College of Arts Requirements
E32111 College English I

This course focuses on key comprehension skills, such as locating main ideas and supporting details, understanding vocabulary in context, making inferences, finding transitions, distinguishing literal and non‑literal interpretations, and summarising. The writing part of the course emphasises organising vocabulary lists, taking notes, writing summaries, filling in tables, and writing advertisements. The grammar part of the course focuses on tenses (present and perfect), markers, word forms, conditionals and question forms.

E32112 College English II

This course begins with a review of effective sentences, then focuses on the paragraph. Students will be taught to develop topic sentences into unified and coherent paragraphs using different methods of paragraph development.They will also learn how to fill out application forms, write cover letters, and draft CVs.A grammar review is an essential part of this course. The essay will be introduced briefly towards the end of the semester.

English Major Requirements
Compulsory Courses

E32200 Conversation and Aural Comprehension

This course aims at improving the students' speaking and listening skills, increasing their vocabulary and training them in the functions and notions of language. Students practice using formal and informal English in a variety of situations.The aims of the course are to be achieved through organising group activities, discussions, role‑playing, and listening to cassette tapes, among other things.

E32202 Advanced Grammar

This course employs an eclectic approach to the study of grammar. It introduces students to advanced and complex grammatical structures and systematically relates these structures to meanings, uses, and situations.

E32203 Writing and Research

This course begins with a review of the paragraph before it focuses on the expository essay. Students will read different kinds of expository essays (description, comparison/contrast, process, classification, definition, persuasion) and will learn how to write them. Emphasis will be put on writing effective thesis statements, introductions, and conclusions, and on developing generally unified and coherent essays. Students will also be taught how to edit their work. They will practice answering essay questions and writing about literature. The course will briefly introduce the research paper.

E32234 Introduction to Linguistics

This course is an introduction to the study of language, including branches of linguistics and the relationship of linguistics to other fields.

E32236 Phonetics and Phonology

The Phonetics part of the course trains the students in Linear Transcription System and in production and perception of speech sounds. It provides students with the description of sounds (place and manner of articulation) and their classification into consonants, vowels and diphthongs. The Phonology part of the course is concerned with the distribution and relations of sounds. It also provides the students with the various phonological processes and rules.

E32260 Introduction to Literature

This course introduces students to different theories of the meaning of literature.Through the study of representative literary texts, students learn the basic principles of literary interpretation and the elements of different literary forms such as the short story, novel, drama, and poetry.

E32261 The Novel and The Short Story

This course trains students in the analysis of fiction, particularly the structure of novels and short stories, by studying representative English and American specimens of these genres.

E32262 Poetry

Through the study of a wide‑ranging selection of works by well‑known British and American poets, this course provides a close analysis of the language and stylistic features of poetry. The poetry features include structure, diction, prosody and the various sound devices used by the poets in the creation of images. The course also introduces various poetic forms: narrative poetry (epic, ballad, dramatic monologue, etc.), lyric poetry (sonnet, elegy, ode etc.), and modern free verse.

E32271 Western Civilization

This course first introduces the Graeco-Roman mythological heritage and biblical legacy needed for students to understand omnipresent reference and allusion in English literature, especially from the Renaissance onwards. It then moves to an examination of the visionary and artistic impulse in the writings of such masters of Renaissance thought and culture as Erasmus, Machiavelli, Montaigue, Cervantes, Dante, Rabelais and perhaps Petrarch,(Edmund) Spenser, Shakespeare and Milton, amongst quite a few others.

E32303 Advanced Writing

Through in and out of class writing, the students in this course will practice various modes of expressive, literary, and technical writing. They will also learn how to write letters, advertisements, abstracts, CV's, newspaper headlines, questionnaires, book reviews and reports, proposals, and articles.

E32340 Syntax and Syntactic Theory

This course focuses on theory and practice in the analysis and description of modern English, emphasizing syntax.

E32343 Semantics

This course introduces students to the basic concepts in Semantics such as Reference and Sense, Sense Relations, Word Meaning, Sentence Meaning and Utterance Meaning (Pragmatics) and Propositions.Students will also be introduced to the nature of Logic and Interpersonal Meaning.

E32360 Drama

This course studies masterpieces of dramatic works from the Greek period through present times, for the purpose of understanding a dramatic structure and the social function of the dramatic art. Writers studied include Sophocles, Shakespeare, Shaw, Beckett, and Pinter, among others.

