Course Description and Syllabi

General courses:
Semester One:
Credit Hours Pre-requisite code Subject
3 none 01101 Arabic Language

Semester Two:

Credit Hours Pre-requisite code Subject

3 01101 Psychology

Semester Three:
Credit Hours Pre-requisite code Subject
3 none 03110 Islamic civilization

Listening and Speaking A

(4 Credit Hours)
Course Description
Listening and speaking skills are closely intertwined. Since the interaction
between these two skills in real time communication is essential for all types of
discourse, the listening and the speaking components of this course are
integrated.
The listening component aims at developing students’ ability to understand real-
life spoken English in both academic and social context through recordings of
spontaneous, natural speech which include a variety of voices and speaking
styles.
The speaking component builds on the listening input for the purpose of
developing speaking skills that help students take part in class and in other
academic and general situations.
Course Syllabus
1. The Listening Component:
Students will be exposed to listening input that stimulates their interest and
motivates them to engage in class activities and discussion. All the listening
exercises should be geared toward helping the students identify and employ
listening strategies for different types of listening comprehension situations. This
is to be carried out through a wide range of recorded materials (audio tapes or
CDs, videos or DVDs) that are carefully selected in terms of their length and
level of difficulty. These recordings include varieties of English use such as in
the following situations:
 General transactional conversations
 Talks and speeches in academic contexts
 Other listening activities that expose students to a selection of
vocabulary and speaking styles used in academic and everyday
language

The listening activities introduce students to sound recognition and train them to
do the following:
 identify and understand the general topic and signpost language
 identify specific details
 listen for definitions and work out meaning from spoken context
 recognise a wide range of words in isolation and in the stream of speech
 recognise segmental features such as individual phonemes and minimal
pairs

1. The Speaking Component:

The listening input is used to develop students’ communication skills. Different
types of oral activities are designed to encourage students to engage in
productive communication in order to improve their spoken English. Simple,
general topics that are related to student’s life should be introduced first to
establish confidence among the learners. Topics that may be presented at this
level are university life, culture, art, literature, careers and any other topics that
enhance students’ ability to understand and comprehend ideas and thoughts,
and to relate these ideas and thoughts to their own experiences as students
and as members of a larger community.
In teaching listening and speaking, the following points will be emphasized:
  Cooperative learning is encouraged through pair and group work to give
students an opportunity to produce spoken language.

 Students are given a specific reason for listening, so that they are able to
bring real-life listening and speaking skills to bear on the task.

 It is recommended that students be sensitized to a particular point

through a variety of activities before being asked to understand it
intellectually

 Recycling of vocabulary throughout the course is promoted in order to

bring words back into consciousness through engaging activities

Reading& Writing A
(4 Credit Hours)

Reading
Provides an access to natural life like texts through graded reading tasks.
Develops reading strategies, step by step from skimming to deduction.
Encourages an awareness of different approaches according to reading to
purpose and type of texts.

Writing
Develops writing skills clearly and thoroughly from sentences to discourse.
practices writing a variety of factual and creative texts.
Practices and expands vocabulary skills systemically.
Teaches and practices dictionary skills.

Vocabulary & Dictionary Skills

(3 Credit Hours)
The aim of the course is to help students to acquire basic techniques in learning
vocabulary. In addition to this, the course is an attempt to encourage students
to take more responsibility for their own vocabulary learning through using
dictionary and glossaries. Thus, the courses focus on acquiring the skill of
dictionary as source of words such as pronunciation, grammatical behavior,
meaning and use of words in example sentences.
G\eneral Objectives
The course aims the following:
Which English words do students need most to learn?
How can we make these words seem important to the students?
How can many needed terms related to each specialization be taught during the
first semester in order to provide foundation of language of applied linguistics,
translations, literature and general linguistics
The course covers the following topics:
Different kinds of dictionary
Bilingual English dictionaries (Arabic English – English Arabic)
Monolingual dictionaries (e.g. English only)
Native speakers’ dictionaries such as long man dictionary of contemporary
English, Collins Corbulid English Dictionary). learners’ dictionaries such as
(Cambridge learner’s Dictionary, Oxford Learner’s Dictionary)
A reference dictionary is organized according to meaning categories. This is
generally classed as thesaurus such as Collins paperback Thesaurus.
The use of learners’ dictionaries by providing dictionary entry from different
types of dictionary.
3. Specialized vocabulary will be taught through short texts and applying
dictionary entries .

English Grammar A
(3 Credit Hours)
The aim of this course is to acquaint students with English grammar. At this
stage, students will learn the following: Pronouns (types and
function) Nouns (types, function and form of noun), adjectives (descriptive and
proper adjectives), adverbs (types and position), prepositions (place and
time), articles (the basic usage), Present tense (simple and progressive), past
tense (simple and progressive), simple future and passive voice for the
aforementioned tenses).
Pronouns:
1. Types:
 Personal pronouns
 Indefinite pronouns
 Demonstrative pronouns
 Possessive pronouns
 Reflexive pronouns
 Reciprocal Pronouns
2. Function:
 Subject/object of the verb.
 Subject complement
 Object of preposition

Nouns:
1. Types:
 Personal nouns
 Concrete or abstract nouns
 Collective nouns
 Nouns compounds
 Mass/ unit
2. Function:
 Subject/ object of the verb
 Object complement
 Object of preposition
1. Form of noun:
 Inflectional forms(gender/number)
 Possessive inflectional form
 Derivational form of nouns.

Articles:
  Indefinite articles a/an (with common countable nouns)
 Definite article THE

Present tense (simple and progressive) , past tense (simple and progressive) ,
simple future and passive voice for the aforementioned tenses)

Listening and speaking B

(4 Credit Hours)

Students in the listening component are exposed to varieties of natural

occurring spoken English through listening exercises that are intended to
develop strategies for comprehending connected spoken English as used in
narrative, descriptive or argumentative texts.

The aim of the spoken component is to develop what the students have started
in listening and speaking A. They are to be given a good opportunity to move
their communication skills outside the classroom by negotiating and discussing
issues as well as situations that resemble real life language use. Thus, students
should be taught how to interact, in the target language, with other people in
any of the many situations they may find themselves in. The use of role- plays,
pair and group work, teacher- student work, media- based material; TV, radio,
magazines, video cassettes, etc… is believed to be essential for highly
interactive material that promotes fluency and compressibility in spoken English.

It is always suggested that listening- lead- to speaking methodology would

promote communication skills and match real-life use.

