Postgraduate Course: Advanced Arabic E (IMES11035)
Course Outline
| School | School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Advanced Arabic E is the final phase of the Arabic portion of the programme, so emphasis will be placed on increasing students¿ confidence in their language skills to enable them to reach an advanced level. This will be achieved by regular and intensive practice of oral presentation delivery, question and answer sessions in Modern Standard Arabic, summarizing reading texts (oral and written)in Arabic, listening to TV interviews from channels such as Al-Jazeera, and summarising main points in Arabic. There will also be vocabulary exercises, dictation, essay writing and frequent translation work. Students in this academic year will also be studying an Arabic novel. The language target level is upper-intermediate to advanced (C1 in the CEF).
The aim of Advanced Arabic E is to consolidate what students have already covered during the first eighteen months of the programme as well as to widen vocabulary and to improve grammatical accuracy in terms of reading, writing and speaking. The course will aim to enable students to read and translate complex texts with relative ease. Additionally students will be given the opportunity to develop further both their speaking and listening skills. The focus will be on Modern Standard Arabic. The course will also focus on the skill of summarizing, both orally and in written form. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2017/18, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 80,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
Formative Assessment Hours 0.8,
Summative Assessment Hours 2.4,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
111 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
50 %,
Coursework
30 %,
Practical Exam
20 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Two progress tests(20%), E-Learning (10%), Coursework (20%), Final exam which includes centralized 3-hr written exam and in-house oral exam and Listening Exam (50%). |
| Feedback |
Not entered |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 3:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
| By the end of this course, the student should have developed his/her vocabulary to the point where he/she is able to cope without undue difficulty with extended texts in Modern Standard Arabic on an increasing range of topics. The student should be able to comprehend the main ideas and most details of connected discourse in Modern Standard Arabic. In addition the student should be able to discuss current affairs in Modern Standard Arabic and to handle most situations of daily life using the appropriate colloquial structures.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | AAE |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Jonathan Featherstone
Tel: (0131 6)51 1531
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Course secretary | Mrs Alisa Wilkinson
Tel: (0131 6)50 4465
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