The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

This course provides an introduction to the field of international development, focusing on community development and the impact of development interventions on disadvantaged individuals and communities. The course discusses the development of development theory since the 20th century; the various world events which led to changes in development theory and were significantly affected by them; and influential approaches to development practice. Historically, the course provides a broad understanding of power relations between the developed and the developing worlds since the 15th century; discusses the links between conflict, governances, and development; and examines various approaches to governance and their implications on development. Building on the understanding that communities are the key for achieving sustainable positive advancement in human development, the course focuses on theories and approaches which are relevant to community development, including the Capability Approach and the Assets Based Approach to development.

This course incorporates the online component of Rothberg International School course number 11160 of the same title, with an added practice and hands on learning component. This course covers the fundamentals of innovation and entrepreneurship and how they can help students become more future proof in their careers. It focuses on how innovation can be developed and enhanced and then looks at the world of entrepreneurship and how it can be relevant for each and every one of the participants. Throughout, the course introduces and practices the Lean Startup Model, focusing on how to identify real problems for people and then finding solutions for those problems. As an online course, students watch short videos, use interactive applications, answer online quizzes, and develop an idea for a venture (business, social, or design). The course ends with a project that presents a model for a real world venture.

Through classroom study and field trips, this course embarks on a journey of Jerusalem through time and space, over the course of three thousand years, from a regional center to a national capital to the spiritual center for the world’s three great western monotheistic religions. It bulids an understanding and appreciation of its present and future, how the city developed, and how the city seems to touch everyone in the world today.

This advanced beginners Modern Hebrew course is designed to enable students to recognize the fundamental structures of the Hebrew language and its basic forms, as well as to acquire the necessary vocabulary for everyday conversations, reading, and writing on a limited scale. It focuses on comprehension (listening to short stories and recorded conversations), conversation (simple dialogues and stories from everyday life), reading (easy dialogues and passages without vowels; headlines and simple, short texts in easy Hebrew), writing (short dialogues and passages on the topics taught in class), and grammatical skills (elementary syntactic and grammatical structures, inflection of the strong verb in the past and present tenses; frequent weak verbs).

This course provides an introduction to the history of the Middle East from the late eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. It focuses on the main transformations the region experienced during the ages of imperialism and nationalism, including the foundations of Ottoman rule in the region and its long decline; the entrance of nationalism and its dramatic effects on the political identities of its inhabitants, as well as the formative period of the Arab Israeli conflict. It also discusses the struggle for independence of some of the nation-states in the region, as well as their challenges in its aftermath: the formation of national identity and competing identities to overcome.

This course covers the fundamentals of innovation and entrepreneurship and how they can help students become more future proof in their careers. It focuses on how innovation can be developed and enhanced and then looks at the world of entrepreneurship and how it can be relevant for each and every one of the participants. Throughout, the course introduces and practices the Lean Startup Model, focusing on how to identify real problems for people and then finding solutions for those problems. As an online course, students watch short videos, use interactive applications, answer online quizzes, and develop an idea for a venture (business, social, or design). The course ends with a project that presents a model for a real world venture.