Course Description
Advanced language study, combining instruction in grammar, reading comprehension, and composition with practice in spoken modern standard Arabic.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Written and oral presentation of an original scholarly research
paper in Arabic utilizing what students have learned in class
and involving also substantial research not only in secondary
literature found through JSTOR and the Index Islamicus, but
also through primary Arabic texts held in the UGA library,
obtained through interlibrary loan, or located within online
libraries. Graduate students will also be assigned to critique
each other's writing before handing it in. Finally the
instructor will meet solely with the graduate students outside
of class once every three weeks in order to discuss class
topics at a greater depth as well as their research for their
papers.
Athena Title
ADV CON COMP ARAB I
Undergraduate Prerequisite
ARAB 2004
Undergraduate Pre or Corequisite
ARAB(LING) 3005
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
This course is designed to bring students to proficiency in the linguistic skills of Modern Standard Arabic. The course will focus on usage of appropriate vocabulary and sentence structure and will involve composition and conversation based on a variety of different texts on relevant contemporary topics. Attention will be given to specific individual needs.
Topical Outline
I. Discussion and composition: Geography of the Middle East Grammar: countries and cities, Shiah, semantically light verbs, pause and liaison, pronouns of place II. Discussion and composition: Ethnic groups in the Middle East Grammar: Word order in Arabic, coordination of adjectives, subject clauses, active participles and verbal nouns taking objects, Arabic active voice for English passive, dummy pronoun subjects III. Discussion and composition: The rise of Islamic Grammar: Affirmative la-, command li-, wa- as a preposition, alladhi without a pronoun referent, tamyiz, ghayr, tense subordination IV. Discussion and composition: Arab-Israeli conflict Grammar: Hal clauses, word order and nominal sentences, imperfect aspect, demonstrative pronouns referring to clauses, compound adjectives V. Discussion and composition: Climate and the environment Verbal nouns, impersonal passives VI. Discussion and composition: Social issues and development Relative clauses without antecedent noun phrases, ma-min and man-min clauses, mimma clauses without antecedent, number phrases 11-1000s VII. Discussion and composition: Gender Linking phrases and textual cohesion, illa anna and fa-inna as presumptive particles, the generic use of the definite singular VIII. Discussion and composition: War in Iraq; the "connectors," coordination of sentences
Syllabus