Courses

Course Description

E32098 English Placement Test

This test aims at placing students, on admission to the university, in accordance with their competence in English. Students who score 80% and above are exempted from E10103.Students who score 50%-79% register in the University English basic courses.Those who score below 50% should sign up for E100 and pass, before they engage in further English courses.

E32100 Remedial English 100

This intensive English course is offered to students who score poorly (i.e. below 50%) on the placement test. Since the major concern of this course is to improve the students’ proficiency before starting their ordinary university English basic courses and major courses taught in English, special emphasis has been placed on enhancing the students’ ability to effectively acquire the four language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Specifically, the course attempts to ensure an academically acceptable performance on the part of the students at the level of the English basic courses. Moreover, the course aims at expanding students’ vocabulary needed for various tasks.

E10103 University English I

This course is designed for students who need to work on the four skills of the language: reading, writing, listening, and speaking.The development of vocabulary and skills of comprehension are integral parts of the course. The course encourages a more analytical and independent approach to study and helps prepare the students for any subsequent exam preparation such as the Cambridge Certificate in Advanced English.

E10322 University English II

(English for the Science Colleges: Science, Pharmacy, Engineering, Agriculture, Veterinary, Information Technology, Human Medicine, Nursing and Optometrics)

E10322 is a basic University English requirement which is offered to students from the colleges ofScience, Pharmacy, Engineering, Agriculture, Veterinary, Information Technology, Human Medicine, Nursing and Optometrics. The students will be exposed to a range of science-based writings in English that supply students with samples of the kind of academic English they are likely to encounter in their textbooks. Exercises on grammar, vocabulary and textual organization are geared towards developing students’ observational and analytical skills that aid comprehension.The course uses an integrated approach which allows for communicative interaction in the class to actively test and broaden the listening and speaking abilities of the students.Furthermore, the acquisition of vocabulary items will be reinforced through their use in written sentences.Additional training in writing will be given through questions and answers, summaries of principal ideas in a reading passage and the preparation of reports.

E10323 University English II

(English for Humanities’ Colleges: Arts, Shari’a, Education & Fine Arts)
University English E10323 is intended to serve students of the Humanities’ Colleges: Arts, Shari’a, Education, and Fine Arts. This course carries on reading skills emphasized in University English I (10103). Its main objective is to develop the students’ reading comprehension skills of skimming, scanning, analytic thinking and passing judgements on the material read. Besides these reading skills, the course provides students with an invaluable opportunity to develop their vocabulary inventory.
Moreover, students are trained in realizing text organization and development of English style: this entails recognizing thesis - and topic sentences, subordination, exemplification and other organizational devices. Students will also be trained to see different types of style: descriptive, analytic, expository, narrative...etc. The text chosen is geared towards achieving these aims.

E10324 University English II

(English for Human Medicine and Pharmacy) (coming soon)

E10325 University English II

(English for the Colleges of Economics and Administrative Sciences and Law)
This course is open only to students of the Economics and Administrative Sciences and Law.In reading, students will be exposed to a variety of materials, in business and law, taken from college texts, magazines, newspapers and related literature. Students will learn how to identify main ideas, use context clues, build vocabulary, recognize organizational structure and rhetorical strategies.In writing, students will gain mastery of English sentence structure and paragraph.In speaking, the focus will be on development of conversational skills useful in everyday life.
In listening, the aim is to perfect students’ pronunciation, stress, intonation and help them understand a spoken text.The course also aims at preparing students to function effectively in the world of work, in business and law, after graduation.

E32101 English for the Workplace

(English for the Colleges of Economics and Administrative Sciences and Engineering)
This course is designed to train senior students of the faculties of Engineering and Economics and Administrative Sciences to communicate effectively in the business world.It focuses on practical oral and written business communication principles and applications with particular emphasis on writing, sending and answering e-mails, writing proposals for field projects and discussing them with an audience as well as training students to express themselves orally.In this course, the instructors and students are required to use the University Zajel OCC program.

ART32113 Spanish I

This is a course for beginners.The course primarily depends on the integration of the four language skills. It teaches students, in a simplified way, the basics of Spanish grammar.Students will be exposed to Spanish-oriented cultural texts in order to introduce students to Spanish society and civilization.This course should enable students to understand spoken Spanish and allow them to express themselves in writing

ART32114 Spanish II

This course is a continuation of Spanish I 32113.In this course, students learn more basics of Spanish grammar and oral communication in Spanish.The course emphasizes advanced vocabulary and rules of grammar, correct pronunciation, the hows of writing common expressions used in spoken and written language.The course will also deepen students’ knowledge of the Spanish society.

ART32115 German I

This course teaches words and grammatical structures and rules mostly used in daily communication.The course covers a number of things: greetings, introducing people, naming household things, like food and drinks, ordering a meal, entertaining visitors, managing work, making arrangements for appointments, renting an apartment, buying things, etc.

ART32116 German II

This course is a continuation of German I 32115. By the end of the course, students should have learned the basics of German grammar.Students will also learn how to communicate with native speakers of German.This course covers a number of topics: description of pain, providing advice, narrating a story/reporting an event, talking about urban life, traffic, marketing, German culture, and German-speaking countries.

ART32117 Turkish Language I

The course takes an integrated skills approach to teaching oral and written communications.It introduces language grammars at a basic level for students who study Turkish for the first time. The course is also meant to introduce the Turkish society, culture and civilization to Palestinian learners.

ARA31259 Hebrew Language I

(Currently under the Arabic Department)
Principles and foundations of Hebrew which should enable students to express themselves orally and in writing.

ARA31260 Hebrew Language II

(Currently under the Arabic Department)
This course, a continuation of Hebrew I, aims at achieving a deeper understanding of the Hebrew language.Arabic and Hebrew will be compared and students will be trained in translation between the two languages.