Course Description:
| This course helps student improve their ability to speak English fluently. The course focuses on a range of skillsets, including improving listening comprehension, participating in class discussions, understanding conversational strategies, giving group presentations, asking and answering questions, and improving through self-evaluation of speech. Specifically, this course seeks to explore strategies for communicating effectively in a variety of academic and social situations, e.g., expressing an opinion, agreeing/disagreeing, asking for clarification, interrupting, etc. |
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| This course introduces students to some of the processes and techniques of creative writing in multiple genres. Students learn some of the elements of poetry, drama and fiction, and experiment with writing in those genres. Reading various works of great authors in class, along with reading assignments, expose students to various writing styles, and provide examples of the techniques and strategies of those authors. There will be much of in-class writing practice in the form of workshops, and this includes learning how to respond to writing in different genres. The students will also practice reading and discussing texts of their own. Class time is devoted to discussing the writer’s craft and learning about the different aspects of the creative process, sharing students’ work, responding to students’ writing, providing constructive criticism, and assigning reading and writing tasks. |
Course Description:
| Studying literary criticism is an essential part of the academic study of any department that covers the study of literature. It is also a required field of study for those students who study language and literature. This course– critical approaches to literature – starts with an introduction that covers the definition of literary criticism, types of critics and an overview of the course to acquaint the students with the subjects that will be studied throughout the course. The course is then engaged with the study of theoretical criticism: the students study and discuss the ideas of some outstanding and historical figures who contributed to the rise and development of literary criticism. The ideas of classical, Renaissance, Romantic, Victorian and modern critics are discussed in the first three weeks of the course. Then, the course shifts to the study of practical criticism. The principles of different literary approaches are discussed, and sample texts are given to the students each week to be analyzed by using the critical approaches.
The course aims to encourage the students to read, develop critical thinking, and apply critical approaches to the literary texts that they encounter or read in order to understand, appreciate and perceive various meanings of literary texts on different levels. |
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This course aims to introduce the undergraduate students of the English department to the basic concepts of modern descriptive- structural syntax and their application. By now, the current students are supposed to have taken sufficient courses in pedagogical grammars and should be ready to start a theoretical descriptive syntax course that would increase their input and analytical skills to provide answers to questions as to how sentence constituents are analyzed, how they function and integrate and coordinate with other constituents to form more complex structures.
Course Description:
| The course explores a wide selection of important Old Poets, Middle Age, and Renaissance poets in 16th century. The poems for critical analysis include established works by well-known poets, whose works express the quintessence of Renaissance culture and society. The poems start with Beowulf and end with Neoclassical poetry. The course also involves 17th century poetry which starts with metaphysical poets, John Donne. The study follows the development of poetry in the aforementioned century through Cavalier poets including John suckling. |
Course Code: LIT4305
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Course: Exploring Fiction I
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description: This course will cover Modern and Postmodern novels and short stories from English literature. The aim of the course is to help students to understand and appreciate fiction work through learning certain characteristics or device of fiction, helps to make a literary work unified and meaningful. They will understand the function of each individual element and how it helps to understand the whole story. Once they understand that usefulness of each individual element once they read and interpret fictional texts. Through interpretation which is a common ground to share their experiences with one another, and ultimately learn to appreciate and critique literary work.
Course Code: LIT3300
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Course: British Literature II
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description: American Literature requires students to pass British literature II. Course work seeks to make students aware of American literary history and heritage. The course includes a variety of genres, composition, vocabulary, literary analysis, and introduction to literary criticism. Some attention focuses on the historical/cultural contexts of the literary periods.
Course Code: EGH3200
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: Phonology
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
| This course is designed to help learners who study English language to be familiar with an important area of language which is morphology. As part of the requirement, when a language learner studies a language, they have to study knowledge of the language as well. Morphology, as the study of the process of word-formation, is an important part of studying any language. This course starts with basic definition of a morpheme and ends with covering the process of word formation. Types of morphemes, their syntactic and semantic functions, the process of affixation, types of affixes and the process of word formation are among the topics to be covered in this course.
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Course Code: LNG4200
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: Semantics
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
| This course deals with some introductory and basic issues in pragmatics, such as deixis, presupposition, implicature, the cooperative principle, speech acts (direct and indirect) and the relationship between pragmatics, semantics and syntax. Particular topics include reading and discussing latest research. Emphasis is placed on participation and looking for everyday illustrations of pragmatic principles. |
Course Code: EGH4300
Credit Hour: 3
Prerequisite Course: Pragmatics
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
The current course is designed to explore aspects of discourse itself, then discourse analysis. While explaining some basic facets of discourse analysis methods and approaches, its main focus will be on the explanation of what discourse analysis is and how it can be applied to pieces of language (written and spoken). Although Discourse Analysis is “sometimes accused of being large and rather messy.”(Cook, 1992: 2). Here, the focus is narrowed to giving particular attention to the analysis of authentic material (i.e. extracts from a variety of written and spoken discourses). Moreover, a practical exploration into the aspects of the language and the various tools is employed for analyzing them. The students will be familiarized with key concepts and the actual act of Discourse Analysis.
