This reading course is for students who have completed Advanced Arabic A or equivalent. The course expands students' knowledge of specific literary Eras of Arabic from pre-Islamic times to the present. Focus is on areas of Arabic language, literature and culture. Students enrolling in this course undertake a research project in Arabic literature and present findings in a scholarly manner.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
- explain in Arabic the concept of Arabic poetry and prose through the eras;
- initiate and maintain advanced face-to-face conversations, satisfying cultural and social norms, and present an advanced argument in Arabic about aspects of Arabic literature in different eras.
- undertake and apply advanced analytical research of Arabic literature in writing;
- demonstrate advanced control of morphology of language and of the most frequently used syntactic structures;
- analyse, extract and use information from texts in Arabic literature; and
Indicative Assessment
- Oral presentation, 20 minutes (30) [LO 1,2,4]
- Written essay, 3500 words (50) [LO 1,3,4,5]
- In class text comparison and analysis (20) [LO 1,2,3,4,5]
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Workload
130 hours of total student learning time made up from:
a) 24 hours of contact over 12 weeks
b) 106 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.
Inherent Requirements
Not applicable
Requisite and Incompatibility
Prescribed Texts
The lecturer will provide material selected from Arabic printed media, short stories, poems, novels and other sources.
Assumed Knowledge
Advanced level of Arabic language proficiency.Fees
Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.
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- Student Contribution Band:
- 1
- Unit value:
- 6 units
If you are an undergraduate student and have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). You can find your student contribution amount for each course at Fees. Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.
| Units | EFTSL |
|---|---|
| 6.00 | 0.12500 |
Course fees
- Domestic fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2020 | $3570 |
- International fee paying students
| Year | Fee |
|---|---|
| 2020 | $5460 |
Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links
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Second Semester
| Class number | Class start date | Last day to enrol | Census date | Class end date | Mode Of Delivery | Class Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9608 | 27 Jul 2020 | 03 Aug 2020 | 31 Aug 2020 | 30 Oct 2020 | In Person | N/A |