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FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY PROGRAM IN THE HUMANITIES
B. A. I N LI BERAL ARTS

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Registration Instructions
For First Year Students, the 2014-2015 Academic Year

We look forward to welcoming you to Tel Aviv University as part of the third class of the
International BA in Liberal Arts. After reviewing the files of hundreds of potential students, our
Admissions Committee selected the top candidates, resulting in an incoming cohort of
approximately 50 students. If you are not already part of the Facebook group of accepted
students, you are invited to join the community by asking to join this group:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/470663639743928/


Following a one-day orientation on October 19, our classes begin on Monday, October
20. Although that might seem like a long way off, we would like you to begin thinking about
which courses youd like to take during your first academic year with us. The following
instructions are intended to guide your course selections with an eye to completing all program
requirements on a timely basis.

By now, you should have decided which four academic tracks you plan to complete as
part of your degree. Place a checkmark beside the four tracks you have chosen below:

Middle Eastern Studies
English Literature*
Philosophy
Digital Culture and Communications
Modern Israel and Jewish Studies
Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Culture

* Courses in this track are offered by the Department of English and American Studies, which
follows Tel Aviv University's non-international academic calendar. Thus, the English Literature
semesters are slightly longer than that of the other tracks. In addition, students should be aware
that English Literature exams will be held two to three weeks after the conclusion of the
semester. As such, semester breaks for students in these courses will be shorter; however, you
should still be able to find time to travel abroad if you wish.







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Next, please bear in mind that, in addition to these four tracks, all students are required to
complete a General Studies Module. This module comprises the following obligatory
courses:

1662.1100 Literary Foundations of Western Culture
1662.1103 Philosophy of Science
1662.1102 Academic Writing
1662.1110 Israel Society, History and Politics
1662.1109 On Being Human Philosophical Perspectives
1662.1108 A Political History of the Economy
1662.1111 Modernity and its Discontent

All students except those who have been exempted from these courses through transfer
credits should include all the above courses when building their 2014-2015 schedules. (Please
note that Academic Writing is offered both in the fall and spring semesters. You should register
for only one semester of this course.)

Once you have plugged the required General Studies courses into your schedule, you should
choose a total of six additional courses from the Academic Tracks you marked above. Ideally,
you should take two courses each in your Major and Minor Tracks, and one course each in your
two Basic Tracks. If you havent yet picked a Major or Minor, no problem you have until the
spring of 2015 to do so. In the meantime, you can simply choose any six academic courses from
among the four Tracks youve selected above. Please make sure, though, that the courses you
choose are open to first-year students. These are the ones that are listed down below.

To help avoid overlapping courses, you can use the blank timetables that appear below. If a
scheduling conflict seems unavoidable, dont despair. The first-year courses will also be offered
in the 2015-2016 academic year, so youll eventually be able to fit in all the courses that you want
to take. For now, your focus should simply be on completing all the General Studies courses,
plus six courses drawn from your Academic Tracks (ideally, with an emphasis on the tracks in
which you intend to major and minor).

All Liberal Arts students are required to reach an exemption level in a language other than
English by the time they graduate (language courses are not counted for credit). It's possible you
already have an exemption based on your diploma or placement exam. If you took the
placement test but didn't reach an exemption you can enroll to a language course in the level you
were placed in. Language placement exams will also take place on October 23
rd
. You can take
this test to determine which course to register to or retake it to try to reach an exemption. If you
have no prior knowledge in any other language than English you can enroll to a basic level in a
language of your choice. The schedule for the foreign languages courses will be published closer
to the beginning of the semester. If you wish to take Hebrew as your language of exemption then
the placement/exemption test will take place on the 20
th
of October. If you want to take the
language test at the beginning of the upcoming semester, please sign up through Sarah:
sarahbo@post.tau.ac.il.

Please note that Hebrew language courses, offered from 8:30 to 10:00 AM on Monday
through Thursday, incur extra fees, do not carry credit, and are not included in the course
counts mentioned above. Also, one of the introductory courses in the Psychology,
Psychoanalysis, and Culture Track is a year-long course, meaning that students who take this
course will have it in both semesters. All other courses are one semester long; some meet twice
a week for two hours, while others are once a week for four hours. Finally, please note that
academic hours are 45 minutes long, meaning you will have an ample break between each
class.





