Prerequisites & Distribution: AAPTIS 101. (5). (LR). Laboratory fee ($10) required.
Credits: (5).
Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($10) required.
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In Arabic 102, the focus on acquisition of the basic vocabulary and fundamental structures of Arabic is continued through grammar presentations, and oral and written practice based on short readings including simple news items, narration, and description. There is increased emphasis on developing conversational, reading, and writing skills as well as focus on communicative drills and activities involving student-teacher, student-student, and group interactions. Daily written assignments are required involving short descriptions and narration utilizing vocabulary and structures covered in class. Grades are based on class participation, weekly achievement tests, periodic comprehensive tests, and a final exam including an oral component. Textbooks: Abboud et al., (1) Elementary Modern Standard Arabic, Part One (Lessons 13-25), (2) a course pack and achievement tests.
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Prerequisites & Distribution: Persian 141. No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in Persian 143. (4). (LR).
Credits: (4).
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This course is the continuation of Elementary Persian 141. All four language skills (speaking, listening, reading, and writing) will be emphasized. The class will be conducted in Persian with occasional recourse to English for grammatical explanations. There will be daily assignments and in-class conversation groups. By the end of the term, students will have acquired an adequate knowledge of all major points of Persian grammar. They will be able to conduct simple conversations in Persian, read non-technical simple prose, and write passages on a variety of topics. Grading will be based on attendance, homework, quizzes, a midterm and final examination. Incoming students may join the class pending examination and approval by the instructor.
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Prerequisites & Distribution: Turkish 151. No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in Turkish 155.(4). (LR).
Credits: (4).
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This course is the sequel to Turkish 151 and is the second half of Elementary Turkish. We will focus on speaking and writing the language of modern Turkey. Course topics include the phonological structure of Turkish, basic sentence patterns, and basic vocabulary. The aural-oral approach is emphasized and serves as the basic course format. There are tapes which accompany the text, Turkish for Foreigners. Student evaluation is based on written and oral quizzes, and a final examination.
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Prerequisites & Distribution: AAPTIS 171. (4). (LR).
Credits: (4).
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A continuation of Western Armenian 171. Reading, writing, and speaking are equally emphasized. Homework assignments, frequent short tests, and a final examination are required. Overall performance throughout the year/term and in the final examination, and compliance with requirements will determine the grade.
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Prerequisites & Distribution: AAPTIS 201. (5). (LR). Laboratory fee ($9) required.
Credits: (5).
Lab Fee: Laboratory fee ($9) required.
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Primary goals are to have students develop the ability:
This course is taught in Arabic using a communicative approach. Course grade is based on class attendance and participation, written assignments, tests and quizzes, and a final exam. Required text: Abboud et al., Elementary Modern Standard Arabic Part Two (Lessons 33-45), and achievement tests.
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Prerequisites & Distribution: AAPTIS 203. (4). (LR).
Credits: (4).
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This course is the second half of Arabic 203. It continues the process of developing fluency and ease in the use of standard Arabic for both oral and written communication as well as appreciation and awareness of contemporary Arab culture. It includes situational topics pertinent to airport arrival and departure, checking in and out at hotels, using the telephone, making reservations and appointments, business lunch and talking business, ordering car shipment, renting an apartment, etc. Learners who successfully complete this course will be able to perform well in a variety of situations, both social and business. Instruction includes a combination of video, audio, and text supported by multimedia interactive drill practice and in the language lab. Course grade is based on class attendance and participation, weekly quizzes, a midterm and a final examination. Textbook: Arabic for Communication: Language, Culture and Business (Lessons 11-21).
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Prerequisites & Distribution: Turkish 251. No credit granted to those who have completed or are enrolled in Turkish 255. (4). (LR).
Credits: (4).
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Part of the departmental sequence in modern Turkish. The course is designed for students who have completed Turkish 251 or its equivalent as determined by the instructor. It provides further study of Turkish grammar, vocabulary, and pronunciation. Comprehension and oral and written expression will be developed through translations and compositions. Readings will be emphasized. Evaluation will be determined on the basis of class quizzes and performance, or a midterm and final examination. Books cost $20.00 if not already purchased for fall term.
