ARB 1911C Elementary Arabic I

Professor: Afifa Haddad

Office: ART 219
Telephone: (613) 562-5800 x 3760
Email: ahaddad@uottawa.ca
Office hours: By appointment
Sept 7 Dec 7, 2016
Class time & Location
LEC 1
Monday
11:30 13:00
SMD427
LEC 2
Thursday
13:00 14:30
SMD 427
DGD
Monday
13:00 14:00
SMD 427
Book description
Alif Baa. With DVDs Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds. Third edition
Kristen Brustad, Mahmoud Al-Batal and Abbas Al-Tonsi. Georgetown
University Press, Washington, DC U.S.
Course Description
This course is designed to provide a basic knowledge of Modern Standard
Arabic: alphabet, phonetics and conversation. It is intended for students with
little or no previous knowledge of Modern Standard Arabic.
Evaluation
Attendance and participation (lectures & DGD): 10% *
Assignment & Presentation: 10%
Dictation & Vocabulary Tests: 10%
Homework: 10%
Midterm Exam: 25%
Final Exam: 35%
*Please note that a 1% reduction will be applied to each class you miss.
Date
September 8
September 12
September 15
September 19
September 22
September 26
September 29

Topic
Introduction
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 3
Unit 4

October
October
October
October
October

Unit 4
Unit 5
Thanksgiving
Unit 5
Unit 6

3
6
10
13
17

Assignments/Tests

Drill 13
Drill 10
Drills 9 & 10
Drills 14 & 15
Vocabulary test ( units
1- 5)

October 20
October 23 29
October 31

Unit 6
Reading week

November
November
November
November

Unit
Unit
Unit
Unit

3
7
10
14

Drills 17& 23
Mid-term Exam

7
7
7
8

November 17
November 21
November 24

Unit 8
Unit 9
Unit 9

November 28

Unit 9

December 1
December 5
December 9-22

Unit 10
Unit 10
Final Exams

Drills 3 & 8
Vocabulary Test ( Units
1 7)
Drills 2 & 9
Vocabulary
assignment
Drill 6
Group presentation

Important addition:
Absence from an examination must be justified in writing no later than 5
working days after the exam. The Department and the Faculty reserve the
right to accept or reject the reason offered. Reasons such as travel,
summer employment and misreading the exam schedule are not
accepted.
A Student is not allowed to write the final exam if he/she has not attended
at least 80% of all classes including DGD.
If the Professor notices that a students level of linguistic competency is
above the level of the course, she or he may ask the student to switch to
another course at the adequate level. The Professor and the Department
of Modern Languages and Literature reserve the right to unregister a
student who refuses to leave the course.

Students with higher language level than ARB1911 are welcome to take
other Arabic courses in our Department (i.e. Intermediate Arabic,
Introduction to Arabic Literature or Arabic Culture). Your language level
may be determined by doing the * Online Placement Test*, available at the
Department web site.

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