Advanced Hebrew A

This subject is not offered in 2013.

4 contact hours/week , 4 additional hours/week. Total of 8 hours per week.

Students should have completed one of the following

Intermediate level Hebrew: HEBR10003, HEBR10004 or HEBR20003, HEBR20004 or HEBR30013, HEBR30014

or

an approved equivalent

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Students Experiencing Academic Disadvantage Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Description, Subject Objectives, Generic Skills and Assessment Requirements of this entry.The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the disability support scheme can be found at the Disability Liaison Unit website: http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/disability/

This subject focuses on advanced modern literary texts, including study of contemporary Hebrew writers in prose and poetry, modern conversational idiom and newspaper and academic articles. At the completion of this subject students should have read, and possess an understanding of, selected advanced scientific and academic articles and essays.

• have acquired a knowledge of advanced literary texts in Hebrew.
• have further developed their reading skills and understanding of advanced scientific and academic articles and essays, enriching their knowledge of the modern idiom written and spoken in Israel today.

Written essays totalling 2000 words (throughout semester), 40%, a ten-minute oral exam 10% and a 2 hour written examination 50% (at the end of semester). Hurdle requirements. In order to be eligible for final assessment students must attend 75% of classes and complete the exercises and examination.

Hurdle requirement: students must attend a minimum of 75% of classes in order to pass this subject. Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per day; after five working days, no late assessment will be marked. In-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked. All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject.

Materials will be given in class.

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

• Bachelor of Biomedicine
• Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Environments
• Bachelor of Music
• Bachelor of Science
• Bachelor of Engineering

You should visit learn more about breadth subjects and read the breadth requirements for your degree, and should discuss your choice with your student adviser, before deciding on your subjects.

• be able to absorb and communicate knowledge through submission of essays and presentation of topics in class discussion.
• have an improvement of written and oral skills and develop research skills to obtain critical material dealing with prose and poetry studied as well as scientific data presented in the area of social background, politics, culture and history.
• have established groundwork for leading group discussion and teaching.

This subject is only available at first year level for students commencing the post-intermediate language stream. Students enrolled in the beginners stream should enrol at second year leve, and those in the intermediate stream should enrol at third year level. Formerly available as 109-006 and 183-117 Hebrew 3A. Students who have completed 109-006 are not eligible to enrol in this subject.

Please note students will be required to sit a placement test conducted by the subject co-ordinator.