This course will develop a number of students' skills: idiomatic and conversational forms freely in speech; proficiency in written structures of moderate complexity and the capacity to use such structures clearly and accurately; interpreting messages of a medium level of complexity occurring in a variety of audio-visual media and individual and group spoken forms. It will also cover the role and function of stylistic complexity in Arabic, the development of Arabic literature in the modern period including some examples of writing and translation of texts of moderate difficulty in non-technical language from Arabic to English and vice versa using dictionaries. Emphasis will be on writing in Modern Standard Arabic. The acquisition of practical language skills for spoken communication, non-verbal communication and aural comprehension will also continuo to be focused on. The basic syntactic patterns and vocabulary acquired in the previous course will be consolidated.

Homework (5%), language lab (10%), quizzes (5%), attendance and class participation (5%), report and presentation (15%), mid-semester exam (oral 5% and written 15%), final exam (oral 10% and written 30%).

Three class hours and one hour of autonomous work in the language laboratory per week

ARAB3001/6503 Advanced Arabic A

SWAA2008 Classical Arabic B, Classical Arabic B ARAB2008

Alosh, M., Ahlan wa Sahlan, Functional Modern Standard Arabic for Intermediate Learners, New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2006.