ARAB-416 Fourth Level Arabic B (4)

Offered through AU Abroad programs in Cairo and Rabat. This course provides additional practice at the advanced level to help students attain a higher level of skill development (e.g., listening, speaking, reading and writing) and linguistic accuracy. Students expand the essential vocabulary to help them with topics of professional interest; obtain information to understand the ideas presented in a text, to discover the author’s point of view and to seek evidence for their point of view; enrich their grammatical knowledge and apply it as one of the analytical tools in comprehending reading text; produce lengthy descriptive and argumentative discourse in speaking; summarize texts and express their points of view in writing and speaking; and interact with native speakers and engage in discussions of contemporary issues. Prerequisite: ARAB-303 or ARAB-307.