University Requirements Student must complete 19 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
10032100	Remedial English	0
Remedial English (E10032100) is a three-hour non-credited English course 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.
11000101	Islamic Culture	3
This course aims to establish the concept of Islamic culture and its position among the other international cultures, its position in the Muslim life, its sources, its bases and its characteristics. It also aims to introduce the Islamic culture in faith, worship, relations, morals, and knowledge, to discuss the clash between cultures in addition to Globalization, Human Rights, Woman Rights, Democracy and other contemporary issues.
11000102	Arabic Language	3
This course aims to improve the level of students in language skills and various literary, read and absorb and express written, and oral and tasted literary, through texts flags authors and poets in different eras, lessons in grammar and spelling, and brief definition months dictionaries and Arab old ones the modern and how to use them. This course aims to implement the Arabic language in the areas of reading and expression of both types oral and written communication.
11000103	English Language I	3
University English I (E11000103) is a three credit-hour university-required English language course 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. In addition, various reading strategies (making predictions, identifying main ideas, reading for details, relating information in the text to life experience) are introduced and developed through a wide range of topics for reading and writing. The course encourages a more analytical and independent approach to study and helps prepare the students for any subsequent exam preparation.
11000105	Palestinian Studies	3
The course is mandatory for university students from various disciplines, so it provides students with knowledge and `information about the Palestinian reality and in particular the political developments of the Palestinian cause since its inception until the present day in line social and economic developments and political which constitute the main pillars for the study of the Palestinian political reality. This course aims to study the Palestinian issue from its beginning until present in social, economic and political issues.
11000108	Community Service	1
This course aims to connect university students with charitable, community, and public institutions, while also enhancing students? role towards society and familiarizing them with humanitarian needs by providing assistance to targeted groups. It seeks to improve the living conditions of marginalized and impoverished populations. The course prioritizes achieving the greatest possible number of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) within the Palestinian context. This is not only through raising awareness and introducing these goals, but also by offering students opportunities to engage practically in implementing various SDGs locally. Students will participate in programs, projects, and activities aimed at reducing poverty and hunger, providing medical services, treatment, and medication to marginalized and poor groups, supporting gender equality and education, including persons with disabilities and special needs, preserving water resources and natural resources, raising awareness on alternative and clean energy, caring for the environment and agriculture, recycling solid materials, rejecting discrimination, promoting green spaces, and encouraging productive and forestry farming. Students enrolled in the course can join different stages designed with alternatives for each phase, allowing them to complete the requirements under flexible conditions. This approach benefits the community while developing students? skills and experiences.
11000117	Leadership and Communication Skills	1
The course aims to assist students in acquiring modern concepts in the field of communication and understanding the essential skills for effective communication with oneself and others. This is achieved through the use of effective teaching methods that rely on student engagement and motivation to learn through training and self-directed learning. The course emphasizes skill development through teamwork and interactive methods, helping students improve their verbal and non-verbal communication skills by learning public speaking and the fundamentals of oration. Additionally, it helps students develop active listening skills, and contributes to enhancing their abilities in dialogue and persuasion, overcoming public speaking anxiety, self-promotion, negotiation, job interviews, presentation and delivery, and writing. The course also provides students with knowledge about innovative and creative ideas that can be implemented, as well as how to write a resume. Furthermore, the course aims to refine students' personalities through participation in group presentations.
11000126	Introduction to Computer Science and Skills	2
This course aims to enrich students with the basic computer skills alongside with the theoretical and practical backgrounds behind those skills. First of all, software and hardware components of a computer are discussed. This forms the substrate from which a student can realize the practical applications of a computer, especially in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Thereafter, the student awareness for the security vulnerabilities of a computer system is improved through discussing the threats associated with the absolute dependability on the Internet in storing critical data. This is conducted with presenting the basic secure Internet frameworks for students with emphasis on scientific research platforms (ResearchGate, Google Scholar, LinkedIn,?etc). Finally, word processing, statistical analysis and presentation software are discussed with practical applications in the lab.
