The study of linguistics and philology in general, and the Hebrew language in particular, takes us on a fascinating journey that tries to understand and trace the mechanism of the language’s development and its history and place in our lives. The study of a language is like an open window to understanding the culture and society of the language users. In the Ph.D. program, students can deepen their study of Hebrew in the fields of pragmatics, discourse studies, semantics, syntax, morphology, phonology, and write a dissertation supervised by one or more of the department’s lecturers who deal with these fields with reference to the historical periods of Hebrew. The department uniquely focuses on the study of spoken Hebrew discourse, other Semitic and Jewish languages, and the place of Hebrew within the Semitic language family. The department takes a multidisciplinary approach to Hebrew by studying its formation and changes in courses that study Hebrew as a basic communication tool that interfaces with other fields such as communication, sociology, cognitive science, and law.

See the Graduate Studies Authority website.

Studies are divided into two stages:

Research student Stage I—One year, two semesters from the time the student is accepted until the submission of the research proposal.

Research student Stage II—No more than three years. The research proposal must be submitted one year after beginning the program.

Post-graduation employment opportunities: Academic research and assisting in research; working in the field of developing translation software, language courseware development, natural language processing; writing curricula on the subjects of language, language and society, language and communication; copy editing, literary translation, and simultaneous interpretation. Teaching in schools, teaching immigrants Hebrew as a foreign language, teaching Hebrew in Jewish communities around the world, training military teachers in teaching Hebrew as a second language.