Curriculum
Students will enroll in courses offered by CET Academic Programs.
Please note that a minimum enrollment is necessary for an CET Academic Programs course to be offered for the semester, and availability is subject to change. All courses are taught by local faculty.
Required Courses
Students are placed into one 6-unit Modern Standard Arabic course and one 3-unit Jordanian Dialect course.
Required Course List
Modern Standard Arabic
- Novice Modern Standard Arabic
- Novice High Modern Standard Arabic
- Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic
- Intermediate High Modern Standard Arabic
- Advanced Modern Standard Arabic
- Advanced High Modern Standard Arabic
Jordanian Dialect
- Novice Low Jordanian Dialect
- Novice Jordanian Dialect
- Novice High Jordanian Dialect
- Intermediate Jordanian Dialect
- Advanced Levantine Dialect
Elective Courses
Students choose two to three 3-unit electives to meet the recommended 15 to 18 total units from the following list:
Language Learning Electives
- Living Language: Jordanian Dialect in Popular Culture
- Living Language: Modern Standard Arabic in Practice
Arabic Content Courses
- Modern History of Conflict in the Middle East: Influences on the Arab Spring
- Current Issues in Arabic Media
- Jordanian Society
- Arab & Islamic Culture and Economics in the Middle East (also taught in English)
- Trappings of Legitimacy: Political Parties and Religious Rhetoric
- Culture, Politics, and Religion in Arab Theater (also taught in English)
- Islamic Shar’ia: Qur’an, Hadith, and the ‘Ulama
- Marginalization & Discrimination in the Arab World: Changing Perspectives
English Content Courses
- Art of Translation
- Arab & Islamic Culture and Economics in the Middle East (also taught in Arabic)
- Refugees, Forced Migration, and Integration in Jordan
- Culture, Politics, and Religion in Arab Theater (also taught in Arabic)
- Ideology vs. Faith: Roots of Religious Conflict
- The United States in the Arab World
Field-Based Electives
- Internship Bridging Theory and Practice
- Directed Research