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 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.

Through historical and political writings, literature, music, and blogs, this course will examine the phenomenon of “The Arab Spring” that swept many countries in the Arab world starting in December 2010. The course will analyze the root causes of the revolutions and popular movements that created this “Spring” and examine the political, social, and cultural developments that occurred in their wake. The course will place special emphasis on examining the role that the Internet and Satellite TV played in paving the way for this phenomenal change in the Arab world. The course will be conducted entirely in Arabic and will expose students to a wide variety of written and video texts and provide opportunities for extensive writing in Arabic. It requires Advanced proficiency in Arabic in all skills.

Texts/Readings

The course will utilize various text and video materials that will be made available to students via Blackboard.