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List of Courses
* All credit hours are based on the current term, this may vary for previous terms.
| ARB100 - Styles of Literary Expression |
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Old code/no. : ARB 300
This course is intended to acquaint students with the various genres of Arabic literature, ancient and modern (poetry, prose, the essay, fiction, biography, drama) and with certain grammatical and linguistic studies to familiarize them with the various modes of literary expression in Arabic. Students will practice writing used in various genres.
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| ARB105 - Creative writing |
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This course deals with techniques of creative writing such as story, novel and play. Such writings need, besides the talent, experience and training in order to develop students capability of creative writing.
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| ARB110 - Intro. to Syntax & Morphology |
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Old code/no. : ARB 310
This course deals with studying the Arabic word structure regarding its derivation, affixation, vocalization, etc. It studies, as well, the derivative types, the system of the Arabic nominal sentence and its nuclear constituents, and the different types of both the subject and predicate and their relatings; such as anastrophe and the annullers, with a special attention to applications of these issues to the Qur'anic and different literary texts, and analyzing these texts in the light of
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| ARB115 - Womens Literary Theory |
(3 credit hours) |
An overview of the major Literary Theories of the twentieth century contextualized within the History of Ideas and applied to texts. This course is both a survey of literary theory with a particular emphasis on providing a context for women?s theory, and an introduction to the application of such theoretical methods or viewpoints on literary and other texts. It will provide a survey and exploration of the most relevant literary theories for debate in Women?s studies, with particular emphasis on post-structuralist approaches. The course will also seek to view these theories in relation to Women?s studies, with introductions to the most prominent informing theorists in Women?s studies, and such topics as ?the relationship between Postmodernism and Women?s? Studies.
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| ARB120 - Arabic Rhetoric (1) |
(3 credit hours) |
Old code/no. : ARB 320
This course is intended to acquaint students with the rhetorical heritage of Arabic as represented by the three disciplines "al-Ma'ani" (Semantics), "al-Bayan" (Eloquence), and "al-Badi" (Art of Metaphors). The course also aims at directing the students' attention to the style of the Holy Qur'an and the aesthetic value of great literary texts.
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| ARB130 - Literary Texts Analysis |
(3 credit hours) |
Old code/no. : ARB 330
This course deals with analyzing a variety of literary texts belonging to several genres from different periods. It aims at acquainting the students with the literary and linguistic analyses in the light of the old and modern analytical methods in language and criticism.
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| ARB140 - Pre- Islamic Literature |
(3 credit hours) |
Old code/no. : ARB 341
This course explores pre-Islamic poetry, its beginnings, and the influence of the Bedouin and urban environments on it. The course discusses matters like narration, recording, plagiarism, and documentation. The course also studies themes and artistic characteristics of poetry and surveys the achievements of pre-Islamic poets and their poetic tendencies, with examples chosen particularly from outcasts and warriors. Additionally, the course studies examples from pre-Islamic prose in an attempt to understand its artistic qualities.
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| ARB150 - Early Islamic & Umayyad Lite. |
(3 credit hours) |
Old code/no. : ARB 342
This course surveys the literature of the early Islamic period and that of the Umayyads. It discusses the major issues, such as the attitude of Islam towards poetry, texts, and authors, linking them to the historical background. The course also studies the influences exerted by the Holy Qur'an and Hadith on the various genres, and the new modes of expression that appeared under the orthodox caliphs and the Umayyads.
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| ARB160 - General Linguistics |
(3 credit hours) |
Old code/no. : ARB 350
This course provides a survey of modern linguistic theories and their methodologies and applications to ancient and modern texts. It studies the concept of language, its nature and functions, and its psycho-socio-linguistic concepts.
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| ARB205 - Writing and Technology |
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This course is concerned with connection between writing skill as a means of communication and digital technology which became very common nowadays. Special emphasis will be given to introduce students to the new writing techniques resulting from this connection and its types and characteristics. In addition, this course focuses on consequences of using new technological writing tools mouse ? screen instead of that traditional ones pen ? sheet and consequences of alteration writing material from simple words to sound and graphics besides words.
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| ARB210 - Phonetics |
(3 credit hours) |
Old code/no. : ARB 351
This course introduces students to Arabic phonetics and explains its relation to other branches of linguistics. Students will be trained to pronounce Arabic sounds correctly, distinguish between sounds and functions, understand the causes of sound change, and have some knowledge of the latest developments in the field. The course touches on the sound system of Arabic and the relation between phonetics and phonology, together with the methods of research and the modern apparatus available to teach this science.
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| ARB215 - Womens Studies & Arabic lite. |
(3 credit hours) |
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the Classical sources, methodologies, and the current debates focusing on women in Arabic heritage. We will explore the representations of women in old literature. We will also investigate social status of women with particular attention to issues of class and ethnicity. Thus, we will also explore the similarities and differences between old and contemporary notions of female identity and the position of women in society.
