Arabic 301 - Third-Year Arabic I

The goal of this course is to help students achieve an Intermediate Mid/ High level of proficiency in Modern Standard Arabic. Students engage with Modern Standard Arabic and one Arabic colloquial variety using the four-skills (reading, writing, speaking, listening) approach. By the end of the course, students will consistently be able to:

Read texts on unfamiliar topics and understand the main ideas without using the dictionary. Text types will address a range of political, social, religious, and literary themes and will represent a range of genres, styles, and periods;

Understand sentence-length speech in basic personal and social contexts dealing with topics of current political, social and cultural interests;

Speak about themselves and others, initiate and sustain conversations on a variety of subjects, describe and narrate in all major time frames;

Engage in written discourse dealing with impersonal and/or abstract topics.

Continue to deepen knowledge of Arab cultures, including their histories, politics, and literatures, learn and use increasingly sophisticated grammatical and rhetorical structures, and add approximately 500 new words and expressions to your active vocabulary.

Requisite: ARAB 202 or equivalent. Limited to 18 students. Fall Semester. Five College Senior Lecturer Hassan.