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English Language

Bachelor

Levels
8
Courses
61
Credits
132
Number of students
199
Overview
A. Program Identification and General Information 1. Program’s Main Location : Main Campus in Sakaka (Male- Female), Jouf University 2. Branches Offering the Program (if any): NA 3. Partnerships with other parties (if any) and the nature of each: 4. Professions/jobs for which students are qualified 1- A language instructor 2- A translator 3- A teaching assistant at college level 4- A researcher in research centers 5- An employee in tourism agencies 6- An employee in public relations in hospitals 7- An employee in public relations in companies 8- A presenter in media 9. An employee in the ministry of Culture 5. Relevant occupational/ Professional sectors: Educational Sector Tourism Health Sector Cultural Sector B. Mission, Objectives, and Program Learning Outcomes 1. Program Mission: Providing high quality teaching, research and community services in the fields of linguistics, literature and translation. 2. Program Goals: 1. Enhance students' critical thinking, communication and interpersonal skills. 2. Provide labor market with highly qualified graduates in the field of English language. 3. Enrich scientific research in the field of English language. 4. Achieve social partnership. 3. Program Learning Outcomes* Knowledge and Understanding K1 Explain the main concepts and terminology related to different aspects of English language. K2 Describe the different theoretical perspectives related to different aspects of English language. K3 Relate the new trends in different aspects of English language to the real language use. Skills S1 Use the four language skills for purposes of effective communication. S2 Analyze English sounds, syllables, morphemes, words, structures, meanings, and functions effectively S3 Evaluate literary works critically. S4 Translate efficiently from Arabic into English and vice versa S5 Deduce solutions for language problems using traditional and electronic resources. Values, Autonomy, and Responsibility V1 Develop a language product through teamwork. V2 Report reflections on their own learning V3 Demonstrate respectful effective relationships with classmates and staff. V4 Use autonomous learning strategies V5 Apply ethical considerations in assignments and projects C. Curriculum 1. Curriculum Structure Program Structure Required/ Elective No. of courses Credit Hours Percentage of credit hours Institution Requirements Required 0 0 0 Elective 6 12 8.88% College Requirements Required 2 6 4.44% Elective 0 0 0 Program Requirements Required 36 105 77.77% Elective 2 6 4.44% Capstone Course/Project 0 0 0 Field Training/ Internship Required 2 6 4.44% Residency year 0 0 0 Others Total 48 135 100% * Add a separated table for each track (if any). 2. Program Courses Level Course Code Course Title Required or Elective Pre-Requisite Courses Credit Hours Type of requirements (Institution, College, or Program) Level 1 Elective University course from Domain 1 Elective NO 2 University Elective University course from Domain 2 Elective NO 2 University ENGL 1111 Basic English Grammar 1 Required NO 3 Program ENGL 1112 Reading Comprehension 1 Required NO 3 Program ENGL 1113 Listening and Speaking 1 Required NO 3 Program ENGL 1117 Writing 1 Required NO 3 Program Level 2 ARAB 1100 Arabic Language skills Required NO 3 College ENGL 1118 Writing 2 Required ENGL 1117 3 Program ENGL 1114 Basic English Grammar 2 Required ENGL 1111 3 Program ENGL 1115 Reading Comprehension 2 Required ENGL 1112 3 Program ENGL 1116 Listening and Speaking 2 Required ENGL 1113 3 Program ENGL 1120 Introduction to Linguistics Required NO 3 Program Level 3 Elective University course from Domain 1 Elective NO 2 University Elective University course from Domain 2 Elective NO 2 University ENGL 1231 Introduction to Literature Required 3 Program ENGL 1212 Writing 3 Required ENGL 1118 3 Program ENGL 1221 Phonetics Required ENGL 1120 3 Program ENGL 1223 Morphology Required ENGL 1120 3 Program Level 4 Elective University course from Domain 2 Elective NO 2 University Elective University course from Domain 2 Elective NO 2 University ENGL 1232 British Literature Required ENGL 1231 2 Program ENGL 1233 American Literature Required ENGL 1231 2 Program ENGL 1222 Phonology Required ENGL 1221 3 Program ENGL 1226 Language