Arabic Language

Description

An overview of the course content and the importance of Arabic in various fields of specialization - Arabic structures - The uses of simple and compound Arabic sentences - Rules for writing a paragraph in Arabic - Rules for report preparation and writing - Rules for writing applications, resumes and the techniques used for each of them - Principles of summarizing to ensure its correctness and validity - Using Arabic for quick and brief presentations - Rules for writing official correspondences. Training on managing dialogues and discussions in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and promoting colloquial Arabic -Correcting spelling mistakes that can lead to misunderstanding/ misconception - Studying errors resulting from rendering foreign books without taking into account the Arabic structures.

Program

IS -132 CRs

Objectives

• The course aims at linking the Arabic language to the students’ needs and various majors / specializations through ensuring that the course content and session plan are compatible with the students’ and the community’s needs, capabilities, and aspirations. The course also aims to build up a cultural reservoir for the students that includes various texts representing different fields of knowledge and to train them on text analysis, understanding/ comprehension and summarizing as well as developing their literary skills and promoting their critical thinking in order to be able to write a coherent text taking into account linguistic correctness, accuracy and clarity and the ability to speak Arabic correctly in different situations and contexts.