19209

ARAB 102 A Elementary Arabic II

Elizabeth Holt

M T W . .

9:00 -10:20 am

OLINLC 118

FLLC

Cross-listed: Middle East Studies This course is a continuation of Arabic 101. Students are further trained through the use of the most current pedagogical developments of communicative, visual and narrative methods developed by primarily AL-Kitaab fii Ta` allum al- `Arabiyya. Students will continue to enlarge their speaking, reading, writing and comprehension skills in Modern Standard Arabic, the form of Arabic shared by all Arab countries. Classroom time is devoted to conversation (skits and discussions) and grammar exercises (including skim-reading tasks, spiraling and inference, analogy, problem solving, and educated guessing), stemming from the DVDs and other untainted materials. For example, in the course of the semester you will learn Arabic through a variety of musical traditions both classical and modern. The course will continue to introduce students to some Egyptian colloquial. Consistent emphasis is placed on authentic resources that derive from the most updated cultural contexts, realities and creative work of the Arab world such as gender issues, Arab-Muslim and Arab-Christian traditions, social clubs, ethnic groups, the role of the media etc. Students are expected to devote adequate time for homework, meet with a tutor every week to help them with homework and attend a session of Spoken Arabic.

19601

ARAB 102 B Elementary Arabic II

Elizabeth Holt

M T W . .

10:30 -11:50 am

HEG 201

FLLC

See above.

19506

ARAB 202 Intermediate Arabic

Youssef Yacoubi

M . . . . . T W . .

10:30 -11:50 am 10:30 -11:50 am

OLIN 303 OLINLC 115

FLLC

Cross-listed: Middle Eastern Studies This course is a continuation of Intermediate Arabic 201.The course focuses on the functional use of Arabic in a natural communication setting. The four linguistic skills will be dealt with simultaneously. Active and passive lexicon and grammatical structures are taught through exposure to a wide range of texts. Aspects of Arab culture and differences between Modern Standard Arabic and the spoken language will be highlighted. Students work in the language lab, watch movies, TV programs and have an additional two-hour session with the Arabic tutor for conversational practice. Conducted in Modern Standard Arabic.

19211

ARAB 320 Arab Women Writers

Elizabeth Holt

. . W . .

1:30 pm -3:50 pm

OLIN 301

ELIT/DIFF

Cross-listed: Middle East Studies Reading late twentieth-century literary works by Arab women, this seminar juxtaposes these texts against discourses that figure Arab women as victims or as subjects to be liberated. We begin by looking at novels by Hanan al-Shaykh and Etel Adnan, two Lebanese women writers that narrate the early years of the Lebanese Civil War of 1975-91, considering how these authors question assumptions about womanhood and war. We move next to the national context of Egypt, and study works by Nawal al-Saadawi and Salwa Bakr, looking at postcolonial constructions of private and public space from a female perspective. Finally, we explore the works of Algerian writers Assia Djebar and Ahlam Mosteghanemi, considering how these authors complicate the image of the woman as a nation to be liberated. Texts by Gayatri Spivak, Evelyn Accad, Mervat Hatem, Leila Ahmed and Marnia Lazreg situate discussions critically and historically. Novels and short stories are read in translation.