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Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
This course aims to further enhance students' proficiency of Arabic language through their focus on a special area of interest in Modern Standard Arabic and their understanding of an application of grammatical and stylistic rules. Students will read and analyse selected texts from one genre in Modern Standard Arabic such as short stories, novels, plays and poems. This course will develop students' proficiency in written structures of sophisticated complexity and their capacity to understand and evaluate specialist and technical language use as well as Arabic grammar.
2 Quizzes
Learning outcomes 2, 3, 4
Oral presentation (10 minutes)
Learning outcomes 2, 3, 5
Essay (800 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Class Participation
Learning outcomes 2, 3, 4, 5
130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 48 hours of language classes; and b) 82 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.
The lecturer will provide materials selected from Arabic print media, short stories, poems, novels and other sources.