TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL STUDY ABROAD SPRING SEMESTER 2018 MAIN OFFICE UNITED STATES CANADA The Carter Building , Room 108 Office of Academic Affairs Lawrence Plaza Ramat Aviv, 6997801, Israel 39 Broadway, Suite 1510 3130 Bathurst Street, Suite 214 Phone: +972-3-6408118 New York, NY 10006 Toronto, Ontario M6A 2A1 Fax: +972-3-6409582 Phone: +1-212-742-9030 [email protected] [email protected] Fax: +1-212-742-9031 [email protected] 1 Table of Content TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL study ABROAD SPRING SEMESTER 2018 .................................................... 1 MAIN OFFICE .......................................................................................................................................................... 1 UNITED STATES ....................................................................................................................................................... 1 CANADA ................................................................................................................................................................. 1 Calendar ............................................................................................................................................................ 5 Important Dates ................................................................................................................................................ 6 Academic Calendar ............................................................................................................................................ 6 ACADEMICS ........................................................................................................................................................... 8 Accreditation ..................................................................................................................................................... 9 Academic Requirements ................................................................................................................................... 9 Credit & Course Load..................................................................................................................................... 9 Instructions for registration to courses ....................................................................................................... 10 Hebrew ........................................................................................................................................................ 10 Regular Courses at TAU ............................................................................................................................... 10 Withdrawal from courses ............................................................................................................................ 11 Pass / Fail grading option ............................................................................................................................ 11 Incomplete Courses ..................................................................................................................................... 12 Grading System ........................................................................................................................................... 12 Code of Honor and Academic Integrity ....................................................................................................... 13 Right to Appeal ............................................................................................................................................ 14 Special Accommodations ............................................................................................................................ 14 Hebrew Studies Regulations ....................................................................................................................... 15 Grades ......................................................................................................................................................... 15 Moodle ........................................................................................................................................................ 16 TAU Writing Center - Division of Foreign Languages .................................................................................. 17 Bibliographical Services in the tau Libraries ................................................................................................ 17 Transcript Request Instructions ...................................................................................................................... 19 COURSES .............................................................................................................................................................. 20 Study Abroad Courses ..................................................................................................................................... 21 Entrepreneurship Courses ............................................................................................................................... 24 2 Courses in Liberal Arts ..................................................................................................................................... 25 IMPORTANT NOTES ..................................................................................................................................... 27 DESCRIPTIONS AND SYLLABI ............................................................................................................................... 29 Study Abroad Courses ..................................................................................................................................... 30 The Jewish World in the Modern Era - Professor Robert Rockaway .......................................................... 30 A History of Antisemitism - Dr. Katherine Aron-Beller ................................................................................ 34 Contemporary Jewish Issues - Dr. Moshe Gresser ...................................................................................... 40 “After Auschwitz”: Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Culture - Dr. Rachel E. Perry ..................... 47 A History Of Modern Israel: Challenges And Realities - Paul Liptz .............................................................. 54 Israeli Politics - Dr. Evgeni Klauber .............................................................................................................. 64 One Hundred Years: History and Memory in Tel Aviv–Jaffa - Martin J. Wein, Ph.D. .................................. 81 An Introduction to the History of the Middle East in the Modern Period .................................................. 91 The Struggle for Palestine: The Roots of the Arab-Israeli Conflict .............................................................. 96 Writing the Experience of Tel Aviv - Dr. Dara Barnat ................................................................................ 103 Israeli Cinema and the Culture of Modern Israel - Dr. Shmulik Duvdevani .............................................. 111 Israel and the Environment - Dr. Stuart Fleischer ..................................................................................... 115 Business Ethics - Sarit Smila-Sened ........................................................................................................... 120 The Israeli Economy - Dr. Paul Rivlin ......................................................................................................... 125 Nuclear Nonproliferation and Security in the 21st Century - Dr. Azriel Bermant ................................... 129 Global Ethics - Dr. Sarit Smila-Sened ......................................................................................................... 134 Public Diplomacy and the Media in a Changing World - Dr. Michal Hatuel-Radoshitzky ......................... 138 Introduction to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) - Michael Guggenheimer .............................................. 144 Entrepreneurship Courses ............................................................................................................................. 146 Entrepreneurship From A to Z - Ms. Maayan Knafo ................................................................................. 146 Innovation Theory and Practice - Dr. Eyal Benjamin ................................................................................. 154 Project Team Management -Dr. Vered Holzmann .................................................................................... 160 BA In Liberal Arts Courses ............................................................................................................................. 167 Living With Algorithms: A Design For Life - Dr. Romi Mikulinsky .............................................................. 167 Philosophy of Science - Dr. Boaz Miller ..................................................................................................... 174 Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought - Mr. Nethanel Kupfer .............................................................. 178 Israel – Society, History, and Politics - Prof. Eyal Naveh ........................................................................... 180 Psychology as a Science - Dr. Dafna Palti .................................................................................................. 182 Introduction to Early