Diploma in Judaic Studies

“Well-founded reflection on human morality is one of the most fascinating fields of work in philosophy. From this perspective, with the knowledge you will acquire on this diploma, you will be able to reflect on, study and present the areas of human development in which ethics is particularly at stake: politics, research, the media and culture. A first-rate skill in the education of 21st-century humanists. With a comprehensive programme that will allow you to study effectively and comfortably from your own computer.”

Description

The Diploma in Judaic Studies programme. The course offers a complete combination of Judaic studies, weaving together biblical and Talmudic studies, Jewish history, philosophy and mysticism.

The programme’s scope extends from the biblical era to the modern era, and it is taught by experts in the fields of biblical, Judaic and Abrahamic studies, among others, the Dead Sea Scrolls, early and late Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern and contemporary Jewish history and thought.

This programme is aimed at people interested in a systematic, pluralistic, long-term study of the multifaceted world of Jewish history, thought and religion.”

General objectives

• To train students in the fundamental topics of the philosophy of Judaism, the State of Israel and the region, as well as in the issues currently under debate.
• To place students in suitable online methodological conditions to undertake their subsequent research development with confidence, culminating in a final diploma project.  These studies relate to various fields of knowledge: history, philology and linguistics, anthropology, the natural and formal sciences, political theory, and the art and religion of Jewish culture and tradition and of the Jewish people.

Specific objectives

The course content aims to provide methods and tools for carrying out research in the various fields of philosophy.  To present current views in the main areas of Jewish philosophy and in the Jewish world: ethics, aesthetics, and the philosophy of science, mind, language and religion.  To identify the main philosophical currents that exist today in these various areas. To make explicit the presence, and contribution, of the history of thought from other periods in contemporary Jewish philosophical debate.  To reflect the most recent topics that have reached the table of philosophical debate as a result of the process of globalisation in relation to Jewish tradition and culture.

Competencies

On passing the assessments of the Diploma in Judaic Studies, the professional will have acquired the work and professional competencies needed for high-quality, up-to-date performance based on the latest educational trends and linked to the subject of the Diploma.

Core competencies

• Lead a change in thinking in their community.
• Think globally and regionally.
• Manage complexity.
• Develop analysis and synthesis.
• Carry out research applied to the profession.
• Identify shifts in scientific paradigms in their community and their relationship with the history and philosophy of the Jewish people.
• Lead teams and be able to discuss related topics.
• Develop critical thinking directly on the subject in question.
• Drive change and the genuine dissemination of information.
• Solve problems creatively, drawing on historical contexts.
• Manage emotions and understand the depth of Jewish culture.
• Bring in knowledge and expertise, as well as draw on history itself.
• Seize opportunities in an innovative and creative way.
• Communicate effectively and boldly.
• Analyse, search for and discriminate between information.
• Develop new models of thought.

Specific competencies

• Set out and explain the philosophical foundations of human morality and of Jewish culture.
• Describe the foundations of the elements of personal and social morality in Jewish culture and tradition.
• Analyse the bioethical problems arising from scientific developments and their application to Jewish tradition.
• Develop the philosophical analyses relevant to the development of law.
• Explain the political theories from which current institutions stem, as well as the birth of the State of Israel.
• Analyse the basic elements of Jewish society and politics.
• Be able to carry out political and philosophical analysis and create new thinking.
• Set out the relationship between philosophy and communication, especially mass communication.
• Explain cultural reality.
• Discourse on the human being from a philosophical point of view, understanding its different aspects and developments

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