General description of the course: • This foundational course is concerned with defining listening and comprehension skills, their importance and position among other language skills. It also includes an explanation of the skills necessary to achieve good listening, and the related listening etiquette, understanding the audible and the written, and the ability to analyze the content, distinguish its elements, rephrase it, and deduce what the text suggests, and conduct comparison and constructive criticism if necessary. 5- Prerequisites for this course (if any) There are no prerequisites 6- Requirements concurrent with this course (if any) There are no concurrent requirements 7. The main objective of the course • The student masters listening and comprehension skills; to enable him to communicate culturally, intellectually and linguistically to serve the community.