Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Arabic Language

  • Reinforcing the students’ language ability and make them acquire the skills of correct expression.
  • Reinforcing students’ literary ability to realize beauty in language styles.
  • Familiarize students with methods of using the different books and references in the library as well as heritage books.
  • Developing the students’ skills in reading and speaking and encouraging them to think logically and creatively.
  • Developing students writing and dictation abilities and skills and training them to write correctly.
  • Training students to use the correct forms of syntax and morphology while reading, writing or expressing.
  • Developing the Arabic Language and trying to spread it as it is the language of religion and civilization.

Program

Study Plan

Study Plan

(120 credit hours)

The study plan is divided into:

  • University Requirements (15 credit hours)
  • Program Requirements (96 credit hours)
  • Major Electives (9 credit hours)

University Requirements

15 credit hours

  • Academic writing in Arabic
  • Basic Academic English I
  • Introduction to IT (Arts only)
  • Omani Society
  • Basic Academic English II

Program Requirements

(96 credit hours)

Major core courses

  • ARAB 102 Syntax and Morphology (1)
  • ARAB 103 Introduction to Arabic Literature
  • ARAB 104 Advanced Academic Writing
  • ARAB 105 Pre-Islamic Literature
  • ARAB 106 Introduction to Linguistics
  • ARAB 202 Syntax and Morphology (2)
  • ARAB 203 Phonetics
  • ARAB 204 Studies in Quran and Hadith
  • ARAB 205 Lexicography and Terminology
  • ARAB 206 Modern Arabic Novel
  • ARAB 207 Jihad Poetry
  • ARAB 208 Special Topic in Literature
  • ARAB 209 Ancient Arabic Prose and fiction
  • ARAB 210 Historical Linguistics
  • ARAB 213 Stylistics
  • ARAB 303 Andalusian Literature
  • ARAB 304 Modern Arabic Poetry
  • ARAB 305 Sociolinguistics
  • ARAB 306 Modern Arabic Drama
  • ARAB 307 Theory of Literature and Criticism
  • ARAB 308 Syntax and Morphology (3)
  • ARAB 309 Prosody
  • ARAB 310 Overseas Literature
  • ARAB 401 Modern Arabic Renaissance Literature
  • ARAB 402 Syntax and Morphology (4)
  • ARAB 403 Mystic Literature
  • ARAB 404 Folk Literature
  • ARAB 405 Applied Linguistics
  • ARAB 406 Abbasid Poetry
  • ARAB 407 Applied Phonetics
  • ARAB 408 Comparative Literature
  • ARAB 409 Special Topic in Language

Major Elective Courses

(9 credit hours)

  • ARAB 211 Literary and Linguistic Sources and References
  • ARAB 212 Oman and Arabian Peninsula Literature
  • ARAB 214 Arabic Dialects
  • ARAB 311 Arabic Rhetoric
  • ARAB 313 Literary Text Appreciation
  • ARAB 314 Language Workshop
  • ARAB 315 Issues in Omani Literature
  • ARAB 411 Orientalism and Orientalists
  • ARAB 412 Modern Studies in Linguistics

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