Admission requirements
This course is only open to students in the BA Midden-Oostenstudies.
Successful completion of Modern Standard Arabic 2
This course has the following co-requisites: ‘Modern Standard Arabic 3’, ‘Media Arabic,’ and ‘Modern Standaard Arabisch 4: gevorderde grammatica’.
Description
During this course, students will read under supervision the Arabic novella Qindīl Umm Hāshim by the Egyptian author Yahyā Haqqī (d. 1992). On the basis of this novella, students will focus on the grammar of Modern Standard Arabic and increase their Arabic vocabulary. The course is closely related to 'Modern Standard Arabic 4: Advanced Grammar'.
Course objectives
Knowledge: Students increase their knowledge of the grammar and the vocabulary. Searching skills in Hans Wehr's dictionary are enhanced. Students’ grammar is sharpened by exercises in lectures and by means of homework. Repetition plays a major role in this learning process. This increases the insight into a (literary) text. Students are introduced to the cultural context of the read Arabic text.
Insight: Better knowledge of the Arabic sentence construction; the impetus for faster recognition of word forms and word structures, feeling more (actively and passively) at home in Arabic.
Skills: Students learn to apply the acquired knowledge of Arabic to different types of Arabic texts.
Timetable
The timetables are avalable through My Timetable.
Mode of instruction
Seminar
Assessment method
Midterm exam: 30%
Final exam: 50%
Two vocabulary tests: 10%
Attendance, participation, and assignments: 10%
the final mark for the course is established by determining the weighted average
If the final grade is 5.49 or lower there is the possibility to take a re-sit. The resit covers the material of both the midterm and the final exam and counts for 80%. Of the final grade. The grades for attendance, participation, assignments, and the three vocabulary tests cannot be retaken and will count towards the final grade.
Exam review:
If a student requests a review within 30 days after publication of the exam results, an exam review will be organized.
Reading list
The text of the novella will be made available on Brightspace.
Mandatory purchase:
Hans Wehr, A Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic (Arabic-English). Edited by J. Milton Cowan. Fourth Edition, considerably enlarged and amended by the author. Ithaca, N.Y., 1994.
Raadplegen (UB of internet):Karin C. Ryding, A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005).
Registration
Enrolment through MyStudyMap is mandatory.
General information about course and exam enrolment is available on the website.
Contact
For substantive questions, contact the lecturer listed in the information bar on the right.
For questions about enrolment, admission, etc, contact the Education Administration Office: Vrieshof
Remarks
Please note that the additional course information is an integral part of this course description.