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Module: AR4401 Advanced Arabic 1
Credits
15
Year/Semester
2014-15/Semester I
Module Co-ordinator
Catherine Cobham, Dina Al Afranji
Lecturers/Tutors
Dina Al Afranji, Michael Whitehouse
Contact Details
cmc1@st-andrews.ac.uk T: 01334 463642
Module Surgery Hours
Tuesdays, 10.30-11.30 am, room 108 Buchanan, or at other
times by arrangement.
Module Description
This module and AR4402 in the second semester will build upon the skills gained in third
year core language modules in Arabic. Emphasis will be placed on Arabic grammar,
translation into and out of Arabic and free composition in Arabic. Students will also give
oral presentations in Arabic.
Teaching and Learning
The module sessions are as follows.
Sessions
Frequency
When
Where
Twice weekly
Monday and Thursday, either 3-4pm or
4-5pm
B401 on Mondays and B215 on Thursdays
Essential module information – please note that the information provided here is for the stated year/
semester only and may change in subsequent sessions.
Assessment
The module will be assessed by 3 pieces of work as outlined below. There will be a twohour exam in the exam diet in May (counting for 60% of the overall mark for the
module):
Assessment
Due Date
Translation
English to
Arabic; Arabic
composition
% of
Module
Mark
13.33
One-hour
class test
13.33
Presentation
13.33
Description
Submission
Details
Translation of previously
unseen passage from
English to Arabic, relating
to a general topic covered
in class; written
composition in Arabic,
relating to a topic covered
in class.
Unseen translations from
English to Arabic and
Arabic to English.
6-7 minute presentation in
Arabic, relating to any topic
covered in class in the
course of the semester.
2 hard copies in
Arabic Honours
essay box,
School Office,
Buchanan, 4pm
3-4pm School 5
To be delivered
to 2 members
of teaching staff
and class
members.
Reading list
There is no textbook for the module. Material will be provided as required.
Students are advised to purchase, or at least consult regularly, one or both of the following grammar
books:
Eckehard Schulz A Student Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic, Cambridge: CUP 2006 [2004].
Ron Buckley, Modern Literary Arabic: A Reference Grammar, Beirut: Librairie du Liban
2004.
El Said Badawi, Mike Carter, Adrian Gully, Modern Written Arabic: A Comprehensive Grammar,
London: Routledge 2003.
Week-by-week programme
The programme for this module is outlined below:
Week
1: personal letter
2: personal letter
3: Arab cinema
4: Arab cinema
5: women in Arab soc.
6: women in Arab soc.
7:
8: aspects of Islam
9: aspects of Islam
Monday
A-E
grammar/composition
A-E
grammar/composition
A-E
grammar/composition
oral workshop from 2pm in
MMC
A-E
grammar/composition
Thursday
E-A
oral (my vacation)
E-A
oral (cinema)
E-A
oral (women)
class test 3-4pm School 5
E-A
oral (Islam)
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10: revision
11:
12: Revision week
A-E (unseen texts)
grammar/composition
E-A (unseen texts)
(assessed) presentations, also on
Friday at 3pm