and Technology Required ENGL 1120 3 Program ENGL 1241 Introduction to Translation Required ENGL 1114 3 Program Level 5 ENGL 1331 Introduction to Drama Required ENGL 1231 2 Program ENGL 1332 19th Century Novel Required ENGL 1231 3 Program ENGL 1336 Romantic Poetry Required ENGL 1231 3 Program ENGL 1320 Syntax Required ENGL 1120 3 Program ENGL 1322 Language Acquisition Required ENGL 1226 3 Program ENGL 1341 Practical Translation Required ENGL 1241 3 Program Level 6 ENGL 1323 Semantics Required ENGL 1320 3 Program ENGL 1325 Teaching English as a Foreign Language Required ENGL 1322 3 Program ENGL 1333 Shakespeare Required ENGL 1331 3 Program ENGL 1326 Sociolinguistics Required ENGL 1322 3 Program ENGL 1342 Interpreting Required ENGL 1341 3 Program PSY 1323 Theories of Learning Elective Pass 70 credit hours 3 College Level 7 Program Elective course Elective 3 Program ENGL 1423 Research Methods Required Completion of 90 credit hours 3 Program ENGL 1431 20th Century Novel Required ENGL 1332 3 Program ENGL 1432 Literary Criticism Required ENGL 1331 3 Program ENGL 1451 Practicum in Language 1 Required Pass 90 credit hours 3 Program Level 8 ENGL 1422 Discourse Analysis Required ENGL 1323 3 Program ENGL 1424 Applied Linguistics Required ENGL 1325 3 Program ENGL 1433 Modern Poetry Required ENGL 1336 3 Program ENGL 1434 Modern Drama Required ENGL 1333 3 Program ENGL 1452 Practicum in Language 2 Required ENGL 1451 3 Program Program Elective course Elective 3 Program

Program levels

المستوى الاول
ENGL 112 - Reading Comprehension 1 - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: ( 1) 4. Course general Description: This course is aimed at developing the ability to comprehend reading selections of varied interest and nature. The course offers requisite training to students in developing reading skills and strategies such as previewing the topic and vocabulary, getting meaning from the context, identifying main idea and supporting details, skimming for the topic and main idea, scanning for specific information. The course trains students in employing a wide variety of reading skills and strategies in answering comprehension questions and other reading activities. Students are provided with opportunities to work together to complete the tasks and exercises and to share their experiences while dealing with the reading passages and articles. It is hoped that students will utilize the knowledge of reading skills and vocabulary to comprehend their courses across the curriculum.
ENGL 113 - Listening and Speaking 1 - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
2
Pratical
2
Training
Total Content
4
Prerequisite
Course Description:
1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: ( 1) 4. Course general Description: The course aims to train the students to develop their listening and speaking skills so as to improve their oral proficiency. The course develops speaking skills through a variety of activities such as introducing themselves through question techniques and sharing information. The focus of the course will be on the practical language use. The course makes use of audio-visual materials to train students to the English language used in different situations.
ENGL 111 - Basic English Grammar 1 - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (1) 4. Course general Description: This course is aimed at developing the knowledge of basic English grammar. It introduces students to grammar topics such as tenses – present, past and future, regular and irregular verbs, active and passive voice, modals and imperatives, auxiliary verbs, questions and reported speech. The course offers students opportunities to work together in carrying out various grammar tasks and exercises so as to enable them to utilize the knowledge of grammar to enhance their spoken and written communication. 5. Pre-requirements for this course (if any): NA 6. Co-requisites for this course (if any): NA 7. Course Main Objective(s): This course is aimed at: -Developing the basic knowledge of English grammar. -Training students to learn a variety of grammar topics such as tenses, voice, and reported speech with appropriate explanations and activities. - Students acquiring the ability to use the language accurately. - Enabling students to interact with their peers, teachers and other users of English in varied academic and day-today life settings.
