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Dec 21, 2024
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ALNG 000/3912 - Learning Arabic through Community Engagement (3 cr.)
Prerequisites
Native Speakers of Arabic who are: Thanawyia Amma holders or exempted from Arabic language courses or at Advanced level of Arabic language.
Description
This Community Based Learning (CBL) course has been done in discussion with ACE, specifically late Dr Pandeli. This course aims to improve students’ writing, reading, listening, and presentation skills in Arabic through taking part in a community based learning project. The course helps students develop a sense of social responsibility and civic engagement by immersing them in real life problems of people in need on and off campus. Moreover, it promotes students’ critical thinking and problem-solving skills. It also increases students’ leadership and communication skills such as interpersonal (conversing with community groups), interpretive (reading research), and presentation skills (presenting research done). The course requires students to come up with out of the box practical solutions to the problems of real cases from the Employee Emergency Relief fund and community service clubs on campus. Students are asked to submit reflection papers, give several presentations, in addition to a final project. To this end, students will be introduced to the linguistic tools necessary to express their ideas in written and spoken Arabic. Authentic materials which enhance students’ different Arabic language skills will be introduced in class and in the form of assignments. Moreover, authentic reading and listening materials on community engagement, NGOs, philanthropists, fundraising, and marketing through social media will be provided. This course will be offered to Arabic native speakers in Fall and Spring semesters.
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