ARAB 205 Media Arabic
Do you want to learn how to comfortably discuss current events and comment on the news in Arabic? The course Media Arabic provides students with the vocabulary and discourse structures necessary to critically analyze and speak about topics in today's Arabic media coverage. In addition to completing exercises in an Arabic media textbook, students will listen to real news programs and radio broadcasts, explore blogs, and examine articles from Arabic magazines and newspapers. Al-Jazeera, Al-Arabiyya, BBC Arabic, Al-Ahram, Al-Quds, and Al-Arab are just a few of the sources from which authentic mass media materials will be analyzed and discussed. While the course will be taught in Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic dialects will also be incorporated into many of the multimedia exercises. This course will be co-taught with Nabiha Al-Khatib, CUA's Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant. It fulfills Islamic World Studies certificate and minor requirements.