This course introduces students key principle of effective and efficient academic writing. It provides techniques, guidelines and suggestions to
improve students' academic writing. Argumentation in different academic disciplines, particularly social sciences will be highlight in this
course. Students will learn to make claims, provide evidence, explore underlying assumptions and anticipate and make counter arguments
based on the audiences the writing or visuals are for. This course will give students hands-on experience in drafting, organizing and revising
academic writing. They will learn about making their writing or visuals audience-centered.
This course provides a review of both essential and fine points of the grammatical structural features of formal written English. The students
will be instructed to develop their knowledge of the form, meaning and use of English grammar structures in order to enhance their written
and spoken performances in academic setting. Emphasis will be placed on active production and error analysis of standard English.
This course provides a review of both essential and fine points of the grammatical structural features of formal written English. The students will be instructed to develop their knowledge of the form, meaning and use of English grammar structures in order to enhance their written and spoken performances in academic setting. Emphasis will be placed on active production and error analysis of standard English.
This course offers a practical and theoretical introduction to the new creative and interpretive possibilities opened up by digital forms of literature. It explores what is happening to literature and its study in the digital age. Digital technologies are profoundly affecting how literature is produced, read and analyzed. It explores new theoretical perspectives on literature arising from its context: from innovative conceptions of textuality, authorship, and reading to changing understanding of the book, publishings, in and out digital forms and /or with digital methods, and for exploring a range of issues relevant to our increasingly digital textual world. Engaging with digital archives and computational techniques in literary analysis, we will ask what new insights we can gain into literature once it is digitalized. Is the digital age making literature more accessable, more inclusive and more interactive? Or will the digital age, with its many multimedia distractions, make literature obsolete? We will seek answers to these questions not only by analyzing existing literary objects, but also by making digital literary objects of their own.
This is a very breif introduction to the most general, intriguing and illuminating points of intersection between literature and other subjects such as philosophy, art, education, politics, religion, etc. It is an interdisciplinary course which aims at highlighting the value of literature in the development of human beings. Students will be instructed to recognize and understand the interaction between literature and other social and science subjects in the history of humankind. Through exploring the relationship between literature and other subjects, students will be helped to detect the crucial roles that literature has played in our daily life so that they may make full use of literature consciously to enrich their daily life and to solve their own and community problems.
This course is designed to help graduate students improve their ability to communicate professionally to a variety of national and international/intercultural audiences for a variety of purposes, and to manage through communications. On the one hand, this course uses professional writing in cross-cultural contexts as its starting point. Students will learn the tools they need to adapt their writing in varied professional, cross-cultural contexts and to translate it into effective verbal presentations in these settings. In particular, students will develop an awareness of professional language, written conventions, and multimodal communication, including verbal, written, and digital/visual modes. Students will learn skills in rhetorical analysis, which will enable them to adapt to multifaceted professional writing scenarios in the future. They will apply these skills in the context of case studies and other examples that will address challenges professionals must problem-solve using written communication. On the other hand, it covers a variety of styles of public speaking, informal and formal debate and negotiation in different situations. It emphasizes the practical skill of public speaking, including techniques to lessen speaker anxiety, and the use of visual aids to enhance spearker presentations. It emphasizes the practical skill of debate, including analyzing and organizing materials, voice control, expressive voice and gestures to make debate more effective. It emphasizes the practical skill of negotiation, including preparation, negotiating, and post-negotiating implementation and evaluation. This course combines both knowledge and theories of verbal and non-verbal professional communication.
This course introduces students to how the use of English, and any other language, is related to place, situation, users, style, identity, gender, ethnicity, social strata and other factors. They will also explore topics such as accents, dialects, sociolects, varieties of English, English as a world language, code-switching, diglossia, language attitudes, stance, social and regional differences of language, bilingualism, language planning, language maintenance and language death.
The history of a language is the history of the people who speak it, those who read and write it, and those who come into contact with it. The course will examine the origin and development of the English language, from its earliest beginnings in the misty past, through Old English (or Anglo-Saxon), Middle English, Early Modern English and Present-Day English, and across the post-modern World Englishes. To be able to do this, the students will be introduced to the origins of English and its changes, modern English grammar, old English, Middle English, English of Renaissance, Prescriptive Grammar, English of 19th Century and American English. At the same time, some culture events will be introduced in order to make it clear how those events influenced the changes in the English language. and across the post-modern globe. The study of what language is and how it changes, and how these changes are grounded in parallel cultural changes, is, therefore, a subject of intrinsic value, especially to those interested in literature, linguistics, history, and cultural studies.
