Sunday, October 15th, 2006...3:54 am
East Asian and OB Studies 2006-7
China related blogs are a necessity to deal with my endless curiosity for the Chinese culture but they're not enough. I still need the class interaction and dynamics, that which I've experienced last year when I joined up the East-Asia department at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem as a listener.
As the new academic year 2006-7 at the Hebrew University is starting on the 22nd. I've browsed through the selection of courses available this year and quickly came to the conclusion that if it was up to me - I would probably want to attend most of them. Since I'm not an officially registered student and my free time does have some limitations, I've picked out a few courses and will do my best to attend them, or at least get to know their professors :
- Cultures and Organizations - Dr. Lilach Sagiv : I've been drilling my Culture-OB mantra into Dr. Sagiv's since I came back from Asia and was happy to learn that she took up the subject as her next Organizational Behavior class. How does national and organizational culture effect organizations and employees? How does the interaction between different cultures and organizations within those cultures effect each other?
- Modern Chinese, second year - Avia and Lin (and Language Lab) : Second year of battling Chinese. I will need to catch up on my writing and Simplified Chinese as I've been postponing that for too long. It will do me good to have an organized schedule for my Chinese, as I haven't been doing very well on that lately.
- Urban Society in Contemporary China - Changes - Dror Kochan : The description sounds intriguing - "Changes in urban China, socially and economically… we'll discuss the main three events on Beijing 2008, Shanghai Expo 2010 and Asia Games 2010… we'll try and see the effect of those upcoming events and their influence on society in the Chinese cities".
- East Asian markets - Prof. Ishay Yaffe : Everybody I talked to in my Business-Administration department told me "he's the man" - the number one authority regarding BA and East-Asia. Looking forward to meeting him.
(Too bad there's nothing remotely related to Taiwan)
That should ease my curiosity for the time being…
tags: Asia-Israel connections, China, chinese_culture, Studies
fili, you are so interested in asian culture like china, why not work in china? haha. being there is the best way to learn the culture.
Heh… I’d love to.
Are you or your company looking for someone to join ?
I’m hoping this is temporary while I’m searching for an academic program and work,
unfortunately, i just startup this company and no much business now. but if you know some israel companies want to enter china market, we can collaborate to help them:)
Heh … I work for free in exchange for something interesting to do and nice people to talk to.
Good luck with the company.
thanks. when my website is ready, i think you have interesting thing to do:)
you probably meant to Ishay Yaffe. he is grate. i took another course of him last year, and that’s why i register to this course too. it will be grate to study with you again. bummer you are not going to do any assignment.
:O
Oh! you’re right…
I meant Ishay.
If the assignment is interesting, I’ll do it anyway. Do they do those in pairs?
See you in school…
dear fili, can you easily explain to me what OB-culture means? Thank you
Oh, right. I didn’t even explain what OB is. Well, it stands for Organizational Behavior, a field of somewhat psychological studies about organizations. In OB, culture might refer to the national culture, the organizational culture, or a culture of a sub-group in an organization.