Course Descriptions

This course is the first semester of intensive Arabic language instruction. Not open to native speakers of Arabic. Heritage speakers of Arabic and students who have studied Arabic before must contact the language placement coordinator for a placement test before beginning this course.

Texts

Brustad, Al-Batal, Al-Tonsi: Alif Baa:  Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds 3rd edition

Brustad, Al-Batal, Al-Tonsi: Al-Kitaab fi Ta'allum al-Arabiyya: Part One with DVDs 3rd edition

alkitaabtextbook.com student access key 

Available at Austin TXbooks (Beat the Bookstore) at 2116 Guadalupe St.

Grading

To be provided by instructor.

This course is the first semester of intensive Arabic language instruction. Not open to native speakers of Arabic. Heritage speakers of Arabic and students who have studied Arabic before must contact the language placement coordinator for a placement test before beginning this course.

Texts

Brustad, Al-Batal, Al-Tonsi: Alif Baa:  Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds 3rd edition

Brustad, Al-Batal, Al-Tonsi: Al-Kitaab fi Ta'allum al-Arabiyya: Part One with DVDs 3rd edition

alkitaabtextbook.com student access key 

Available at Austin TXbooks (Beat the Bookstore) at 2116 Guadalupe St.

Grading

To be provided by instructor.

This course is the first semester of intensive Arabic language instruction. Not open to native speakers of Arabic. Heritage speakers of Arabic and students who have studied Arabic before must contact the language placement coordinator for a placement test before beginning this course.

Texts

Brustad, Al-Batal, Al-Tonsi: Alif Baa:  Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds 3rd edition

Brustad, Al-Batal, Al-Tonsi: Al-Kitaab fi Ta'allum al-Arabiyya: Part One with DVDs 3rd edition

alkitaabtextbook.com student access key 

Available at Austin TXbooks (Beat the Bookstore) at 2116 Guadalupe St.

Grading

To be provided by instructor.

This course is the first semester of intensive Arabic language instruction. Not open to native speakers of Arabic. Heritage speakers of Arabic and students who have studied Arabic before must contact the language placement coordinator for a placement test before beginning this course.

Texts

Brustad, Al-Batal, Al-Tonsi: Alif Baa:  Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds 3rd edition

Brustad, Al-Batal, Al-Tonsi: Al-Kitaab fi Ta'allum al-Arabiyya: Part One with DVDs 3rd edition

alkitaabtextbook.com student access key 

Available at Austin TXbooks (Beat the Bookstore) at 2116 Guadalupe St.

Grading

To be provided by instructor.

This course is the first semester of intensive Arabic language instruction. Not open to native speakers of Arabic. Heritage speakers of Arabic and students who have studied Arabic before must contact the language placement coordinator for a placement test before beginning this course.

Texts

Brustad, Al-Batal, Al-Tonsi: Alif Baa:  Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds 3rd edition

Brustad, Al-Batal, Al-Tonsi: Al-Kitaab fi Ta'allum al-Arabiyya: Part One with DVDs 3rd edition

alkitaabtextbook.com student access key 

Available at Austin TXbooks (Beat the Bookstore) at 2116 Guadalupe St.

Grading

To be provided by instructor.

This course is the first semester of intensive Arabic language instruction. Not open to native speakers of Arabic. Heritage speakers of Arabic and students who have studied Arabic before must contact the language placement coordinator for a placement test before beginning this course.

Texts

Brustad, Al-Batal, Al-Tonsi: Alif Baa:  Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds 3rd edition

Brustad, Al-Batal, Al-Tonsi: Al-Kitaab fi Ta'allum al-Arabiyya: Part One with DVDs 3rd edition

alkitaabtextbook.com student access key 

Available at Austin TXbooks (Beat the Bookstore) at 2116 Guadalupe St.

Grading

To be provided by instructor.

This is the third in a sequence of courses aimed at developing proficiency in Arabic language and culture. By the end of this course, students are expected to reach at least the Intermediate-Mid level of proficiency in Arabic through engaging in the following:

• Speaking in Standard and Colloquial Arabic at basic paragraph level about familiar topics (family, friends, travel, career plans, shopping, likes and dislikes, etc.)
•  Reading by using new strategies such as skimming to get an overview of what a text is about and how it is structured; scanning for specific information; inferring meaning from context through application of grammatical knowledge, deduction and real world knowledge; parsing and analyzing complex sentences; using the system of “Wazn” and “Jadhr” to learn and guess the meaning of new words, identifying and ignoring inaccessible parts of a text, using the Arabic dictionary more efficiently.
• Listening to original and authentic video programs and identifying the main themes/ideas within each program using strategies similar to those employed in reading.  
• Writing in simple paragraphs about familiar topics.
• Learning about aspects of Arab culture related to family life, celebrations and festivals, calendar, markets and shopping, etc.

