BA In English Language And Literature (Single Track) 2019

Course Code:ENGL 313Course Title:English Literature and Culture IA study of English Literature from the Medieval period to the Renaissance (1340-1660), focusing on variousrepresentative literary texts within their historical and cultural contexts.Course Code:ENGL 314Course Title:English Literature and Culture IIThis course continues from Engl 313, studying English literature and culture from the Restoration Period to thebeginning of the Victorian period (1660-1832), focusing on various representative literary texts within their historicaland cultural contexts.Course Code:ENGL 315Course Title:English Literature and Culture IIIThe course continues from Engl.314, Studying English literature and culture from the Victorian to the Present ( 1832– Present) focusing on various representative literary texts within their historical and cultural contexts.Course Code:ENGL 318Course Title:Literary Masterpieces of the Ancient WorldAn introduction to classical literature, primarily Greek and Roman, which has influenced later Western thought andwriting.Course Code:ENGL 319Course Title:Literary Masterpieces of the Modern WorldReading in World literature in translation, both in prose and verse, since the Middle Ages.Course Code:ENGL 331Course Title:Commonwealth LiteratureRepresentative selections of Commonwealth literature; study of such themes as nationalism, exile, identity andcolonialism.Course Code:ENGL 334Course Title:Studies in Modern FictionReadings in prose fiction by major authors of the twentieth century; works chosen from a range of forms andthemes.Course Code:ENGL 335Course Title:Studies in Modern PoetryStudy of major modern poets from the late nineteenth through the twentieth century; emphasis on significanttrends, concerns and forms.Course Code:ENGL 336Course Title:Studies in Modern DramaSelections from a variety of styles and themes in modern drama from Ibsen to the present.Course Code:ENGL 340Course Title:Introduction to LinguisticsIntroduces students to basic concepts and terms in linguistics and develops an awareness of language as a multifaceted phenomenon through the analysis of contextualized English language data.Course Code:ENGL 342Course Title:English Morphology and SyntaxSentence types and functions; basic sentence patterns; constituent structure analysis of simple sentences; clausestructure analysis of complex sentences; major structural transformations; functional categories and participantroles; inflectional and derivational morphology; lexical categories and their grammatical properties; verbalcategories; tense, aspect, voice, modality; sentence connection.Course Code:ENGL 345Course Title:Applied English PhonologyThe speech organs; vowel and consonant articulation; consonant clusters; phonemic transcription; the relationbetween English sounds and spelling; word stress; weak and strong forms; rhythm groups; assimilation and elision;basic intonation patterns.Course Code:ENGL 346Course Title:PsycholinguisticsChild Language development theories: prelinguistic and linguistic stages; acquisition processes and understanding ofutterances; relationship of language to cognition, perception and physiology; metalinguistic abilities in middle andlater childhood; language and the brain; literalism versus localization; role of memory; aphasia; animalcommunication; theories of second language acquisition and learning.11

Course Code:ENGL 348Course Title:Introduction to the History of the English LanguageThe growth and development of the English Language from its origins to the present day.Course Code:ENGL 350Course Title:Composition IIIThe second in the series of three writing courses, the main focus being on composition structure and logicalcoherence within a range of different rhetorical modes.Course Code:ENGL 405Course Title:Language Development VThe fifth in the series of integrated language courses following on from ENGL 305.Course Code:ENGL 411Course Title:The Rise of the NovelThe emergence of the novel in the eighteenth century; works by such writers as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterneand Smollett.Course Code:ENGL 412Course Title:Nineteenth Century British FictionRepresentative works of nineteenth century prose fiction, from Austin to Hardy.Course Code:ENGL 415Course Title:Studies in American LiteratureSignificant movements and themes in nineteenth and twentieth century American literature; representative authorsand works of the periods.Course Code:ENGL 416Course Title:Studies in Contemporary LiteratureReadings selected from prose fiction, poetry or drama since 1945.Course Code:ENGL 419Course Title:Renaissance DramaEnglish drama from its medieval origins to the closing of the theatres in 1642; special attention given to Shakespeareand his contemporaries.Course Code:ENGL 431Course Title:Literary CriticismStudies in criticism: historical backgrounds, critical theories, functions and types of criticism; exercises in practicalcriticism.Course Code:ENGL 435Course Title:Special AuthorIntensive study of the works of a major literary figure (to be announced).Course Code:ENGL 436Course Title:Special TopicIntensive study of a specific topic in language or literature (to be announced).Course Code:ENGL 438Course Title:Comparative Studies in Arabic and English LiteratureAims and methods of comparative literary studies; contrastive study of an issue or issues of natural relevance toboth English and Arabic literature.Course Code:ENGL 440Course Title:Contrastive Linguistics and Error AnalysisCritical differences between English and Arabic; the constructive analysis hypothesis; the predictive values of thehypothesis as far as Arab learners of English are concerned; other causes of errors; practical work involving theidentification and correction of learners’ errors; the significance of corrective feedback; the problem of pre-emptingerrors.Course Code:ENGL 444Course Title:SemanticsDifferent kinds of meaning; the meaning of words and their use; sense relations; exploiting sense relations todevelop vocabulary; word formation: pragmatic aspects of meaning.Course Code:ENGL 445Course Title:StylisticsVarieties and elements of style; analytical approaches; relational aspects: linguistic elements, style features, voices,affects; stylistic analysis of selected texts.12

