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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces basic techniques of Arabic-English translation. Students will work on stylistic, syntactic, technical, and cultural problems encountered in the translation process. It focuses on the process and quality of translation with emphasis on cultural differences.
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of Arabic literature in translation with a focus on continuity and change, influence, and major trends, themes, and genres. It will provide students with a foundation in Arabic literature. Students will be introduced to short stories, novels, essays, poetry, and plays.
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0.00 - 12.00 Credits
This course is intended to provide the Spanish/French/Arabic student with an opportunity to work in a professional setting to learn about areas that are not available or not practical in an academic environment. The internship will enable the student to apply Spanish/French/Arabic language skills in the real work place and will provide an invaluable experience which should make the student more marketable upon graduation. Prerequisite: Students should have completed 12 credits of the language and have junior standing.
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3.00 Credits
Students will be introduced to the aspects of Arabic language that are of interest to linguists who focus on the linguistic aspects of the language. This course will focus on the study of Arabic as ?a language system? in terms of modern linguistic analysis. Students will study the languages sound system (phonology), word structure (morphology), phrase and sentence structure (syntax), and meaning at the word and sentential level (semantics). The Arabic rhetoric, the history of Arabic and the issue of diglossia in Arabic-speaking countries will also be discussed in this course.
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3.00 Credits
This course is meant to raise the awareness of the students to the importance of translation and interpretation from Arabic to English and vise versa. Students will work on stylistic, syntactic, technical, and cultural problems encountered in the Arabic-English translation process. Exercises will provide translation practice with different types of texts and documents. Texts and Documents will include, but not be limited to, legal, medical, business, media, etc.
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys selected Arabic literary works including the biography, poetry, prose, the tale, the fiction, the novel, the play, the song and the film. It will also discuss the language used in such works, and research how the culture of the community was reflected in that literary work. It will also examine how culture plays an important role in literature.
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3.00 Credits
This course helps students to gain knowledge about Arabic dialectology and its geographical variation. Also, the students will be exposed to different examples from the very different types of Arabic dialects and accents which are spoken in the Arab Homeland.
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3.00 Credits
This course discusses the influence of Islam on art and architecture from select countries from Spain to Iran, including North Africa and the Greater Middle East. It provides an accessible and appealing examination of the significant artistic, architectural, and cultural dimensions of the Islamic World, with special attention to developments during the Islamic Golden Age, and their influences on the West.
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3.00 Credits
This course will focus on advanced Arabic grammar and writing, empowering students to develop writing skills within a variety of subjects and disciplines. In terms of advanced grammar, this course provides a review of both fundamental and basic points of the grammatical structural types of Arabic. It is designed to review students' grammatical knowledge of Arabic structures to improve their performance on both writing and speaking. Students will follow the steps of writing, including prewriting, research and data collection, drafting, revising, and editing and proofreading writing through multiple drafts.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the theory and practice of foreign/second language instruction. It focuses on methods of teaching Arabic as a foreign language and starts by introducing students to models and theories of second language acquisition (SLA), including understanding what language and research are, what learning is, and for classroom contexts, what teaching is. The course will also focus on SLA research, including Arabic SLA studies, and the implications of major research findings for Arabic language teaching. In addition, the course will zero in on best practices in Arabic instruction, including the teaching of the four language skills (reading, writing, listening, and speaking). Finally, it will focus on a number of important questions that face the teacher of Arabic as a foreign language, such as teaching grammar and vocabulary, course design, writing lesson plans, material development, technology use, assessment, and teaching MSA and dialect.
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