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.

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.

This course aims to develop students' knowledge of fundamental English grammar. It introduces them to grammar topics such as tenses (present, past, and future), regular and irregular verbs, the active and passive voice, auxiliary verbs, questions, and reported speech. The course provides opportunities for students to work together on various grammar tasks and exercises, enabling them to use their grammatical knowledge to enhance their oral and written communication. It also aims to develop a basic understanding of English grammar, train students to learn a variety of grammar topics such as tenses, voice, and reported speech with appropriate explanations and activities, and empower them to use the language accurately. Furthermore, it enables students to interact effectively with their peers, teachers, and other English language users in diverse academic and everyday settings.

This course deals with problem-solving methods and algorithm design, basic data types, reports of all kinds and ready-made functions, order of operations, assignment statements, input and output statements, conditional and exceptional statements, repetition, defined functions and approaches, self-generating algorithms, the concept of a domain and the definition of variables and elements, and the use of arrays.

The course focuses on developing cognitive and practical skills related to university life, including: Understanding the systems and regulations associated with university life. Enhancing critical thinking skills and habits of mind. Acquiring research skills and communication skills. Cultivating all aspects that contribute to personal refinement and self-development.

This course focuses on the study of the term "culture" and its applications in reality, along with understanding its various sources. It includes: An introduction to the importance of teaching the course. Definition of Islamic culture, its significance, fields, and characteristics. Sources and tributaries of Islamic culture. The six pillars of faith and what nullifies them. The most important contemporary cultural challenges. Islamic law and its main objectives. Worship in Islam and its rulings.

The course covers basic language skills, especially at the syntactic level: structure and inflection, original, estimated, and local inflection, as well as the Arabic sentence in its two forms and their complements. This is based on the studied texts by reading them, extracting grammatical rules from them, and discussing these rules.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The course includes: Definition of moderation and related terms, as well as opposing concepts. The meaning of moderation in the Quran and Sunnah. Identification of the sources that define the concept of moderation and its principles. Reasons for studying moderation and reinforcing its principles. Explanation of the moderation of Islam among religions.

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.

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.

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.

"This course focuses on the recitation of Surah Al-Fatiha and the 30th Juz' of the Holy Qur'an, along with the memorization of selected Surahs and the application of Tajweed rules to the assigned portions. "

The course covers the rules of Arabic writing, including the letters that are omitted or added in writing, and the words that are connected to others or separated from them. It also addresses the rules of writing the hamzah, the cases of writing the final soft "alif" in nouns, verbs, and letters, and the writing of the tied "taa" and the open "taa." Additionally, it discusses punctuation marks: their importance and where they should be used. The course also explores the arts of Arabic writing, such as writing reports, summaries, essays, administrative letters, minutes, and resumes.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The course studies the concept of development, the characteristics of women, their status, and their role in Muslim society. It highlights the aspects that distinguish the Islamic approach from Western approaches in addressing women's issues. It includes an emphasis on the efforts of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in enhancing the developmental role of women in various fields, such as medical, media, educational, economic, and community sectors. It discusses issues related to women and their development spiritually, personally, economically, politically, and socially. It also addresses a number of family and social issues concerning women and their relationship to development.

The course includes the study of the following topics: Guiding Issues Related to Youth Contemporary Issues Related to Security Issues Related to Culture Contemporary Issues Related to Dawah (Invitation to Islam) and Volunteering

The course includes an introduction and twelve units, as follows: Introduction to the Study of Human Rights in Islam Human Rights in International Agreements and Law Islam's Position on Human Rights Agreements The Right to Life The Right to Freedom The Right to Justice and Equality The Right to Property, Work, and Healthcare The Right to Marriage and Family Formation Children's Rights Women's Rights Rights of Non-Muslims within the Muslim Community Human Rights in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Partager

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.

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.

A Brief Introduction on the Importance of Studying the Prophetic Biography The study of the prophetic biography (Seerah) is essential as it helps in understanding the life of the noble Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) starting from his birth and upbringing, his life before the Prophethood, and the examination of the stages of the call during the Meccan and Medinan periods. It covers his confrontations with the polytheists, the presentation of his message, his struggle in the way of Allah, and the hardships he endured from the polytheists. It also introduces his battles, mentioning his treaties and agreements, such as the Treaty of Hudaybiyyah. Extracting Important Lessons This study allows for the extraction of essential lessons from the overall life of the Prophet (peace be upon him), applying them to reality, and illustrating the insights that benefit Muslims in their lives. Additionally, it discusses the illness of the Prophet (peace be upon him) and his death, as well as his rights over his nation.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This course is designed for university students with the aim of engaging them in volunteer work and raising their awareness about it, including its concept, importance, characteristics, and fields. Students will familiarize themselves with the fundamentals and principles of volunteer work, acquire skills in planning and organizing volunteer activities, and commit to the regulations governing volunteer work in the Kingdom. The course also aims to enhance awareness of the significance of volunteer work, activate the role of Saudi women in it, and promote the involvement of Saudi universities in supporting volunteer initiatives.