Course Code: LIT4305
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Course: Creative Writing
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description: This course introduces students to the basics of film analysis, cinematic formal elements, genre, and narrative structure and helps students develop the skills to recognize, analyze, describe and enjoyfilm as an art and entertainment form.
Course Code: LNG4210
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: Teaching Methods
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
| This course is designed to introduce the subject of curriculum and its design to the students. As a graduate of English department, it is vital that students know about the structure of a curriculum in their specialty and how it is designed. Basically, this course is divided into two parts; curriculum structure and curriculum design. To understand the basics of curriculum and its components is a prerequisite for curricula design. Therefore, this course covers both parts. It starts with defining curriculum and its essential parts. Then, it covers the steps of designing a curriculum for English language learners. The course would be mainly practical as students are encouraged to apply what they study and finally come up with a small-scale material of their own at the end of the course. |
Course Code: LNG3205
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: Minimum 70 CH
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
This course is designed to introduce the basics of applied linguistics to English language learners. As an important branch of linguistics, applied linguistics has become a prominent field of study as well as research in the last few years. It is crucial for language researchers to have an idea about the basic pillars of this field. This course starts with defining applied linguistics. It then moves to the branches of applied linguistics such as the relationship between language and education, language learning, language acquisition, first language and second language acquisition, language and classroom, the four skills, testing and assessment in language learning process, language planning and language study.
Course Code: LNG1200
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: EGH0615
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
An Introduction to Language offers an engaging guide to the history and nature of language, illustrating the origins of language, the place of language as a communicative system, how it works and its major functions. The course will serve as an introduction to Linguistics and will introduce language to students who will be specialized in studying English language. In this course, learners will be given some topics related to language in terms of defining what language is, theories of the origin of language, properties of language, functions of language and finally the two forms of language, namely, spoken and written forms. Finally, it has to be mentioned that all the topics covered are not language specific; However, English will be given as an example, along with other languages.
Course Code: EGH1305
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Course: EGH1300
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
| This course offers students who completed Grammar I further grammatical structures and rules of the English Language. The course has the double function of being a complementary course for Grammar I and at the same time paving the way for the advanced grammar course they will take after completing this one.
In this course, learners start from revision of the tenses to indirect speech level up to and including sentence level. Learners will be familiarized with Modal. Then, they will learn about passive voice and how to use it. After that various structure of verbs will be presented to them. After studying above mentioned subjects, then the grammatical structure of English sentences will be explained. Sentence patterns and possible structures of an English sentence will be discussed thoroughly. Along with talking about nouns, adjectives and adverbs. Finally, the course ends with studying relatives to indirect speech. |
Course Code: LNG2300
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Course: LNG1310
Co-requisite Course: EGH2220
Course Description:
| In this course, further reading strategies are given to students. Advanced reading techniques like guessing, extracting implicit meaning and recognizing subtle persuasive techniques are discussed in class. Students will have the opportunity to enhance and develop their comprehension skills through continuous practice of all of the reading strategies in a standard way. |
Course Code: LIT1300
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Course: LNG1305
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
An introduction to Literature is a course devised to introduce the students to literature in general including its main genres with reference to English literature. It is intended to get the students familiar with definitions of the basic concepts and English literary terms including definition of “literature” along with other basic literary terms such as figurative language, metaphor, simile, point of view and many others related to the subject. The course is also designed to provide students with a full literary background to literature and help students understand and appreciate literary texts. It also presents the classifications and sub-classifications of literature in terms of form and content such as prose and poetry as well as their subgenres. It is also meant to provide students with proper analytical tools necessary to evaluate any literary discourse. Thus Students are made aware of literary language. At the end of the course, students are expected to identify key elements in literary works such as figures of speech and literary devices and techniques
Course Code: LNG1310
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Course: LNG1305
Co-requisite Course: EGH1305
Course Description:
This course is divided into three parts. In the first part of the course, students learn about the history and development of writing. The first part of the course teaches students how to write effective paragraphs. They learn how to select, narrow down and brainstorm topics, write topic sentences, major and minor supporting sentences, and concluding sentences. They learn about unity, coherence, relevance, and the difference between academic and non-academic writing. Then learn Outlining and Essay structure.
– It begins with a full explanation of French phonetics and pronunciation.
– Students will be given different simplified handouts about different grammatical problems to master some basic grammar in order to start some basic communication in this language.
Course Code: FLG1210
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: FLG1205
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
| – This course builds upon Foreign Language I while using the same text. This is the second stage comprising elementary French. Basic skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing will be further developed.