Reading & Writing B

(4 Credit Hours)
Objectives
The course develops systematic development of reading and writing skills. It
offers on variety of texts based on real life situations and develops the reading
situations skills using these reading skills on a model for written work.
Reading for gist / specific
outline Writing Strategies Unit 1
information
Reading for gist / specific
Description – best friend Everyday people Unit 2
information
Description – TV favorite Reading for specific
What a character Unit 3
character information
Reading for gist / specific From all four corners of
Description – town /city Unit 4
information the world
Reading for gist / specific
Description – a celebration A time to celebrate Unit 6
information
Reading for specific
Description: emotions
information / detailed So the story goes Unit 7
First person narrative
understanding
Reading for gist / specific
Beginnings / endings information
Pros and cons Unit 9
For and against paragraph Matching topics to
paragraphs
Beginnings / endings giving Reading for specific
A matter of opinion Unit 10
opinion information
Reading for specific
Beginnings / endings letters
information – matching texts Drop me a line Unit 13
to a friend
to visual prompts
Letter of invitation to a Reading for specific
friend letter accepting information – matching We’d love it if you Unit 14
/refusing an invitation topics to paragraphs
Formal / informal style Reading for detailed
Job hunting Unit 17
Job application understanding
English Grammar B
(3 credit hours)

At this stage, students will be exposed to the following: present perfect (simple
and continuous) , past perfect ( simple and continuous) , Future (continuous
and perfect), conditionals (real, unreal (present) and unreal
(past) , modals ( can, could, may, might, must, have to, need, should, ought.
Course Syllabus
Present perfect (simple and continuous)
 Time expressions
 Stative‫؛‬/ active verbs
 Affirmative/Negative/Interrogative

Past Perfect (simple and continuous)

 Time expression
 Contrast with simple past
 Affirmative/Negative/Interrogative

Future (continuous and perfect)

 Time expression
 Affirmative/Negative/Interrogative

Conditionals
 Real conditions
 Unreal conditions (present)
 Unreal Conditions (past)

Wish/Hope
 Present
 Past
Modals
 Can/could (have)
 1. ability 2. possibility 3. permission 4. requests
 may/ might (have)
1. permission 2. possibility 3. wishes
 must/have to/ need (have)
1. obligation 2. logical conclusion 3. necessity
 should/ ought to (have)
1. strong possibility 2. advisability
 will
1. determination 2. request 3. invitation 4. assumption 5. insistence

Passive
 With reference to the tenses studied in Grammar I and Grammar II
 With prepositional phrases
 Difference between passive and adjectival phrases
 pseudo passive
 Semantic changes

Articles
Review of the basic uses of articles
 The with mass and proper nouns
 a/an with mass and proper nouns
 zero article with singular count nouns

Adjectives
 Sequence of adjectives
 Comparative and superlative forms
 Derivational form of adjectives

Adverbs
 Sequence of adverbs
 Comparative and superlative forms
 Derivational form of adverbs
Introduction to Translation
(3 credit hours)

Course description
This course is an introductory course which allows students to get acquainted
with translation theories and practice for the first time. The aim objective of this
course is to provide students with basic ideas about translation process and the
contemporary theories set out by some scholars in this field and to enable them
to improve their English and increase their lexical stock while at the same
acquire the art of translating from English into Arabic and vice versa.
Part one
What is a translation study?
What is translation?
The translator as mediator
What is a translation theory?
Types of translation
Translation as a process
Cat ford’s translation process
Eugene Nida’s translation process
Nida’s componential analysis of meaning (CA)
Peter Newmark’s translation process
Translation as a product
Methods of translation
The difference between Semantics and Communicative Translation
The problem of Equivalence in Translation
Author-oriented translation
Reader-oriented translation
Text-oriented translation
Part two:
Meaning and translation
Arabic-English language and culture
Culture Aspects (social-religious-ideological-literary)
Denotative and connotative meaning
Collocation
Phrasal verbs
Idioms and proverbs
Passive voice in translation
Translation problems (Lexical, Grammatical, Culture)
Translating English passive into Arabic
Translating English sentences into Arabic
Translating Arabic sentences into English
Part three
The practical part of the course consists of selected graded units of language
starting from morphemes, words, phrases, clauses, simple sentences, complex
sentences, compound sentences, paragraphs to texts taken from various
sources(scientific, literary, religious, journalistic, legal and political).

Introduction to Linguistics
(3 credit hours)

This is an introductory course in the field of modern linguistics. It covers the

basic ideas concerning the scientific study of language as a system of
communication and a form of human behaviour.

The content of the course:

1. What is linguistics?
2. What is language?
 The nature of language
 Defining language
 Animal vs. human communication
 The function of language

3. The scope of linguistics

 Language and parole
 Competence and performance
 Language structure and language use

4. Investigating language
 The use of intuition
 The use of corpus linguistics

5. A historical introduction
 The early contribution of ancient linguistics
 The Indians
 The Greek
 The Arabs

6. Nineteen and Twentieth Century Linguistics

 Historical linguistics
 Descriptive
 Generative linguistics
 Synchronic linguistics vs. diagnostic linguistics
 Prescriptive vs. descriptive
 Structural linguistics
 Transformational-Generative Grammar

7. Principles and levels of analysis

 Phonetics
 Phonology
 Morphology
 Syntax
 Semantics
 Meaning in context: pragmatics

8. Current issues and other areas of linguistics

 Universal grammar
 Formal linguistics
 Functional linguistics
 9. Other areas of linguistics: Psycholinguistics and Sociolinguistics

Introduction to English Literature

(3 Credit Hours)
Course Description
This is the initial course in the core of the literature courses which are offered to
serve the following objectives:
 To expose students to the creative use of language.
 To provide students with the opportunity to read extensively.
 To train students to acquire an analytical approach to a literary text.
 To stimulate students’ interest in imaginative writings.
 To develop in the students a sense of appreciation to literary work
This introductory course introduces students to the three major genres of
literature; poetry, drama and fiction by exploring the different literary elements,
devices and features found in each genre and examining these in
representative texts.
Course Syllabus
Introduction to English literature is designed primarily to familiarize students
with different aspects and forms of literature. Short passages and complete
literary works are analysed to exemplify the literary elements in the three basic
genres; poetry, drama and fiction.
The main components of this course are as follow:
 Defining literature
 Types of English literature: poetry, fiction and drama
 Defining poetry
 The language of poetry: symbols, metaphors, similes, etc.
 Main types of English poetry: sonnets, narrative, descriptive, etc.
 Defining fiction
 Elements of fiction: characters, plot, setting
 Defining drama
 Elements of drama
 Types of plays: comedy, melodrama, etc.
Introduction to Applied Linguistics
(3 Credit Hours)

The course is a general introduction to the area of applied linguistics. It covers

the following topics:
1. General introduction to linguistics
 What is linguistics
 What is language
 Levels of analysis
 Definitions
 Sound
 Syntax
 Morphology
 Semantics

2. Areas of applied linguistics

 Psycholinguistics
 Socio-linguistics
 Language teaching

3. The techniques of applied linguistics

 Contrastive linguistic studies
 The study of learner’s language (error analysis)

4. The application of linguistics

 Linguistics in language teaching / learning
 Linguistics and translation
 Linguistics and literature (stylistics)

All of the above topics are introduced briefly and systematically.

