Courses

ARAB B000 Arabic TA/Drill Sessions

Fall 2026, Spring 2027

Arabic TA/Drill Sessions

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ARAB B003 Second Year Modern Standard Arabic

Fall 2026

Combines intensive oral practice with writing and reading in the modern language. The course aims to increase students' expressive ability through the introduction of more advanced grammatical patterns and idiomatic expressions. Introduces students to authentic written texts and examples of Arabic expression through several media. Prerequisite: ARAB H002 or placement by instructor.

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ARAB B004 Second-Year Modern Standard Arabic

Spring 2027

Combines intensive oral practice with writing and reading in the modern language. The course aims to increase students' expressive ability through the introduction of more advanced grammatical patterns and idiomatic expressions. Introduces students to authentic written texts and examples of Arabic expression through several media. Prerequisite: ARAB B003 or placement.

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ARAB B100 Introduction to Jordanian Dialect and Culture

Not offered 2026-27

Having studied Modern Standard Arabic in some depth before, this course will help you communicate in the Jordanian dialect while introducing you to an in-depth examination of the history and culture. This will take place through a variety of interactive exercises and real-life scenarios, possibly going shopping in one of the local stores, and/or similar field trips. In addition, the course will introduce and touch upon cultural norms of Jordan, some of it specific to the country and some shared by inhabitants of the Arab world. This course will helping you advance your understanding of the history and culture of Jordan, but also of the Arabic language and its usage on a daily basis.

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ARAB B103 Conversation on Culture in MSA mixed with Egyptian Dialect

Not offered 2026-27

The main focus of this conversation course is the development of speaking and listening skills of students at the Advanced Level of Arabic. This will be achieved through the introduction of multimedia materials in Modern Standard Arabic. The materials selected will aim to help the students acquire socio-cultural competence while advancing their aural and oral communication skills. The selected audio-visual materials are meant to engage students, help them explore varied topics relating to the Middle East and its culture, and entice them to communicate their thoughts and express themselves in the language. Students will work individually and in pairs and groups to prepare skits and reports for oral presentations. This class is conducted entirely in Arabic. Prerequisite: Two years of Intensive Arabic or their evuivalnt.

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Counts Toward: Middle Eastern Islamic Studies.

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ARAB B200 The Visual Cultures of the Arabic Speaking World

Spring 2027

Beyond Spatial & Temporal Boundaries: The Visual Cultures of the Arabic Speaking World. The girl in the blue bra, Burj Khalifa, the mascot La'eeb, an eternally young boy with his back to us, and female motorcycle riders in Marrakech, are only some of the images that have become associated with the Arabic speaking world in the last couple of decades and are a far-cry from Jean-Léon Gérôme's "The Snake Charmer" or Eugène Delacroix's "The Women of Algiers in their Apartment" in the nineteenth century. The proliferation of images daily in the public and private domains, taking on multiple formats and functions are both shaped by and reshape our social imaginaries. From architecture, to billboards, to ads, to photographs to graffiti, to caricatures and comix amongst other visual mediums, the images reify while complicating issues of language, identity, gender, history, religion and politics. In this interdisciplinary course, we will be examining image production and reception within the visual cultures of the Arabic speaking world and the trajectories that they map. Assessment of the course will include Class contribution & attendance, pre-class posts, a presentation, and an end of term online project that is developed throughout the term through stages of writing and planning.

Critical Interpretation (CI)

Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC)

Power, Inequity, and Justice (PIJ)

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ARAB B403 Independent Study

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ARAB B421 Advanced Classical Arabic

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