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Department of Humanities
ARA321 Creative Writing [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course seeks to train students to write
correctly in Arabic, in several styles, especially
the styles that are proper to literature and the
mass media.
ARA322 Principles of Translation [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course deals with the principles of
translation, and the translation from English
into Arabic, and vice versa.
ARA332 Ancient Arabic Literature [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course covers the representative authors
of pre-Islamic, Omayyad and Abbassid periods.
Extracts from their main works in poetry and
prose are read, and analyzed.
ARA333 New Trends in Modern Literature
[3-0, 3 cr.]
This course studies the intellectual background
of modern and contemporary Arabic prose,
and poetry, analyzing chosen texts by the
leading authors.
ARA341 Modern Arabic Novel & Short Story
[3-0, 3 cr.]
This course traces the origin of fiction in
ancient Arabic literature, and the development
of the modern Arabic novel, and short story,
in the 20th Century. Works by representative
authors are analyzed.
ARA342 Arabic Drama [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course is an introduction to the principles
of dramatic art, its evolution from classicism
to romanticism and modern trends, as well as
its development in the Arab world in the 19th,
and 20th, Centuries, through the study of
representative authors in the field.
SPECIAL ARABIC
SAR105 Colloquial Arabic I [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course is designed for non-native
speakers beginning their study of colloquial
Arabic. It progresses methodically, aided by
materials that are based on a comparative
linguistic analysis of English and Arabic. The
course follows an aural-oral approach.
The course is only open to students exempted
from Arabic.
SAR106 Colloquial Arabic II [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course is designed to establish a mastery
of the colloquial Arabic sound system, and a
practical efficiency in the use of colloquial
Arabic grammatical structures, with an
expanded vocabulary.
Prerequisite: SAR105 Colloquial Arabic I, or
equivalent.
The course is only open to students
exempted from Arabic.
SAR111 Standard Arabic I [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course is designed for non-Arabic
speakers beginning their study of standard
Arabic. The course teaches elementary
reading and writing, and establishes basic
language skills in the use of the Arabic sound
system. It covers a limited vocabulary, and
basic standard grammatical structures.
The course is only open to students exempted
from Arabic.
SAR112 Standard Arabic II [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course is designed for non-Arabic speakers
of modern standard Arabic on the intermediate
level. The course teaches grammatical skills,
within a slightly expanded vocabulary, enabling
students to read unvowelled texts.
Prerequisite: SAR111 Standard Arabic I or its
equivalent.
The course is only open to students
exempted from Arabic.
SAR221 Developmental Arabic [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course develops appreciation, and
improves skills, in the reading and writing of
various types of prose. Individual attention is
given to students’ linguistic and communicative
proficiency.
CHINESE
CHN 201 Beginning Chinese [3-0, 3 cr.]
This course is designed for students with no
previous knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, the
official language of China. It aims at providing
them with spoken and written knowledge of
the language at the basic survival level. At the
listening/speaking level, emphasis is placed
on the phonological subtleties of intonation
in Chinese and how these affect meaning. At
the reading/writing level, both a phonological
based system (Pinyin) and a logographic
system will be simultaneously adopted. An
interactive, communicative approach to
teaching will be used in order for students
to actively experience the language in as
authentic and functional a context as possible.
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