E32361 English Literature Through Late Eighteenth Century: A Survey-I

This course surveys the developments and evolutions in English literature from the sixth century until the late eighteenth century. The course traces the major literary schools and genres, the most prominent literary figures and works, and the socio‑political background of the major texts.

E32362 English Literature from Late Eighteenth Century Onward: A Survey-II

This course surveys English literature from the Romantic Age to the twentieth century by looking at representative texts in various genres. The course also emphasises the relationship between literature and its environment.

E32386 (E32331) Contrastive Linguistics

This course focuses on theory and practice in the analysis of English and Arabic contrasts, errors made by learners, and implications for foreign language teaching.

E32390 Translation I

This course aims at helping students acquire the basic skills of translation in both Arabic and English. It provides them with sufficient training in translating simple, compound, and complex sentences from English into Arabic and from Arabic into English. A variety of texts in different disciplines will be used for translation. The course focuses on problematic areas in translation from English and Arabic, particularly the differences between Arabic and English in word order, position of adjectives, noun endings, etc. The course also looks into the influence of cultural difference on translation and provides a brief introduction to translation theories.

E32420 History of the English Language

This course studies the historical development of English, emphasising phonological, syntactic, semantic and lexical changes.

E32459 Literary Criticism

This course maps literary criticism from Plato to the modern age with a focus on modern critical theory. Students will closely read texts that "represent" Classical, Neo‑Classical, Romantic, Modern and post-modern theory. Students will also study various modern and post-modernist critical theories, such as Mythical and Archetypal approaches, Structuralism, Deconstruction, Psychoanalysis, Marxism, Feminism, and Post-colonialism. Critical theories will also be applied to literary texts.

E32460 American Literature: A Survey

This course surveys American literature, its forms, styles, techniques, subject matter and vision, from the colonial period through the twentieth century.

E32462 Shakespeare

Shakespeare's dramatic art, along with its techniques, styles and vision, is the focus of the course. Plays of different modes will be studied.

E32490 Research Methodology

Emphasising critical thinking, this course teaches students to write research papers on literature and linguistics.
Students will practice narrowing a topic, designing questionnaires, conducting interviews, using the library and documenting sources. Students are also introduced to aims, methods and tools of research.

E32499 Graduation Project (On credit hour) (semester of expected graduation)

In this course, students write an original research paper which should show their linguistic and cognitive competence.The paper should also indicate that the students have acquired the basic skills needed to deal with research problems, collect and analyse research data, and then make conclusion bout research problems. Students who are expected to graduate are to register in this course.They choose research topics in Language, Linguistics, Literature or Translation, and work closely with a supervisor on one of these topics according to scientific research methods and analysis.

Electives
Language and Linguistics

E32220 Oral Communication

This course emphasises higher level skills such as debating, giving presentations, inferencing, defending ideas, using telephone skills, etc. English for work and real‑world situations is emphasised through exposing students to listening activities and through speaking.

E32223 The English Essay

A study of masterpieces by English essayists from Bacon on, for the purpose of analysis and imitation.

E32263 Cultural Studies (prereq. 32260)

E32344 Schools of Linguistics

The course introduces students to the linguistic theory in general.
It critically surveys the different theories in linguistics such as the Traditional (including the Arabic linguistic tradition), Historical, Structural,  Functional,  Firthian, and Transformational-Generative theories.

E32414  (E32314) TEFL I

This course provides English majors with a theoretical background to a methodology for English teaching and learning. It also examines acquisition vs. learning, the use of a balanced-activities-approach to the teaching of English as a foreign language and deals with ways in which the communicative approaches or (innovative methods) can be taught to foreign students. It is also concerned with the basic principles and techniques used in the classroom, namely, management and planning, and attitudes of teachers to students and to teaching in general.

E32439 Computational Linguistics

This course introduces students of the English language to general ideas about computers. Students will learn about the function of computers in the rapidly-expanding world of hi-tech information technologies. It will help them use computers to analyse and treat linguistic problems in such areas as translation, teaching, and data base and dictionary making.

E32440 Applied Linguistics

This course aims at providing theoretical bases for certain pedagogical procedures, philosophies and techniques. In other words, the findings of theoretical linguistics are applied in matters like foreign language teaching, speech therapy and so on. Language as a means of communication is viewed with respect to the social setting in which that language is used, so sociolinguistics and language variation are major topics here. Moreover, pragmatics constitutes another major area in this course.

