2009 Summer Session Course Listings
Note: Northwestern day school students need permission from the dean of their school to enroll in School of Continuing Studies courses. SCS courses are indicated by a -CN after the course number (example: ACCOUNT 204-CN Sec. 28). The majority of Summer Session courses do not need dean approval.
African and Asian Languages
Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
AAL 105-1 Sec. 23
Elementary Arabic
CAESAR Class Number: 40144
3 weeks,
EVAN,
6/22 - 7/10
MTuWThF 9am - noon
Lynn Whitcomb
This course will be held in Kresge Hall room 2415.
This three-course sequence (105-1, 2, 3) presents the material of the first year of the beginning Arabic curriculum in an intensive format over nine weeks, providing students with an opportunity to develop basic reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. The class meetings include a variety of methods of grammar and structure presentation, practice activities, and group and individual tasks. Students are required to complete significant amounts of homework daily; diligent and punctual completion of homework is crucial to successful completion of the course and constitutes one element of the overall course grading paradigm. Because of the intensive format of this course and the challenge presented by Arabic's writing system, it is recommended that students who take this course sequence take no other course during the Summer Session. Students should plan to take the entire course sequence to acquire basic functional abilities in Arabic. After only one or two courses, students' abilities will still be fairly limited. This first course (105-1) focuses on the writing and sound systems, basic politeness, and interactional vocabulary and introduces simple sentence structure using a fairly limited set of core vocabulary. It is strongly recommended that students purchase the introductory alphabet book (Alif Baa': An Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds, 2nd edition, by Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud al-Batal, and Abbas al-Tonsi (Georgetown University Press), and begin familiarizing themselves with the Arabic alphabet prior to the start of class. Students who are unable to do so should expect to devote additional time to special alphabet-focused remedial sessions conducted during the afternoon throughout the first week of the class.
Indicates an Evening Course.
Indicates a Study Abroad Course.
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