Poetry
(3 credit hours)

Course description:
Poetry is a course that aims at providing students with more than just an
introduction to the study of poetry, in fact this syllabus is addressed to learners
who are beginning a serious investigation of poetry. Bearing in mind the
difficulties involved and acknowledging the evolving nature of poetry, this
course works to balance the classic with the contemporary, to represent a wide
diversity of poets, and to emphasise the importance of the close reading of
poetry as the preferred avenue to enjoy and appreciate it. The syllabus attempts
to offer students a sufficient grasp of the nature and variety of poetry, some
necessary means for reading it with appreciative understanding, and a few
primary ideas of how to evaluate it. The initial step will be understanding the
elements of poetry through which it presents itself: those elements will be
presented in a progression in which each new topic builds on what preceded it,
putting the emphasis always on how and why. At the same time, particular
attention will be paid to the analysis of poems and to the difficult task of writing
about poetry. In matters of theory, the course represents a perfect venue for
discussing different critical approaches in order to fully respond to the texts and
guide the students in the stage of interpretation. The course guides students
through the study of poetry and its cultural, social, and historical contexts.
Content includes terminology and methods for analyzing and evaluating poetry
including form, thematic development, and style. Poems, reflecting culturally
diverse texts, may be organized according to a number of principles, including
thematic, analytic, structural and historical modes. A thematic organization
would group texts according to such common themes as innocence and
experience; love; conformity and rebellion; death. An analytic organization
would group units of study according to elements of poetry, studying in turn
speaker, imagery, figures of speech, formal elements, etc. A historical
organization would arrange texts chronologically. A structural organization
would group poems according to some common formal elements: sonnets,
odes, lyrics, etc. The last part of the course will present a critical casebook,
such as: From symbolism to modernism: Yeats, Pound, and Eliot;
Contemporary British poetry; Poetry and personal identity; Postcolonial poetics;
Women’s Voices.
Course objectives:
The student will be able to:
To acquire a vocabulary of literary terms specific of poetry.
Explain the distinctive characteristics of poetry as a genre.
Identify the conventions of poetic works such as: as lyric, epic, ballad, sonnet,
elegy, free verse, and dramatic monologue, etc.
Interpret the formal elements of these works using appropriate terminology,
such as: speaker, metaphor, symbolism, irony, tone, meter, rhyme, simile,
personification, etc.
Analyze works in the context of their literary, cultural, and historical
backgrounds.
Synthesize knowledge of genre, formal elements, and background material.
Develop analytical and critical skills.
Incorporate secondary sources in the analysis and interpretation of poetry texts.
Read literature with greater understanding and expand the tools necessary to
reach a critical evaluation of a literary text.
Get familiar with a theoretical and methodological framework for analyzing
literary texts.
Write more clearly and critically in response to challenging literary texts.
Focus on the value of literature in our society.

Drama
(3 credit hours)

Course description:
Drama is a course designed to introduce students to the study of a variety of
dramatic works. Students will read, analyze, and interpret different types of
dramatic texts such as tragedies and comedies in an attempt to relate
awareness of literary structure of selected literary pieces and different methods
of critical analysis. Together with an in-depth language-based analysis of the
literary texts object of study, a willingness to share interpretations as well
personal response will be fostered throughout the course. The course will
showcase plays by major playwrights, such as Shakespeare, Wilde, Shaw,
Beckett, Miller, Williams.

Course objectives:
The student will be able to:

Learn a set of literary terms for the study of drama.

Explain the distinctive characteristics of the drama.
Identify and differentiate between such forms of drama as tragedy, comedy,
satire, and tragicomedy.
Interpret in dramatic literature such elements as character, action, theme,
symbolism, irony, staging, and structure.
Delineate the origins and the evolution of drama and the theater within historical
and cultural contexts.
Synthesize knowledge of genre, formal elements, and background material.
Incorporate secondary sources in the analysis and interpretation of drama texts.
Study a variety of dramatic texts that will highlight the richness and specificity of
reading and performing dramatic works.
Explore a wide range of issues that will help shape their life and focus on the
value of literature in our society.

Fiction
(3 Credit Hours)
Course Description
Fiction is a course designed to introduce students to the study of a variety of
literary works pertaining the genre of fiction. This course considers issues of
narrative form, structure, technique and style in the short story, the novella, and
the novel. A variety of narrative texts will be studied to highlight literary
development along with focusing on historic, cultural, structural, psychological,
political, philosophic, and linguistic contexts by applying contemporary literary
theory to the texts. In this course the focus will be on both the study of the
elements of fiction and on a broader framework for analyzing, interpreting, and
evaluating narrative texts. Readings, reflecting culturally diverse texts, may be
organized according to a number of principles, including thematic, analytic and
historical modes. A thematic organization would group texts according to
specific literary themes. An analytic or formal organization would group texts
according to different genres of fiction or different narrative techniques and
styles, studying in turn the formal elements of each work. A historical
organization would arrange texts chronologically in order to highlight the
historical periods and development of fictional works and genres. The course
will be conducted through lectures, discussions, and the use of other
appropriate media, such as films. Students will read a variety of short stories
and novels and demonstrate competence through short written projects,
quizzes, test, and discussion.
Firstly, a distinction will be drawn between Story and Discourse (also between
Story or Fabula and Plot). Then several other aspects will be taken into
consideration: Narration, Focalisation, Narrative Modes: (Showing/Telling:
Speech, Report, Description, Comment).
Narrative Levels: Matrix Narratives, Embedded Narratives and their functions:
actional integration, exposition, distraction, obstruction/retardation, analogy,
mise en abyme.
Setting and fictional space: Atmosphere, Space and Character, Space and Plot,
Symbolic Space.
Time: 1)Tense, 2)Order: Beginnings: Ab Ovo, In Medias Res, In Ultimas Res;
Analepsis/Prolepsis;3)Suspense;4) Open/Closed Endings; 5) Duration; 6)
Frequency.
Characterization: Narratorial/Figural, Explicit/Implicit, Self/Altero-
characterisation; Block characterization; Flat/Round Characters. Different
character function: Main/Minor; Protagonist/Antagonist; Hero/Villain; Confidant,
Foil, Witness, Chorus characters.
Course objectives:
The student will be able to:
Identify and define the major elements of fiction.
Explain the distinctive characteristics and conventions of culturally diverse
works of fiction by focusing on genre, literary technique and social context.
Analyse a variety of narrative texts by relying on the methods of independent
inquiry.
Discuss and debate multiple interpretations of fictional works by applying the
methods of shared inquiry.
Engage in close readings of fictional texts as support for literary interpretation in
classroom discussion and written assignments.
Interpret the formal elements of the novel and short story, using appropriate
literary terminology.
Analyze works of fiction in the context of their literary, cultural, and historical
backgrounds.
Analyze the complexities of race, gender, ethnicity, and class in fiction.
Distinguish and apply multiple critical approaches to the analysis of fictional
texts.