المستوى الثاني
ENGL 116 - Listening and Speaking 2 - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
2
Pratical
2
Training
Total Content
4
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (2) 4. Course general Description: The course is a follow-up of Listening and Speaking 1 and it further aims to develop students oral and aural skills needed for academic success as well as real-life situations. It provides them with extensive and intensive practice in using appropriate vocabulary and grammar to make their communication intelligible. The course makes use of audio-visual materials to train the students to learn various stress and intonation patterns. The course intends to enhance practical listening and speaking skills to enhance the communicative proficiency needed for formal and informal situations.
ENGL 115 - Reading Comprehension 2 - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (1) 4. Course general Description: The course is designed to develop basic writing skills in English. This course functions as a foundation for the next level. It introduces students to mechanics of writing, sentence structure, and paragraph writing. The core aim of the course is to guide students to produce a variety of paragraphs on the rhetorical modes of description, process organization, narrative organization, and opinion organization.
ENGL 117 - Writing 1 - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (1) 4. Course general Description: The course is designed to develop basic writing skills in English. This course functions as a foundation for the next level. It introduces students to mechanics of writing, sentence structure, and paragraph writing. The core aim of the course is to guide students to produce a variety of paragraphs on the rhetorical modes of description, process organization, narrative organization, and opinion organization.
ENGL 114 - Basic English Grammar 2 - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (2) 4. Course general Description: This course is a follow up of Basic English Grammar 1 and develops knowledge of English grammar. It focuses on articles, pronouns, determiners, adjectives and adverbs, word order, conjunctions, relative clauses, and prepositions.
المستوى الثالث
ENGL 231 - Introduction to Literature - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (3) 4. Course general Description: The course aims to identify the four main genres of literature. It analyzes the elements of each genre and relate general and specific historical/cultural background crucial to the understanding of literature. Compare and contrast different literary works. Read literature both analytically and responsively.
ENGL 211 - Writing 2 - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (2) 4. Course general Description: This course is a follow-up on Writing I and it further trains students in developing their writing skills. The course aims to develop students’ writing abilities in relation to sentence structure, paragraph writing, and essay writing. Students will learn to write various types of essays following multiple drafting, revising, editing, and proofreading. The writing practices should go through process that start with planning and end by proofreading the final revised draft.
ENGL 241 - Introduction to Translation - mandatory
Credits
2
Theoretical
2
Pratical
Training
Total Content
2
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (4) 4. Course general Description: This course aims to introduce students to the basics of translation in relation to definitions, concepts, theories, methods, and tools It trains students to translate words, phrases, sentences and short paragraph from English to Arabic and vice-versa. The course also encourages students to utilize bilingual dictionaries.
ENGL 221 - Introduction to Linguistics - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (2) 4. Course general Description: This course gives a comprehensive introduction to sub-branches of linguistics. The course prepares students to have a basic understanding of core concepts related to phonetics, phonology, morphology, lexicology, syntax and semantics. The course specifically will deal with how sounds are produced, how they are distributed, how words and sentences are formed, and methods used in the analysis of meaning. The course also contains a discussion on linguistics schools in the twentieth century and branches of linguistics.
المستوى الرابع
ENGL 232 - British Literature - mandatory
Credits
2
Theoretical
2
Pratical
Training
Total Content
2
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (2) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (4) 4. Course general Description: The course aims to give students an overview of English literature, from classical to modern era, including Greek, Latin and French characteristics, trends and development in the literary output of Great Britain covering Chaucerian, Elizabethan, Metaphysical, Neoclassical, Romantic, Victorian and Modernist ages , without excluding the contemporary era. Students are also introduced to the themes, motifs and styles of English literature, such as race, class, gender, empire, industry, and materialism. The course provides a history of British literature and focuses on prose, poetry, drama, fiction and literary criticism.
