Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic discipline
L-OR/12 (ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Course
AFRICAN AND ASIAN STUDIES
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
2nd semester (26/02/2018 - 30/05/2018)
Lesson hours
60 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Prerequisites
A basic knowledge of the Arabic language is required. Students who, during the admission interview, showed a not adequate level of knowledge must follow, in the first semester, the course of Arabic 1, first degree, and the supplementary seminar.
Learning outcomes
The course aims to provide students with the linguistic tools for a) understanding and translating the news provided by the Arabic media (print,television, internet); b) searching information by themselves on the main Arabic websites.
Course contents
In this module, students will learn the language of the Arab media and the use of the more widespread syntactic structures, with special reference to the language of the meetings and conferences, elections and demnstrations.
Teaching methods
Lectures with the help of telematic tools
Reccomended or required readings
A.Elgibali, N. Korica, Media Arabic. A Course for Reading Arabic News, The American University
of Cairo, Il Cairo, 2007 (the first three chapters).
Articles from the main Arabic media.
Dictionary:
H. Wehr, and J. Milton Cowan, "A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic", Harrap, London, 1976.
Assessment methods
The exam consists of written and oral tests.
Further information
The course consists of two compulsory modules, Advanced Arabic 1 and Advanced Arabic 2; 9 credits for each module.
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