Arabic Flagship Program
Overview
The Arabic Flagship Program (AFP) at the University of Texas, Austin provides intensive and advanced training in Arabic language and culture at the undergraduate level. The AFP offers students the opportunity to reach the Superior level of proficiency in Arabic while simultaneously pursuing an undergraduate major of their choice.
The UT AFP offers coursework in formal and spoken Arabic (Levantine and Egyptian dialects), as well as disciplinary courses in English in Political Science, History, Geography, Economics, and Religion with an Arabic across the Curriculum component in which students read and discuss primary texts in Arabic. In addition, the program will provide AFP participants who reach Advanced High proficiency with the chance to take courses taught in Arabic with a focus on the politics, religions, literatures, and cultures of the Arabic-speaking world.
The program offers five different levels of Arabic in addition to intensive summer study at the elementary and intermediate levels. AFP participants will also undertake intensive summer study and a full year study abroad program at the Arabic Flagship site in Alexandria, Egypt.
The AFP is open to talented undergraduate students of any year of study who are committed to achieving Superior proficiency in Arabic and who see Arabic as an integral part of their long-term professional goals.
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