ARAB.F26

Intensive Second Year Arabic is designed for students who have already completed Intensive First Year Arabic, or its equivalent. We will continue with the methodology whereby students are trained, through the communicative method and audio/visual material, to speak, understand, read and write Modern Standard Arabic, the form of Arabic shared by educated people of all Arab countries. Classroom time is devoted to oral practice/conversation (drills, skits and discussions) as well as writing exercises. The class will be regularly introduced to authentic cultural materials derived from a variety of the living contexts of more than 400 million Arabic-speaking people. The aim is to advance students to a higher level of the language and proficiency. Our aim this term is to increase both your fluency and accuracy in the language through the active learning on your part of an extended vocabulary, grammar concepts that will assist you in your sentence structure composition, and a larger exposure and training on reading, listening and writing and cultural proficiency.