11000330	English Language II	3
University English II is a three-credit hour university-required English language course specifically designed to meet the needs of the students of the humanities and social sciences. The instructors of the course will employ a broad-based approach by integrating the four language skills, in order to enable students to improve their reading skills and comprehension of a variety of academic texts and to provide their own input by expressing their opinions on the topics under discussion, through either verbal participation in class or written assignments at home. As the discussions in class will be held in English, this is hoped to enhance the listening comprehension of students as well as provide them with opportunities to exercise their speaking skills. The units in the prescribed textbook have been organized according to the various strategies that students need to practice in order to improve their speed and comprehension, particularly while reading on an academic subject in English. These strategies include understanding vocabulary in context, using the dictionary, understanding information from graphs and charts, scanning for specific information, taking notes from reading, studying collocations ?. etc. In Addition to the texts set for intensive reading, six more passages are also considered as self ? reading passages so as to encourage students to read at home and contact their instructors.

Speciality Requirements Student must complete 109 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
10502320	Statistics and Research Methods	3
This course teaches methods for organizing data, constructing tables and graphs, types of variables, measures of central tendency, and measures of dispersion, and their relationship to the nature of statistical distributions. It also covers inferential statistics, including the formulation and testing of hypotheses related to population averages (T-tests, analysis of variance). The course introduces the scientific method, its objectives, steps, and tools for gathering knowledge. Students will learn the fundamentals of scientific research, including the characteristics of the scientific method, steps of research, and data collection tools. The course also defines psychological research, reviews educational literature, and covers various research methodologies such as historical, survey, case study, retrospective, experimental, pre-experimental, quasi-experimental, and true experimental designs. Students are required to develop a research plan that adheres to standard research guidelines and rules.
10805100	Introduction to Psychology	3
This course aims to introduce psychology in terms of concept, objectives, fields and methods of research. In addition, it deals with several psychological subjects that interest interns of psychology, such as: concentration, memory, conflict, and motivation. It also provides an overview of several psychological theories, such as: analytics, behaviorism, cognitivism, Gestaltism, and Rogerism.
10805151	Psychology of Play	3
This course discusses the nature of play, its historical evolution, educators? (such as Froebel and Pestalozzi) interest in its educational importance, exposure to psychological viewpoints of play behavior as it is explained in Freud?s, Bruner?s, Piaget?s and Ericsson?s theories, and the importance of play in kindergarten, and adopting it in the primary education core for children before school. The course deals with the methods and mechanisms of employing play in the counseling process, the different models of play used in the counseling process; furthermore, the practical aspect includes helping students to develop psychological counseling programs based on playing.
10805206	Theories of Psychological Counseling	3	10805100
This course addresses theory in the field of psychological counseling in terms of historical background, development and basic principles, the most important therapeutic and counseling methods emanating from each theory, and the strengths and weaknesses of each theory. It also discusses some cases and their treatments according to the theories of psychological counseling and treatment. In this course, students receive training on some counseling cases through role playing, displaying remedial audio and visual recordings and discussing them according to theories of psychological counseling, such as Stan?s and Suad?s clinical case
10805207	Mental Disorders and Their Diagnosis	3	10805100
This course covers various mental and psychological disorders such as personality, anxiety, sleeping, eating, and schizophrenic and bipolar disorders; and the classification, prevention and treatment of disorders. The course trains students how to use global manuals such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual DSM-IV and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) produced by the World Health Organization.
10805209	Psychological Counseling Skills	3	10805206
This course trains students on basic skills necessary for practicing counseling and on master advisory interviews skills through role playing and displaying visual and auditory recordings - beginning with establishing the advisory relationship, attentive listening skills, clarification, showing feelings and attendance behavior, summarization skills, posing questions skills, confrontation, explanation, skills of motivation and challenge, behavioral problems identification, goals identification; and ending with dealing with hesitation, resisting the counselor, ending the counseling relationship, evaluation and referring. On the other side, the practical aspect of this course includes practical training for these skills through role playing, displaying remedial sessions which contain using these skills in the fields of individual and group and family counseling
10805315	Cognitive Behavioral Therapy	3	10805206
This course is designed to introduce the principles, foundations and steps of behavioral therapy, and to study the principles and foundations that cognitive therapy is based on in its different aspects. The course addresses studying therapeutic cognitive methods, such as reinforcement, deletion, progressive sensitivity reduction, assertiveness training, saturation, and aversion therapy. Furthermore, the course addresses the various cognitive methods in treating the problems of anxiety, depression and tension. The practical aspect includes a set of therapeutic video tapes on the cognitive behavioral techniques, and the modeling of these techniques is applied to many of the behavioral cognitive problems, such as exam anxiety, social anxiety and irrational thoughts.
