Course Description
Advanced course designed to enable students to be proficient in the language used in Arabic newspapers, news broadcasts (video and audio), and the internet. Consists of intensive reading, listening to, comprehending, and speaking with the vocabulary and expressions characteristic of Arabic media on a variety of contemporary topics.
Additional Requirements for Graduate Students:
Writing an original scholarly paper in Arabic concerning Arab
media or news and involving extensive research, integrating
issue-specific vocabulary learned in class with both library
and internet based research into the relationships of one's
topic to historical and contemporary events and figures.
Graduate students are required to critique in writing each
other's drafts and to meet in a group with the instructor
outside of class once every three weeks in order to discuss
classroom material in greater depth and to discuss the progress
of their research.
Athena Title
MEDIA ARAB
Prerequisite
ARAB 2004
Undergraduate Pre or Corequisite
ARAB 3006
Semester Course Offered
Offered spring
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Course Objectives
The objective of the course is to enable students to achieve practical competence in understanding, writing about, and speaking about newspaper articles (in print and on the internet) and newscasts.
Topical Outline
Week 1-3 General reporting and common media idioms and vocabulary Week 4 Islam in the media Week 5-6 Politics and elections Week 7-8 Military, jihad, and terrorism Week 9 Economics, Trade, and industry Week 10-11 Law and order Week 12-13 Disaster and aid Week 14-15 The Arabic internet