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| ARB220 - Prosody |
(3 credit hours) |
Old code/no. : ARB 352
This course focuses on the meters of Arabic poetry, its beginnings, parts, changes, rhythm, and rhymes. The course also clarifies the developments of poetic meters and rhythm in different ages (from the age of al-muwashah to the age of the modern, new verse), with various poetic practices.
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| ARB230 - Traditional Literary Criticism |
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Old code/no. : ARB 361
This course is intended to acquaint students with the critical activity of the pre-Islamic, early Islamic, Umayyad, and Abbasids periods in order to familiarize them with its major theoreticians, trends, and issues through a study of the major critical texts.
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| ARB240 - Arabic Rhetoric (2) |
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Old code/no. : ARB 362
This course studies the system of the sentence in Arabic and its semantic characteristics, The Arabic rhetorical heritage where the student may be able to draw on its artistic and aesthetic values and apply the insights of this discipline to texts written in verse and prose selected from all periods, and comparing the achievement of the ancients with the modern critical and stylistic studies in order to combine originality with modernity.(
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| ARB250 - Abbasid Literature (1) |
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Old code/no. : ARB 371
This course surveys the history of poetry in the first Abbasid age and studies the achievements of the major poets of the period, linking them and their poetry to their cultural background. It also clarifies the intellectual, religious, and social phenomena that influenced their literary works.
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| ARB260 - Emirati Literature |
(3 credit hours) |
Old code/no. : ARB 445
This course introduces students to Emirati literature: poetry, fiction,
drama, and the essay. It compares the literary, artistic, and aesthetic
features of Emirati Literature with Gulf and Arabic Literature. The
course discusses the interrelationships of those literatures, which are connected by a common language and religion, but have differences in history, identity, and culture.
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| ARB270 - Modern Arabic Gulf Lite. |
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Old code/no. : ARB 452
This course deals with contemporary Arabic literature in the Gulf: its relation to Arabic literature in general, its development, kinds, and trends, with an emphasis on the literature of the United Arab Emirates.
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| ARB301 - Abbasid Literature (2) |
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Old code/no. : ARB 372
This course studies the major Arabic literary works in the late Abbasid era (4th and 5th century) as an expression of the spirit of the age. It focuses on intellectual and scientific developments and on literary issues in both poetry and prose.
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| ARB305 - Professional Writing |
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Old code/no. : ARB 360
This course aims at developing functional writing skills of the students by training them how to write official letters, reports, notes, advertisements, personal invitations, filling out the application form, building curriculum vita resume, and summaries.
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| ARB311 - Syntax (2) |
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Old code/no. : ARB 380
This course tackles the Arabic verbal sentence regarding its nuclear constituents and the changes to which they submit; such as anastrophe, mentioning and deletion, with studying the sentence complements. It deals also with the prepositions and their meanings, the genitive, subordinators, and the major grammatical styles, with a special attention to applications to the Qur?anic and different literary texts, and analyzing these texts in the light of modern linguistic methods.
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| ARB315 - Modern Women's Literature |
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This course aims at introducing students to some Women?s literary texts and their artistic characteristics. It connects the modern Arabic Women?s literature to the international Women?s issues. Additionally, the course investigates women status at modern Arabic literature, in general, and writings of female pioneers Arabic writers, in specific. Other topics may raise the following questions: do we have, indeed, a modern Arabic feminist literature? Is that literature influenced by Arabic heritage/ international feminist movements/ local social circumstances? How did this literature arise? What are the local or international factors which created it? How can we study these factors? Did women have contribution in modern literary theory?
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| ARB321 - Semantics& Arabic Lexicology |
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Old code/no. : ARB 382
This course surveys ancient and modern questions connected with semantics and the various semantic theories that contribute to lexicography, as they are applied to Arabic dictionaries. The study of semantics touches on its theories. Lexicography, on the other hand, is treated as the application of semantics. In addition, the course considers the various schools of Arabic lexicography and their views on meaning and explanation.
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| ARB335 - Womens Studies & Arabic lite. |
(3 credit hours) |
The purpose of this course is to introduce students to the Classical sources, methodologies, and the current debates focusing on women in Arabic heritage. We will explore the representations of women in old literature. We will also investigate social status of women with particular attention to issues of class and ethnicity. Thus, we will also explore the similarities and differences between old and contemporary notions of female identity and the position of women in society.
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| ARB340 - Creative writing |
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This course deals with techniques of creative writing such as story, novel and play. Such writings need, besides the talent, experience and training in order to develop students capability of creative writing.
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| ARB343 - Pre_Islamic & Islamic Lite. |
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This course explores pre-Islamic poetry, its beginnings, and the influence of the Bedouin and urban environments on it. The course discusses matters like narration, recording, plagiarism, and documentation. This course surveys the literature of the early Islamic period and that of the Umayyads. It discusses the major issues, such as the attitude of Islam towards poetry, texts, and authors, linking them to the historical background
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| ARB381 - Arabic Library / Heritage |
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Old code/no. : ARB 422
This course studies the history of writing and recording the great books in the traditional Arabic heritage. Students also become acquainted with main sources of literature such as the anthologies, collections of poetry, general literary books, biographies, and the great books in language, criticism, syntax, rhetoric, lexicons, and encyclopedias.