Non-Fictional Prose
(3 credit hours)
Pre-requisite:
Course description
Non-Fictional Prose introduces students to the difference between Fiction and
Non-Fiction. The course will identify and examine the forms, genres, literary
conventions, and topics of concern that typify non-fictional texts. Non-fictional
works object of study will include different types of essays such as scientific,
political, doctrinal and philosophical prose; newspaper and magazine articles;
speeches and sermons; political writings such as constitutions; travelogues;
aphorisms; biographical as well as autobiographical writings such as memoirs,
letters, diaries and journals; factual narratives.
Course objectives:
 Through the study of a selection of non-fictional prose works ranging in
origin, length and difficulty, this course will enable students:
 To extend their critical and analytical skills and to develop an awareness
of the rhetorical principles that inform effective discourse.
 To develop a critical awareness of the relationship between style and
meaning.
 To learn how prose can mirror changing social and philosophical views,
and how writers give shape to their experience and interests.

Stylistics
(3 credit hours)
Stylistics is concerned with the study of style in language. It can be defined as
the analysis of distinctive expression in language and the description of its
purpose and effect. This course answers the following questions: what makes
an expression distinctive, why it has been devised, and what effect it has.
This course introduces the learner to key concepts in stylistics. These
introductions are compact and are ordered in a linear way, so if the student
reads progressively through this section s/he can assemble a composite picture
of the core issues in both stylistic theory and practice.
Of course, the most productive way of learning about stylistics is simply to do it.
This course provides the opportunity to try out and apply what you have
learned. For example, it offers a practical activity involving the exploration of
patterns of grammar in a short poem and offers a chance to investigate the
concept of transitivity in different kinds of texts. It also allows students to read
what other scholars have written on the relevant subject over the years and to
this effect, it offers a wide-ranging selection of readings by some of the best
known stylisticians in the world.
Course Outline
An Introduction: key concepts in stylistics
What is stylistics?
Stylistics and levels of language
Grammar and style
Rhythm and metre
Narrative stylistics
Style as choice
Style and point of view
Representing speech and thought
Dialogue and discourse
Cognitive stylistics
Metaphor and metonymy
Stylistics and verbal humour
B Development: doing stylistics
Developments in stylistics
Levels of language at work: an example from poetry
Sentence styles: development and illustration
Interpreting patterns of sound
Developments in structural narratology
Style and transitivity
Approaches to point of view
Techniques of speech and thought presentation

Medieval Literature

(3 Credit Hours)
Course Description

Medieval Literature traces the development of English literature from the Origins
to the Middle Ages. The medieval period, or the Middle Ages, spans about a
thousand years between the fall of the Roman Empire, which occurred around
500 CE, and the beginning of the European Renaissance, which was a bit later
in England around 1500 CE. The idea of a period called the Middle Ages was a
product of later thinkers who contrasted the explosive creativity and cultural
transformation of the Renaissance with the seemingly subdued work of earlier
centuries. Many saw this earlier period as less intellectually and culturally
valuable. The ideas, values, and tastes of this period are more in alignment with
our own, and it is easy to appreciate and identify with them more than with
those of earlier times. Nonetheless, the Middle Ages produced artistic works
that not only reveal the culture and thought of that age, but also link strongly
with artistic representations from later ages, including our own. Many
fundamental ideas of western culture developed in this middle period. Although
the Renaissance is traditionally touted as a period of particularly explosive
creativity and cultural rebirth, we will discover that art, literature, and philosophy
certainly flourished in the Middle Ages as well. This survey course has been
designed in order to introduce students to the very origins of literary expression
in the English language. The course will identify and examine the forms, genres,
literary conventions, and topics of concern that typify medieval literature. In
recognition of the vast time range and large amount of material to be covered,
this course will approach literature as a product of specific historical and cultural
circumstances. To foster this understanding, this course has been divided into
two chronological units: Anglo-Saxon England and Old English poetry; Medieval
English Literature. At the outset of each unit, the course will explore the
historical and cultural background of the period, and then propose the most
representative texts. Firstly, the course presents the major writings relating to
pagan Anglo-Saxon literature, such as the Old English Elegies and Beowulf.
Secondly, the Christian poetry of Caedmon and Cynewulf will be briefly dealt
with. Thirdly, the main works of the Middle Ages will follow.
Course objectives:
To develop analytical skills and critical thinking through reading, discussion, and
written assignments.
To broaden a student’s intercultural reading experience.
To deepen a student’s awareness of the universal human concerns that are the
basis for literary works.
To stimulate a greater appreciation of language as an artistic medium and of the
aesthetic principles that shape literary works.
To understand literature as an expression of human values within an historical
and social context.
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
situate literature of the medieval period within its historical context, particularly
in relation to the contrast between Pagan tradition and the development of
Christian culture;
explain the relevance of central themes in medieval texts, including those
relating to economic, social, and religious issues;
recognize and identify the different genres in which medieval writers worked,
and explain how these genres relate to one another both historically and
stylistically;
identify the stylistic and formal elements of medieval poetry and prose;
define and use important literary terms related to major works of the medieval
period;
trace the evolution of language (Old, Middle, and their relationship to Modern
English) within the context of medieval literature;
describe the literature of the period as a product of oral and written cultures;
identify and describe specific features, such as the alliterative line.
To develop analytical skills and critical thinking through reading, discussion, and
written assignments.
To broaden a student’s intercultural reading experience.
To deepen a student’s awareness of the universal human concerns that are the
basis for literary works.
To stimulate a greater appreciation of language as an artistic medium and of the
aesthetic principles that shape literary works.
To understand literature as an expression of human values within an historical
and social context.
Renaissance Literature