ENGL 212 - Writing 3 - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (3) 4. Course general Description: The course deals with various types of long essays, giving sufficient attention to effective use of vocabulary and grammar. This course builds on the knowledge of writing skills students have received on Writing 1 and 2 and further trains students to write long essay with clarity and accuracy of highest standards. Students also learn to write keeping in view the audience and the purpose. With the guidance of effective models and the feedback of their peer group, students cultivate their own distinct styles of writing.
ENGL 223 - Morphology - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (3) 4. Course general Description: This course introduces students to basic concepts of morphology and how the analysis of word structure is done. Students will learn about English words and practice morphological analysis on different data sets. Key concepts covered will include word, inflection and derivation morphology, compounding and morphological theories.
ENGL 222 - Phonetics - mandatory
Credits
2
Theoretical
1
Pratical
2
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (4) 4. Course general Description: The course aims to introduce students to the major aspects of phonology. The course also deals with the formal description of sounds and the rules governing their systematic behavior. The course emphasizes on the internal representation of segments, syllabic structure. Students will be introduced to the distinctive feature theory, phonemes, allophones, syllables, syllable structure, aspects of connected speech (i.e., elision, linking, and assimilation), stress and intonation. The differences between English and other sound systems, like Arabic, will also be discussed. The course also deals with the impact of context on sound production and how the consonants that surround the vowel change the way the vowel is produced during connected speech. Students will be taught how to apply terms that describe phonological processes to the realities of English language.
ENGL 242 - Practical Translation - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (5) 4. Course general Description: This course provides students with the opportunity to practice translating texts from English into Arabic and vice versa and they also implement techniques and strategies they have learned in the pre-requisite course. Translation tasks are given in various fields so that the students can distinguish between the structural and stylistic features in every filed.
ENGL 233 - American Literature - mandatory
Credits
2
Theoretical
2
Pratical
Training
Total Content
2
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (2) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (4) 4. Course general Description: This course surveys genres of American literature with respect to themes of colonization, plantation, and natural beauty with different styles and trends that informed their development. Special areas of focus in the course include native American literature, European contact, gender, ideological context, romanticism, etc. Emphasis will be placed throughout the course on notable writers from America like Phillip Freneau, Herman Melville, Dylan Thomas, Robert Frost, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and Tony Morrison etc.
المستوى الخامس
ENGL 321 - Phonology - mandatory
Credits
2
Theoretical
1
Pratical
2
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (4) 4. Course general Description: The course aims to introduce students to the major aspects of phonology. The course also deals with the formal description of sounds and the rules governing their systematic behavior. The course emphasizes on the internal representation of segments, syllabic structure. Students will be introduced to the distinctive feature theory, phonemes, allophones, syllables, syllable structure, aspects of connected speech (i.e., elision, linking, and assimilation), stress and intonation. The differences between English and other sound systems, like Arabic, will also be discussed. The course also deals with the impact of context on sound production and how the consonants that surround the vowel change the way the vowel is produced during connected speech. Students will be taught how to apply terms that describe phonological processes to the realities of English language.
ENGL 322 - Syntax - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3 ) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (5) 4. Course general Description: The aim of this course is to provide the students with a general introduction to English syntax. It is designed to give the students a brief glimpse of the theory and practice of the structural grammar of the English language. The course provides an introduction to the transformational grammar of English and offers training in various phrase structures found in English language. It also offers practice in understanding the levels of constituents in sentences through tree diagrams.
ENGL 331 - Introduction to Drama - mandatory
Credits
2
Theoretical
2
Pratical
Training
Total Content
2
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (2) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (5) 4. Course general Description: This course introduces students to drama as a major literary genre and practically paves the way for the more advanced courses in drama. The students will acquire knowledge of Greek, Roman, and Medieval drama. Major characteristics of the dramatic tradition in each period will be studied taking into account the cultural aspect. Referring to exemplary plays to trace the development of this literary genre in terms of plot, structure, and theme will be a major interest of the course.