10805460	Counseling Expressive Activity	3
This course addresses the methods of using expressive activities in counseling, such as drawing, music, clay, drama, novel, and expressive writing; in addition to the psychological theories of each of these activities, such as the Adler, Gestalt theories; and cognitive and behavioral expressive activities. The practical aspect of this course includes training students on building and developing counseling programs that are based on expressive activities to deal with various counseling problems, such as trauma, depression, loss, and phobias.
11201101	Introduction to Musicology	3
11206101	Principles of Design	3
This course is designed to introduce students to the types, forms, raw materials, tools and models of design. In addition, it introduces students to the conceptual idea of design, its foundations, elements, characteristics and features (such as color, line, space area, mass, void, equilibrium, motion, distribution, correspondence, and space). Furthermore, this course introduces students to the ways of dealing with objects or shapes with two-dimensions or three-dimensions and their application. It also introduces students to a variety of models and patterns of design and their connection with aesthetics and beauty.
11211101	Introduction to Art	2
This course introduces students to four main arts (visual, musical, theatrical and architectural) and the focus is on the main relations between those arts. Chosen models of global artistic works are presented in this course and studied thoroughly.
11211462	Studio Freehand Drawing	3
This course develops the students? ability to draw still life, architectural spaces and structures by commercial hand and various techniques, which helps him to develop his awareness and abilities to express ideas in their designs. This is based on the elements and foundations of the artwork.
11211476	Philosophy of Aesthetics	3
This course focuses on the study of aesthetics and the philosophies, trends, and principles used for the appreciation of beauty. In addition, it looks at the relation of aesthetics with other related objects. Furthermore, this course investigates the multi-faceted concepts of aesthetics, its forms and content, beauty and ugliness.
11241101		3	11201101
This course includes an overview related to the history and theory of music therapy and its application with a variety of clinical groups. Students will learn theories and techniques from pioneering music therapists and current theories of musical cognition, learning, and behavior. Through the course, students will be provided with practical exploration of how music is applied in clinical practice. Through experiential learning, students will examine collective and individual musical responses and study their effects on psychological, neurological, and immune function. Attention will be given to music therapy in a multicultural context. Musical proficiency is not required for enrollment in this course; however, readiness to engage in active music-making is necessar
11241102		3	10805100 11241106
The course covers the general psychological principles underlying social behavior. It analyzes major social psychological theories, methods, and topics, including attitudes, conformity, aggression, attraction, social perception, helping behavior, and group relationships. This course also emphasizes the importance of cultural factors in explaining and understanding human behavior, providing students with a multicultural framework to assess the appropriateness of traditional beliefs and theories for different cultural groups. Through this course, students will explore the role of culture in development, cognition, gender, emotion, language and communication, personality, abnormal psychology, self-development, identity, and interpersonal and group relationships. To develop a better understanding of oneself in relation to the world, students will compare their cultural background and standards with the dominant society in the United States. Finally, students will gain a deeper and more complex understanding of the nature of culture, its relationship to psychological processes, and the differences and similarities between cultures in our globalized world.
11241103		3
In this course, students will study the role and importance of the arts in the healing process, as well as how the arts can facilitate healing and expand self-awareness. Students will also explore the historical development of art therapy over time.
11241104		3
The course includes an introduction to the history, philosophy, and theory of art therapy. Students will study the creative process and visual expression in relation to therapy. They will engage in the study of art within lectures and through homework assignments, with a focus on developing critical and creative thinking skills. The course will utilize readings, lectures, films, and experiential exercises.
11241105		3
In this course, students will become acquainted with the materials and mediums used in art therapy by studying the works of contemporary artists and art therapists, and examining the applications used in art therapy practice. The course will also explore the social context of these materials, followed by a discussion and exploration of both traditional and innovative materials and processes. Students will learn about the key materials used as a "language" in the practice of art therapy and will be able to apply this understanding through various in-class exercises.
11241106		3
In this course, students will be introduced to the theoretical and research approaches that address attachment and emotional, psychological, and social development as applied to different life stages. They will also learn how to apply this knowledge and understand its impact on the therapeutic process.
