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HCL 6/460 Colloquial Arabic I - Credit Hours: 3

Semester normally offered: Fall

Course Description

This course introduces students to the Arabic alphabet and enables students to communicate in colloquial Palestinian Arabic at the basic level on topics of everyday life. Emphasis will be placed on basic grammar and present and past verbal system.

Course Equivalencies

  • Language – Arabic

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, the student should be able to:

  • begin to speak colloquial Palestinian Arabic regarding common daily activities;
  • listen to and understand basic spoken Palestinian Arabic with reference to common activities;
  • conjugate and use 30 common verbal forms in the present simple and past tenses; and
  • recognize and write the letters of the Arabic alphabet.

Field Study