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List of Courses
* All credit hours are based on the current term, this may vary for previous terms.
| HSR100 - Rhetoric and Composition 2A |
(3 credit hours) |
Old code/no. : HSR 250
Rhetoric and Composition 2A
This course is linked integrally with HSR 200 Rhetoric and Composition 2B. On successful completion of both courses, students will have experienced and achieved what is described here. The courses cover a range of academic and communicative skills, although their outcomes are assessed separately. The courses cover themes relevant to students of the Humanities and Social Sciences such as Government and Leadership, Justice, Wealth and Poverty and Feminism. The instructor selects a minimum of four thematic areas from the range provided. These are based on the course book A World of Ideas [Ed Lee Jacobus) and a significant number of supplementary texts which bring a less Westernised bias to the material and link the themes to the learners? geographical and social context. The courses encourage the development of oral, aural, critical reading and academic writing skills. Assessment of HSR250 is based on the students? processing and understanding of text and oral presentation. The student is expected to produce writing in a variety of academic forms where creative as well as analytic thinking is encouraged.
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- ESPU1014 or ESPU102 or ESPU103 or ESPU104 or ESPU106 or ESPU107 or ESPU1081
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HSR110 |
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| HSR110 - Rhetoric and Composition 2B |
(3 credit hours) |
Old code/no. : HSR 200
Rhetoric and Composition 200B
This course is linked integrally with HSR 250 Rhetoric and Composition 2B. On successful completion of both courses, students will have experienced and achieved what is described here. The courses cover a range of academic and communicative skills, although their outcomes are assessed separately. The courses cover themes relevant to students of the Humanities and Social Sciences such as Government and Leadership, Justice, Wealth and Poverty and Feminism. The instructor selects a minimum of four thematic areas from the range provided. These are based on the course book A World of Ideas [Ed Lee Jacobus) and a significant number of supplementary texts which bring a less Westernised bias to the material and link the themes to the learners? geographical and social context. The courses encourage the development of oral, aural, critical reading and academic writing skills. Assessment of HSR 200 is based on the written exposition of the ideas of HSR 250 . The student is expected to produce writing in a variety of academic forms where creative as well as analytic thinking is encouraged. The student produces a minimum of six essays.
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- ESPU1014 or ESPU102 or ESPU103 or ESPU104 or ESPU106 or ESPU107 or ESPU1081
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HSR100 |
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| HSR120 - Intro. to Heritage & Culture |
(3 credit hours) |
Old code/no. : HSR 210
This is an interdisciplinary course which integrates various ideas or themes from a variety of disciplines such as literature (Arabic and English), philosophy, history, art history, archeology, geography and cultural anthropology. The majority of materials and assignments will focus upon critical reading, reviews and discussions, thematic or chronological progressions. The course content will reflect upon unique and varied perspectives from a variety of sources such as Mediterranean, Middle Eastern/Arabic and Gulf regions and the importance and role that history and culture serves in fostering and understanding scholarly endeavors by previous generations and cultures. The focus will be primarily upon reading and writing skills, critical thinking, analytical criticism and group projects and research.
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- ENGU1304 or ENGU1305 or BNCHFORMIN.SCOREOF5.0
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Fall Spring |
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| HSR130 - Intro. to Language & Comm. |
(3 credit hours) |
Old code/no. : HSR 220
This course is designed to introduce students to the forms and functions of human communication and media in society. Students enrolled in the course learn the basic concepts of language, linguistics, translation, and media through an interdisciplinary perspective. It covers first and second language learning, the branches of linguistics, the relationships between languages, verbal and non-verbal communication, the nature of persuasion and the forms of translation. This course also makes students aware of the interrelationships within various disciplines in humanities and social sciences and informs them about their choice of majors.
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- ENGU1304 or ENGU1305 or BNCHFORMIN.SCOREOF5.0
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| HSR140 - Intro. to Society & Behavior |
(3 credit hours) |
Old code/no. : HSR 230
This course will familiarize students with the basic concepts and purposes of Psychology, Sociology, Social Work, and Human Services and Counseling. This course will provide definitions of these four areas, their fields of inquiry, and their roles in studying and addressing behavioral and societal issues. The primary goal of this course is to enable students to recognize the uniqueness of each of the four areas and to appreciate how they interrelate and complement each other in approaching and resolving behavioral and societal problems.