11241107		3
This course focuses on the role and potential uses of color psychology in the arts, specifically on the effects of color on how subjects understand and process complex emotional and psychological phenomena. The first part of the course introduces the concept of colors, their nature, classification, properties, and the theories that have explored them, such as the theories of Chevreul, Munsell, Itten, and Newton. It also examines how artists use color to deal with emotion, how this effect works cognitively, and the potential secondary effects on art viewers.Color psychology is initially viewed from a clinical research perspective, assessing its utility in art therapy as a form of psychotherapy. This includes examining the mood and mental state of artists and the colors they use in their works.The second part of the course focuses on color composition and analysis using specific techniques to develop an innovative color vision through various means (manual skills or computer use) to create a particular artwork. Students will demonstrate specific color values. Additionally, students will apply theoretical knowledge in classroom and homework projects to reinforce skills in using watercolors and applying them to landscape scenes.
11241108		3	11241106 10805100
This course examines the stages of development in children and adolescents, exploring the theories that attempt to explain these stages and the resulting physical, emotional, and cognitive changes that occur. It will highlight the characteristics of each stage of development. The course will also study the relationship between the stages adolescents go through and their educational stages, from elementary to secondary and university levels, with a focus on the needs specific to each stage. Additionally, it will cover the psychological and social problems associated with adolescence.
11241109		3	11241104
In this course, students undergo a direct experience in art therapy, learning its principles and basic practices. They learn to work with visual arts to explore aspects of life experiences and feelings that can be directly explored through imaginative participation. Additionally, other artistic techniques are introduced, such as creative writing, theater, movement, and storytelling, with a focus on their interconnectedness and importance in therapy. The course also aims to teach students how to deal with different aspects of personality through creating masks, theater, body work, as well as engaging in playful expression.
11241110		3
The course of Engineering and Architectural Drawing is an educational subject that equips students with the ability to read and interpret engineering and architectural drawings, as well as mastering the principles of engineering drawing. This enables students to establish connections between what they study in this course and the practical world, achieving integration between theoretical and practical aspects. The course also explores a global communication language, allowing students to convey this information and define its forms through learning to identify key standard terms and concepts. Through this course, students develop their drawing skills by using various methods to solve two-dimensional and three-dimensional engineering problems.
11241111		3	11241104
This course focuses on exploring multiple concepts and meanings of complex theories within the context of symbolism and the self-intersecting artistic dialogue found in literature and visual discourse within the creative arts. It also aims to provide students with a comprehensive overview of topics across history and current times related to analyzing media, literature, and film as sources of evolution, ethics, development, and theoretical matters related to illness.
11241112		3
This subject focuses on developing proficiency in understanding and integrating contemporary and classical perspectives on the nature of health and well-being. It relies on discussions and current practices related to the complex relationship between the mind and body, consciousness and states of awareness, and therapeutic interventions in psychotherapy, psychiatry, neuroscience, and traditional medicine. Additionally, these elements are supported and expanded through critical and analytical perspectives on culture, social structures, politics, and dynamics in defining health, well-being, and intervention systems within an integrative approach.
11241113		3	11241108
This course focuses on studying and analyzing artworks created by children, as well as examining the cognitive and creative development of children across different age groups to understand their specific needs in various cultures. Additionally, examples of art therapists working with children will be presented.
11241114		3	11241104 11241106 10805100
This course outlines how art therapy can be used to work with individuals experiencing psychological traumas. The first part of the course focuses on defining psychological traumas and the causes and conditions under which they occur. The second part emphasizes how art therapy can be used to identify and address the causes of trauma and provide the necessary conditions for healing.
11241115		3
The goal of the course is to equip students with practical skills in shaping, processes, and the potential of clay, fostering their abilities with an emphasis on creative ideas. It also aims to familiarize students with the capabilities and limitations in the field of clay to professionally solve problems.
11241116		3	11241114 11241104 11241118 10805460 11241113 11241109
This course focuses on treating children, teenagers, youth, the elderly, families, and women. Students engage in workshops that include samples for study and finding appropriate solutions for art therapy treatment.
11241117		3	11241116
This course aims to provide students with the practical skills and knowledge necessary for application in the field of art therapy, with a special focus on digital media such as internet-based media, mobile media, interactive technology, and artificial intelligence technology. Students will be taught how to use technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, interactive digital environments, and artificial intelligent tools. The course focuses on preparing future art therapists to deal with emerging issues in technology and its use within the framework of art therapy practice. Concepts, creativity, visual aesthetics, motion graphics, animation, graphics software, digital audio, video editing, and sound organizing equipment will all be covered in this course.