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| ARB401 - Philology |
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Old code/no. : ARB 431
This course surveys the philosophy of language among the ancients and the moderns and the effects of these philosophies on matters like homonymy and antonymy. The course also deals with the origins of human language and its development in childhood, and with phonetic, morphological, and grammatical systems.
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| ARB405 - Training practicum |
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Old code/no. : ARB 420
This practicum course requires students to apply the concepts, knowledge and skills they have acquired in their program studies to careers in education, libraries, diplomacy, journalism, media and cultural institutions. It develops skills required by teachers in lesson design and educational aids, librarians in cataloguing works, and all students in writing and editing official communications. Students are expected to use the university library, attend conferences and general lectures e.g. in the Zayed Center, and other university activities in the preparation of their projects, students will practice three hoarse a day. The focus of this course is, also, on training the students to practice some of tasks required for working in these institutions such as: lesson planning, proper use of teaching aids, bibliography and writing / editing official documents.
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| ARB406 - Research Methods in Lang. &Lit |
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Merge courses: ARB400 Research Methods in Language and ARB410 Research Methods in Literature
This course focuses on acquainting the students with research in language and literature regarding its concept, principles, characteristics, importance and sources and references. It introduces students to the methods of research in language; and lit. (historical, descriptive, normative and contrastive). Likewise, the course aims at helping students to apply these theoretical principles. Each student will be asked to write an independent research paper supervised by the instructor.
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| ARB413 - Arabic Linguistics |
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Old code/no. : ARB 411
This course focuses on the development of the linguistic structure of Arabic and the Arabic of the early Islamic era as described by the early Arab phoneticians. Attention should be paid to the various schools of thought among Arab philologists in the light of modern linguistic theory.
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| ARB415 - Seminar& Res. in Women Studies |
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Advanced topics in women's studies are offered in conjunction with other programs. Draws upon the entire body of writing that concerns women in different programs, it may focus on different themes, periods, ideas, or issues related to women?s study and special emphasis will be given to the principal concerns of women in UAE. In general, the course is an interdisciplinary scrutiny of recent research studies in the area of women's studies. Each student will be expected to pursue an individual research project making use of primary material, scholarly journals, and other library material.
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| ARB416 - Andalusian & Maghribi Lite. |
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Old code/no. : ARB 412
This course surveys the literature of these areas and highlights its importance in the history of Arabic literature. It studies the literary relations between the eastern and western parts of the Arab world and stresses some of the new forms (musashshah and zajal) and themes (descriptions of nature, elegies on cities and states, the journey), and gives some attention to the most influential writers of verse and prose.
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| ARB424 - Late Medieval Literature |
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Old code/no. : ARB 421
This course studies the Arabic literature of the new metropolitan areas, the Zinky's to the Ottoman era, and pays particular attention to the forms and patterns arising in the new environments: popular modes of expression reflecting the contemporary state of the Islamic world. Literary texts of different ages in both poetry and prose will be analyzed.
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| ARB430 - Modern Literature Criticism |
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Old code/no. : ARB 442
This course involves a study of the various modern critical theories and their application. The major representatives of each school will receive particular attention and the major issues of criticism will be discussed.
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| ARB436 - Ex. in Syntax & Morphology |
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This course is intended to give practical training in matters covered in the theoretical courses in courses in grammar and morphology that the student has already studied. Its aim is to reinforce the students' theoretical and practical knowledge by helping them to acquire the necessary skills in oral and written expression. The texts chosen will be selected so as to instill in the students' minds the basic patterns of Arabic sentences, both nominal and verbal and to represent the different ages of Arabic language and literature. (Prerequisite: ARB 380)
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| ARB440 - Rea. in Criti.& Rhetori. Heri. |
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Old code/no. : ARB 451
his course encourages students to learn to appreciate our critical and rhetorical heritage by familiarizing them with texts from the major references. Students will study the critical and rhetorical issues raised by these texts and the influence they have exercised on our modern critics. Students are thus expected to approve or disapprove in accordance with objective standards originating in the past but modified by modern endeavors.
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| ARB444 - Modern Arabic Literature |
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Old code/no. : ARB 441
This course covers the rise and development of modern literary genres written in verse and prose and studies some of the major figures and texts. It touches on the following topics with specific analytical readings in poetry, novels, stories, and plays: General influences on modern Arabic literature, causes of development; poetry -- movements and major figures; prose -- forms and major figures.
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| ARB450 - Comparative Literature |
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Old code/no. : ARB 455
This course deals with a major field of literary studies. Comparative literature is an immense field that examines the literature of two or more different languages, cultures, or nations. This course looks at the rich interactions between and among Arabic literatures and English-language literatures, with a focus on the similarities and mutual influences in form, content, theme, characterization, aesthetics, and poetics. The course discusses different genres of literature, examines their cultural, historical and social contexts, and introduces critical methodologies appropriate for analysis of comparative texts.
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