Arabic
Program Learning Outcomes for the Arabic BA program
- Fully participate in conversations with native speakers of Arabic convey abstract and concrete language in all time frames on a wide range of topics from the personal to the political and speak in a range of formal to informal registers depending on context.
- Write routine informal and some formal correspondence narratives descriptions and summaries narrating in all time frames with long and relatively complex paragraphs.
- Demonstrate aural comprehension of main ideas and most supporting details in the speech of native speakers discussing familiar topics such as family politics and history in a range of formal to informal registers.
- Demonstrate comprehension of main ideas in a wide variety of written fictional non-fictional and journalistic texts without the use of a dictionary.
- Demonstrate a broad understanding of the cultural diversity of the Arab World recognizing key cultural names texts behavioral norms and the ability to adapt to a wide variety of social situations linguistically and culturally.