ARAB 203Second-year Arabic I

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ARAB 203/503 is the third in a sequence of courses in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA), the language of all official forms of communication and media throughout the Arab world, the register of Arabic taught in countries where Arabic is an official language, the liturgical language of more than two billion Muslims worldwide and millions of Arab Christians, and one of the six official languages of the United Nations. Students will acquire more vocabulary and learn fundamental morphological and syntactical structures that allow them to express themselves and respond to communication with ease in predictable situations; request and provide information; write and speak comprehensibly at the sentence level; read basic texts through making use of contextual knowledge and familiar vocabulary; and listen to and comprehend simple and straightforward speech - one utterance at a time. As no language exists in a vacuum, learning about Arab culture will constitute an integral component of this course. Prerequisite: successful completion of ARAB 102/502 or the equivalent level of proficiency as determined in advance by the Undergraduate Director.