Course Code:ENGL 446Course Title:Advanced English GrammarIntroduces students to basic concepts in modern grammatical theory and deals in depth with a number of criticalareas of English grammar.Course Code:ENGL 447Course Title:SociolinguisticsThe relationship between language and society; accent and dialect; bilingual and multilingual societies; codeswitching; diglossia; language varieties; standard languages and vernaculars; lingua francas, pidgins and creoles;style, context and register.Course Code:ENGL 449Course Title:Discourse AnalysisA practical course in discourse analysis with particular emphasis on coherence and the development of discoursecontent, textual cohesion, and varieties of style.Course Code:ENGL 450Course Title:Project WritingIntroduces students to standard stylistic practices in the writing of academic papers.Students are required to research a topic approved by the instructor and to write a project of not less than 5000words, with abstract and bibliography, documenting their research findings. Students will also be required to deliveran assessed oral presentation of their research and to sit a final examination which will test their knowledge andapplication of the techniques employed in documenting academic research.13

Minor Program Requirements College of ArtsImportant Note: Overlapping CoursesIf any of the listed courses in the minor requirements tables below is covered as part of the major degreerequirements, then the student must replace them with an equal number of courses from the minor field , which areat the same level or higher. The total number of minor courses must be ten for all fields, with a minimum 30 credithours.Minor in ArabicCourse CodeARAB 111ARAB 141ARAB 212ARAB 216ARAB 313ARAB 333ARAB 446Course HoursCourse Title)1( النحو Arabic Syntax and Morphology األدب العربي الحديث Modern Arabic Literature)2( النحو Arabic Syntax and Morphology II العروض والقافية Prosody)3( النحو Arabic Syntax and Morphology III الشعر الجاهلي Pre-Islamic Poetry النقد األدبي الحديث Modern Arabic 03Minor------Yes303Minor------Yes223MinorARAB 111Yes223Minor------Yes223MinorARAB 212Yes303Minor------Yes303Minor------YesARAB1 XXXMinor Elective 1 form list 1303Minor------YesARAB2 XXXMinor Elective 2 form list 2303Minor------YesARAB3 XXXMinor Elective 3 form list 3303Minor------Yes14

*Students should select one elective course from each list:Course CodeCourse HoursLEC PRAC CRDCourse TitleCourseTypePrerequisiteMinorGPAList 1ARAB 315ARAB 325ARAB 424 التحليل اللغوي للنص القرآني Linguistic Analysis of Quranic Text الصوتيات Phonetics علم اللغة Minor------YesList 2ARAB 339ARAB 341ARAB 343)2( النثر الفني القديم Ancient Arabic Prose II البالغة والنقد Rhetoric and Criticism القصة الحديثة Modern Arabic Prose FictionList 3ARAB 439ARAB 445ARAB 447 الشعر العبّاسي Abbasid Poetry الشعر العربي الحديث Modern Arabic Poetry علم المعاني Arabic Rhetoric (Al Ma'Ani)15

