- Advanced Arabic I

Catalog description

This is an advanced Arabic course that requires the completion of Intermediate Arabic II ( ARAB 212 ) as its prerequisite. While this course continues to build upon the linguistic skills of ARAB 212 , Advanced Arabic I ( ARAB 311 ) primarily focuses on developing fluency in oral expression with the hope to reach a native-like pronunciation (using educated spoken Arabic) and demonstrating accurate use of grammatical structures of Modern Standard Arabic. The material used for this course is chosen in such a way that develops students’ linguistic skills across two proficiency levels: For the first half of the semester, student will be dealing with topics at the intermediate high level including: law, politics in the Arab World, Palestine, military affairs, environment, and animals in the Arab World. For the second half of the semester, students’ proficiency level will be developed so as to handle topics at the advanced level Topics are presented through authentic and unedited Arabic language materials and include: minorities in the Arab World, Arab Americans, Arabic Language, health and sports. Overall, the course aims at improving students’ linguistic knowledge from Intermediate-high to Advanced-low level, according to the ACTFL proficiency guidelines. This course fulfills the Oral competency requirement (R).