– It focuses mainly on speaking and writing in order to prepare the students for future higher levels. – Students will be given different simplified handouts about different grammatical problems to master some basic grammar in order to start communication in this language. |
Course Code: FLG2205
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: FLG1210
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
This course introduces students to the culture and language of the French-speaking world. Students will develop an ability to communicate in real-life situations by acquiring reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. It makes the students know an elementary French language like basic conversation, and knowing the pronouns, some basic frequent verbs and how to conjugates with nouns. It also focuses on understanding the basics in French language as well as reading skills in intermediate ( intermédiaire).
Course Code: FLG2210
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: FLG2205
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
This course of French IV is a course designed to provide a communicative learning experience environment that helps enriching students’ capacity to interact with others successfully in French. To achieve these, we will dedicate time to grammar, vocabulary study and review, English-French and French-English translation, conduct presentations, class practice and short film translation of French movies or literary texts to English and Kurdish or both.
Course Code: LIT2300
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Course: LIT1300
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
This course is a chronological and, to some extent, critical survey of the English people and literature during the Medieval Ages, the Renaissance and the Neoclassical age. It sheds light on religious, political, social, economic, etc. factors affecting the English nation and their literature. It also explains the elements studied to differentiate between one literary age and another and describes the distinctive elements of each literary age. It paves the way for the students to study British Literature II, which studies Romanticism, Victorian Literature, Modernism and Postmodernism.
Course Code: EGH2200
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: LNG1205
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
| The purpose of this course is to present an introduction to the study of the production of speech sounds. It will provide an overview of the basic concepts and terminology within the field of phonetics. The course will introduce the three types of phonetics: acoustic, auditory and articulatory. The course will, however, mainly focus on articulatory phonetics, while the other two types will be discussed briefly. First, the organs of speech and the role they play in the production of speech sounds will be discussed in detail. Then, the features utilized to describe each speech sound will be presented.
Moreover, the course will provide the students with the basic notions of phonemic transcription and the set of IPA symbols for transcribing English words. Finally, the course will also enable the students to differentiate between the various English sounds and learn and identify the correct pronunciation of these sounds. Note: The course will mainly focus on the sound patterns of Received Pronunciation (RP) although occasional reference will be made to other varieties of English as well as the sound system of Kurdish. |
Course Code: EGH2220
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: EGH1305
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
| This course is accessible for advanced students who already studied Grammar I and Grammar II to expand their knowledge of English grammar. This course focuses on some specific grammatical structures that students need to use. The course will also tackle disputable grammar problems. |
Course Code: LIT2310
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Course: LIT2300
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
This course is a chronological and, to some extent, critical survey of the English people and literature during the Romantic, Victorian, Modern and Postmodern ages. It sheds light on religious, political, social, economic, etc. factors affecting the English nation and their literature. By being acquainted with the history of English literature, students will have a better understanding and appreciation of the literary texts produced in different literary ages.
Course Code: ENG2205
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: ENG2200
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
| The purpose of this course is to present an introduction to the study of the sound system of the English language. It will provide an overview of the basic concepts and terminology within the field of phonology. The course will begin with a brief review of phonetics, as the two fields, phonetics and phonology, are highly interrelated and knowledge about the production and physical features of the sounds will be required throughout the course.
Then the course will discuss the two major branches of phonology: segmental and suprasegmental. The study of segmental phonology includes the discussion of such notions as phoneme and minimal pairs, while suprasegmental phonology studies features of speech that extend over more than one segment such as stress and intonation. |
Course Code: EGH2210
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: EGH2220
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
At times, the process of communicating with other people in speech or writing can seem straightforward and simple. At other times we may find it difficult and complicated. This course which will particularly focus on Oxford Guide to Effective Writing and Speaking is organized so that readers can look at writing and speaking in four different ways. This course will demonstrate speaker, situation, format, language and audience as essential or fundamental parts of communication. The core of the discussions will be the message regarding all the above key works. Formal and informal situations will be illustrated in this course.
Course Code: TRN3200
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: LNG2305
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
Translation is an exciting activity and a respected profession in today’s world. This course is designed to provide students with a theoretical background of translation as well as necessary translation skills and practice, which will be particularly beneficial to those students who wish to pursue a career in translation between English and Kurdish and vice versa. The course thus focuses on both the theory and practice of translation. It aims at providing students with a basis in the theory, practice, and ethics of translation. Specifically, the course will address the history of translation, types of translation, methods and strategies. Students will develop translation judgment first by learning how to analyze texts in the source language.
Course Code: TRN3205
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: TRN3200
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
This course reviews and builds on the work completed in Translation I and will emphasize on actual and practical practice of translation from word-for-word to long texts. It provides an academic overview of translation strategies for translating across cultural differences, which will be used in practical translation exercises. The importance of text analysis and the role of cultural differences in preparation for translating a text will be taught.