11241118		3	11241106 10805100
This course focuses on the knowledge and skills required to practice art therapy within the specific ethical, legal, and professional standards set forth by higher accreditation bodies in the field of art therapy. The subject requires students to examine their personal values and belief systems as a foundation for developing professional ethical practice. Additionally, the ethical, political, and legal context of art therapy practice will be explored through case studies, professional scenarios, and issues of duty of care in contemporary therapeutic practice. There is an emphasis on the competencies and personal and professional characteristics required to practice ethically and legally as a therapist, including self-awareness of the practitioner's own values. Skill development includes understanding confidentiality, informed consent, power dynamics, and boundaries of practice.
11241119		3	11241116
This course focuses on how to use art therapy for individuals with special needs, including children with autism spectrum disorder. Students will conduct workshops that include case studies and finding appropriate solutions for using art therapy effectively.
11241120		3	11211462
This course aims to equip students with skills in dealing with oil and acrylic color materials, while considering the proper use of these materials in terms of color purity and correct blending to create shades. This includes enhancing the understanding of proximity, distance, shading, darkness, and brightness through color. The course also focuses on the proper use of brushes, noting their impact on the surface within a cohesive system through compositions inspired by silent nature.
11241121		3	11241120
Building on the principles learned in Drawing (1), this course focuses on depicting different textures of materials and integrating them within a harmonious composition, emphasizing various elements and backgrounds. It also highlights the different types of brushes suitable for oil and acrylic colors, tailored to the subject matter and elements being expressed, through compositions inspired by silent nature.
11241122		2	11241119
This course covers various psychological tests including their characteristics, types, reliability coefficients, validity, and how to use them in different psychological fields. It also includes training students on constructing and computerizing psychological tests, as well as training them to use standardized tests in areas such as psychology and counseling, including personality tests, cognitive ability tests, interest inventories, and vocational assessments.
11241123		3	11241122
In this course, weekly supervision and training sessions are conducted with students for two hours per week, dedicated to discussing cases, presenting therapeutic videos, reviewing reports prepared by students, and providing appropriate feedback. Additionally, the course applies the principles learned by students in field training courses, group counseling, and counseling for special populations, where students are distributed among counseling and psychotherapy centers. Moreover, through this course, students undergo practical field training (after completing 120 successful hours following the third year) to immerse themselves in the practical experience of the courses studied in college and through their training in official and private institutions working in the field of expressive art therapy. This involves at least 200 hours of field training in the summer semester independently or in a regular semester, ensuring that the number of hours recorded by the student does not exceed 11 hours, including field training, under the supervision of a department instructor.
11241124		3	11241122 11241123
The student presents a theoretical research along with the practical aspects in the subject of their graduation project, which they choose with the supervising teacher. The project focuses on a topic aimed at employing the scientific research skills that the student has previously learned. A thesis is then submitted for discussion by a committee, covering both the practical and expressive art therapy aspects.

Speciality Optional Requirements Student must complete 8 credit hours

Course Code	Course Name	Credit Hours	Prerequests
10805255	Criminal Psychology	3
This course studies the psychological, biological, social, and environmental factors of criminal behavior; the psychology of the judge, attorney general, investigator, accused, victim, witness, defendant, and lawyer; and then the modern psychological means of investigation, instincts and imbalances, especially sexual and mental instincts, psychological and mental retardation, and their relationship to criminal behavior; and the impact of the psychological diseases in the criminal responsibility. The practical aspect entails student visits to rehabilitation and care centers, care for juvenile delinquents, and applying some counseling services in the criminal behavior.
10805356	Crises Guidance	3
This course introduces students to the concept of the counseling process and strategies of using it in dealing with crises, and it also includes the patterns and stages of crises in the field of education, the application of crises (divorce, death, sickness, fatal diseases, and suicide), the therapeutic interventions emanating from psychological counseling therapies which could be used in dealing with the crisis, in addition to training on time management and dealing with crises preventively and indicatively.