E32441 Sociolinguistics

This course studies the role and function of language in society and of language variation, introducing notions such as standard and non-standard varieties,idiolect and dialect, bilingualism and diglossia, pidginization and creolization, and language policy and planning.

E32442 Psycholinguistics

This course studies the relationship between language and the mind, dealing with perception, processing, and learning of language, and language acquisition universals. 

E32443 Discourse Analysis

This course introduces the students to the concept of discourse adopted by modern linguists as an alternative to the traditional unit of analysis, the isolated sentence. Thus,the course deals with the contextual features surrounding the communicative act, namely, the speaker/writer, the listener/reader and the topic. The issues to be addressed are the theme/rheme assignment, the address terms, the familiar and formal levels of language use in addition to the distinct features of religious, political feminist or sexist and leftist discourse. Samples of the spoken and written discourse are also presented for analysis to guide students to write in both modes.

E32450 Special Topic in Linguistics

This course focuses on any issue in linguistics which the instructor sees significant.

E32491 Translation II

This course emphasises translation of business and publicity materials, including practice in simultaneous translation.

Literature

E32338 Autobiography

This course addresses autobiography as a genre in both British and American Literatures. Autobiography as an independent genre, therefore, is to be distinguished from the general autobiographical impulse that virtually many works of literature integrate. Simulated autobiography, however, is a popular device in fiction and some novels on occasion can be autobiography in the guise of fiction. An ambitious syllabus of this course may trace autobiography to its roots; Saint Augustine is considered the first biographer in English Literature and Benjamin Franklin is the father of American auto-biography. In 20th Century Literature, the art of autobiography gained momentum; there is an increased interest in the lives of celebrities and a genuine interest in the making of self-made men and women. It is always possible to compile a list of autobiographies that can be a chronological representation of the development of autobiography as a  genre and of the different themes, devices and features of autobiography as an art. Students are encouraged to read as many autobiographies as possible and to examine the common features of this genre with a critical eye on its different aspects.

E32373 The Romantic Age

The topic of this course is the counter‑revolt in aesthetics and vision of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The emphasis falls on poetry. The student is to read and analyse representative poems by Blake ,Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and Byron. The student will also be exposed to Romantic thought in other genres.

E32377  The Development of the Novel (3 Cr. hrs.; Prereq. E32261)

This course traces the historical development of English and American novels from the 18th century to the present. The novel as a genre is a substantial part of this course; novel types, techniques and elements are explored. In preparing a syllabus for this course, instructors may choose to include representative novels of each age and each type. Whereas a quick look at the novels of the eighteenth century may suffice, nineteenth and twentieth century novels would be the concern of the course.

The novels of Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Smollett, Sterne and Goldsmith stand at the source of the English novel, but the 19th Century saw the flowering of the English and American novel.Austen, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, Hardy and Eliot created great fictional domains loaded with social types and melodramatic plots.In America, Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Howells, James are the pioneers and the makers of the great American masterpieces in fiction. In the twentieth century, novelists both in Britain and America probed deeply in the human mind offering new techniques and trends in fiction.The stream of consciousness technique was the major contribution of Virgina Woolf, James Joyce and William Faulkner.

E32378 Eighteenth-Century English Literature Excluding the Novel

This course covers a wide range of the poetry, prose and drama of the England of the 18th-century literature. Studies include verse and prose, essays, journals, biographies, pamphlets, letters and periodical articles.Insights into the philosophical and literary impulses of the times, and the political, religious and social changes, that ushered in the Age of Reason, are provided through close readings of works by Hume, Chesterfield, Goldsmith, Swift, Pope, (Dr.) Johnson, Boswell and Sheridan, amongst quite a few others.

E32379 The Victorian Age

The course covers Romantic poetry in its decay, premodern and decadent poetry of the 1880s and ‘90s, Victorian thought and some representative fiction. Tennyson, Arnold, Carlyle, the Brownings, Rossetti, Swinburne, Dickens, (George) Eliot, Pater, Thackeray, Ruskin, Mill and Morris are some of the major writers to be dealt with in the course.