ENGL 332 - 19th Century Novel - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (7) 4. Course general Description: The course explores the development of both British and American novel in the 20th century. It provides an analysis of at least two novels. It also introduces students to 20th century thematic and technical aspects of the 20th century novel. Novels are chosen to represent the complexity of 20th century life. Science, technology, and their impacts on novel writing will be one of the major interests of this course.
ENGL 341 - Interpreting - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (6) 4. Course general Description: This course introduces students to an important type of interpretation through exploring definitions, concepts and methods of interpreting, students are expected to have knowledge of interpreting and how they can develop their skills in interpreting.
المستوى السادس
ENGL 427 - Language Testing - optional 4
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: ( 3 ) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☐ Required ☒ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (7 or 8) 4. Course general Description: The course focuses on current theories of language testing within contemporary applied linguistics, and provides students with essential knowledge and practical skills in the area of language test-design and administration. The course also covers principles of language testing and assessment, goals and rationale for different types of testing. In addition, it provides exposure to practical experience in developing and critiquing classroom test materials.
ENGL 333 - Shakespeare - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (6) 4. Course general Description: In this course, students are expected to study Shakespeare's age, his literary career, his comedies, tragedies, tragicomedies and history plays. It also provides students with enough knowledge of his style and sources. It focuses on the universal themes that helped in making Shakespeare a master of drama. The plays selected in the course will manifest his contribution to the theatre, English language, and human thought. Plays like Hamlet, King Lear, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and The Taming of the Shrew are recommended to be studied in the course.
ENGL 428 - Teaching English as a Foreign Language - optional 4
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: ( 3 ) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (6) 4. Course general Description: The course provides students with a comprehensive overview of English language teaching and learning in an EFL context. This course will introduce students to a wide range of instruction techniques, tools, and practices used in TEFL classroom instruction. Students will be familiarized with current theories, consideration, and methodologies for the teaching of grammar, vocabulary, reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
ENGL 437 - Comparative Literature - optional 4
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: ( 3 ) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☐ Required ☒ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (7 or 8) 4. Course general Description: The course focuses on the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, and disciplinary boundaries. It enables students to understand cultures through the works of literature. Additionally, the course emphasizes on the interdisciplinary analysis of social and cultural production within the cultural movements, historical shifts, urban environment, Special areas of focus in the course should include different types of literatures such as European, American, British, Irish and Russian; and should deal with contemporary relevant topics such as gender, ideological context, romanticism, inter-gene rationality, science fiction and IT. Emphasis will be placed throughout the course on notable writers from different cultures.
ENGL 425 - Pragmatics - optional 4
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
This course explores the field of linguistic pragmatics (the use of experimental language and its impact on theoretical experiments). It also explores the basic pragmatic theories and concepts for distinguishing speech differences, introducing theories of cooperation and principles of simplification, and recognizing (un)politeness. These theories are used in the analysis of any piece of text.
ENGL 325 - Syntactic Theories - optional 4
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: ( 3 ) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☐ Required ☒ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (7 or 8) 4. Course general Description: This course introduces current theories, concepts, and tools in syntactic analysis. The course will cover syntactic features, lexical and functional categories, representation of phrase structure, argument structure, case, movement, and locality. Students are exposed to a wide range of data in English as well as other languages using the theories and tools introduced.
ENGL 436 - Short Story - optional 4
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: ( 3 ) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☐ Required ☒ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (7 or 8) 4. Course general Description: The course introduces students to the short story as a sub-genre of fiction. It familiarizes students with the basic elements of the short story: plot, point of view, character, and setting. It also enables the students develop the required skills for reading and analyzing the short story. It analyzes and relates general historical/cultural background crucial to the understanding of literature. Emphasis will be placed throughout the course on notable short story writers.
