Undergraduate Catalog

HUMA 101 Arabic Language

This course aims to improve students� linguistic skills, with an emphasis on reading and writing competencies. One focus is the functional writing of professional letters, messages, reports, and rewriting of machine-translated texts. Another area is academic writing, including the organization of ideas, research paper writing, quoting others, and summarizing. The ultimate goal is to help students develop the linguistic sensitivity that allows them to use idiomatic expressions and conventional vocabulary while abiding by the grammatical rules of the language. Regarding reading skills, the student is trained to read and discuss scientific texts and to analyze them in terms of linguistic structure. The course will also improve the student�s listening skills.

Credits

3

Offered

Fall Spring Summer