Intermediate Intensive Arabic I &II

ARB

221

Intermediate Intensive Arabic I &II

This intensive course combines Arabic 200 and 210 into a one-semester course. It offers students an opportunity to enhance their Arabic reading, writing, speaking and comprehension skills through active class use of vocabulary and grammar. The course’s balanced four-skills approach endeavors to prepare students to use the language in a natural way for communication in a variety of situations. It emphasizes the use of language for oral communication, structural and grammatical usage as necessary linguistic tools for the improvement of the learner’s proficiency and fluency. This class will use reading and writing activities to extend students’ grasp of vocabulary and grammatical structures and to further their comprehension of and ability to express themselves in Arabic. The overall intended learning objective is to enable students to critically analyze Arabic texts and discourses, and express ideas in Arabic at an appropriate level. The second part of the semester focuses on reading extracts of articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers, while incorporating music, advanced texts, and watching audio/video excerpts from major Arabic outlets.

Undergraduate

Yes

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