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| ▪ | General Requirements: (18 Credit Hours) | ||||||||||||||||||||
*Note: Placement Tests for Arabic and English are held during the registration period to advise students on which appropriate language courses they are required to take. |
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| ▪ | University Electives: (Students select 14 credit hours) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| ▪ | Core Programme Courses: (96 Credit Hours) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| A123 – An Introduction to the Humanities 16 credit hours. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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This course provides students with a lively and varied grounding in the disciplines of art history, literature, philosophy, classical studies, history. It will help students to express themselves more clearly and to develop the skills of reading, analysis and interpretation they will need before they move on to more specialized courses at Level 2. .pdf details |
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| U210A-The English Language: Past, Present & Future (I) 8 credit Hours. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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This course is about the history of English, structural differences between varieties of English in current use and the use of English in everyday speech and writing, and in a range of specific contexts from the workplace to literature..pdf details |
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| U210B–The English Language: Past,Present & Future( II) 8 credit hours. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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This course investigates the acquisition of English in monolingual and bilingual contexts, English in the education system as a first language or a foreign language, English in relation to new communications technology, and English as a global language. .pdf details |
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| A210 - Approaching Literature 16 credit hours. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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This course is a literary study and analysis of the realist novel, romantic writings, as well as Shakespeare and the Canon. It introduces students to a wide range of literary texts from the second half of the sixteenth century through the mid twentieth century, and also prepares them to study literature at a more advanced level. .pdf details |
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| A319 – Literature in the Modern World 16 credit hours. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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The course focuses on the study of aspects of cultural change through which ‘English Literature’ has become “literature in English”, and includes sections on Modernism, Englishness, literature and ideology, language and gender and literature and history. .pdf details |
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| E300 - English Language and Literacy 16 credit hours. | |||||||||||||||||||||
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This course provides a conceptual framework for understanding the nature of oral and written English, and the social, cultural, and political processes behind its use. It also introduces research into language and literacy. .pdf details |
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| E303 – English Grammar in Context 16 credit hours. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| This course builds upon U210A and U210B foundation courses. It provides an advanced grammatical description based on real corpora combined with a systematic functional approach. It demonstrates how analytical techniques apply to real-world data and problems. It also employs recent developments in the application of ICT to the analysis of English. .pdf details | |||||||||||||||||||||