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Students are assigned to an Arabic language advisor who supervises placement in an Arabic language course of an appropriate level. May be repeated for credit.
Graduate students are assigned to an Arabic language advisor who supervises their placement in an Arabic language course at the appropriate level.
Selection of Arabic poetry, short stories, novels, and drama. Focus on development and refinement of Arabic reading strategies, literary analysis of short passages, and writing and speaking skills. Readings and assignments in Arabic and English.
An advanced Arabic language course that builds skills in reading, listening, discussion, presentation, and composition while familiarizing students with a broad range of Arab online media and their coverage of current socio-political and cultural issues.
What is The Thousand and One Nights? How has this ever-expanding collection appealed to its diverse audiences? Focus on Nights structure and themes, notable translations and offshoots in western literature and art, and later appropriations by Arab and Muslim writers.
Topic for Fall 2015: From Page to Screen: Film Adaptations of Persian and Arabic Literature. In this course we explore film, and other media, adaptations of Arabic and Persian literature. Students examine competing theories of adaptation and the historical changes that have occurred in film production in the Arab world and Iran.
May be taken multiple times for credit as topics change. Topic for Spring 2015: Arab Culture and Identity (in English translation). Explores Arab culture primarily through media and the arts. Develops an understanding of Arab culture focusing on media, film, the arts, language and the Arab Spring in the context of religious, socio-cultural and political identity.
