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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures : Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies

Postgraduate Course: Advanced Arabic E (IMES11035)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of Literatures, Languages and Cultures CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryIn Advanced Arabic E, emphasis will be placed on increasing student 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 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 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.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Students MUST have passed: Advanced Arabic D (IMES11039)
Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements Course available only to students on MSc in Middle Eastern Studies with Arabic, MSc in Middle Eastern Studies with Advanced Arabic, MSc in International Relations of the Middle East with Arabic or MSc in International Relations of the Middle East with Advanced Arabic.

FOR STUDENTS FINISHING YEAR 1 OF AN ADVANCED PROGRAMME: YOU MUST PASS THIS COURSE AT POSTGRADUATE LEVEL (50%+) AND GO ABROAD WITH ADVANCED ARABIC F IN ORDER TO PROGRESS TO ADVANCED ARABIC G/YEAR 2. IF THE PROGRESSION REQUIREMENTS ARE NOT MET, YOU MAY BE ALLOWED TO GO ABROAD BUT WILL NOT PROGRESS TO ADVANCED ARABIC G/YEAR 2.
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2019/20, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  None
Course Start Semester 2
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 80, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2, Formative Assessment Hours .8, Summative Assessment Hours 2.4, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 111 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 39 %, Coursework 45 %, Practical Exam 16 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Coursework - 45%
Final examination (including centrally arranged writtin exam, in-house oral and listening exams) - 55%
Feedback Not entered
Exam Information
Exam Diet Paper Name Hours & Minutes
Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May)Final Written Exam3:00
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.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information Students in Year 1 of the Middle Eastern Studies with Advanced Arabic / International Relations of the Middle East with Advanced Arabic programmes are encouraged to attend the dialect seminar (jointly taught with Intensive Arabic B) in preparation for the study abroad.
KeywordsAAE
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Course organiserMr Mourad Diouri
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Course secretaryMrs Alisa Wilkinson
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