ENGL 435 - Literary Theory - optional 4
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: ( 3 ) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☐ Required ☒ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (7 or 8) 4. Course general Description: The course introduces students to the study of the proliferation of literary theory as a remarkable trait of the modern literary world. The course guides them to navigate the seemingly daunting subject of literary theory and practice in an organized way. The course provides a historical background of literary theory, thereby delves into the various literary theories studying Russian Formalism, Reader Oriented Approach, Structuralism and Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Feminism, New Historicism, and Postcolonialism.
ENGL 426 - Psycholinguistics - optional 4
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: ( 3 ) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☐ Required ☒ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (7 or 8) 4. Course general Description: This course gives a general introduction to psycholinguistics. The course discusses the role of the mind and brain in shaping language behavior. The course also enables students to understand how properties of the mind and brain influence human language. Students will be familiarized with the nature of language from a psycholinguistic perspective.
ENGL 323 - Semantics - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (6) 4. Course general Description: This three-hour credit course introduces students to the basic principles of modern linguistic semantics and explains how languages organize and express meaning through words, parts of words, sentences, and discourse. It is meant for advanced undergraduate students in linguistics who are competent in syntax and syntactic analysis. The aim is to span the gap between semantic theory and practice by getting students to think for themselves and to develop strong practical skills with confidence and conviction. Students learn semantics by working with real data. Topics include semantic field theory, truth conditional semantics, semantic role theory, predicate valency, and sentences as arguments. Emphasis is on the interface between syntax and semantics with extensive exercises on semantic roles and the thematic structure of non-finite clauses.
ENGL 438 - World Literature - optional 4
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: ( 3 ) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☐ Required ☒ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (7 or 8) 4. Course general Description: The course aims to introduce students to works of literature that are recognized by critics as major constituents of world literature. The focus will be on works that guide the students to formulate a global perspective as well as have a better understanding of other cultures. The diversity of the selected works enables students to have an awareness that literature could function as a medium through which different nations get to know each other and thus establish relationships based on collaboration and mutual respect. The list of works include masterpieces like 'Don Quixote' by Miguel de Cervantes, 'Children of Geblawi' by Najib Mahfouz, 'The Divine Comedy' by Dante Alighieri, 'Thousand and One Night', 'Medea' by Euripides, 'Moby Dick' by Herman Melville, 'Great Expectations' by Charles Dickens.
ENGL 324 - Language Acquisition - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (5) 4. Course general Description: The aim of this course is to expose students to the basic concepts, approaches, and models in the field of language acquisition. The course will make the students aware of the process in which children acquire language in a relatively short space of time without any external assistance. The main focus will be on what makes humans acquire language unlike other species.
ENGL 441 - Computer-Assisted Translation - optional 4
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: ( 3 ) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☐ Required ☒ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (7 or 8) 4. Course general Description: This course introduces students to CAT tools starting with translation memory software such as Trados, Wordfast and OmegaT and translation management software such as Multiterm. CAT tools are of significance to translators and students need to be familiar with these tools in the field. It ensures that students realize the value of technological tools in translation and keep themselves aware of the most advances in this area.
ENGL 334 - Romantic Poetry - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (5) 4. Course general Description: The course will introduce students to various poems written by some notable poets such as William Wordsworth, William Blake, John Keats, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Robert Burns, Leigh Hunt, Lord Byron, etc. Students will be given exposure to poetic devices like meter, rhythm, rhyme, simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, alliteration and onomatopoeia, the course contents will encourage students to read, appreciate and analyze poems. It guides the students to recognize what poetry is and how it is presented. The course will also enable the students to compare different genres with other preceding schools of poetry.
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ENGL 423 - Research Methods - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (7) 4. Course general Description: This course aims at providing students with modern techniques and instrumentation used for gathering information to write research papers such as the use of the library references, use of the internet search engines, ways of filtering data to ensure refined level of information precision and accuracy.
ENGL 421 - Discourse Analysis - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (8) 4. Course general Description: This course offers a comprehensive introduction to the field of discourse analysis. The course explores the basic assumptions, concepts and procedures of discourse analysis applicable to written and spoken data. The main purpose of the course is to help students develop awareness of the process of analyzing discourse and how they can practice it.