Minor in TranslationCourse HoursLECPRACCRDCourseTypeFundamentals of Arabic Syntax andMorphology223Minor------YesARAB 328Stylistics223Minor------YesTRAN 208Introduction to Translation223MinorENGLU 203YesTRAN 303Business Translation223MinorTRAN 304Journalistic Translation223MinorTRAN 305Legal and Government Translation223MinorTRAN 401Literary Translation223MinorTRAN 403Scientific and Technical Translation223MinorTRAN 404Consecutive Interpretation223MinorTRAN 405Practicum063MinorCourse CodeCourse TitleARAB 227PrerequisiteMinorGPAARAB 328 &TRAN 208ARAB 328 &TRAN 208TRAN 303 &TRAN 304TRAN 303 &TRAN 304TRAN 303 &TRAN 304TRAN 303 &TRAN 304Completion of119 credithoursYesYesYesYesYesYesYesCourse Description:Course Code:ARAB 227 أساليب النحو والصرف Fundamentals of Arabic Syntax and MorphologyCourse Title: ومؤكدة} وما يعتريها من تغييرات [ بالتقديم والتأخير ، ومثبتة ومنفية ، دراسة نظرية وتطبيقية مختصرة لبنية الجملة في اللغة العربية { اسمية وفعلية . كما تعالج الدراسة أهم جوانب التصريف واالشتقاق والعدد والتذكير والتأنيث . وما يتعلق بها من نواسخ ومتعلقات ،] والفصل والحذف Course Code:ARAB 328 األساليب األدبية StylisticsCourse Title:، والمركبات واألساليب األدبية والنحوية والفنية والعلمية ، دراسة تحليلية لغوية لنصوص أدبية رفيعة من القديم والحديث تعالج أنواع الصياغات اللغوية والعناية بما يتضمنه النص من أفكار وجوانب فنية وإبداعية مع الوقوف على كيفية استخدام المعاجم العربية المهمة Course Code:TRAN 208Course Title:Introduction to TranslationThis course is designed to provide students with the basic issues in translation and interpretation which are relatedto analyzing various English and Arabic texts. The differences and similarities between the activities of bothtranslation and interpretation are explained. Special attention will be paid to problems of equivalence between thetwo languages at the word and word-group level, as well as differences in syntactic and semantic patterning.16

Course Code:TRAN 303Course Title:Business TranslationThis course focuses on the theory and practice of translating business texts from English into Arabic and vice versawith emphasis on the areas of economics, business and banking, marketing, and advertising.Course Code:TRAN 304Course Title:Journalistic TranslationThis course focuses on translating journalistic passages from English and Arabic, covering a wide range of subjectsand styles. Emphasis will be placed on translating from English into Arabic articles from various Newspapers ,Magazines, and news agencies.Course Code:TRAN 305Course Title:Legal & Government TranslationThis course is designed to train students in translating from English into Arabic and vice versa government and legaldocuments. Examples of such documents are government forms and announcements, certificates, courtproceedings, treaties and legal contracts. Emphasis is laid on the form of the message as it is as important as thecontent.Course Code:TRAN 401Course Title:Literary TranslationThis course highlights differences between literary and other forms of translation and focuses on specific aspects ofliterary texts, such as their expressive function and their aesthetic qualities. The course offers training in translationof different literary genres, such as poetry, fiction and drama, from and into English and Arabic.Course Code:TRAN 403Course Title:Scientific & Technical TranslationThe course offers intensive practice in the translation of scientific and technical texts from and into English andArabic. Attention is also paid to the translation of medical texts, such as hospital notices, medical reports andbrochures dealing with health matters.Course Code:TRAN 404Course Title:Consecutive InterpretationIt introduces students to interpretation in general and consecutive interpretation in particular mainly from Englishinto Arabic. It lays the foundation of developing interpretation skills focusing on understanding and analyzingmessages in the source language (SL) and conveying them in the target language (TL) in a straight and a clearmanner. In addition, the course develops students' ability to identify, analyze and paraphrase the meaning in the SL.Emphasis is placed on active listening and concentration skills, memory, the ability to extract information forsubsequent recall and basic elements of note-taking.Course Code:TRAN 405Course Title:PracticumEach student will be offered practical work experience in the field of translation from English into Arabic and viceversa at a commercial organization or government department. Regular consultation with the co-coordinator is anintegral part of the course, as is submission of reports by the organization and student concerned.17