(4 Credit Hours)

Course Description
Renaissance Literature traces the development of English literature from the
Middle Ages to the Renaissance. The Renaissance period in English literature
includes the Elizabethan period and the Jacobean period. The Renaissance
marked a Revival for Learning with an emphasis on Humanism and the
rediscovery of classical antiquity. The literary production of the Renaissance will
be discussed, namely the poetry of Wyatt and Surrey, Sidney, Spenser, as well
as the works of Marlow and Shakespeare.
Course objectives:
To develop analytical skills and critical thinking through reading, discussion, and
written assignments.
To deepen a student’s awareness of the universal human concerns that are the
basis for literary works.
To stimulate a greater appreciation of language as an artistic medium and of the
aesthetic principles that shape literary works.
To understand literature as an expression of human values within an historical
and social context.
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
situate literature of the Renaissance period within its historical context;
explain the relevance of central themes in Renaissance texts, including those
relating to economic, social, and religious issues;
recognize and identify the different genres in which writers worked, and explain
how these genres relate to one another both historically and stylistically;
identify the stylistic and formal elements of Renaissance poetry, drama, and
prose;
define and use important literary terms related to major works of the
Renaissance period;
trace the evolution of language (Old, Middle, and their relationship to Modern
English) within the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean literature;
describe the literature of the period as a product of its culture;
identify and describe specific forms, such as the sonnet.
To develop analytical skills and critical thinking through reading, discussion, and
written assignments.
To broaden a student’s intercultural reading experience.
To deepen a student’s awareness of the universal human concerns that are the
basis for literary works.
To stimulate a greater appreciation of language as an artistic medium and of the
aesthetic principles that shape literary works.
To understand literature as an expression of human values within an historical
and social context.

17th and 18th Century Literature

(3 credit hours)
Course description:
English Literature B provides a survey of English literature of the Puritan Age,
the Restoration, and the Augustan Age. Among the developments witnessed in
this period were the revival of English drama, the proliferation of print culture,
the beginnings of Enlightenment consciousness, the rapid expansion of the
British Empire, and the revolutions that gave birth to our modern political order.
In the context of scientific progress, the ethical imperatives of a commercial
empire, and revolutionary upheaval, writers of the period produced powerful
works of literature across a range of genres and styles. The course will examine
a wide variety of literary genres and formats, including novels, epic poems, lyric
poems, dramas, periodical essays, and biographies. The course is designed to
familiarize students with the broad political, social, aesthetic, and philosophical
developments that shaped literature throughout a period of history that saw
England’s expansion as a colonial power and the dawn of the industrial age.
Content includes the Metaphysical poets, such as Donne, Marvell, and Herbert;
the writings of Milton, Bunyan, Gray, Pope, Gay, as well as Congreve. The rise
of the novel will constitute a major element of the course with authors like
Defoe, Swift, Fielding, Sterne. Major writers represented in this course were
constantly reevaluating what should count as literature, so the materials will
explore the way forms for writing poetry and prose allowed authors to innovate
carefully while remaining anchored in the flexible forms of genre; which works
were popular and why, and why some have survived better than others.
Throughout the readings students will learn the importance of the rhetorical
principle of decorum, of choosing a fit style for different genres, subjects and
audiences. Students will study the works of writers from periods rich in
intellectual range and from which the readers of today have inherited some
abiding interests and literary forms.
Course objectives:
 to explore the literary production of the Puritan Age, the Restoration, and
the Augustan Age.
 to study a wide range of characteristic genres including epic, mock-epic,
satire, journalistic writing, travel narrative, the periodical essay, drama,
the novel, elegy, ode, and lyrics of various kinds
 to explore how these experiments with both traditional and newly-
invented genres both express and contest the traditional religious,
political, and aesthetic “authority” of the age
 to develop a sense of the different historical phases, from its Puritan
beginnings through Restoration to its Augustan
 to consider central debates about nature and human nature as they
inform many of these texts, particularly those contesting the merits of and
relation between the passions of self-interest and sympathy; and debates
about such terms as nature, human nature, reason, judgment, sense,
manners, taste, sensibility, and imagination.
 to develop a corollary heightened awareness of the distinctively
vocabularies originating in and fuelling these debates.
 to use, along with the close reading of complex individual texts, wide-
ranging comparative methods of analysis which emphasize the ongoing
dialogues, debates, and conversations among them.
 to apply, in oral and written form, the arts of interpretive argument.
 to acquire an understanding of how these texts inform and reflect their
particular cultural moment and register the onset of modernity
  Reflect and write analytically about the literary texts and their contexts.
 Develop relevant skills of literary critical analysis.

Romantic Literature
(4 credit hours)

