Program Overview

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Program Overview

The ""Bnul" "BSc-Arabic" program, also known as the Bachelor of Arts in Arabic Language and Literature, is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the Arabic language, literature, and culture.

Program Objectives

The program aims to achieve the following objectives:

1. Equip students with linguistic, grammatical, morphological, rhetorical, and literary knowledge.
2. Develop students' language skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
3. Enable students to interact with modern linguistic and literary theories and understand the relationships between various branches of the Arabic language.
4. Foster a sense of belonging to the religion, nation, and language, and promote defense of the Arabic language and commitment to professional ethics and teamwork.
5. Achieve cultural communication and enhance knowledge exchange between nations.
6. Link contemporary studies to the ancient Arabic linguistic and literary heritage.
7. Utilize modern technologies in self-learning of the Arabic language and literature.

Program Outcomes

Upon completing the program requirements, graduates will be able to:

• Clarify grammatical, morphological, critical, rhetorical, and literary concepts.
• Discuss Arabic texts based on ancient and modern critical methods.
• Relate heritage to modernity in fields related to the Arabic language and literature.
• Analyze texts according to linguistic and literary analysis methods.
• Use scientific research tools in writing their research papers.
• Employ their language and methodological skills to complete research projects.
• Perform their roles independently or as part of a team, considering ethical standards.
• Present their research, reports, and linguistic and literary assignments orally.

Curriculum Structure

The academic program consists of 126 credited hours, divided into university requirements, college requirements, and specialization requirements, as follows:

Program Structure	Credited Hours
University Requirements	30
College Requirements	15
Specialization Requirements	72
Islamic Supportive Courses	9
Total	126

University Requirements (30 credited hours)

• Mandatory University Courses (21 credited hours):
  1. Islamic Culture
  2. Arabic Communication Skills
  3. English Communication Skills 1
  4. English Communication Skills 2
  5. Introduction to Information Technology
  6. Introduction to Statistics
  7. Creativity and Entrepreneurship
• Elective University Courses (9 credited hours): Students choose from various groups, including Humanities and Social Sciences, Historical and Islamic Studies, Mathematics and Information Technology, and Natural and Biological Sciences.

College Requirements (15 credited hours)

1. Psychological Foundations of Social Behavior
2. Human Civilization
3. Introduction to the Study of History
4. Arabic Writing and Calligraphy
5. Research Methodologies

Specialization Requirements (72 credited hours)

1. Mandatory Specialization Courses:
   • Applied Grammar (1)
   • Applied Morphology (1)
   • Pre-Islamic Literature
   • Arabic Rhetoric (1)
   • Arabic Rhetoric (2)
   • Applied Grammar (2)
   • Applied Morphology (2)
   • Arabic Phonology
   • Prosody and Rhyme
   • Literature in the Age of Islam and the Umayyad Era
   • Old Literary Criticism
   • Applied Grammar (3)
   • Abbasid Literature
   • Introduction to Linguistics
   • Quranic and Prophetic Statement
   • Internship
   • Andalusian Literature
   • Applied Grammar (4)
   • Arabic Philology
   • Modern Arabic Poetry
   • Modern Arabic Prose
   • Modern Literary Criticism
   • Capstone Project
2. Elective Specialization Courses:
   • Language Basket (3 credited hours): Students choose one course from options like Arabic Language in Media, Lexicography and Pragmatics, Specialized Writing, Stylistics, Dialects and Quran Readings, and Contrastive Linguistics.
   • Literature Basket (3 credited hours): Students choose one course from options like Children's Literature, Comparative Literature, Literature in the Age of Successive States, and Gulf Literature.

Islamic Supportive Courses (9 credited hours)

Students choose three courses from options like Introduction to Islamic Jurisprudence, Sciences of the Quran, Sciences of Hadith, Jurisprudence of Worship, and Islamic Call and Rhetoric Methods.

Guideline Plan

The program is structured over four years, with the following distribution of courses across semesters:

First Year (Fall Semester)

1. Islamic Culture
2. English Communication Skills 1
3. Arabic Communication Skills
4. Introduction to Information Technology
5. Psychological Foundations of Social Behavior

First Year (Spring Semester)

1. Applied Morphology (1)
2. Applied Grammar (1)
3. Introduction to Statistics
4. Human Civilization
5. Introduction to the Study of History
6. Pre-Islamic Literature

Second Year (Fall Semester)

1. Arabic Writing and Calligraphy
2. Literature in the Age of Islam and the Umayyad Era
3. Applied Grammar (2)
4. English Communication Skills 2
5. Arabic Rhetoric (1)
6. Research Methodologies

Second Year (Spring Semester)

1. Arabic Phonology
2. Prosody and Rhyme
3. Abbasid Literature
4. Applied Morphology (2)
5. Elective University Course
6. Elective Supportive Course

Third Year (Fall Semester)

1. Applied Grammar (3)
2. Old Literary Criticism
3. Arabic Rhetoric (2)
4. Elective Specialization Course
5. Elective University Course
6. Elective Supportive Course

Third Year (Spring Semester)

1. Introduction to Linguistics
2. Quranic and Prophetic Statement
3. Internship
4. Elective University Course
5. Elective Supportive Course

Fourth Year (Fall Semester)

1. Andalusian Literature
2. Applied Grammar (4)
3. Modern Arabic Poetry
4. Arabic Philology
5. Elective Specialization Course

Fourth Year (Spring Semester)

1. Modern Arabic Prose
2. Modern Literary Criticism
3. Capstone Project
4. Elective Specialization Course

Accreditation

The program is accredited by the Commission for Academic Accreditation, Ministry of Education, United Arab Emirates.