Course Description: This is an advanced course in writing. It falls into two parts. In the first part, students are exposed to a variety of extracts from texts that come from different literary genres in order to examine what writing techniques authors use and how writers manipulate language and style to accommodate the themes of texts. In the second part of the course, each student writes a short story, a short poem and a brief nonfictional piece of writing.
Course Code: LIT4305
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Course: Exploring Fiction I
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description: This course introduces students to texts from the Modern and the Postmodern ages. The focus is on the analysis and interpretation of the texts. It is a student-centered course.
Course Code: LIT3300
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite Course: British Literature II
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description: This course introduces students to the history of American literature from the 17th century to the present time. It sheds light on religious, political, social, economic, etc. factors affecting the English nation and their literature.
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 language learners study 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 gives a full account of the theories of pragmatics in linguistics. The focus will be on the analysis of naturally occurring data, as well as the evaluation of various analytical frameworks. The students will be required to understand the concepts and issues covered in this course, to relate the philosophical tenets of pragmatics to linguistic theories, and to assess theories through empirical modes of inquiry.
Course Code: EGH4300
Credit Hour: 3
Prerequisite Course: Pragmatics
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
This course explores aspects of discourse and textual analysis. While explaining some basic facets of discourse analysis and approaches, its main focus will be on the narrow discourse approach rather than the broad one. Here, particular attention is given to the analysis of extracts from a variety of written texts and a practical exploration into the aspects of written text and the various tools employed for analyzing them. The textual criticism and discussion will lead students to understanding and interpreting the major thematic concerns in the text, the language and how the author’s views are presented. |
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
This course introduces students to a range of theories and approaches to curriculum design, such as competency-based education and outcomes-based education. Although this course introduces such general concepts of curriculum theory and practice, the course focuses primarily upon the design and development of curriculum documents. In particular, students will develop material related to their own work environment. The course highlights the importance of alignment; that is, the connection between course outcomes/goals, delivery of instruction, and the assessment and evaluation of learning. The course also prompts reflection upon the importance of designing and developing positive learning environments.
Course Code: LNG3205
Credit Hours: 2
Prerequisite Course: Minimum 70 CH
Co-requisite Course: N/A
Course Description:
This course introduces students to the broad field of Applied Linguistics including language teaching, learner strategies, discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, testing, and selected issues in language teaching. Students will be exposed to fields related to the general field of Applied Linguistics with emphasis on sub-fields belonging to second language acquisition and instruction.
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