Intermediate Arabic I

Undergraduate

The course targets the four basic language skills of modern standard Arabic: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Reading and writing assignments in this class will expose students to a large variety of vocabulary and topics in religion, culture, and politics. Students are expected to read, to report on written material in Arabic (newspapers, comics, magazines), and to listen to Arabic news and songs. The ultimate objective of the course is to help them to acquire and to apply language tasks such as paraphrasing and summarizing short texts, communicating their points of view in writing and speaking, as well as describing and narrating events. (Prerequisite: ARAB-1100 or permission of instructor.)