150-447 Advanced Hebrew A

Note

Available as 150-347 at 3rd-year level.

Availability

Credit Points

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Two of Intermediate Hebrew A, B, C, D, or permission of Subject Coordinator.

Contact

Subject Description

Advanced modern literary texts including the study of contemporary Hebrew writers in prose and poetry, modern conversational idiom and newspaper and academic articles. Students on completion of the subject should have acquired a knowledge of advanced literary texts in Hebrew. Students' reading skills and understanding of advanced scientific and academic articles and essays are further developed to enrich their knowledge of the modern idiom written and spoken in Israel today.

Assessment

150-347: Regular exercises, essays and class tests (50%) and a 2-hour examination (50%). 150-447: Written work, tests and examinations totalling no more than 6000 words.

Prescribed Texts

Other texts will be issued by the Department.

• Agnon S Y, Sippur Pashut. Booklets for Schools: Booklet 7 Schocken.
• Yehoshua A B, Two Stories: Gesher LeMishtalmim. Booklets 2 and 4 WZO.
• Muraoka T, Modern Hebrew for Biblical Scholars. Sheffield.
• Agnon S Y, Ha'Rofe u'Grushato Sippurim. Schocken.