Course description:
This course takes a look back at the artistic and philosophical movement known
as Romanticism, and its pivotal contributions to Western literature. Romanticism
was a literary age marked by a series of revolutions: the Industrial Revolution,
the American Revolution, the French Revolution, Wollstonecraft’s “revolution in
female manners,” and revolutionary efforts to redefine self, identity,
consciousness, and visionary experience. The artistic and philosophical
movement known as Romanticism arose in the context of the revolutions in
France, America and other parts of the worlds, and was situated in ambivalent
relation to the main intellectual currents of the Enlightenment. Amid revolutions
abroad, social unrest at home, massive technological and economic shifts, and
new ideas about the nature of the self and about the rights of individual men
and women, the writers we’ll study in this course saw the world changing with
an unprecedented pace, and felt alternately exhilarated, terrified, enraged and
amused by the changes they witnessed. The course will look at how Romantic
writers used experiments with literary form both to respond to these social and
historical contexts, and to address more intimate concerns of love and loss,
memory and desire. Many of the writers of this period saw themselves as part
of a utopian transformation of humanity, while others agonised over the
potential for radical destabilisation that new concepts of the rights of individuals
had ushered in. This course examines a selection of British Romantic writers in
the context of these momentous developments. After an introduction to the
Romantic period, and Romanticism as a concept, the course will be
centred around a series of themes: the poetic imagination, where we will
examine the poetic theories of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and
Keats; Romantic landscapes, where we will read responses to both nature –
on the small and grand scale – and the city; Romantic perspectives of the
past, including the turn to Greek antiquity (neo-Hellenism), the ballad revival,
and Sir Walter Scott’s novel Ivahoe, arguably the first historical novel; the
individualistic, idealistic but world-weary Byronic and Romantic hero; and
finally, Romantic ambition in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818) and the
culture of posterity as expressed in the poetry of Keats. The course will focus on
particular literary responses to the Enlightenment, such as the emergence of
Gothic fiction and the Romantic cult of Nature. Topics include gender; the
natural world and the new metropolis; domestic life in wartime; the social role
and responsibility of the writer; the poet as celebrity; childhood, imagination and
dream. Ultimately, the course will expose the enormous influence of Romantic
discourse upon modernity itself. It will examine selection of British Romantic
writers in the context of these momentous developments, including the poetry
and prose of Burns, Blake Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord
Byron, and Keats.
Course objectives:
Recognize the features of literary Romanticism
Describe the literature and culture of the Romantic period and recognize the
literary styles of several key authors from the period.
Formulate useful questions and cogent arguments about Romantic literature.
Express literary interpretations in focused, coherent writing.
Situate literature within cultural, historical contexts.
Evaluate current criticism independently.
To gain a deeper insight into and appreciation for English literary and cultural
expression of the Romantic age, including fiction, poetry, and non-fiction.
To understand some of the politics and technologies that facilitated literary
production during the Romantic period.
To better appreciate the importance of national and transnational contexts for
literary and cultural works.
To be able to produce a historically nuanced close reading of a given literary
object.
To enhance analytical, interpretative, and argumentative skills for discussing
and writing about cultural objects.
Develop in-depth knowledge of the main writers and be able to recognize and
respond to the work of several others.
Use reference and critical material relevant to the field.
Present and defend a proposal or position, tolerate constructive criticism and
incorporate feedback into ongoing projects.

American Literature A
(3 credit hours)

Course Description

This course represents a survey of American literature beginning with the

literature of the Native Americans to the Romantic period, roughly from 1492
until 1820. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama and fiction in
relation to their historical and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from
among a diverse group of authors for what they reflect and reveal about the
evolving American experience and character.

Course Objectives

At the completion of this course, students will be able to:

 Recognize the main elements of different literary genres and assess their
significance.
 Identify a literary text’s main themes and make reasonable assertions
about their meaning.
 Place authors and literary texts in their cultural and historical context.
 Describe major literary movements and trends.
 Identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical
or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed
in the literature of different periods or regions.
  Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values
within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different
literary periods.
 Recognize and interpret literary images and symbols to infer their
relationship to the main themes of the text.
 Demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or
styles of expression during different historical periods in different regions.
 Identify, analyze, interpret and describe the critical ideas, values, and
themes that appear in literary and cultural texts and understand the ways
these ideas, values, and themes inform and impact culture and society,
both now and in the past.
 Use the internet and other resources to give an oral presentation on a
literary text, period, or author.

Course Outline

1. Pre-Colonial Period: Native Americans

2. Literature of Exploration
III. Colonial Period
1. Revolutionary Period and Early National Period

This course will cover the above listed periods in American literature, with
attention to each period’s relevance and impact on American societal and
cultural issues, as well as specific authors making significant contributions to
each.

Victorian Literature
(3 credit hours)
Course description:

This course will explore British texts from the period 1832-1901 in literary,
historical, social, and cultural context. The period spanning the years 1832 to
1901 in the British Empire was a period of rapid political, economic, social, and
literary change. Industrialization and imperial expansion mark an era also
known for the flowering of both the realist novel and children’s literature, as well
as biography, autobiography, and new experiments in both epic and lyric poetry.
This period course in Victorian literature, provides a survey of selected literature
of the Victorian period, including some if not all of the listed genres and
emphasizing the importance of Victorian literature for the literary movements
that followed. As a matter of fact, this course will investigate how key features of
modernity emerged in Britain during the Victorian period. Students will learn to
identify the narratives through which Victorians constructed three major features
of modernity: liberal democracy, finance capitalism, and global
interdependence. These narratives appear in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction, as
well as other arts, statistics, and technological developments. Through
cumulative research projects, students will achieve a critical understanding of
the dynamic between human innovation and material conditions in the Victorian
period that continue to influence us today. This course introduces students to
the literature and culture of the Victorian period, allowing them to explore
peculiarly Victorian literary phenomena like sensation literature, city writing,
spiritualist writing and mourning poetry, and helping them draw connections
between Victorian literary works and the culture and history of the period. The
Victorian period was one of immense social, ideological and cultural change:
the industrial revolution, scientific and technological progress, colonial
expansion, and changing notions of femininity and domesticity were just some
of the many concerns addressed in texts of the period. We will engage with
these issues by reading a range of Victorian texts as well as recent critical
studies of the period. Topics will include the relationship of the Victorian novel
to empire and to issues of gender, Victorian travel and science, the social and
cultural impact of industrialization, Victorian notions of femininity and the
concept of “double standard”, and constructions of the domestic and the foreign
in Victorian culture.
Course objectives:
 To acquaint students with the major literary genres and figures of the
Victorian period, and to explore the process of canon formation in and
after the period.
 To provide students with an understanding of some of the sociological
factors and intellectual movements of the Victorian period, both as
reflected and as constructed by the literature of the time.
 To establish a connection between Victorian literature and the following
literary developments of Modernist literature.
 To develop more effective analytical skills in both discussion and writing,
through class discussion, in-class exams, and course papers.
 To explore some of the variety of on-line resources available for the
scholar of Victorian literature, with an eye to developing a more thorough
awareness of what the resources and their limitations are, and perhaps
to developing our own.

20th Century English Literature

(4 credit hours)

Course Description:

20th Century English Literature is a course that focuses on modernist and

postmodernist literary texts, including short fiction, novels, poetry, and drama.
The course fosters deep reading, reflection, and effective writing. Students will
be introduced to a range of the most exciting, challenging, and memorable
writing in English dating from the Edwardian era to the end of last century.
Students will discover, and learn to use, key critical concepts and terms for
literary studies. They will examine how contemporary writers engage with and
write about the world; how literary fiction relates to literary traditions, popular
cultural forms, and the media; what characterises literary authorship, genre,
tradition, and reading in the 20th century; and how reading and writing
influence how we interpret the past, the present, the everyday, and the future.

