Course Description

Advanced beginning course continuing ARAB C180 or C180B, emphasizing listening and reading comprehension, grammar, oral production, and writing skills in elementary standard classical/literary Arabic and introducing features of the life and culture associated with Arabic language and inherent in Arabic-speaking countries, including discussions of the cultural origins of linguistic expression and studies of systems of cultural transmission through the arts, sciences, and religion. Correspondence, popular media, and literary selections will be discussed, and the philosophical bases of Arabic cultures surveyed.