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DEPARTMENT OF ARABIC LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND LINGUISTICS
ARABIC (ARAB)
PERSIAN (PERS)
Institute Director: Belkacem Baccouche (202) 687-0349
Assistant Director: Kelly Beyer (202) 687-5743
Summer Institute in Arabic and Persian: June 5 - August 11, 2006
Welcome to the Summer Institute in Arabic and Persian languages at Georgetown University. The language program is designed to help participants acquire skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking in Modern Standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Iraqi Arabic and Persian. The language program is proficiency-based; materials are designed to help students develop their communicative abilities in order to perfom tasks that a native speaker carries out in formal and informal situations. Students are assessed based on usage in comparison to an educated native speaker and in accordance with the American Council for the Teaching of Foreign Lanuages (ACTFL) guidelines.
Classes are small and students receive considerable individual attention inside and outside the classroom. Our faculty members are experienced, dedicated, and diverse; they aim to incorporate advanced and effective techniques, resources and technology for teaching Arabic and Persian. The program offers the student not only exceptional academic surroundings, such as a state of the art language laboratory, but cultural opportunities throughout Washington, D.C.
Arabic: A comprehensive undergraduate program of intensive and non-intensive language learning in Arabic will last ten weeks, with courses in basic, intermediate and advanced Modern Standard Arabic. These courses are not open to native speakers of Arabic.
Egyptian Arabic: Undergraduate courses in spoken Egyptian Arabic will be offered in the First and Second Sessions. This course is not open to native speakers of Arabic.
Iraqi Arabic: An undergraduate course in spoken Iraqi Arabic will be offered in the First Session. This course is not open to native speakers of Arabic.
Persian: In cooperation with the Division of Eastern Mediterranean Languages, a non-intensive ten-week course in first level Persian at the undergraduate level will be offered in the First and Second Sessions. This course is not open to native speakers of Persian or its varieties.
Application deadlines:
Non-Georgetown students - May 3
Georgetown students - May 3
Please note that applications received after these deadlines will be reviewed on a space-available individual basis.
Admission
The program is open to undergraduate and graduate students, and to persons who are not academically affiliated but need a knowledge of Arabic for professional or other valid reasons. A complete application includes the Summer School application, the Arabic Department application, and an official transcript. Please send all materials to the Assistant Director.
Placement exams will be administered on the first day of each session to determine individual language proficiency. Contact the Assistant Director for further information. Please be aware of prerequisites and restrictions for each course listed below.
Intensive and Non-Intensive First Level and Intensive Second Level Modern Standard Arabic
These courses are designed to build communicative skills as well as proficiency in reading, writing and listening. Prerequisite course work for Intensive Second Level MSA: Successful completion of Volume I of Al-Kitaab fii ta'allum al-Arabiyya, by Brustad, et. al., Georgetown University Press, or Elementary Modern Standard Arabic, by Abboud et. al., Cambridge University Press or equivalent.
Intensive Advanced Arabic:
This course focuses on developing linguistic accuracy in all skills as well as proficiency at an advanced communicative level. This course is equivalent to Arabic 211, 212, and 213, 214 for undergraduates and equivalent to 215, 216 for MAAS students. Prerequisite: Two years of Modern Standard Arabic and permission of the instructor.
Partial Tuition Scholarships
Non-Georgetown students accepted to the Institute are eligible to apply for partial tuition scholarships offered by Georgetown University (Please see Financial Information). For further information and special application forms, please contact the Scholarship Coordinator, Summer School, Georgetown University, 2nd Floor, Poulton Hall, Box 571006, Washington, D.C. 20057-1006. Tel: (202) 687-5942.
FIRST SESSION (June 5 - July 7)
Non-Intensive First Level Persian I
Mostowfi
PERS-001-10
MTWTh 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
3 cr. $2790 lab fee inc.
Prereq: None. Non-Intensive First Level Persian is a 5-week, 3-credit course designed to build communicative skills as well as proficiency in reading, writing, speaking and listening. The course is non-intensive and will include the language material normally covered in two consecutive semesters of undergraduate study at the entry level. Materials and activities include conversational tasks, oral presentations, listening to the news, utilizing Persian audio-visual and internet sources. This course is open to undergradate and graduate students, and to persons who are not academically affiliated but need knowledge of Persian for professional or other valid reasons. This course is offered for undergraduate credit only. This course is not open to native speakers of Persian or its varieties.
Non-Intensive First Level Modern Standard Arabic I
Madhany
ARAB-001-10
M-F 5:10 - 6:45 p.m.
3 cr. $2790 lab fee inc.