Texts

1. Al-kitaab fii tacallum al-carabiya – Part 1
2. Audio-visual materials online via Blackboard
3. Arabic-English dictionary (Wehr, H. A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic)
4. Arabic-English dictionary (Baalbaki, M. Al-Mawrid)
5. All materials from the textbook can be found in MP3 files on the following website: http://dev.laits.utexas.edu/arabic_teaching_resources
6. “ASwaat cArabiya” website: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/aswaat

Grading

Attendance and Participation %15, Homework and Corrections, %25, Writing and corrections %10, Quizzes %20, Oral presentation and interview %10, Final Exam %20

This is the third in a sequence of courses aimed at developing proficiency in Arabic language and culture. By the end of this course, students are expected to reach at least the Intermediate-Mid level of proficiency in Arabic through engaging in the following:

• Speaking in Standard and Colloquial Arabic at basic paragraph level about familiar topics (family, friends, travel, career plans, shopping, likes and dislikes, etc.)
•  Reading by using new strategies such as skimming to get an overview of what a text is about and how it is structured; scanning for specific information; inferring meaning from context through application of grammatical knowledge, deduction and real world knowledge; parsing and analyzing complex sentences; using the system of “Wazn” and “Jadhr” to learn and guess the meaning of new words, identifying and ignoring inaccessible parts of a text, using the Arabic dictionary more efficiently.
• Listening to original and authentic video programs and identifying the main themes/ideas within each program using strategies similar to those employed in reading.  
• Writing in simple paragraphs about familiar topics.
• Learning about aspects of Arab culture related to family life, celebrations and festivals, calendar, markets and shopping, etc.

Texts

1. Al-kitaab fii tacallum al-carabiya – Part 1
2. Audio-visual materials online via Blackboard
3. Arabic-English dictionary (Wehr, H. A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic)
4. Arabic-English dictionary (Baalbaki, M. Al-Mawrid)
5. All materials from the textbook can be found in MP3 files on the following website: http://dev.laits.utexas.edu/arabic_teaching_resources
6. “ASwaat cArabiya” website: http://www.laits.utexas.edu/aswaat

Grading

Attendance and Participation %15, Homework and Corrections, %25, Writing and corrections %10, Quizzes %20, Oral presentation and interview %10, Final Exam %20

This the first of a two-course sequence. The objective of both classes is to train advanced students with interest in Middle Eastern and Arab current affairs in print and electronic media in the Arab world. Although the nuances of reporting and speaking publicly will be explored in detail, the course is an Arabic-as-a-foreign-language one. The ultimate objective of the course is for students to be able to conduct a press conference entirely in Arabic. The students will gain deep expertise in and about the Arabic media. We will be looking into the interplay between language, political culture and cultural identity. The course will focus on the two language skills: public speaking and 'public' listening. Students will read, listen to and view authentic and current materials from different Arab media sources, notably Al-Jazeera, BBC, Youtube, etc., and some select commentaries by some interesting columnists in the Arabic Press.

Texts

To be provided by instructor. 

Grading

To be provided by instructor.

This course is the fifth semester of intensive Arabic language instruction and is not open to native speakers of Arabic.

Texts

Brustad, Al-Batal, Al-Tonsi:  Al-Kitaab fi Ta'allum al-Arabiyya Part Two with DVDs 

Grading

To be provided by instructor.

This course is the fifth semester of intensive Arabic language instruction and is not open to native speakers of Arabic.

Texts

Brustad, Al-Batal, Al-Tonsi:  Al-Kitaab fi Ta'allum al-Arabiyya Part Two with DVDs 

Grading

To be provided by instructor.

In this course students will read Arabic short stories by different authors from various Arab countries and they will occasionally listen to audiovisuals related to different socio-cultural issues tackled by those authors. Students will also lead class discussions, write essays related to the short stories and their content, and will occasionally engage in literary creative writing activities. Through exposure to original literary texts from different styles students will develop effective reading skills and through exposure to written and aural texts they will get learn about a wide variety of socio-cultural phenomena. By the end of the semester students are expected to have an Advanced-High/Superior level of Arabic.

Texts

Short stories by contemporary Arab authors, from all over the Arab World. In Arabic.

Grading: 

Class attendance & participation (20%), Leading Class Discussions (10%), HW & Writing assignments (40%), Oral Commentary (10%), Final paper (20%)