See HIST 130. See HIST 131.
Students read and write short passages on various real-life situations.
Emphasis also placed on writing short essays and developing oral skills, using a broader range of regular and irregular verbs. At the end of the second semester, students examine a range of Arabic news broadcasts. Students explore a range of complex grammatical structures and idiomatic expressions in these texts. Equal emphasis placed in reading, writing, speaking, and oral comprehension. A representative sample of modern Arabic poems, short stories, novels and plays, with a brief account of the critical background of the various genres.