Undergraduate and Graduate Language Courses

Undergraduate Courses

ARA 301/302/303/304 courses are designed to meet the needs of undergraduate students at IHU.

ARA 301 Basic Arabic I (Compulsory):

This course is a beginning level. It presents the standard Arabic phonology, morphology and basic syntax. The course presents the four skills (reading, listening, writing, and speaking), the students learn how to present themselves, family, and communicate simply with their environment. By the end of the course, the student is expected to know the basic vocabulary related to self, work, family, greetings, numbers, weekdays, colors, names of the things in the close environment, as s/he can produce simple or memorized sentences.

ARA 302 Basic Arabic II (Compulsory):

This is a Novice Mid-course. It presents the basics of communication through the four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). The course provides an introduction to noun and verb sentences. The students learn how to form simple sentences to express their basic needs. 

This is a Novice High course. It presents the topics related to everyday life through four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). The course presents different phrase types and the components of the noun and verb sentences. The students learn to express their immediate needs.

ARA 303 Intermediate Arabic I (Compulsory)

This is a pre-intermediate course. Present and past tense are introduced in different ways in addition to some conjunctions. Topics such as describing people, places, and certain emotions are presented in a simple form. The course deals with and requires dealing with situations of simple complexity, particularly those related to the student's immediate environment. Students learn how to construct a series of sentences.

ARA 304 Intermediate Arabic II (Compulsory)

This is an intermediate low course. The main topics handled in this level are related to uncomplicated communicative tasks like dealing with prices, menus, registering in a sport club, arranging transportation, dealing simply with general questions related to the field of study, etc. Students learn to affirm and negate noun sentences and simple present sentences. The basics of morphology are presented at this level.

ARA305 Advanced Arabic I (Optional)

This is an Intermediate mid course which addresses students who have a good knowledge of the Arabic sentence structure. The course presents discusses autobiographical and social related topics. Learners focus on how to describe and narrate simply in the past, present and future. The learners are directed to produce well-connected sentences. The conjugation of the past tense and some forms of morphology are presented with the infinitive.

ARA306 Advanced Arabic II (Optional)

This course is a continuation to the Intermediate mid course. The course presents autobiographical and social related topics. Learners focus on how to describe and narrate simply in the past, present and future. They learn more how to talk about their needs and deal with a variety of familiar topics. Students are directed to produce a paragraph. Other forms of negating in the present and the ten morphological forms are presented.

ARA 307 Intensive Basic Arabic (Optional)

This is an intensive Arabic language course. It starts from the novice low level and reaches the Intermediate-mid level. In addition to presenting, through the four skills, the common topics of communication in everyday life, the course introduces some simple texts related to Islamic sciences, to equip the students with the main terminologies they are going to study in their classes.

ARA 308 Intensive Intermediate Arabic (Optional)

This is an intensive Arabic language course which starts from the Intermediate-mid and reaches the advanced low level.  Topics handled in this course are related to everyday life issues, it trains students to deal with some complicated situations (in the market, school, street, communications etc). Students learn how to connect long sentences to produce verbally and written paragraphs in the past, present and future tenses, and with topics including but not limited to description and comparison. The course presents modern and classical texts. So, some modern and classical texts related to Islamic sciences are introduced to give the students the tools to deal with Islamic terminologies and to be able to understand the special style of writing in the classical texts.

Graduate Courses

ARA 501/502 courses are designed to meet the needs of postgraduate and doctoral students at IHU.

ARA 501 Basic Arabic I (Compulsory):

This course is a beginning level. It presents the standard Arabic phonology, morphology and basic syntax. The course presents the four skills (reading, listening, writing, and speaking), the students learn how to present themselves, family, and communicate simply with their environment. By the end of the course, the student is expected to know the basic vocabulary related to self, work, family, greetings, numbers, weekdays, colors, names of the things in the close environment, as s/he can produce simple or memorized sentences.

ARA 502 Basic Arabic II (Compulsory):

This is a Novice Mid-course. It presents the basics of communication through the four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). The course provides an introduction to noun and verb sentences. The students learn how to form simple sentences to express their basic needs. 

This is a Novice High course. It presents the topics related to everyday life through four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing). The course presents different phrase types and the components of the noun and verb sentences. The students learn to express their immediate needs.

ARA 503 Intermediate Arabic I (Optional)

This is a pre-intermediate course. Present and past tense are introduced in different ways in addition to some conjunctions. Topics such as describing people, places, and certain emotions are presented in a simple form. The course deals with and requires dealing with situations of simple complexity, particularly those related to the student's immediate environment. Students learn how to construct a series of sentences.

ARA 504 Intermediate Arabic II (Optional)

This is an intermediate low course. The main topics handled in this level are related to uncomplicated communicative tasks like dealing with prices, menus, registering in a sport club, arranging transportation, dealing simply with general questions related to the field of study, etc. Students learn to affirm and negate noun sentences and simple present sentences. The basics of morphology are presented at this level.