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Fall Semester

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
08:30-10:00
10:00-12:00
12:00-14:00
14:00-16:00
16:00-18:00
18:00-20:00



Spring Semester

Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
08:30-10:00
10:00-12:00
12:00-14:00
14:00-16:00
16:00-18:00
18:00-20:00











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As an example, here is the proposed fall semester schedule of a student who plans to major in
Modern Israel and Jewish Studies and minor in Psychology, Psychoanalysis, and Culture as well
as one course from each of her Basic Tracks (Introduction to the Modern Middle East
[Middle Eastern Studies] and Techno-Utopia [Digital Culture and Communication]):



Sunday

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
08:30-
10:00





10:00-
12:00
Literary
Foundations of
Western Culture
The Jewish World
in the Modern Era
The Jewish World
in the Modern Era
12:00-
14:00
On Being Human

Issues in Social
Psychology
On Being Human
14:00-
16:00

Introduction to
Developmental
Psychology Techno-Utopia
16:00-
18:00

Israel: Society,
History and
Politics

18:00-
20:00
Introduction to
the Modern
Middle East
Introduction to
the Modern
Middle East



General Studies Middle Eastern Studies Jewish & Israel Studies Philosophy
Digital Culture and Communications English Literature Psychology, Psychoanalysis & Culture
In the spring semester, this student should take the four remaining General Studies courses
(Academic Writing, Philosophy of Science, Modernity & Its Discontent, and A
Political History of the Economy), the continuation of Introduction to Developmental
Psychology, and one more course from the Jewish and Israel Studies track (Introduction to
Modern Jewish Thought).



Sunday

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
08:30-
10:00

10:00-
12:00
Academic Writing
Philosophy of
Science
Academic Writing
12:00-
14:00 Introduction to
Modern Jewish
Thought

14:00-
16:00
Introduction to
Developmental
Psychology

16:00-
18:00 A Political History
of the Economy
Modernity & Its
Discontent

Modernity & Its
Discontent

18:00-
20:00



You can see that in this example, the student has successfully built her schedule to
incorporate the seven General Studies courses, plus six courses from the four Academic Tracks


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she has chosen to complete.

Once you have completed a draft of your schedule for the 2014-2015 academic year, we
invite you to attend an Academic Advising Session with the head of the International BA in
Liberal Arts, Dr. Milette Shamir. Advising sessions will be held starting from the week of
September 14
th
(exact times and dates will be announced via mail). Final decisions regarding
incoming students potential transfer credit will be made during the advising sessions.


For those interested in planning ahead, the following schematic diagram depicts the general
structure of the types of courses that the typical student will take in each year of the program:

First Year Second Year Third Year
Academic Writing
Second Language
(if needed)
Second Language
(if needed)
Philosophy and the Arts
Track 1 (major)
Course
Track 1 (major)
Course
Literary Foundations of
Western Culture
Track 1 (major)
Course
Track 1 (major)
Course
Scientific Revolutions
Track 1 (major)
Course
Track 1 (major)
Course
A Political History of the
Economy
Track 1 (major)

Track 1 (major)
Course
Israel and the Middle East
Track 2 (minor)
Course
Track 1 (major)
Course
Introduction to Rhetorical
Theory and Criticism
Track 2 (minor)
Course
Track 1 (major)
Seminar
Track 1 (major)
Introductory Course
Track 2 (minor)

Track 2 (minor)
Course
Track 1 (major)
Introductory Course
Track 3
Course
Track 2 (minor)
Course
Track 2 (minor)
Introductory Course
Track 3
Course
Track 2 (minor)
Seminar
Track 2 (minor)
Introductory course
Track 3
Course
Track 3
Course
Track 3
Introductory Course
Track 4
Course
Track 3
Course
Track 4
Introductory Course
Track 4
Course
Track 4
Course

Track 4
Course
Track 4
Course
39 credits
(18-21 credits per
semester)
39 credits (18-21 credits
per semester)
+ language courses
39 credits (18-21 credits
per semester)
+ language courses




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The list of course offerings for first year students for the 2014-2015 academic year follows, in
text and graphical forms.