Minor in FrenchCourse HoursLECPRACCRDCourseTypeFrench I303Minor------YesFREN 142French II303MinorFREN 141YesFREN 231Intermediate French I303MinorFREN 142YesFREN 232Intermediate French II303MinorFREN 142YesFREN 310Advanced French I303MinorFREN 231YesFREN 312Advanced French II303MinorFREN 232YesFREN 313Advanced French III303MinorFREN 310YesFREN 411Specialised French I303MinorFREN 312YesFREN 412Specialised French II303MinorFREN 313YesFREN 413Specialised French III303MinorFREN 411YesCourse CodeCourse TitleFREN 141PrerequisiteMinorGPACourse Description:Course Code:FREN 141Course Title:French (I)The emphasis is on the developing students’ skills in communication in everyday situations. It gives students thebasic elements of composing simple phrases and writing short essays.Course Code:FREN 142Course Title:French (II)Continuation of elementary French 141. It is designed to improve the students’ communicative abilities in theirdomains to interact, express feelings, opinions etc. The course develops the student’s grammatical and lexicalbackground and gives them extra language elements of expression.Course Code:FREN 231Course Title:Intermediate French (I)The emphasis is placed on developing the students’ grammar so as to achieve the writing skills of communication incontemporary French language. This course also focuses on some of the aspects of civilization and French daily life.Course Code:FREN 232Course Title:Intermediate French (II)This course is designed to improve the students’ communicative skills through a deeper study of grammar. It isdesigned to develop their competence in order to give them extra tools of expression and writing skills.18

Course Code:FREN 310Course Title:Advanced French (I)This course aims to develop the performance of students in advanced French language. It introduces the students toFrench cultural life through selected texts and it also focuses at the same time on some of linguistic tools that arerequired, i.e. grammar, vocabulary, syntax etc. (Prereq. : French 231).Course Code:FREN 312Course Title:Advanced French (IIThe aim of this course is to study the French language through various media. Articles from newspapers andmagazines are selected in order to provide the students with the essential vocabulary that they encounter in theirown domains, i.e press, hotels and tourism.Course Code:FREN 313Course Title:Advanced French (III)This course focuses on studying French language at a high level, concentrating on subjects such as press, hotels andtourism through the study of various subjects and readings. At the same time it gives the students essentialvocabulary and grammar.Course Code:FREN 411Course Title:Specialised French (I)The aim of this course is to develop the communicative skills of the students and to give them the ability to analysearticles and to comment on them. At the same time it enriches the vocabulary they need for speaking and writing.Course Code:FREN 412Course Title:Specialised French (II)Continuation of specialised French (1). It is designed to enhance language of the students and to make sure that theymaster communication in many fields. the course focuses on a high level of grammar and it develops students’ oraland writing skills through various selected texts.Course Code:FREN 413Course Title:Specialised French (III)This course aims to develop the students’ skills in different styles in French writing through composing essays,reports, articles and summaries. It concentrates as well on French grammar rules.19

Minor in American StudiesCourse HoursLECPRACCRDCourseTypeIntroduction to American Studies 1303Minor------YesAMST 212Introduction to American Studies 2303Minor------YesAMST 213American Fiction303Minor------YesAMST 214American Poetry and Drama303Minor------YesAMST XXXMinor Elective 1303MinorAMST XXXMinor Elective 2303MinorAMST XXXMinor Elective 3303MinorAMST XXXMinor Elective 4303MinorAMST 3/4XXMinor Elective 5303MinorAMST 3/4XXMinor Elective 6303MinorCourse CodeCourse TitleAMST 211PrerequisiteMinorGPASee listbelowSee listbelowSee listbelowSee listbelowSee listbelowSee listbelowYesYesYesYesYesYes*Students should select 6 courses (18 credit hours) of the following courses, AT LEAST two of themMUST be upper division (3/4 XXX courses):Course CodeCourse HoursLEC PRAC CRDCourse TitleCourseTypePrerequisiteMinorGPAList A: Lower DivisionAMST 201US History 1303Minor------YesAMST 202US History 2303Minor------YesAMST 205American

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