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Department of Humanities<br />
ARA321 Creative Writing [3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course seeks to train students to write<br />
correctly in Arabic, in several styles, especially<br />
the styles that are proper to literature and the<br />
mass media.<br />
ARA322 Principles of Translation [3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course deals with the principles of<br />
translation, and the translation from English<br />
into Arabic, and vice versa.<br />
ARA332 Ancient Arabic Literature [3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course covers the representative authors<br />
of pre-Islamic, Omayyad and Abbassid periods.<br />
Extracts from their main works in poetry and<br />
prose are read, and analyzed.<br />
ARA333 New Trends in Modern Literature<br />
[3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course studies the intellectual background<br />
of modern and contemporary Arabic prose,<br />
and poetry, analyzing chosen texts by the<br />
leading authors.<br />
ARA341 Modern Arabic Novel & Short Story<br />
[3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course traces the origin of fiction in<br />
ancient Arabic literature, and the development<br />
of the modern Arabic novel, and short story,<br />
in the 20th Century. Works by representative<br />
authors are analyzed.<br />
ARA342 Arabic Drama [3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course is an introduction to the principles<br />
of dramatic art, its evolution from classicism<br />
to romanticism and modern trends, as well as<br />
its development in the Arab world in the 19th,<br />
and 20th, Centuries, through the study of<br />
representative authors in the field.<br />
SPECIAL ARABIC<br />
SAR105 Colloquial Arabic I [3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course is designed for non-native<br />
speakers beginning their study of colloquial<br />
Arabic. It progresses methodically, aided by<br />
materials that are based on a comparative<br />
linguistic analysis of English and Arabic. The<br />
course follows an aural-oral approach.<br />
The course is only open to students exempted<br />
from Arabic.<br />
SAR106 Colloquial Arabic II [3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course is designed to establish a mastery<br />
of the colloquial Arabic sound system, and a<br />
practical efficiency in the use of colloquial<br />
Arabic grammatical structures, with an<br />
expanded vocabulary.<br />
Prerequisite: SAR105 Colloquial Arabic I, or<br />
equivalent.<br />
The course is only open to students<br />
exempted from Arabic.<br />
SAR111 Standard Arabic I [3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course is designed for non-Arabic<br />
speakers beginning their study of standard<br />
Arabic. The course teaches elementary<br />
reading and writing, and establishes basic<br />
language skills in the use of the Arabic sound<br />
system. It covers a limited vocabulary, and<br />
basic standard grammatical structures.<br />
The course is only open to students exempted<br />
from Arabic.<br />
SAR112 Standard Arabic II [3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course is designed for non-Arabic speakers<br />
of modern standard Arabic on the intermediate<br />
level. The course teaches grammatical skills,<br />
within a slightly expanded vocabulary, enabling<br />
students to read unvowelled texts.<br />
Prerequisite: SAR111 Standard Arabic I or its<br />
equivalent.<br />
The course is only open to students<br />
exempted from Arabic.<br />
SAR221 Developmental Arabic [3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course develops appreciation, and<br />
improves skills, in the reading and writing of<br />
various types of prose. Individual attention is<br />
given to students’ linguistic and communicative<br />
proficiency.<br />
CHINESE<br />
CHN 201 Beginning Chinese [3-0, 3 cr.]<br />
This course is designed for students with no<br />
previous knowledge of Mandarin Chinese, the<br />
official language of China. It aims at providing<br />
them with spoken and written knowledge of<br />
the language at the basic survival level. At the<br />
listening/speaking level, emphasis is placed<br />
on the phonological subtleties of intonation<br />
in Chinese and how these affect meaning. At<br />
the reading/writing level, both a phonological<br />
based system (Pinyin) and a logographic<br />
system will be simultaneously adopted. An<br />
interactive, communicative approach to<br />
teaching will be used in order for students<br />
to actively experience the language in as<br />
authentic and functional a context as possible.<br />
ACADEMIC CATALOG [ 2011-2012 ] SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES<br />
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