Linguistic and regional studies of the Arab East countries

Course: Arabic language, literature, and translation, the French language

Structural unit: Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Title
Linguistic and regional studies of the Arab East countries
Code
ННД.11.02.
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2023/2024
Semester/trimester when the component is delivered
1 Semester
Number of ECTS credits allocated
2
Learning outcomes
PLO 4. To understand the fundamental principles of being a person, nature, society. PLO 9. To characterize the dialectal and social varieties of the Arabic language, describe the sociolinguistic situation in the countries of the Arab East. PLO 21. To apply knowledge of linguistic and regional studies of the countries of Arab East, history of relations between Ukraine and the countries of the East.
Form of study
Full-time form
Prerequisites and co-requisites
Successful mastering of a school course in physical geography and world history.
Course content
The goal of the discipline is to form a general idea of linguistic and regional studies in students as an interdisciplinary field of knowledge, providing students with an ordered system of knowledge about countries of the Arab world, necessary for the development of intercultural communication skills, formation of students' totality of knowledge about modern ideological, social and political, the cultural and economic life of the countries of the Arab world from the standpoint of the linguistic and regional studies approach, systematization of students' sociolinguistic knowledge.
Recommended or required reading and other learning resources/tools
1. Al-‘ālam al-‘arabiyy al-ḥadīs. Ğāmiyat al-Qāhira. Markaz al-luġa al-‘arabiyya. 2001. 2. Encyclopedia of Arabic Language and Linguistics. Vol. I – IV. Brill Academic Pub. 3. Encyclopædia of Islam, 2nd Edition., 12 vols. with indexes and etc., Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2005. 4. Encyclopaedia of Qur'an 1st Edition., 5 vols. plus index., Leiden: Brill Publishers, 2001–2006.
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Training takes place in the form of interactive lectures and seminar classes. Students' independent work involves preparation for such types of activities as answers to seminar classes, participation in discussions, reports with analysis of scientific literature, presentations or essays on topics proposed for study.
Assessment methods and criteria
Semester evaluation is based on: answers in seminar classes, participation in discussions, reports with analysis of scientific literature, presentations / essays - 24/40 points; modular test papers – 24/40 points, final test paper – 12/20 points (total 100 points). The credit is given based on the results of the student's work throughout the entire semester and does not include additional assessment measures. Students who scored the minimum positive number of points - 60, receive the grade "enrolled". Students who did not score the minimum positive number of points - 60, receive "not enrolled". Students who scored a total of less than 60 points during the semester must compose material on the topics for which the debt arose, in the form of writing an independent work, in order to pass the credit. Scale of conformity of final points: 60-100 – passed; 0-59 - not counted.
Language of instruction
Ukrainian, Arabic

Lecturers

This discipline is taught by the following teachers

Ivan Viktorovych Sivkov
Department of Middle East Languages and Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology

Departments

The following departments are involved in teaching the above discipline

Department of Middle East Languages and Literature
Educational and Scientific Institute of Philology