E32470 Post-Colonial Literature

This course introduces students to the new and influential field of post-colonial studies, focusing on post-colonial writers from Africa, India, the Caribbean and the Middle East who through their writings engaged with their countries’ colonialn heritage on many levels. It also highlights these writers’ response to the ways English literature served and/or contested the British Empire’s colonial project (in texts, by such authors as Defoe, (Charlotte) Bronte, Hardy, Kipling, Conrad and J. M.Coetzee), and to colonialism, in general.  Readings include novels, short stories, poetry and essays by such writers as Chinua Achebe, Jean Rhyse, Derek Walcott, Jamaica Kincaid and Kamala Markandaya In addition, students will read some of the most important theoreticians of the field such as Frantz Fanon, Edward Said and Ngugi wa Thiongo. Among the key issues and themes that will be examined in detail are representations of 'the Other', language, history, identity, hybridity, intertexuality, place and displacement.

E32476 World Literature

This is a "Great Books" course that introduces the student to multi‑genre world texts for the purpose of analysis, evaluation and comparison and contrast.

E32477 Twentieth-Century British Literature

The course first introduces students to the socio-political and intellectual background out of which modern British literature emerged, to the aesthetics that govern its artistic output and the evolutions in critical theory and techniques that have been shaping British literature since WWII. Students then study and evaluate multi-genre masterpieces by trend-setting authors.

E32478 C20th American Literature

C20th American Literature is a readings course which aims at introducing some major 20th Century American writers in the major genres: poetry, fiction, drama, biography and autobiography. The following writers are common choices in almost all syllabi:  Robinson, Frost, Pound, Eliot,Cummings, Stevens, Williams, Lowell, Sexton, Plath,Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck,  Wright,  Hughes,  Ellison,  Bellow, O”Neill, Tennessee Williams, Albee and Baraka. Contemporary C20th literature is marked with a mosaic of multiculturalism and ethnicity. Instructors may choose to include some ethnic writers including the Afro-American group. In studying works by 20th century writers, students are encouraged to look for the general C20th motifs, movements, impulses and trends that are uniquely modern.

E32480 Special Topic in Literature

This course is focused on any literary figure, movement, or issue deemed significant by the instructor.

E32483 Studies in an English Literary Movement

This course aims to acquaint students with the sequence and nature of the literary movements across ages.The neo-classical movement of the 18th Century is a possible point of departure.The 19th century opens with the optimistic romantic movement, followed by the less optimistic realism of the second half, only to close with the pessimistic determinism of the naturalism of the last decade.The 20th Century opens with, and passes through, the two major wars leaving little hope for optimism; the pessimism of the last decade of the 19th Century is pushed to its limits leading writers to the domains of the alienation and nothingness of the existential movement and the consequent absurdism of the second half of the century.  The literary movements of the 20th century, however, are so diversified to allow for the easy labelling of the previous centuries. Surrealism, modernism, post-modernism, socialism, imagism, symbolism and feminism are among the literary movements and concepts that twentieth century produced and promoted. Students, therefore, are expected to read works that are representative of some of these movements and to examine the common features and the manifestation of these features in the assigned works.

E32484 Comparative Literature

This course introduces students to different theories of comparative literature and gives them a chance to compare aspects of English and Arabic literary traditions. Using both a cognitive/cultural approach and a historical/contextual approach, students will trace the similarities and differences between these literary traditions. They will also deal with the issue of influence or impact, examining how one tradition borrows from, or reacts to another.

E32492 Language and Literature

The main topic of this course is the use of linguistic tools, models, approaches (including discourse analysis) in the understanding and analysis of literature, and the application of such methodology to the analysis and evaluation of selected literary texts.

Is that branch of linguistics which deals with the inner structure of the listeme including idioms, compounds or single words. As a course offered by the English Department it emphasises English morphology but also introduce students to the morphologies of various languages including Arabic, Turkish, Chinese, and so on. The aim of this course is to enable students to deal with cultural outputs from broad perspectives related to their economic, social and political environment.
The course helps students develop critical and analytical skills needed to comprehend academic and cultural English texts with an eye on exposing them to world experiences they have never experienced before. One of the primary concerns of the cultural theory is that its intellectual viewpoints cover different aspects of various materials that can be considered textual and hence explainable.The course material includes some literary works, films, radios and TV programs, photos, editorials, political speeches, and architectural designs. The course, therefore, equips students with critical viewpoints and theoretical tools needed to comprehend and interact with this material. In the end, students are expected to write down their responses to the assigned material, raise questions about it and then discuss it in the classroom.

E32323 Morphology (3 credit hrs.;prereq.32236)