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Prerequisites & Distribution: Turkish 451. (3). (Excl).
Credits: (3).
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Second half of first-year Ottoman intended to sharpen skills in the handling of a variety of styles, topics, and scripts through the reading and analysis of specially selected texts. Quizzes and a final examination required. Materials cost: less than $10.00 worth of photocopied material.
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Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl).
Credits: (3).
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The texts for this course will be materials in English translation. Introductory lectures will briefly describe the essential features of the Arabic language and the cultural and geographic area to which it gives expression. Readings and discussions will progress in chronological order from pre-Islamic to modern times. The odes of the poets of pre-Islamic Arabia and their roles in their society will be discussed. The fables of Bidpai, translated from Persian by Ibn al-Muqaffa and encompassing moralistic tales of Kalila and Dimna, will be seen to mark the introduction of prose in Arabic. The Qur'an and the biographical literature relating to the life and personality of the Prophet will be examined in detail. Excerpts from both the poetry and the prose of the classical period, including reference to the early Arab geographers and scientists will illustrate the values and concerns of Arab-Islamic civilization. The Arabian Nights, although introduced into popular Arabic culture towards the end of the Baghdad caliphate from eastern origins, will be seen to exemplify many aspects of Arab culture over extended periods of time and place. The contact and clash between Arab and Western cultures since the early 19th century will be seen to have given rise to new forms of literary expression in contemporary Arabic literature.
Regular class attendance and participation in discussions. Presentation of essays to the class. Five essays will be required and will give evidence of close readings of the assigned texts and the use of supplementary materials.
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Prerequisites & Distribution: (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits.
Credits: (3).
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Many are conscious of the conflict between "Israel and the Arabs" – those Arabs overruled by the sovereign Jewish state and those encompassing it. Less familiar is the encounter between Jews and Muslims during the Middle Ages, when a large majority of the Jewish people subsisted under Muslim rule. This course is an introduction to that fundamental encounter and to its treatment in the twentieth-century scholarly literature.
Setting the stage is an overview of the religious, political, communal, material, and intellectual settings of the Judeo-Muslim experience and the famous Cairo Geniza is introduced as a paramount source of information for the topic and period. In the second part of the course a series of issues within the cross-cultural equation is addressed, beginning with the questions of cross-pollination between the two traditions – and how scholarship focusing on early Judeo-Muslim encounters reflects modern-day agendas. Other themes are the legal status of the Jews in theory and practice; religious polemics – how Muslims viewed the Jews and how Jews viewed the dominant religion; and Messianic activity and religious unorthodoxy as arenas of interaction between members of the two denominations. The final theme is a thoroughly practical aspect of the encounter: the challenge posed to Jewish judicial autonomy by Jews who elected to solve family feuds in Muslim rather than in Jewish venues of dispute resolution.
This upper-level undergraduate course adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the study of history and should engage students interested in Jewish history and culture, Islamic history and culture, ethnicity, religion, and law. An emphasis is placed on classroom analyses of translated primary source material, informed by preparatory readings.
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Prerequisites & Distribution: AAPTIS 501. (3). (Excl).
Credits: (3).
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Students are required to read ten pages or more of Arabic text of their choice each week, prepare a short list of basic vocabulary and useful expressions along with an English translation to be distributed to other members of the class; a written summary report is required as well as an oral presentation to the class (not more than 10 minutes in duration); the presenter is asked to respond to questions raised by other class members during a follow-up discussion. General topics will be read by the entire class with an intensive and critical discussion to follow. In addition, lectures will be given in Arabic delivered by guest speakers, videocassettes and films in Arabic of special interest to the students will be viewed and discussed, and there will be group projects. This class should help develop analytical study skills, including critical reading and listening, outlining and note-taking, as well as effective writing and public speaking. The grade will be based on weekly written reports, class attendance and participation, a final group project, and an oral interview.