The Entrepreneurship course covers the basics and skills of entrepreneurship. The course begins with defining the entrepreneurship ecosystem and the importance of the entrepreneur’s qualities and skills in the success of projects. It also discusses the role of creativity and innovation in entrepreneurship, and how to transform ideas into feasible projects. Students learn about the business model and business plan as essential tools for project development. The course also focuses on entrepreneurship in small and medium enterprises and project financing methods, in addition to the importance of the management, accounting and marketing team. It also covers the implementation of entrepreneurial projects and the preparation of the operational plan to ensure sustainable success.

This course enables students to acquire the basics of learning the Chinese language and master its major skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This course is an analytical, critical, and appreciative reading of literary texts, both poetry and prose, with an in-depth vision, conscious, purposeful reading, and sound foundations that enable the student to recognize the artistic and aesthetic values ​​of the literary text, develop his literary talents, and enrich his aesthetic linguistic lexicon.

This course introduces students to computer-aided translation (CAD) tools, starting with translation memory software such as Trados, Wordfast, and OmegaT, and translation management software such as Multiterm. CAD tools are essential for translators, and students need to become familiar with them in this field. This course ensures that students understand the value of technological tools in translation and stay up-to-date with the latest developments in the field.

The university student will understand professional ethics, its significance in Islam, its applications in Islamic civilization, and its role in the success of their work and life, along with the extent of attention given to it by the systems of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. B. The student will acquire the skill to analyze emerging ethical phenomena in the workplace, be able to predict their effects, and determine their stance on them. They will learn methods to instill good ethics and ways to overcome obstacles to their application. C. The student will commit to professional ethics in themselves and their work environment and guide others to embrace these ethics.

The course aims to introduce students to literary works recognized by critics as key components of world literature. It will focus on works that guide students toward developing a global perspective and a deeper understanding of other cultures. The diversity of the selected works enables students to realize that literature can serve as a vehicle for different nations to learn about one another and thus establish relationships based on cooperation and mutual respect. The list of works includes masterpieces such as *Don Quixote* by Miguel de Cervantes, *Children of Gebelawi* by Naguib Mahfouz, *The Divine Comedy* by Dante Alighieri, *One Thousand and One Nights*, *Medea* by Euripides, *Moby-Dick* by Herman Melville, and *Great Expectations* by Charles Dickens.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This course primarily prepares students to analyze literary works through a meticulous examination of language, style, characters, humor, irony, satire, emotion, realism, structure, technique, and how these elements affect the reader. It also introduces them to the tools and techniques of literary criticism and theory. Students will learn how to analyze poems, prose, drama, and novellas. Furthermore, they will be introduced to critical approaches such as classical, transcendental, romantic, new criticism, structuralism, feminism, cultural criticism, critical race theory, postcolonial criticism, and others.

Course Overview: This course explores the development of the British and American novel in the 20th century. It provides an analysis of at least two novels and introduces students to the thematic and technical aspects of the 20th-century novel. The novels chosen are representative of the complexities of 20th-century life. Science and technology and their influence on novel writing will be a key focus of this course.

General course description: This course aims to provide students with modern techniques and devices used in collecting information for writing research papers, such as using library references, using internet search engines, and methods of filtering data to ensure a high level of information accuracy.

Course Description: This course provides a general introduction to psycholinguistics. It discusses the role of the mind and brain in shaping language behavior. The course also enables students to understand how the characteristics of the mind and brain influence human language. Students will learn about the nature of language from a sociological perspective.

This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of discourse analysis. It explores the fundamental assumptions, concepts, and procedures of discourse analysis as applied to written and spoken data. The primary aim of the course is to help students develop an understanding of the discourse analysis process and how to practice it.

Course Overview: This course introduces students to the forms, attitudes, techniques, and styles of contemporary playwrights through selected plays. The strange themes of the modern world (anxiety, tension, discontent, worry, etc.) along with the presence of modern technology in these plays will receive particular attention. The selected plays will reflect the spirit of the age and demonstrate that modern drama is the result of immense collaborative activity, not the product of a single playwright, institution, or nation. The course will explore the emergence of modern drama as a complex and dynamic expression of cumulative artistic experience encompassing both East and West. The list of playwrights includes major figures such as Henrik Ibsen, Anton Chekhov, George Bernard Shaw, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, and others.

The course will cover the period from the 1890s to the 1960s, often referred to as the Modern Era, as well as some Postmodern poets. It will include some of the most prominent British and American Modernists and Postmodernists, such as T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, Rudyard Kipling, Ezra Pound, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Sylvia Plath, and Annie Sexton, in addition to Maya Angelou. Students will be introduced to a new form of poetry written in free verse as a reaction against Romantic and Victorian traditions. The course will also present students with new themes and proposed themes through the use of new inventions related to modern and contemporary life. Furthermore, the course will guide students to new poetic genres such as autobiographical and confessional poetry. This course will examine modern and contemporary poetry with its irony, ambiguity, and unrhymed techniques.

Course Overview: This course aims to introduce students to the field of applied linguistics and its main areas of study: pragmatics, discourse analysis, psycholinguistics, language acquisition, and sociolinguistics. The course addresses some of the key debates currently taking place in applied linguistics, focusing on the nature of languages, the meaning of knowing and learning a language, the "native speaker," globalization and the spread of English, language and identity politics, and the nature of "cultures" in relation to language.

A course that focuses on the field experience of graduates of the English Department, and consists of three credit hours, totaling fifteen hours per week.