New Courses & RelatedPrograms

New Courses

We are pleased to announce the following new Arabic courses for Fall 2012:

Arabic 101- Elementary Four skilled Arabic I (meets Mon-Fri, 11:15am-12:05pm; course number is 57689)

In Spire, under the course subject, please look for Arabic.  Enrollment is limited to 18 students.  Please be aware the course meets every weekday.

Arabic  201 -Intermediate Four Skilled Arabic I (meets Mon-Fri, 2:30pm-3:20pm; course number is 61120)

In Spire, under the course subject, please look for Arabic.  Enrollment is limited to 18 students.  Please be aware the course meets every weekday.

Please see below for more information on the Five College Arabic Language Initiative

 

Related Programs

Here are just a few of the many programs that our faculty and students are involved with:

The UMass Translation Center
http://www.umasstranslation.com/

Language Teaching & Research Lab
http://www.umass.edu/ltrlab/index.html

The Interdepartmental Program in Film Studies
http://www.umass.edu/film/

The International Programs Office
http://www.umass.edu/ipo/

The Five College Arabic Language Initiative

The Five College Arabic Language Initiative now includes four Five College Lecturers in Arabic. Through this arrangement, students may pursue four years of study of Standard Arabic. Each Lecturer is hosted by one of the Five Colleges, and teaches both at the host institution and at another one of the Five Colleges. Such a rotation benefits students by making available different localized versions of Arabic (e.g. Levantine, Moroccan, Lebanese, etc, as spoken by one or another of the Lecturers).

We are very pleased that as of Fall, 2011, Five College Lecturer in Arabic Ms. Nahla Khalil from Egypt will be hosted by the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at UMass Amherst. Five College Lecturers in Arabic offer courses that involve reading, writing, verbal expression and verbal comprehension, the four skills needed to communicate in Arabic both orally and in writing.

The Five College Center for the Study of World Languages
http://www.umass.edu/fclang/

Medieval Studies Certificate Program
http://www.umass.edu/medievalstudies/

The Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies
http://www.umass.edu/renaissance/