, etc., to provide a meaningful understanding of reality.

Some have even questioned the validity of the concept of secularization itself and/or its

presumed close ties with modernity and the Enlightenment.

In this course we will examine critically the “secularization thesis,” which viewed

secularity as an inevitable result of modernization, and will analyze religionization

processes in different parts of the world, focusing on Israel.

Requirements:

1. Active participation in class discussions (20%)

2. Written Assignments:


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Option 1: Take-home midterm (30%) – April 2 – April 20

Take-home final (50%) – June 15 – June 25

Option 2: Term paper (80%) – due with seminar papers

Paper proposal to be turned in at the time of the midterm – April 20

Option 3: Oral presentation of one of the class topics (30%)

Take-home final (50%)

Readings:

The course will be based on close reading of texts. Students are expected to complete all

readings assigned and be prepared to discuss them in class.

Required Readings:

1. Introduction: What is religion?

Talal Asad, “Thinking About Religious Belief and Politics,” in Cambridge

Companion to Religious Studies, ed. Robert Orsi (2011), 36-57.

Talal Asad, “The Construction of Religion as an Anthropological Category,” in Talal

Asad, Genealogies of Religion. Discipline and Reason of Power in Christianity and

Islam, The Hopknis University Press (1993), pp. 27 – 55.

Steve Bruce, “Defining religion: a practical response,” International Review of

Sociology, 21:1 (2011), 107-120.

2. What is Secularity?

Ayşe Polat, “A Comparison of Charles Taylor and Talal Asad on the Issue of

Secularity,” The Journal of Humanity and Society, 2:4 (2012), 217-230.

Charles S. Liebman, “Secular Judaism and Its Prospects,” Israel Affairs, 4:3-4 (1998),

29-48.


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3. The “Secularization Thesis” and Its Critics

José Casanova, “Rethinking Secularization: A Global Comparative Perspective,” The

Hedgehog Review, Spring and Summer 2006, 7-24.

Anthony Gill, “Religion and Comparative Politics,” Annual Review of Political Science, 4

(2001), 117–138.

4. Post-Secularism

Philip S. Gorski, David Kyuman Kim, John Torpey, and Jonathan VanAntwerpen, “The

Post-Secular in Question,” in Religion in Contemporary Society, ed. by the authors, NYU

Press (2012), 1-22.

Bryan S. Turner, “Post-Secular Society: Consumerism and the Democratization of

Religion,” Ibid., 135-158.

5. Religion and Nationalism

Rogers Brubaker, “Religion and nationalism: four approaches,” Nations and

Nationalism, 18:1 (2012), 2-20.

Roger Friedland, “The Institutional Logic of Religious Nationalism: Sex, Violence

and the Ends of History,” Politics, Religion & Ideology, 12:1 (2011), 65–88.

6. State and Religion

N. J. Demerath III, “Religion and the State; Violence and Human Rights,” in The Sage

Handbook of the Sociology or Religion, eds. James A. Beckford and N. J. Demerath III,

Sage (2007), 381-395.

Jonathan Fox and Shmuel Sandler, “Separation of Religion and State in the Twenty-

First Century: Comparing the Middle East and Western Democracies,” Comparative

Politics, 37:3 (2005), 317-335.

7. Religion and Democracy

Jeffrey Haynes, “Religion and democratizations: an introduction,” Democratization, 16:6

(2009), 1041-1057.

Amal Jamal, “Democratizing state-religion relations: a comparative study of Turkey,

Egypt and Israel,” Democratization, 16:6 (2009), 1143-1171.


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8. Religion and Feminism

Fang - Long Shih, “Women, Religions, and Feminisms,” in The New Blackwell

Companion to the Sociology of Religion, ed. Bryan S. Turner, Wiley-Blackwell

(2010), 221-243.

Gila Stopler, “’A Rank Usurpation Of Power’–The Role Of Patriarchal Religion and

Culture in the Subordination of Women,” Duke Journal Of Gender Law & Policy, 15

(2008), 365-397.

Hagar Lahav, “Post-Secular Jewish Feminist Theology? The view from Israel,”

Journal of Modern Jewish Studies, 14:3 (2015), 355-372.

9. Religion in Israel's Public Life

Yoav Peled and Horit Herman Peled, “Introduction,” in The Religionization of Israeli

Society, London: Routledge, 2019 (henceforth Religionization).

Paul Scham, “‘A Nation that Dwells Alone’: Israeli Religious Nationalism in the 21st

Century,” Israel Studies, 23:3 (2018), 207-215.

10. Israeli Judaism

Stephen Sharot, “Judaism in Israel: Public Religion, Neo-Traditionalism,

Messianism, and Ethno-Religious Conflict,” in The Sage Handbook of the Sociology or

Religion, eds. James A. Beckford and N. J. Demerath III, Sage (2007), 670-695.

Ezra Kopelowitz, “Religious Politics and Israel's Ethnic Democracy,” Israel Studies , 6:3

(2001), 166-190.

11. Jewish Israeli Secularism

Uri Ram, “Why Secularism Fails? Secular Nationalism and Religious Revivalism in

Israel,” International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 21 (2008), 57–73.

Denis Charbit, “Israel’s Self-Restrained Secularism from the 1947 Status Quo Letter

to the Present,” in Secularism on the Edge: Rethinking Church–State Relations in

the United States, France, and Israel, eds. Jacques Berlinerblau, Sarah Fainberg, and

Aurora Nou, Palgrave Macmillan (2014), 157-172.

12. Religionization among Moslem Israelis

Suheir Abu Oksa Daoud, “Islamism, Nationalism and Modernization: The Case of the

Islamic Movement in Israel,” Politics, Religion & Ideology, 17:1 (2016), 18-32.

13. Summary and Review


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Semester B

1. 10364028 - Theories of Identity in the Context of Migration 3 Credits

Dr. Anna Prashizky

Monday 14-17

Naftali Building, room 105

Final assignment : Paper due on 26.7.2020

2. 10364020 - European Politics and Migration 3 Credits

Dr. Ina Kube

Monday 17-20

Naftali Building, room 106

Final assignment: Paper due on 26.7.2020






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Course Number

Course Name Lecturer Info

Credits

1654.4038 The Shia Prof. Menahem Merhavi

Will be added at a later stage 4

Arab Israeli conflict

Prof. Meir Litvak

Will be added at a later stage 4

1654.4040 Dr. Umit Kurt

Violence and Extremism in History 4


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