1 false ARAB3001 <p>This course is a continuation of the work undertaken in Advanced Arabic &lsquo;A&#39;. It includes advanced oral and written practices, in depth study of Arabic morphology &amp; syntax and translation tasks. Negotiation and debating techniques will be practiced on a broad range of topics as well as supervised discussions on relevant issues to further promote oral and listening skills.</p> 1 false 9684 <p>SWAA2004 Classical Arabic A, Classical Arabic A ARAB2004</p> <p>Homework (5%), language lab (10%), quizzes (5%), attendance and class participation (10%), report and presentation (10%), mid-semester exam (oral 5% and written 15%), final exam (oral 10% and written 30%)</p> 1 1 By the end of this course students will have achieved language competency in the following skills: <p><strong><em>Reading Proficiency:</em></strong></p><p>(1) Demonstrate advanced comprehension to understand most factual material in technical prose as well as more advanced discussions on concrete topics related to personal interests</p><p>(2) Demonstrate advanced ability to separate main ideas and details from lesser ones and use that distinction to advance understanding</p><p>(3) Demonstrate use of linguistic context and real-world knowledge to make good and sensible guesses about unfamiliar material</p><p>(4) Possess an active reading vocabulary demonstrating the ability to identify main ideas and to distinguish these from subsidiary ideas</p><p><strong><em>Speaking Proficiency:</em></strong></p><p>(1) Initiate and maintain predictable face-to-face conversations and satisfy social demands such as travel and accommodation needs</p><p>(2) Use accurate advanced grammatical relations</p><p>(3) Exhibit more common and advanced forms of verb tenses</p><p>(4) Demonstrate advanced pronunciation</p><p><strong><em>Writing Proficiency:</em></strong></p><p>(1) Demonstrate ability to write routine social correspondence, daily situations, and/or current events with some errors</p><p>(2) Demonstrate good control of morphology of language and of the most frequently used syntactic structures</p><p>(3) Writing is legible to native readers</p><p><strong><em>Listening Proficiency:</em></strong></p><p>(1) Comprehend long conversations about most survival needs and social demands</p><p>(2) Demonstrate flexibility in understanding of a range of circumstances beyond immediate survival needs</p><p>(3) Understand more advanced common time forms and most question forms, most word order patterns.</p> 2 Advanced Arabic A 6 6 <p>Alosh, M., <em>Ahlna Wa Sahlan: Modern Standard Arabic for Intermediate Learners</em>, New haven, London: Yale University Press, 2006.</p> 6 <p>ARAB2012 Intermediate Arabic B</p> Advanced Arabic A Band 1 Arabic u4380123 2 <p>Three class hours and one hour of autonomous work in the language laboratory per week</p> 2010