This video-based course focuses on developing proficiency in the standard written Arabic language, as well as formal spoken Arabic. It begins with learning of script and phonology, and works rapidly into a wide range of situation-based texts and topics that build vocabulary, grammar, and general communicative competence. By the end of this course you are expected to: 1. be able to read short texts on familiar topics and understand the main ideas without using the dictionary, 2. be able to speak about yourself and your daily life, 3. be able to carry out written transactions related to daily life and simple correspondence, 4. be able to form and understand basic sentence structures of Arabic, and 5. be familiar with some of the differences between standard and spoken Arabic. The approach that we will be using in this course is the communicative approach. In this course, there is great emphasis on speaking and communicative activities.
Intensive First Level Modern Standard Arabic I
Atanassova, Ibrahim
ARAB-011-10/-11
M-F 8:30 - 11:45 a.m.
6 cr. $5520 lab fee inc.
This intensive video-based course focuses on developing proficiency in standard Arabic, as well as formal spoken Arabic. It is a proficiency based course for students with no previous knowledge of Arabic. This class focuses on developing the four basic language skills of modern standard Arabic: listening, speaking, reading, and writing, with a brief introduction to some aspects of the Arab culture. It begins with learning of script and pronunciation, and works rapidly into a wide range of situation-based texts and topics that build vocabulary, grammar and general communicative competence. Short authentic reading and listening materials from daily life contexts such as the newspapers and the Arabic broadcasts will be introduced. As a final project, students will write a composition of 500 words. Students are in class three hours daily, five days a week, with an equal amount of work assigned outside of the class.
Intensive Second Level Modern Standard Arabic I
Kassab, Wahba
ARAB-111-10/-11
M-F 8:30 - 11:45 a.m.
6 cr. $5520 lab fee inc.
Prereq: Successful completion of Volume I of Al-Kitaab fii ta'allum al-Arabiyya, by Brustad, et. al., Georgetown University Press, or its equivalent and permission of the instructor. This course focuses on developing the four basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing in modern standard Arabic. Students are expected to read and to discuss articles from both Arabic daily newspapers and other materials related to culture, economics, politics, and religions of the Middle East. In addition, students are required to listen to the news media on a regular basis, give oral presentations in Arabic. Focus is on acquisition of more complex grammatical structures, expanding vocabulary and communicative skills for active use. Students will be expected to derive meanings from context and extensively use the dictionary. As a final project students will write a composition of 1500 words. Students are in class three hours daily, five days a week, with an equal amount of work assigned outside the class. Successful completion of this course will allow students to advance to Second Level II.
Colloquial Egyptian Arabic I
Staff
ARAB-115-10
M-F 6:15 - 7:45 p.m.
3 cr. $2790 lab fee inc.
Prereq: At least one year of Modern Standard Arabic. This course is intended to build proficiency in the Egyptian dialect, through practice of interactive functional skills such as listening comprehension, conversation tasks, and vocabulary building. It assumes knowledge of Arabic script and Modern Standard Arabic grammatical structure. It is designed to enable students to communicate effectively and appropriately in a wide variety of contexts. Activities will include news, radio, music, and movie screenings.
Intensive Advanced Arabic I
Baccouche, Bonnah
ARAB-215-10/-11
M-F 8:30 - 11:45 a.m. (sections 10 & 11)
M-F 12:10 - 1:00 p.m. (section 10)
6 cr. $5520 lab fee inc.
Prereq: Two years of Modern Standard Arabic and permission of instructor. This course is designed to enable the student to reach higher levels in the various language skills and to allow students to move to a stage where they use Arabic in wider arrays of cultural, professional and social contexts. Reading and listening materials are extensive and vary depending on the themes that interest the students. Students will prepare newspaper and journal articles, short stories, reports and presentations. Students will be expected to argue and debate extensively, paraphrase and summarize texts, and begin to express points of view both speaking and writing. Emphasis will be placed on understanding nuances, idiomatic expressions, and rhetorical devices. By the end of the course, it is expected that students will be able to converse in a clear and concise participatory fashion and to carry out a wide variety of communicative tasks which requires diverse discourse strategies. Students are in class three hours daily, five days a week, with an equal amount of work assigned outside the class.
Spoken Iraqi Arabic
Sheshany
ARAB-255-10
M-F 8:30 - 11:30 a.m.
3 cr. $2790 lab fee inc.
