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ARAB 403 Oral for Academic and Professional Purposes

This course aims at providing students with Arabic oral and analytical skills for use in their academic and future professional environments. The theme-based approach will be employed in introducing students to academic genres, such as research articles,...

ARAB 402 Advanced Arabic Proficiency II

This course is a continuation of ARAB 401. It aims to consolidate Arabic grammatical structures learned in ARAB 401. More advanced reading materials as well as complex linguistic features; syntactic and morphological are introduced at this level. The course...

ARAB 401 Advanced Arabic Proficiency I

This course aims to build on students’ previous knowledge of Arabic to help them acquire advanced syntactical and morphological features of Modern Standard Arabic grammar for use in listening comprehension, Reading, Structure, Writing, and Speaking....

ARAB 400 Long Essay

This is a research paper on a topic of the student’s choice, undertaken under a lecturer’s consent and supervision in partial fulfillment of an undergraduate programme. It may normally be on a subject of academic, literary, or linguistic relevance...

ARAB 319 Contemporary Arab World

Students will be acquainted with the historical background of the modern Middle East and North Africa. Issues such as nationalism and the emergence of the Arab states; the discovery of oil and its implications for the Arab world; the Israeli-Palestinian/Arab...

ARAB 318 Media Arabic II

This is a continuation of ARAB 317. The course further exposes students to the vocabulary and styles of the Arabic media, both print and electronic media. Specialized areas such as economics, business and weather reporting are introduced at this stage....

ARAB 317 Media Arabic I

The course exposes students to the vocabulary and styles of the Arabic media, both print and electronic media. The course develops student’s ability to listen as well as read varrying news content in the Arab world.Various Arab mass media topics such as...

ARAB 316 Aspects of Abbasid Poetry

The course aims at covering some major aspects of poetry during the Abbasid era from 750 AD to the fall of their dynasty in 1258. Factors affecting the thematic and stylistic modifications of poetry will be examined. Some selected Abbasid poets and their...

ARAB 315 Moslem Intellectual History

The aim of the course is to acquaint students with the major contributions of Muslim scholars to the development of Arab and world civilisations throughout history. Contributions in the fields of linguistics, philosophy, mathematics, medicine, geography,...

ARAB 314 Readings in Quranic Literature

This course deals with the evaluation of the language, form and style of the Qur’an for its literary worth. A number of suras will be chosen for detailed study and analysis. The course exposes students to different texts (Meccan vs. Medinan) of the Qur...

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