Faculty of Education

Hebrew

The Hebraic and Jewish Studies program offered by the Faculty of Arts includes subjects concerned with the languages, literatures, religions, history and society of the Middle East. Hebrew (incorporating both classical and modern elements) is available for students with prior experience and for those wishing to begin language study at the University.

The language stream or level in which you enrol will be determined by the department. Placement will be based on your VCE results, other language study record or a placement test. However, your enrolment will remain provisional until either confirmed or, alternatively, altered to another stream or level in the light of experience gained in the first weeks of teaching. As far as possible, changes will be notified in the first two weeks of the semester.

First Year: The Beginners Hebrew course assumes no knowledge of the language and commences with the teaching of the alphabet and simple conversation, leading on to reading of texts and writing prose by the fourth or fifth week of semester. The Intermediate course is designed for students who have completed year 12 VCE or its equivalent and approaches the language at an advanced level with 50% of the course consisting of language, conversation and syntax and 50% of a study of literary texts in Hebrew of modern and contemporary authors and poets that are studied as a tool for expanding the student's knowledge of the language in its contemporary milieu and style. In addition the texts are considered critically in class from a literary point of view, introducing critical material in both Hebrew and English.

For subject details Hebrew in the Faculty of Arts.

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