Academic Calendar 2024-2025

Arabic Language (ARAB)

ARAB 100  Introductory Arabic (Modern Standard)  Units: 6.00  
Introduction to the basic structures of Modern Standard Arabic. This course gives intensive training equally in listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
Learning Hours: 240 (72 Lecture, 168 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite Permission of the Instructor.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
ARAB 200  Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic  Units: 6.00  
This intensive intermediate-level course is designed to provide a review of the basic elements of Modern Standard Arabic and continues the development of students' communicative skills in reading, writing, listening and speaking Arabic. It will offer an introduction to more complex syntactic and grammatical forms and structures, preparing students for carrying on a simple conversation, reading an intermediate level text, and understanding basic conversations.
Learning Hours: 240 (72 Lecture, 168 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite ARAB 100/6.0 or permission of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Exclusion ARAB 201/3.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  
  
ARAB 201  Intermediate Arabic (Modern Standard)  Units: 3.00  
This course seeks to introduce students to more advanced grammatical structures, to develop reading comprehension, writing, listening, and speaking skills.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)  
Requirements: Prerequisite ARAB 100/6.0 or permission of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. Exclusion ARAB 200/6.0.  
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science  

Course Learning Outcomes:

  1. Construct meaningful and grammatically correct sentences appropriate to course level in writing and in speech.
  2. Understand the general idea of a reading text or passage, be able to guess the meaning of new words based on context and use of a dictionary.
  3. Translate learned texts and level-appropriate sentences from Arabic to English and vice versa.
  4. Produce correct pronunciation in speech, be more comfortable in conversational settings and express ideas effectively about daily life's topics.
  5. Be familiar with basic structures of formal and colloquial Arabic, and be able to use each according to its own setting.