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- ENGU1304 or ENGU1305 or BNCHFORMIN.SCOREOF5.0
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| HSR150 - Intro. to Gov. Policy. &Urb. S |
(3 credit hours) |
Old code/no. : HSR 240
This interdisciplinary course combines concepts, ideas, and theories from Geography, Political Science, and Urban Planning. The course interactively addresses a series of topics relevant to the above mentioned disciplines, and aims to help students comprehend the intricacies and essentials of some contemporary human phenomena. The selected topics include government, leadership, human environment interaction and urban planning.
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- ENGU1304 or ENGU1305 or BNCHFORMIN.SCOREOF5.0
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| HSR400 - Integrated Capstone |
(3 credit hours) |
Every program must include a Capstone Experience. Normally, the Capstone Experience concludes at the end of a student?s senior year. This culminating experience provides opportunities for students to conduct research and to ?demonstrate knowledge? gained in the major, ?work collaboratively, learn independently and practice lifelong learning? and to ?exercise leadership. These goals in turn map to the following aspects of the University Mission ?to provide students with core knowledge, attitudes and skills that will help them succeed in their lives and careers and to enhance their capacity for team work, leadership and innovation that will help them to successfully guide the economic, social and cultural development of the UAE.?
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- ENGU1304 or ENGU1305
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| HSS100 - Arabic Language Skills |
(3 credit hours) |
This course is designed to help students to communicate effectively in Arabic by increasing their abilities in speaking, reading and writing. They'll practice important skills and will establish a very good knowledge of how to use different language techniques to achieve their communicative goals , and that will be endorsed through:
? Listening to texts of different levels and contents.
? Reading texts of different levels and contents.
? Written works of different levels and contents.
? Showing enthusiasm and motivation in the language throughout learning
? Joint students' projects of language skills.
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| HSS105 - Emirates Society |
(3 credit hours) |
(Old Code/No. : SOCI 1153)
This course provides the student with the basic knowledge about U.A.E. and the characteristics of its society, with special emphasis on national identity and strengthening the Union. These objectives will be realized through the study of historical, social, economic and political impact on the social structure of the U.A.E. Society.
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| HSS110 - Scientific Research Skills |
(3 credit hours) |
(Old Code/No. : GESA 210)
The course is designed mainly to promote students? scientific research skills. This goal is achieved by providing students with information about the basic characteristics of science and its relationship to knowledge. Additionally, the course highlights research methodology, types, and scientific research steps. These steps include identifying the problem or the research topic, formulating assumptions or hypotheses, reviewing literature, collecting and analyzing data, and reporting findings
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- ENGU1304 or ENGU1305 or BNCHFORMIN.SCOREOF5.0
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| TLS610 - Methods and Problems of Rese. |
(3 credit hours) |
This course deals with the meaning of method and the possibility of knowledge across the different disciplines, with special focus on the humanities and social sciences. The issues and questions to be discussed include the following. What logic underlies the division of disciples into natural vs. humanistic or social, scientific vs. literary or non-scientific? Is interdisciplinarity possible, and if so, how? What does inquiry aim at? By what methods is knowledge generated, and of what value it is?
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| TLS620 - Doctoral Dissertation |
(3 credit hours) |
A historical and generic overview of the theory and production of the doctoral dissertation in institutional and comparative perspectives. Reading includes a dozen exemplary dissertations, some published as books, each work chosen in accord with Symposium participants’ particular methodological and substantive interests and purposes. Class presentations and term paper
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| TLS630 - Critical Issues in TLS |
(3 credit hours) |
This first instance of the annual TLS Symposium focuses on issues of society and sustainability, as they pertain to the Humanities and Social Sciences. Special attention will be given to problems of technology and discourse, understood in broader context. A wide range of disciplinary and professional viewpoints is to be explored in the process.
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| TLS640 - Theory&Practice of the Univ. |
(3 credit hours) |
This course focuses on the philosophy, history and practice of university education. Students are introduced to a historical range of teaching theories, read works by and about teachers of the past and present, and figure the various possibilities for education in the modern world.
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