Fall Semester

General Studies Module

1662.1100.01 Literary Foundations of Western Culture
Dr. Noam Reisner
Sunday, 10:00-14:00

1662.1102.01 Academic Writing (group 1)
Dr. Sonia Weiner
Monday, 10:00-12:00
Wednesday, 10:00-12:00

1662.1109.01 On Being Human Philosophical Perspectives
Dr. Miri Rozmarin
Monday, 12:00-14:00
Thursday, 12:00-14:00

1662.1110.01 Israel: Society, History and Politics
Prof. Eyal Naveh
Tuesday, 16:00-20:00


Modern Jewish and Israel Studies

2120.5300.02 The Jewish World in the Modern Era
Prof. R. Rockaway
Tuesday, 10:00-12:00
Thursday, 10:00-12:00

Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Culture


1662.1602.01 Issues in Social Psychology
Dr. Rony Berger
Wednesday, 12:00-16:00


Digital Culture and Communications

1662.1501.01 Techno-Utopia: Introduction to the Social and Cultural History of the Internet
Dr. David Snyder
Thursday, 14:00-18:00




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Middle Eastern Studies

2120.1200.01 Introduction to the Modern Middle East
Dr. B. Friedman
Monday, 16:00-18:00
Wednesday, 16:00-18:00

1882.0602.01 The Emergence of the Modern Middle East *can be taken instead of Introduction to the
Modern Middle East, not in addition.
Prof. Asher Susser
COURSERA online course
*This is a 2 credit course only

Literature


0626.1280.01 Introduction to British Culture
Dr. Noam Reisner
Monday, 10:00-12:00 Webb 001
Thursday, 10:00-12:00 Webb 001

0626.1208.01 Narrative Analysis
Prof. Elana Gomel
Sunday, 12:00-14:00 Webb 001
Wednesday, 12:00-14:00 Webb 001



Spring Semester

General Studies Module


1662.1111.01 Modernity and its Discontent
Dr. Yoav Fromer
Monday, 16:00-18:00
Wednesday, 16:00-18:00

1662.1103.01 Philosophy of Science
Dr. Ori Belkind
Tuesday, 10:00-14:00

1662.1108.01 A Political History of the Economy
Dr. Michael Zakim
Sunday, 16:00-20:00

1662.1102.02 Academic Writing (group 2)
Dr. Sonia Weiner
Monday, 10:00-12:00
Wednesday, 10:00-12:00



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Modern Jewish and Israel Studies


1662.1300.01 Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought
Mr. Ynon Wygoda
Sunday, 12:00-16:00

2120.5300.03 The Jewish World in the Modern Era
Prof. R. Rockaway
Monday, 12:00-14:00
Wednesday, 12:00-14:00

Philosophy

1662.1402.01 What is metaphysics?
Dr. Shai Frogel
Monday, 12:00-14:00
Wednesday, 14:00-16:00

1662.1401.01 Guided Reading in Philosophical Texts
Dr. Zoe Gutzeit
Monday, 18:00-20:00
Tuesday, 18:00-20:00

Digital Culture and Communications


1662.1500.01 Digital Discourse: New Media Language and Dynamics
Dr. Carmel Vaisman
Sunday, 10:00-14:00


Middle Eastern Studies

2120.0120.02 Introduction to Islam
Dr. Keren Abbou
Thursday, 12:00-16:00

2120.1102.02 Introduction to the Modern Middle East
Dr. B. Friedman
Monday, 16:00-18:00
Wednesday, 16:00-18:00


Literature


0626.1500.01 Introduction to American Culture


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Dr. Milette Shamir
Monday, 12:00-14:00 Gilman 144
Thursday, 12:00-14:00 Webb 001

0626.1217.01 Poetry Analysis
Mr. Ron Ben Tovim
Sunday, 12:00-14:00 Webb 001
Wednesday, 12:00-14:00 Rosenberg 001



Year-Long Courses

Psychology, Psychoanalysis and Culture


1662.1600.01 Introduction to Developmental Psychology
Shaily Vardimon
Monday, 14:00-16:00