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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 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.
– 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: 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: 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: 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.
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: 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. |