Delivered by the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney. Course materials developed by The Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning - a project of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For specific enquiries regarding the program, please contact Jillian Fine on 0410 497 870 or 02 9449 7870 or email jillian.fine@sydney.edu.au. Learn Jewish culture in Sydney with lessons and courses at the University of Sydney. This interactive Jewish Studie... [More]

Delivered by the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney. Course materials developed by The Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning - a project of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For specific enquiries regarding the program, please contact Jillian Fine on 0410 497 870 or 02 9449 7870 or email jillian.fine@sydney.edu.au. Learn Jewish culture in Sydney with lessons and courses at the University of Sydney. Developed and led by the Melto... [More]

Delivered by the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney. Course materials developed by The Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning - a project of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For specific enquiries regarding the program, please contact Jillian Fine on 0410 497 870 or 02 9449 7870 or email jillian.fine@sydney.edu.au. Learn Jewish culture in Sydney with lessons and courses at the University of Sydney. This interactive Jewish Studie... [More]

Would you like to gain an overview of the history of philosophy and the major contribution philosophy has made to areas of thought, such as political theory, ethics, aesthetics and the sciences? This course encourages the development of critical thinking and the use of informal logic techniques. Philosophers studied include the Greek pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Hobbes, Locke, Kant, Nietzsche and Foucault. Come along, extend your intellectual horizons and find out why this intro... [More]

“That which is done out of love always takes place beyond Good and Evil.” Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future is the work in which he most fully elaborates the turn from moral consciousness to the ‘affirmation of Life’ which he proposes is ‘beyond good and evil’. This course is an in-depth reading of this monumental work. With wit and energy, Nietzsche turns from his critique of society to a celebration of the ‘free spirits’ and ‘what is noble’, b... [More]

Learn how to read and write hieroglyphs - ‘the gods words’ - in this practical introduction to the alphabet, grammar and vocabulary of this fascinating ancient script. Through simple exercises based on tomb, temple and biographical extracts you’ll discover for yourself the language, literature and culture of the ancient Egyptians. Course content This introduction to hieroglyphs course covers the following topics: In their own write Definition, historical development, not simply pict... [More]

This course aims to develop critical thinking skills through practical sessions and the study of informal logic techniques. Participants will learn the basics of a good argument and evaluate the problems which make an argument go wrong. The class will work through practical exercises and evaluate examples from everyday life. The aim of this course is to give the participant a better understanding of how to construct a clear and persuasive argument, and to assess the clarity of the a... [More]

Science is a ‘methodology’: a particular way of observing and explaining the world, of answering the one big question: “What must the world be like, in order that it produce the phenomena we observe?” Part two of this four part series applies the language and logic of Science to the task of distilling from our observations of worldly affairs the fundamental elements of ‘reality’ – of what the world must, or at least must not, be like – and to construct from them a reasonable model o... [More]

This course will examine the events surrounding the assassination in Dallas fifty years ago. We will see how the events were broadcast to the world and look at the Warren Commission investigation that followed. Course content Week 1 The political environment in Texas and Dallas in November 1963 and the events surrounding the President’s visit to Dallas on 22 November. Week 2 The actual assassination as recorded by witnesses and on film and the immediate suspicion of Lee Harvey Oswal... [More]

Delivered by the Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies at the University of Sydney. Course materials developed by The Florence Melton School of Adult Jewish Learning - a project of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For specific enquiries regarding the program, please contact Jillian Fine on 0410 497 870 or 02 9449 7870 or email jillian.fine@sydney.edu.au. Beyond Borders: The History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict provides students with a strong, text-based historical ove... [More]