Fall 2008

ARA 420K • THIRD YEAR ARABIC I

Course Description

This course aims to push students toward Advanced proficiency in Arabic through language and content work focused on Arab history, literature, and thought. We continue to expand vocabulary and aim to accumulate approximately 1200 words by the end of the semester. Speaking skills in both formal and informal registers also continues, Grammatical work focuses on complex grammatical constructions and demands increased accuracy in understanding and producing complex structures in paragraph-length discourse. Must be taken concurrently with ARA 120C.

Texts

Al-Kitaab fi Ta'allum al-Arabiyya Part II.

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