Prereq: Two years of Modern Standard Arabic and permission of instructor. This course is designed for Arabic learners who are at the intermediate level of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). This course will introduce the features of Iraqi dialect and contrast them with MSA. It is geared primarily toward comprehension of spoken Iraqi Arabic, as a basis for building interactive skills. Students will have a variety of of classroom activities (e.g. games, presenations, assignments, etc.). Students are in class three hours daily, with an equal amount of work assigned outside of class. Materials include contemporary dialogs, translations, textbooks and accompanying CDs, specifically designed and adapted by Georgetown University for this course. This course is offered for undergraduate credit only. This course is not open to native speakers of Iraqi Arabic.
SECOND SESSION (July 10 - August 11)
Non-Intensive First Level Persian II
Mostowfi
PERS-002-20
MTWTh 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
3 cr. $2790 lab fee inc.
Prereq: None. This course is a continuation of Non-Intensive First Level Persian I. Non-Intensive First Level Persian II is a 5-week, 3-credit course designed to build communicative skills as well as proficiency in reading, writing, speaking and listening. The course is non-intensive and will include the language material normally covered in two consecutive semesters of undergraduate study at the entry level. Materials and activities include conversational tasks, oral presentations, listening to the news, utilizing Persian audio-visual and internet sources. This course is open to undergradate and graduate students, and to persons who are not academically affiliated but need knowledge of Persian for professional or other valid reasons. This course is offered for undergraduate credit only. This course is not open to native speakers of Persian or its varieties.
Non-Intensive First Level Modern Standard Arabic II
Madhany
ARAB-002-20
M-F 5:10 - 6:45 p.m.
3 cr. $2790 lab fee inc.
This video-based course focuses on developing proficiency in the standard written Arabic language, as well as formal spoken Arabic. It begins with learning of script and phonology, and works rapidly into a wide range of situation-based texts and topics that build vocabulary, grammar, and general communicative competence. By the end of this course you are expected to: 1. be able to read short texts on familiar topics and understand the main ideas without using the dictionary, 2. be able to speak about yourself and your daily life, 3. be able to carry out written transactions related to daily life and simple correspondence, 4. be able to form and understand basic sentence structures of Arabic, and 5. be familiar with some of the differences between standard and spoken Arabic. The approach that we will be using in this course is the communicative approach. In this course, there is great emphasis on speaking and communicative activities.
Intensive First Level Modern Standard Arabic II
Atanassova, Ibrahim
ARAB-012-20/-21
M-F 8:30 - 11:45 a.m.
6 cr. $5520 lab fee inc.
Prereq: Successful completion of Intensive First Level Modern Standard Arabic I or permission of instructor. This course is a continuation of Intensive First Level MSA I. Short authentic reading and listening materials from daily life contexts such as the newspapers and Arabic broadcasts will be introduced to build vocabulary, grammar and general communicative competence. Students will be required to participate in varied classroom activities such as oral presentations, short story readings, and interviews. Students are in class three hours daily, five days a week, with an equal amount of work assigned outside the class. Successful completion of this course will allow students to advance to the intermediate level. As a final project students will write a composition of 1000 words. Students are in class three hours daily, five days a week, with an equal amount of work assigned outside the class.
Intensive Second Level Modern Standard Arabic II
Kassab, Wahba
ARAB-112-20/-21
M-F 8:30 - 11:45 a.m.
6 cr. $5520 lab fee inc.
Prereq: Successful completion of Intensive First Level Modern Standard Arabic I or permission of instructor. This course is a continuation of Second Level MSA I. The courses focus on developing the four basic language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing in modern standard Arabic. Students are expected to read and to discuss articles from Arabic media, give oral presentations in Arabic and begin to describe, narrate, and discuss current issues. By the end of this course, students will have covered most grammatical structures, expanded their vocabulary and communicative skills for active use. As a final project students will write a composition of 2000 words. Students are in class three hours daily, five days a week, with an equal amount of work assigned outside the class. Successful completion will allow students to reach the Advanced level.
Colloquial Egyptian Arabic II
Bonnah
ARAB-116-20
M-F 6:15 - 7:45 p.m.
3 cr. $2790 lab fee inc.
Prereq: Successful completion of Egyptian Arabic I and permission of instructor. This course is a continuation of Colloquial Egyptian Arabic I. It will continue the objectives and work to solidify the student's skills and knowledge base at this level.
Intensive Advanced Arabic II
Baccouche, Bonnah
ARAB-216-20/-21
M-F 8:30 - 11:45 a.m. (sections 20 & 21)
M-F 12:10 - 1:00 p.m. (section 20)
6 cr. $5520 lab fee inc.
Prereq: Successful completion of Advanced Modern Standard Arabic I and permission of instructor. This course is a continuation of Advanced MSA I. It will continue the objectives and work to solidify the student's skills and knowledge base at this level. Students are in class three hours daily, five days a week, with an equal amount of work assigned outside the class.