Course objectives:
 introduce the study of 20th century literature by reading a selection of
modernist and postmodernist texts
 introduce key contextual, formal, and critical questions for reading literary
texts and for literary studies more broadly
 introduce the reading and analysis of literary texts in the contexts of
their engagement with broader cultural and social debates
 foster the skills of reading, research, and writing, particularly by engaging
creatively with new literary texts
 discuss ways in which 20th century literature is in a conversation with its
precursors and its impact on contemporary developments in the field of
literature
 cultivate the development of original responses to texts, and the analysis
of new trends in literature and related cultural forms.
 encourage students to research and analyse texts independently and
without formal guidance
 encourage students to work creatively and effectively with colleagues in
the discipline.

Teaching Methodology and Strategies

(3 credit hours)

This aim of the course is to give an overall picture of the traditional approaches
to ELT together with more recent development. This course is divided into two
parts. The first part is definitions and theory which underline the English
language teaching practice. The second part is techniques and application.
The content of the course
1. Terms related to ELT:
* authentic text and task
*choral repetition
*Communicative activity
*context
*controlled practice or guided practice
*creative practice or freer practice
*drill
*deductive learning approach
*elicit
*error analysis
*formal instruction
*gist
*inductive learning approach
*input
*information gap activity
*language teaching
* the language syllabus
*method
*methodology
*output
*receptive and productive skills
*Second language acquisition and second language learning
* teaching practice
2. Teaching and learning the language
*the nature of language
*the nature of learning
3. Learning theories
*the behaviorist theory
*the cognitive theory
*implications to classroom practice
4.Structuralism in language teaching
5. Functionalism in language teaching
6. Methods and approaches in ELT
* the grammar translation method
*the audio-lingual method
* the reading method
*the eclectic approach
*the communicative approach
7. The language syllabus
*Structural syllabus
*situational syllabus
*functional syllabus
*discourse based syllabus
8. Levels of language description
* teaching pronunciation
*teaching vocabulary
*teaching grammar
9. Language skills
*teaching reading
*teaching writing
*teaching listening
*teaching speaking

American Literature B
(3 credit hours)

Course Description

This course represents a survey of American literature beginning with the

Romantic period to the period of Modernism, roughly from 1820 until 1914.
Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama and fiction in relation to their
historical and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from among a diverse
group of authors for what they reflect and reveal about the evolving American
experience and character.

Course Objectives

At the completion of this course, students will be able to:

 Recognize the main elements of different literary genres and assess their
significance.
 Identify a literary text’s main themes and make reasonable assertions
about their meaning.
 Place authors and literary texts in their cultural and historical context.
 Describe major literary movements and trends.
 Identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical
or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed
in the literature of different periods or regions.
 Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values
within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different
literary periods.
 Recognize and interpret literary images and symbols to infer their
relationship to the main themes of the text.
 Demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or
styles of expression during different historical periods in different regions.
 Identify, analyze, interpret and describe the critical ideas, values, and
themes that appear in literary and cultural texts and understand the ways
these ideas, values, and themes inform and impact culture and society,
both now and in the past.
 Use the internet and other resources to give an oral presentation on a
literary text, period, or author.

Course Outline

1. Romantic Period
2. Realism
III. Naturalism

This course will cover the above listed periods in American literature, with
attention to each period’s relevance and impact on American societal and
cultural issues, as well as specific authors making significant contributions to
each.

Research Methodology (Theory)

(3 Credit Hours)
Course Description
The aim of this course is to enhance the students’ understanding and
application in some technical aspects of research. Students should know how to
choose a topic, write a purpose, make a preliminary outline, prepare a
bibliography and footnote entries for different references. Students are also
made familiar with the library and its resources for research. Writing III is a
prerequisite. Thus students are expected to write coherently and present well
organized research papers.
Course syllabus
 Introduction to Key Terms
 World Wide Web Resources
 Library visit and assignment
 Choosing a Topic
 Using the library
 Narrowing the focus
 Finding relevant books and articles
 Preliminary bibliography
 Preliminary thesis statement
 Preliminary outline
 Plagiarism
 Taking notes (summary, paraphrase, quotation)
 Revised thesis statement and outline
 Format of APA Style
 Format of MLA Style Sheet
  A student’s Research Paper
 Writing first draft

Research Methodology (Practice & Computer skills )

(3 Credit Hours)

Course Description:
The second course in Research Methodology in the 7th semester seeks to delve
more deeply into the methods and procedures learned in relation to the
branches of the faculty, and where ever to apply this aspect of research thought
in the foundation course in semester six. Thus, while the foundation research
methodology course represents the theorical part, the practical part is divided
into two sections. The first section is:
1. Survey research.
2. types of questionnaire items.
3. types interviews.
4. Case study.
5. Classroom observation.
6. Error analysis.
7. Discourse analysis.
8. Corpus Linguistics.

The second part of the practical course is to provide students with the basic
computer skills and data show presentation.

Literary Criticism
(4 Credit Hours)
Course Description
This course will familiarize students with some of the main themes and currents
of literary criticism and theory. The course will cover literary criticism and theory,
from the European classical period (Plato, Aristotle, Longinus) to major trends in
the twentieth century, including: new criticism, structuralism, deconstruction,
postcolonial theory, feminist theory, and new historicism.
Course objectives:
 provide a brief survey of some major critical approaches to literature
 provide a critical insight into the operations of literary criticism, literary
texts, and literature as an institution;
 introduce students to some key theoretical works of literary studies;
 provide students with a basic ability to apply literary theory and criticism
to the reading of literary works;
 improve reading skills of critical and theoretical texts; and
 improve oral and written argumentation skills.

Topics in Literature A
(4 Credit Hours)
Course Description
This course explores selected topics in literature. Content will vary, with
possible focus on a single author, group of authors, period of literature or
literary theme. The outline of topics is, naturally, contingent on course content.
Methods of instruction include lecture, discussion, collaborative work, student
presentations, and other assignments which foster critical analysis of the
subject matter. Each lecture will develop into a research community as
students work together in small and large groups to increase their verbal
discussion skills, as well as their reading and writing skills.

