This course develops intermediate Arabic speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills while deepening mastery of verb tenses, thematic vocabulary, and basic noun and verb case markings. Students read a short story and practice detailed grammatical analysis within a communicative framework. The course builds directly on foundations established in Elementary Modern Standard Arabic II.
Athena Title
Intermediate Standard Arabic I
Prerequisite
ARAB 1002 or permission of department
Semester Course Offered
Offered fall
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
Students will be able to participate in informal conversations, express their own ideas, and make formal presentations using an expanded set of practiced words, phrases, and sentence structures.
Students will be able to listen, understand, and respond to authentic spoken Arabic on familiar topics.
Students will be able to read and comprehend longer texts containing more complicated sentences and a greater variety of vocabulary.
Students will be able to form longer, and more complex written sentences using correct grammatical structures, including the use of verb forms and the case system, and will be able to write simple compositions.
Topical Outline
• The present tense
• The past tense
• The future tense
• Negation
• Verb-subject agreement
• Ordinal numbers
• Recognizing feminine plural and dual verbs
• Verb conjugations, including the present and its two forms