10805357	Counseling for Special Needs	3
This course studies groups of individuals with special needs, in terms of the nature of their problems, the causes and symptoms of their disabilities, and counseling methods and indicators that depict the possibility of evolution of problems for these groups, of which focus is being given to alcoholics, drug addicts, the elderly, abused children, juvenile delinquents, street children, homosexuals, school violence groups, cancer patients, chronic diseases, divorces, taunted women, the agonized, children in charity institutions, and spinster women. The practical aspect of this course includes training students on building counseling programs for category of the advisory categories
11201103	Palestinian Music Folklore	2
Studying the musical production of the Palestinian people, and identifying the style of popular music. Palestinian, and analysis of popular music at the instrumental and lyrical levels. Research into the characteristics of instrumental music and its popular singing features. Study and analysis of the various forms and templates of popular music. Identifying examples of popular songs and types of popular musical instruments, in terms of their manufacture, sound structure, and methods of playing them.
11201163	Choir	2
The course aims to learn collective singing of a repertoire of Palestinian and Arab national anthems and songs.
11206151	Principles of 2D Design	3
Providing students with the basic principles in the second dimension and developing an understanding of the nature of design, its components, mechanisms, and impact through the presentation of fundamental design principles such as color, measurement, rhythm, and line.
11206210	The Sociology & Psychology of Design	3
Identifying the behavioral aspects of consumers and the relationship between these aspects, brand names, and purchasing and promotional decisions in society. The material addresses the mutual relationship between design and society, and how design is directed to meet human needs and necessities, the psychological effects that design leaves on individuals, and the reflection of this on the creative process of the designer.
11206253	Mousaic	3
This course is a practical course. It is designed to provide a historical study of mosaic in various ages and times and the techniques of its manufacturing. It also aims at introducing and training students in the use of mosaic tools and raw materials. In this course, students will be asked to carry out some projects in mosaic by using color paper. In addition, students will learn the techniques of using stones, marbles, and other works in mosaic production
11206316	Decor & Carpentry Factories	3
This course introduces students to the machinery, tools, instruments, and different raw materials such as wood, metals, etc., used in factories in order to train students to use them to produce different and useful models
11206319	Introduction To Three-Dimensional Design	3
This course acquaints students with three-dimensional design and its artistic components through the implementation of objects and designs of three- dimensions and through working with different types of raw materials necessary for making and forming such objects.
11206670	Glass Drawing and Painting	3
In this course, the student learns how to transform a regular piece of glass, whether it is a vase, or any other shape, into a beautiful artistic piece. This is achieved through the use of oil, resin, watercolors, glue, or any other materials used for painting, with the goal of creating a unique piece of art on the glass.
11211324	Contemporary Art Islamic & Arabic	3
This course is designed to provide a historical and analytical study of Islamic art as an innovative art, with a focus on the link between the art product and philosophy from religion and culture, the most important Islamic painting schools, the leading Muslim figures in this field, with the focus on Al-Wasiti and Behzad. Islamic architecture will discussed in terms of its elements, types, and different styles, with a focus on applied Islamic arts and the extent of Islamic art?s impact on modern Western art.
11216212	Principles of Calligraphy & Decoration	3
This course provides an overview of the history of calligraphy and ornamentation, as well as the development of the science of calligraphy and the key figures in the field. It also focuses on understanding the rules and foundations of calligraphy and ornamentation, along with the tools used in their execution. Students engage in practical applications related to Arabic scripts and Islamic ornamentation, exploring ways to integrate these elements into design.
11241125		2
Course description: Providing learners with knowledge of the scientific terminology in art criticism, its foundations and theories, and the extent to which it is characterized by integrity, objective neutrality, and the comparison of argument with argument, evidence and in-depth studies, then the evaluation and evaluation processes, that is, art criticism for the critic and aesthetic judgment for the artist and connoisseur, and benefiting from all theories of the artistic work in a way objective. At the end of the course, the student will be able to mention the concepts of criticism and artistic appreciation related to them, and distinguish between the concepts of artistic criticism and aesthetics (and aesthetic appreciation). In addition, the student learns about the schools of criticism and artistic appreciation and develops the elements of critical and innovative thinking and logic. He also determines the standards that It governs works of art, in an attempt to explore the educational and pedagogical value of criticism and the extent of developing and building the human personality. Course objectives: To provide learners with knowledge of scientific terminology in art criticism, its foundations and theories, and the extent to which it is characterized by integrity and objective neutrality.