Postgraduate Course: Advanced Arabic 2 (IMES11062)
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 | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The course will build on Advanced Arabic 1 and provide the student with advanced communication skills to enable him or her to carry out high level interviews in Arabic. Language teaching will be intensive (20 hours per week) for the first four weeks at a language institution in the Arab world. The student will then have three weeks to complete a small language-based project which must include an interview (or short interviews) (totalling 30 minutes) in Arabic and short report (1,500 words) in Modern Standard Arabic.
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| Course description |
Four weeks of intensive language study at a language institution in the Arab world to focus on the Arab Spring and its influence on novels, short stories and plays.
This will be followed by the short project which will require the student to carry out an interview or series of interviews in Arabic totalling 30 minutes with an accompanying report in Arabic of 1500 words.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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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,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
116 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
50 %,
Practical Exam
50 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Pass/fail based on attendance at a language institution in the Arab world for the four weeks.
Short report in Arabic (1500 words) (70%) plus 30 minutes recorded interview or set of interviews (30%).
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| Feedback |
Not entered |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
To learn advanced Arabic through authentic materials.
To develop students¿ oral fluency in Educated Spoken Arabic (ESA)
To improve students ability to listen to Arabic films and summarise their content.
To enhance students' aural, oral and reading abilities in Modern Standard Arabic
To be able to apply knowledge of Arabic in carrying out high-level interviews in Arabic.
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Reading List
| All teaching material will be provided. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
a) the ability to conduct recorded interviews.
b) the ability to study a language intensively in a foreign country.
c) the ability to function professionally in a foreign language and in a foreign country.
d) the ability to complete a small project to a strict deadline
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| Study Abroad |
Study will take place at a language institution in the Arab World. |
| Keywords | AA2 |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mrs Farah Aboubakr
Tel:
Email: Farah.Aboubakr@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Iain Sutherland
Tel: (0131 6)51 3988
Email: Iain.Sutherland@ed.ac.uk |
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