Linguistic and regional studies of the Arab East countries
Course: The 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
ОК 11. 02.
Module type
Обов’язкова дисципліна для ОП
Educational cycle
First
Year of study when the component is delivered
2024/2025
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
The semester number of points is formed by the points received by the student in the process of mastering the material from the entire academic course. The overall grade for the semester consists of points received for classroom work (which synthesizes and independent work on the processing of theoretical material in preparation for the classroom: oral answers, supplements, tests, presentation defense) and for independent work (preparation of a presentation, essay). In case of absence from a seminar class, the student must complete the assignment for the seminar.
All types of work for the semester have a total of:
- in the maximum dimension - 100 points,
- in the minimum dimension - 60 points.
Final assessment: credit.
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
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