Course objectives:
Students will learn how to analyze works studied and convey their
understanding through oral and written assignments. Upon successful
completion of this course, students will gain:
 A comprehensive and well-founded knowledge of a given topic
  The ability to collect, analyse and organise information and ideas and
to convey those ideas clearly and fluently, in both written and spoken
forms.
 The ability to interact effectively with others in order to work towards a
common outcome.
 The ability to work and learn independently.
 The ability to apply critical reasoning to issues through independent
thought and informed judgement.
The course encourages:
 critical judgement (through deep reading of literary texts, literary analysis,
library research, and scholarly writing practices)
 ethical and social understanding (through the consideration and
discussion of debates about the cultural and social role of literature, and
the analysis and composition of literary writing)
 effective communication skills (through class discussion, essay writing,
and group work tasks
 independence and creativity (through the study of creative and critical
writing principles and practices)
 reading pleasure

American Literature C
(3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisite:
Course Description
This course represents a survey of American literature beginning with the period
of Modernism until the Contemporary period, roughly from 1914 until the
present. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama and fiction in relation
to their historical and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from among a
diverse group of authors for what they reflect and reveal about the evolving
American experience and character.

Course Objectives
At the completion of this course, students will be able to:

 Recognize the main elements of different literary genres and assess their
significance.
 Identify a literary text’s main themes and make reasonable assertions
about their meaning.
 Place authors and literary texts in their cultural and historical context.
 Describe major literary movements and trends.
 Identify key ideas, representative authors and works, significant historical
or cultural events, and characteristic perspectives or attitudes expressed
in the literature of different periods or regions.
 Analyze literary works as expressions of individual or communal values
within the social, political, cultural, or religious contexts of different
literary periods.
 Recognize and interpret literary images and symbols to infer their
relationship to the main themes of the text.
 Demonstrate knowledge of the development of characteristic forms or
styles of expression during different historical periods in different regions.
 Identify, analyze, interpret and describe the critical ideas, values, and
themes that appear in literary and cultural texts and understand the ways
these ideas, values, and themes inform and impact culture and society,
both now and in the past.
 Use the internet and other resources to give an oral presentation on a
literary text, period, or author.

Course Outline

1. Period of Modernism
2. Contemporary period

This course will cover the above listed periods in American literature, with
attention to each period’s relevance and impact on American societal and
cultural issues, as well as specific authors making significant contributions to
each.
Literature in ELT
(3 Credit Hours)

Course Description
This course discusses questions like “what is literature? What are the main
literary concepts and terms which a teacher needs to know? It also examines
the relationship between language teaching and literature. It presents a
pedagogical treatment if literary texts (the type of sentence pattern, the type of
vocabulary, the non-core meaning of the vocabulary ) and the impact of this on
designing syllabuses and learning materials. The course also looks at ways in
which a variety of literary texts, including poetry, plays, short stories and novels,
can be used in the classroom. The tasks and other activities organized around
them offer generalizable procedures and teachings which can be applied or
adapted to different teaching contexts.

Research Project
(4 credit hours)

Pre-requisite:

Course description

Students have to write a research paper as part of their graduation

requirements in the field of applied linguistics, literature, language teaching, or
translation. They apply technical aspects of research writing that had already
been studied in the research methodology course.
Comparative Literature
(4 credit hours)

Pre-requisites:
Course description:
Comparative Literature entails conscious engagements with theories of
literature, language, and culture from throughout the world. This course ranges
across some of the ideas that have been influential in shaping scholarly
questions in a variety of languages. It also addresses the global dimensions of
literature: rhetorics and ethics of comparison, world literature, and indigenous
knowledges.
Comparative Literature is a course that will introduce students to traditional
concepts of influence, periods, themes, genres, “extraliterary” relations,
translation studies, and their development in modern theory. It will address
questions of textuality and intertextuality , canonicity, cultural identity, the
politics of cross-cultural literary images, metatheory, and institutional setting as
they affect current practice. This course focuses on comparative methods
designed to confront the (mis)understandings and (mis)translations that
constitute reading across the world’s languages, locations, cultures, historical
periods, and expressive forms. Classwork consists of hands-on exercises
based on a thematical approach that engage ancient and modern myths and
materials drawn from various media. Teachers will choose different topics each
semester and will provide students with reading lists of texts originally written in
English, or texts from different languages translated into English, as well as
texts in Arabic.
Course objectives:
 To provide an insight into World Literature
 To address the role of literature in this age of globalization
 To relate literature to issues of multilingualism, multiculturalism, as well
as the role of translation versus the original text
 To improve reading skills of critical and theoretical texts; and
 To improve oral and written argumentation skills.

Topics in Literature B
(4 credit hours)
Pre-requisites:
Course description:
This course continues the work of Topics in Literature A as it explores more
advanced topics in literature. Content will vary, with possible focus on a single
author, group of authors, period of literature or literary theme. The outline of
topics is, naturally, contingent on course content. Methods of instruction include
lecture, discussion, collaborative work, student presentations, and other
assignments which foster critical analysis of the subject matter. Each lecture
will develop into a research community as students work together in small and
large groups to increase their verbal discussion skills, as well as their reading
and writing skills.

Course objectives:
Students will learn how to analyze works studied and convey their
understanding through oral and written assignments. Upon successful
completion of this course, students will gain:
 A comprehensive and well-founded knowledge of a given topic
 The ability to collect, analyse and organise information and ideas and
to convey those ideas clearly and fluently, in both written and spoken
forms.
 The ability to interact effectively with others in order to work towards a
common outcome.
 The ability to work and learn independently.
 The ability to apply critical reasoning to issues through independent
thought and informed judgement.
The course encourages:
 critical judgement (through deep reading of literary texts, literary analysis,
library research, and scholarly writing practices)
 ethical and social understanding (through the consideration and
discussion of debates about the cultural and social role of literature, and
the analysis and composition of literary writing)
 effective communication skills (through class discussion, essay writing,
and group work tasks
  independence and creativity (through the study of creative and critical
writing principles and practices)
 reading pleasure
Language Testing
(3 Credit Hours)
Pre-requisite:
Course objectives:
The aim of this course is to provide the students with basic information about
testing English as a foreign language. By the end of the course students should
be able to understand how to construct and evaluate and mark a language
test.
Assessment:
 What is a language Test?
 Reasons and types of test. Placement, Achievement, Diagnostic and
Proficiency.
 Planning & Designing the test:
 Qualities of a good test.
 Test Specifications.
 Placement Tests.
 Teaching and Testing cycles.
 Achievement tests.
 Testing language components (grammar , vocabulary ).
 Testing Reading &Listening.
 Testing Speaking & Writing.


Assessment:

Assignments is based on a range of tests and assignment such as formal

written examination, oral, presentation, essays, and projects work.