Course Code: LNG4205
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: LNG3205
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
| This course provides students with the basic needs of classroom teachers when it comes to the principles, methods and techniques of language teaching. The students will learn about the major methods and approaches that have been used in teaching (especially in language teaching) throughout the history of educational developments. Moreover, the students will be exposed to pedagogical technology in order to empower their lessons and the way of teaching with the possible helps of the technology that is mainly created for the sake of education. Finally, they will learn about the types of teaching plan so as to manage their class beforehand.
In order to meet the objectives of this course, students are required to deliver a micro-teaching (15 minute lessons) as well as submit a copy of daily/lesson plan. |
Course Code: TRN4200
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: TRN3205
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
This course is a theoretical and practical introduction to interpreting between the two languages of English and Kurdish (and Arabic). The theoretical part introduces the students to interpreting, its types and models, and the various settings in which interpreting services are required including healthcare, legal, social, political, etc. The practical part, however, focuses on training students so that they can learn the practice of interpreting by doing it either face to face, in front of audience, or in conferences. Although this course is only an introduction and the period is not long enough to cover everything, it lays the foundation for students on the basis of which they can develop their understanding as well as skills in interpreting.
Course Code: TRN4205
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: TRN4200
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
This course is designed to be an introduction to audio-visual translation with an emphasis on types of audiovisual translation including: simultaneous translation, consecutive translation, whisper translation, film translation and subtitling, dubbing, voice over translation and interpretation. The course briefly introduces four major types of film translation: dubbing, voice-over, subtitling and simultaneous interpreting.
Audiovisual translation also has an important role to play in the classroom. Material and exercises may be drawn from the area of AVT and used in the process of second language acquisition. Subtitling can be a powerful training and teaching tool in the foreign language learning class. Hearing the original language while reading the dialogue in context provides a stimulating environment for students to consolidate what they are learning, enrich their vocabulary at the same time as they become familiar with and absorb the culture of a foreign language in an authentic setting. In the audiovisual field, the global dominance of the English language in many spheres becomes even more of an issue.
It is evident that this field under discussion in Translation Studies relies heavily on the audiovisual environment and its main modes, labelled “film dubbing” and “film translation” (Fodor 1976; Snell-Hornby 1988), “film and TV translation” (Delabastita 1989), “media translation” (Eguíluz et al. 1994), “audiovisual translation” (Orero 2004; Diaz Cintas 2008), “screen translation” (Mason 1989; O’Connell 2007; Chiaro, Heiss, and Bucaria 2008), “film translation” and “multimedia translation” (Gambier and Gottlieb 2001). The most appropriate term for this discipline, one feels, is “audiovisual translation” as it includes both audio translation, either dubbing or voice-over mode, and visual translation for captions/supers or subtitles using television, cinema, and other devices such as computers and mobile phones that are spreading fast in this digital age as well as simultaneous and consecutive translation.
Course Code: LIT2305
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Course: LIT1300
Co-requisite Course: LIT2300
Course Description:
The course explores a wide selection of important Old, Middle Ages, Renaissance and Neoclassical poets and poems. The poems for critical analysis include established works by well-known poets whose works express the quintessence of Old, Middle, Renaissance and Neoclassical culture and society. The poems start with Caedmon and Beowulf and end with the Neoclassical poetry. One perspective offered is that poetry offers intellectual, moral and linguistic pleasures as well as difficulties to our private lives as readers and to our public lives as writers. Expect to hear and read poems aloud and to memorize lines; the class format will be group discussion, presentation, occasional lecture and the submission of essays and projects.
Course Code: LIT4300
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Course: LIT3300
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
| The study of literature is the study of human nature. Literature helps us understand who we are and why we do what we do. In this class we will focus on the development of the short story, and novel genre with representative works from the 19th through 21st centuries, we will examine the elements of fiction (character, setting, characterization, point of view, plot, tone, theme) in relation to meaning. This course serves as an introduction to the literary genre of fiction. It provides the basic literary and linguistic characteristics of the genre. This course also provides information about the origin, history, and development of fiction. This course is divided to two parts, firstly students will read a selection of short stories and clearly examine and analyze them in class to illustrate these characteristics. The second part, students will read a novel, examine, and analyze it. The course is primarily a discussion, based on students’ close reading and critical analysis of the stories and the selected novel. |
Course Code: LNG2305
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Course: LNG2300
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
| This course is intended for advanced students who have passed college Reading II. Students will be trained in the process of a full careful structured approach of writing. They will be able to produce a well-organized, clearly developed essays and term papers. Students will have various writing practices to learn straightforward manner, and rhetorical sentence structure, step by step. Student will be guided to read and learn different academic writing and maintain unity and coherence of their writings. |