Arabic

Introduction to the sound and writing systems of Arabic, including basic sentence structure and morphological patterns. A combination of the direct, audio-lingual, proficiency-based, and translation methods is used. The format consists of classroom discussions of a certain grammatical point followed by intensive practice.

Credits: 4

Prerequisites (for 2010): ARAB 1020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Prerequisites (for 2020): ARAB 2010 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Continues training in modern standard Arabic, with emphasis on speaking, comprehension, writing, and reading. The method of teaching primarily follows the proficiency-based approach to language learning.

Credits: 4

Introduces students to spoken Arabic, with oral production highly emphasized. Conversation based on everyday situations. enables communication with native speakers.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: ARAB 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

The goal of this course is to increase the student's knowledge of the Arabic language and culture via a communicative-based approach, meaning that though the students will be expected to learn grammatical structures. Emphasis will be placed on the functional usage of the language and on communication in context.

Credits: 3

Using a communicatively oriented, proficiency-based approach the course will focus on the communicative prodution skills (speaking and writing) in the language through a combination of interactive classroom activities, take-home assignments and group work. Emphasis will be on the development of these two skills. Students will also be introduced to aspects of the Arab culture to build cultural awareness and communicative competence.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: ARAB 3230 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Develops oral and written proficiency to an advanced level of fluency, with emphasis on speaking and writing.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: ARAB 2020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

In this course students will develop a mastery of core items relevant to Modern Standard Arabic grammar, a mastery which will enable them to produce discreet, sophisticated sentences, as well as to compose paragraphs and essays, all while utilizing the grammar points covered in this class.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: ARAB 3020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Students are introduced to twentieth-century Arabic fiction, and to the varied genres of prose including letters, memoirs, short stories, travelogues, and novels. Topics include autobiography, war and nation construction, fantasy, and political and sexual identity crises. Students become acquainted with different schools of modern Arabic literary criticism, and learn to analyze texts using critical analysis and specific theoretical terminology.

Credits: 3

New Course in Arabic.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: ARAB 3020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

The main goal at this stage is to reach a superior level of Modern Standard Arabic with due attention paid to all four language skills: speaking, listening, reading and writing in addition to culture. Acquisition of more advanced grammatical structures will take place primarily through directed in-class drilling, coupled with an emphasis on the functional use of language through communication in context.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: ARAB 5830 or ARAB 5840, or instructor permission.

This course introduces students to modern Arabic drama from the early pioneers' period in the 20th century to the contemporary era. We will study different forms of this genre including: musicals, traditional, experimental, feminist, and social drama. Further, students become acquainted with different schools of modern Arabic literary criticism and learn to analyze dramatic texts using critical analysis and specific theoretical terminology.

Credits: 3

In this course, we will examine the themes of love, war, and diaspora in the literature of the Lebanese writer, Hoda Barakat. Some of the topics that will interest us are: the role of the author as a witness to the Lebanese civil war, the challenges of rewriting history, recreating the homeland's image in diasporic locales, collective and individual memories and its role in trauma recall and testimony.

Credits: 3

Students will gain insight and learn to appreciate some of the most influential "Arab" literary figures and some of the most celebrated classical Arabic prose masterpieces. Students will also broaden their critical and comparative perspectives with regard to some of the most important literary and cultural issues related to the overall poetics and politics of the Arabic-Islamic heritage.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: ARAB 3020 or instructor permission.

This course explores the unduly studied corpus of Arabic writings that describes the encounters with and perception of the Other. Much effort will be devoted to investigate medieval and early modern Arab-Muslim views of the Other in a cross-generic selection of non-religious Arabic prose such as travelogues, diplomatic memoirs, captivity reports, marvels, folktales, literary debates/boasting, and poetry.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Instructor permission.

Independent study in Arabic.

Credits: 1-3

Prerequisites: ARAB 3020/5020 or equivalent, or instructor permission.

Emphasis on reading modern Arabic prose, and writing descriptive and narrative short essays.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: ARAB 5830 or instructor permission.

Exposure to selected reading material in modern Arabic prose, and writing of short essays, summaries, and descriptive pieces in Arabic.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: ARAB 5530 and 5540, or ARAB 3010/5010 and 3020/5020, or instructor permission.

Examination of electronic (television and radio) and print (newspapers, magazines, periodic publications) Arabic.

Credits: 3