Programs and Goals

The general program for teaching Arabic to Non-Natives

This program is specially designed to teach Arabic and provide insights into the literature, culture, history, and politics of this part of the world. To this end, there exists a set of  didactic goals the program is seeking to materialize:

• Teaching students how to articulate, read, and write Arabic sounds (phonemes) as well as providing them with the lexicon, grammar, and structure necessary to develop the four language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
• Introducing students to the Arab community in general, and the Palestinian community in particular, in terms of its customs, traditions, geography, cultural and intellectual formation.
• Furnishing students with useful information on Arab heritage and its literary, historical, and ethical elements.
• Providing students with contemporary political, economical, and ecological terminology.
• Providing students with the terminology necessary to understand Arabic language sciences:  ilm al-nahw (‘the science of syntax’), ilm al-sarf (‘the science of morphology’), literature, rhetoric, and criticism.
• Arousing students' interest in learning Arabic as well as building up their perception of its aesthetics.

The program's points of departure:

Students willing to study Arabic language & literature need to undergo four levels:

• Level one.
• Level two.
• Level three.
• Level four.