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ARAB C285A: Intermediate Arabic 2A

Course Outline of Record
Item Value
Top Code 111200 - Arabic
Units 2 Total Units 
Hours 36 Total Hours (Lecture Hours 36)
Total Outside of Class Hours 0
Course Credit Status Credit: Degree Applicable (D)
Material Fee No
Basic Skills Not Basic Skills (N)
Repeatable No
Open Entry/Open Exit No
Grading Policy Standard Letter (S), 
  • Pass/No Pass (B)
Global Society Requirement (CGLB) Yes
California General Education Transfer Curriculum (Cal-GETC)
  • Cal-GETC 6A Language Other Than English (6A)
Intersegmental General Education Transfer Curriculum (IGETC)
  • IGETC 6A Lang other than Engl (6A)
California State University General Education Breadth (CSU GE-Breadth)
  • CSU C2 Humanities (C2)

Course Description

Advanced/Intermediate course in Modern Standard Arabic which stresses reading, writing, listening, and speaking and expands upon students' knowledge of grammar and morphology as well as expanding cultural awareness of the Arab world. ARAB C285A and C285B equal ARAB C285. PREREQUISITE: ARAB C280 or C280B. Transfer Credit: CSU; UC: Must be taken with C285B for UC credit.

Course Level Student Learning Outcome(s)

  1. Demonstrate oral/aural and written competency at the advanced intermediate level.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge of significant differences in culture-specific behaviors between the cultures of the Arabic-speaking world and the United States. between the cultures of the Arabic-speaking world and the United States by identifying the culture in which the variant is practiced (personal space, non-verbal behavior, treatment of opposite sex, treatment of elders, etc.).

Course Objectives

  • 1. correctly manipulate continuing intermediate level Arabic grammatical structures in speaking and writing employing vocabulary learned in the course
  • 2. demonstrate knowledge of the culture and civilization or Arabic-speaking countries.

Lecture Content

Vocabulary Numbers, 11-99 and their use Reading dates Foods Terminology of Religion Holidays and family life Idiomatic expressions Grammar and morphology Continuous past Doubled verbs Active and passive participles Masculine plural in possessive construction Defective verbs Passive voice Place Nouns Continuous past Doubled verbs The particle inna and its sisters Verbs with a weak third radical Diptotes False idaafa Other Pronunciation and intonation Assigned 200-word compositions Classroom discussion and conversation Vocabulary review, discussion and examples Culture and civilization of Arabic countries Famous Arab travel writers Holidays, family life, history and customs History of Arabic journalism Modern Arab writers History of Universities in the Arab world

Method(s) of Instruction

  • Lecture (02)
  • DE Online Lecture (02X)

Instructional Techniques

The course will combine a variety of activities, including lecture employing current technology and/or handouts, video and/or audio presentations. Intensive and extensive listening and reading in the target language is directed toward raising learners' awareness of the lexical nature of language. Activities will be structured to enable the learners to comprehend lexical phrases as unanalyzed "chunks" and to use whole phrases without necessarily understanding their constituent parts.

Reading Assignments

Holidays, family life, history, and customs

Writing Assignments

Assigned 200-word compositions.

Out-of-class Assignments

Library assignment on the history of universities in the Arab world (or other topics).

Demonstration of Critical Thinking

Activities which require learners to become more active and questioning critical thinkers such as group work, project-based work and presentations which involve comparing and contrasting; classifying; evaluating; cause and effect; ranking; identifying right from wrong and facts from opinion; and summarizing will be employed

Required Writing, Problem Solving, Skills Demonstration

Assigned 200 word compositions.

Eligible Disciplines

Foreign languages: Master's degree in the language being taught OR bachelor's degree in the language being taught AND master's degree in another language or linguistics OR the equivalent. Master's degree required.

Textbooks Resources

1. Required Brustad, Kristen. Alif Baa with Multimedia: Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds (with CD), 2nd ed. Georgetown University Press, 2004 Rationale: - Legacy Textbook Transfer Data: Legacy text 2. Required Frangieh, Bassam K. Arabic for Life with DVD, 11 ed. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012 Rationale: - Legacy Textbook Transfer Data: Legacy text

Other Resources

1. Coastline Library