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Prerequisites & Distribution: AAPTIS 501. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for a total of six credits.
Credits: (3).
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This course (offered alternately with AAPTIS 569, Modern Arabic Poetry, every Winter) is meant to introduce students of modern Arabic literature to the sheer pleasure of reading, discussing, and writing about a text in the original language. A special emphasis will be put on styles, strategies and modes of narration, and on the literary and cultural contextualizations of a specific genre. The selected texts, in the coursepack, will include novels, short stories, personal narratives, and critical essays, written by modern Arab authors in the Levant and North Africa in the last decade. Recent theories of narrative, and issues of gender and post-colonialism, will also be addressed. The list of authors may include, among others: Salwa Bakr, Huda Barakat, Najwa Barakat, Rashid al-Da'if, Rabi' Jaber, Jabra Ibrahim Jabra, Sahar Khalifeh, Edwar al-Kharrat, Elias Khoury, Ibrahim al-Kouni, Baha' Taher, Muhammad Shukri. The selected texts will be assigned for reading and analysis, at an individual as well as a group level. At the individual level, each student will be asked to focus on a specific text of her or his choice, and present it in class. A substantial term-paper, in Arabic, is due toward the end of the term.
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Prerequisites & Distribution: Some knowledge of Arabic. Open to undergraduates with instructor's permission. (3). (Excl).
Credits: (3).
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Introduction to the linguistic analysis of the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Arabic (literary and dialectal), with some attention to historical and sociolinguistic aspects. Topics include the modeling of derivational ablaut, the historical trend toward simpler word forms and more rigid phrasal syntax, the concept of creolization and its possible application to Arabic vernaculars, diglossia, and the mixing of literary Arabic and foreign material into modern vernaculars.
For students with some training in literary Arabic or significant exposure to any Arabic vernacular. Open to undergraduates with instructor's permission. Aimed primarily at graduate students in NES, some of whom have strong linguistic interests, but it could accommodate interested students from Anthropology, Linguistics, History,
etc. Also undergraduates who have done extensive coursework in Arabic and are developing linguistic interests. Not designed as a adjunct to basic language courses. Lecture/Discussion.
Class attendance and participation. Short assignments and two papers.
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Prerequisites & Distribution: Persian 242 or 243. Taught in English. (3). (Excl). May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor.
Credits: (3).
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From the middle of the twelfth century, for a period of more than a half a millennium, the Iranian world produced a rich and fantastic array of epic romances which in the range of the themes and topics that they cover remain unique in the Islamic world. These were clearly informed by a strong oral tradition, the development of which harks back to even earlier periods. The very scope of this genre, as well as their "popular" and "folkloric" characteristics, have rendered these works as unsuitable for "serious" study by an academic world that until recently eschewed the productions of the "non-literate" groupings in the Perso-Islamic societies. And yet the corpus remains one of the most fascinating venues for a systematic study of the ideas, mores, daily lives, and world views of the masses of the population. This course will examine a selective sample of these epic romances in the hope of acquainting the students with this wonderfully rich source for the study of Iranian culture and society in the medieval and early modern period. The primary readings will be in Persian. The course will be conducted in English, and readings will include secondary sources in English.
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Prerequisites & Distribution: Turkish 252 or 255. (2). (Excl).
Credits: (2).
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Part of the sequence in required language courses for concentrators, M.A. and Ph.D. candidates. The objective is to continue to develop comprehension ease in modern Turkish through the reading of the literary products of modern Turks. Recitation type of course includes reading, translation, and discussion of content and style. Quizzes and a final examination are required. Cost: about $5.00 of photocopied material.
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Prerequisites & Distribution: AAPTIS 403 or reading knowledge of Arabic(3). (Excl).
Credits: (3).
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Selected examples of contemporary imaginative prose writing, such as short and long fiction and drama, will be studied. Readings will be in Arabic, and class discussions will be in English.
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Prerequisites & Distribution: AAPTIS 202. (3). (Excl).
Credits: (3).
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Selected surahs of the Qur'an in Arabic.
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