ENGL 432 - Literary Criticism - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (7) 4. Course general Description: This course primarily prepares students for analysis of literary material through close examination of language, diction, figures, humor, satire, irony, pathos, realism, structure, technique and style and how these elements affect the reader. It introduces them to tools and techniques of literary criticism and theory. They will learn how to analyze poems, prose and drama and novellas. The learners will also be introduced to approaches to criticism such as Classical Criticism, Sublimity, Romanticism, New Criticism, Structuralism, Feminism, Cultural Criticism, Critical Race Theory and Postcolonial Criticism etc.
ENGL 422 - Sociolinguistics - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: ( 3 ) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☐ Required ☒ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (7 or 8) 4. Course general Description: This course gives a general introduction to psycholinguistics. The course discusses the role of the mind and brain in shaping language behavior. The course also enables students to understand how properties of the mind and brain influence human language. Students will be familiarized with the nature of language from a psycholinguistic perspective.
ENGL 431 - 20th Century Novel - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: (3) 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (7) 4. Course general Description: The course explores the development of both British and American novel in the 20th century. It provides an analysis of at least two novels. It also introduces students to 20th century thematic and technical aspects of the 20th century novel. Novels are chosen to represent the complexity of 20th century life. Science, technology, and their impacts on novel writing will be one of the major interests of this course.
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ENGL 424 - Applied Linguistics - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: 3 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (8) 4. Course general Description: This course aims at introducing students to the field of applied linguistics and its major areas of study: pragmatics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and sociolinguistics. The course examines some of the key ongoing debates in current applied linguistics, focusing on what languages are, what it is to know and learn a language, the 'native speaker', globalization and the spread of English, the politics of language and identity, what 'cultures' are in relation to language.
ENGL 451 - Practicum in Language - mandatory
Credits
4
Theoretical
Pratical
8
Training
Total Content
8
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. Field Experience Details: 1. Credit hours: 3 2. Level/year at which Field Experience is offered: 8 3. Time allocated for Field Experience activities (15) Weeks 2 days a week (6) Hours 4. Corequisite (or prerequisites if any) to join Field Experience ENGL 1451 5. Mode of delivery ☒ In-person/onsite ☐ hybrid (onsite/online) ☐ Online
ENGL 434 - Modern Drama - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: 3 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (8) 4. Course general Description: The course introduces students to forms, attitudes, techniques, and styles of modern playwrights through selected plays. The peculiar themes of the modern world (restlessness, tension, discontent, anxiety etc.) along with the modern technology and its presence in these plays will have special attention. The selected plays will also reflect the spirit of the age and show that the making of modern drama is the consequence of an immense collaborative activity, not the product of a single playwright, institution, or nation. The course will explore the emergence of modern drama as the complex and dynamic expression of cumulative artistic experience that include both the West and the East. The list of playwrights includes major figures like Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Eugene O’Neil, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett etc.
ENGL 433 - Modern Poetry - mandatory
Credits
3
Theoretical
3
Pratical
Training
Total Content
3
Prerequisite
Course Description:
A. General information about the course: 1. Course Identification 1. Credit hours: 3 2. Course type A. ☐ University ☐ College ☒ Department ☐ Track ☐ Others B. ☒ Required ☐ Elective 3. Level/year at which this course is offered: (8) 4. Course general Description: The course will cover the period from the 1890s to the 1960s, the so-called modernist era, as well as some of the postmodern poets. It will include some of the most prominent British and American modernists and postmodernists like T. S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton as well as Maya Angelou. It will provide students with a new form of poetry written in free verse as a reaction against Romantic and Victorian tradition. Also, it will introduce students to new subjects and new themes suggested by employing new inventions associated with the modern and contemporary life. The course will also guide students to recognize new poetic genres such as autobiographical and confessional poetry. The modernist and contemporary poetry with its irony, ambiguity and non-metrical technique will be examined in this course.
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