• Offered by Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies
  • ANU College ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
  • Course subject Arabic
  • Areas of interest Arab and Islamic Studies
  • Academic career UGRD
  • Course convener
    • Dr Huda Al-Tamimi
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in First Semester 2019
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This is a reading course for students who have completed Intermediate Arabic ‘B' or its equivalent. Readings should be completed in line with the Guidelines provided to students. Focus will be on one area of Arabic studies, i.e. Linguistics. Students enrolling in this course should be able to undertake a small-scale research project in Arabic Linguistics and present their findings in a scholarly manner.

 

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
  1. Demonstrate sufficient knowledge of some aspects of advanced Arabic syntax and morphology;
  2. Demonstrate proficiency in more complex written syntactic and discourse structures and extend their capacity to use such structures appropriately to undertake a small-scale research in Arabic linguistics;
  3. Demonstrate their ability to present their findings in a scholarly manner in Arabic;
  4. Demonstrate their advanced linguistic skills and functional understanding of Arabic Language; and,
  5. Demonstrate their knowledge of specific linguistic issues of Arabic syntax.

Indicative Assessment

2,500 word essay in Arabic due at the end of semester (50%)

30-minute oral presentation on essay topic due at end of semester (50%)

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Workload

130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 24 hours of language classes; and b) 106 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must have completed ARAB2012, or with permission of the convener. You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed ARAB6505.

Prescribed Texts

The lecturer will provide material selected from Arabic newspaper news items, short stories, poems, novels and other sources.

Majors

Minors

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

If you are a domestic graduate coursework or international student you will be required to pay tuition fees. Tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

Student Contribution Band:
1
Unit value:
6 units

If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees.  Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2019 $3000
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2019 $4560
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.

First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
3260 25 Feb 2019 04 Mar 2019 31 Mar 2019 31 May 2019 In Person View

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