Prerequisites

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Mastery of the Arabic alphabet and phonetics. Elementary formal grammar and the development of reading and writing skills. Conversation in the formal non-colloquial style. One language laboratory session per week. For students with no previous knowledge. .

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

BA FOREIGN

Prerequisites

ARAB 101 or Instructor's consent

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Continuation of skills development from Arabic 101. One language laboratory session per week.

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

BA FOREIGN

Prerequisites

ARAB 102 or permission of instructor.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

This course will apply the communicative approach to further develop proficiency in reading, writing, and speaking in Modern Standard Arabic. The class will also stress comprehension listening drills. Material will include authentic Arabic texts, print media, audios, and videos. Activities include conversation practice and brief discussions of topics related to Arab society and culture.

Term Offered

Offered Fall Term

Course Types

BA FOREIGN

Prerequisites

ARAB 201 or Instructor's consent.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

Continuation of skills development from ARAB 201.

Term Offered

Offered Spring Term

Course Types

BA FOREIGN

Prerequisites

REQUIRES INSTRUCTOR'S CONSENT

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The subject of this course is the Arab Cultural History. The approach will be one which sees Arab culture as the system of shared ideas, attitudes, values, perceptions and meanings, explicit and implicit, which Arabs use to interpret the world and which serve to pattern their behavior. This approach of Arab cultural history encompasses a range of facets reaching from the most mundane aspects of their lives to the most transcendent of thoughts and aspirations. It includes an understanding of their art, literature, and history of a society, but also less tangible aspects such as attitudes, prejudices, folklore and so forth. This endeavor seeks to embrace and comprehend the complexity of Arab culture and to recount its history - from its pre-Islamic genesis (roughly the 520s A. D.) until the present - through a broad and wide-ranging presentation of Arab literature.

Term Offered

Occasional

Prerequisites

An indpendent study form must be submitted to the CAS Dean's Office.

Course Credits

4.00

Description

The subject of this course is the Arab Cultural History. The approach will be one which sees Arab culture as the system of shared ideas, attitudes, values, perceptions and meanings, explicit and implicit, which Arabs use to interpret the world and which serve to pattern their behavior. This approach of Arab cultural history encompasses a range of facets reaching from the most mundane aspects of their lives to the most transcendent of thoughts and aspirations. It includes an understanding of their art, literature, and history of a society, but also less tangible aspects such as attitudes, prejudices, folklore and so forth. This endeavor seeks to embrace and comprehend the complexity of Arab culture and to recount its history - from its pre-Islamic genesis (roughly the 520s A. D.) until the present - through a broad and wide-ranging presentation of Arab literature.

Term Offered

Occasional

Course Types

BA FOREIGN