This course is a continuation of WRIT4111 and combines theoretical understanding with practical application through reading, discussion and extensive writing exercises. It covers conventions and formats of professional writing and involves organizing and presenting written texts with an emphasis on clear, precise, objective thinking as well writing as demonstrated through a series of written documents—minute of meeting, reports (presenting opinions & arguments, comparing and contrasting ideas, describing facts and figures, trends, organizations and products plus summarizing data), marketing and advertising documents.
- Teacher: Zainab Sh Marzouk Zaghir
- Non-editing teacher: Dola Fayez Mohammed Gady
- Non-editing teacher: Hadi Kashiha
- Non-editing teacher: Manisha R. Sinha Sinha
- Enrolled students: 219
This course introduces students to different functional rules of Arabic language writing. It aims to enhance students’ competence of Arabic language writing with special focus on translation editing processes as one of the essential translation workflow stages. The course introduces key procedures and principles followed in the revision of Arabic translations of English texts produced in translation automation practices or by human translators.
- Teacher: Isam Shallal Shallal
- Enrolled students: 40
The project represents the culmination of the students’ training. It is a large-scale assignment that is meant to show the students’ abilities in handling translation projects at the different linguistic and professional levels required. Each student is to be assigned to a project supervisor who will produce a report on the progress stages and achievements. The project is to be discussed and evaluated in a mini viva.
In the practicum variant, the student is placed in a professional environment for the total duration of the term under local supervision. The local supervisor is to submit a report on the performance of the student. The student has to submit an extended report at the end of the training period detailing the tasks performed with an analytical evaluation of the work. The project is to be discussed and evaluated in a mini viva.
- Teacher: Kais Amir Kadhim Alwan
- Non-editing teacher: Rafik Al Jamoussi
- Non-editing teacher: Raya Al Rajabi
- Enrolled students: 42
This course aims to develop students' ability to identify, read, analyse and respond to media (from local to international) by studying areas such as news, entertainment, film, sport and tourism. It will expose students to different media genres and focus on the exploration, analysis, evaluation and critique of these genres from the language, content and style perspectives. It then aims at enabling students to become media literate capable of properly and critically handling media texts. Tutorials will focus on providing opportunities to practice the required strategies and techniques to deal with media texts, getting students to identify linguistic and genre specificities in media language.
- Teacher: Mervat Moufid Aljomaa
- Teacher: YOUGESH SINHA
- Enrolled students: 215
This course addresses English-Arabic translation of legal documents, covering a range of legal subtypes, including informational documents (e.g. academic legal books and articles), common legal documents (e.g. court cases, certificates), and legislative documents (e.g. contracts, decrees, treaties, conventions, agreements, constitutions). Full consideration will be given to lexical, syntactic, and textual features of English and Arabic Legal discourse and to problems of legal equivalence.
- Teacher: adnan Batayneh
- Enrolled students: 44
This course is designed to introduce the field of interpreting and serves as an initiation to this profession. Students will be exposed to the techniques related to consecutive and simultaneous interpreting applied to a variety of language chunks. Throughout the course, students will be trained to deal with the basic problems and psychological constraints associated with interpreting. The course material focuses on English and Arabic spoken discourse through a selection of discourse types.
- Teacher: Aladdin Zahran
- Enrolled students: 40
This course familiarizes students with principles of teaching and learning as well as common methods and approaches of teaching English as a second/foreign language. It also equips students with skills in developing language learning activities and teaching English to foreign language learners.
- Teacher: Zulqarnain Bin Abu Bakar
- Teacher: Said ALAmrani
- Teacher: Abdelkader Chaou
- Teacher: Sindhu Harish
- Enrolled students: 218
This course encourages students’ participation in reading, commenting and thinking critically. It is meant to develop learners’ language through stories. The course equally aims to reinforce students’ listening and reading skills, help them build self-confidence, and increase their motivation to read. It covers a range of topics such as the criteria of sorting stories according to various language levels, testing language through stories, methods of teaching easy-start stories and abridged stories, analyzing stories, remembering, retelling, and writing mini sagas
- Teacher: Roy Pushpaviliasam Veettil
- Enrolled students: 218