This course introduces students to the scientific study of human language. It covers the structure of language, including signs, sounds, formation of words, sentence structure, meaning, language use, language change and variation in language, language acquisition, language planning, maintenance of language, and language loss. Students will be able to examine their own language and learning of the second and even third language. . It also covers a brief introduction about Applied Linguistics so that the students will know about this branch of linguistics.
Dr Mohammed Abdulkhaleq
This is a starting course for students to acquire some basic skills needed to engage with theoretically informed writing in literary studies. Students will be introduced to the nature of literature and the methods of analyzing literature. Critical perspectives and theoretical languages that have informed literary study for the past thousands of years from 360 BC to the present will be briefly introduced to the students. The students will learn how different theories of literature have emerged as responses to particular issues in culture, philosophy and in society.
Dr. Mohammed Abdulkhaleq
This course allows students to explore how post-colonial literary texts depict Great Britain's colonization in Africa, Asia and the Caribbean, and how the Afro-Caribbean and South Asian communities struggled against slavery and its abolition; and individuals, groups, and nations fought for independence and their self-identity. It will cover issues like gender, tribes, castes, class, education and income gap. Students will also investigate the styles of writing, the varieties of English used, the cultures and aspirations espoused in their writings, and how these differ from mainstream 19th century English literature.
This course presents a broad outline of the development of British and American literature. It offers a chronological and critical survey of British literature from Anglo-Saxon period, the Middle ages, Renaissance to modern period. It offers a chronological and critical survey of American literature from colonial period to modern times. It examines the different movements and genres developed during these periods and places them in their social-cultural contexts. Students will have opportunity to know about some influential works of prose, poetry, drama and fiction in relation to their historical, social, political and cultural contexts.
This course introduces students to the how the use of English, and any other language, is related to place, situation, users, style, identity, gender, ethnicity, social strata and other factors. They will also explore topics such as accents, dialects, sociolects, varieties of English, English as a world language, code-switching, diglossia, language attitudes, stance, social and regional differences of language, bilingualism, language planning, language maintenance and language death.
This course is designed to help graduate students improve their ability to communicate professionally to a variety of national and international/intercultural audiences for a variety of purposes, and to manage through communications. On the one hand, this course useS professional writing in cross-cultural contexts as its starting point. Students will learn the tools they need to adapt their writing in varied professional, cross-cultural contexts and to translate it into effective verbal presentations in these settings. In particular, students will develop an awareness of professional language, written conventions, and multimodal communication, including verbal, written, and digital/visual modes. Students will learn skills in rhetorical analysis, which will enable them to adapt to multifaceted professional writing scenarios in the future. They will apply these skills in the context of case studies and other examples that will address challenges professionals must problem-solve using written communication. On the other hand, it covers a variety of styles of public speaking, informal and formal debate and negotiation in different situations. It emphasizes the practical skill of public speaking, including techniques to lessen speaker anxiety, and the use of visual aids to enhance spearker presentations. It emphasizes the practical skill of debate, including analyzing and organizing materials, voice control, expressive voice and gestures to make debate more effective. It emphasizes the practical skill of negotiation, including preparation, negotiating, and post-negotiating implementation and evaluation. This course combines both knowledge and theories of verbal and non-verbal professional communication.
At the end of this course, the students will be able to:
1. Show an awareness of posture, gestures, voice effect, personal appearance, and nonverbal communication in all speaking situations;
2. Demonstrate a variety of public speaking, debate and negotiation in class that require expositive, persuasive and interpretive skills;
3. Apply a rhetorical approach in order to determine the most effective written means of communication for the context;
4. Write both independently and collaboratively in preparation for professional contexts that may require both;
5. Demonstrate the skills of organizing and managing debate and negotiation teams.
This course provides a review of both essential and fine points of the grammatical structural features of formal written English. The students will be instructed to develop their knowledge of the form, meaning and use of English grammar structures in order to enhance their written and spoken performances in academic setting. Emphasis will be placed on active production and error analysis of standard English.
At the end of this course, the students will be able to:
1. Use all the verb tenses related to present, past and future time frames;
2. Comprehend the uses and forms of nouns, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives, articles, propositions;
3. Use gerunds or infinitives as complements to verbs, and in other functions;
4. Comprehend models, conditionals, passive voice, reported speech, questions, relative clauses and word order;
Writing:& Speaking
1. Lexical Resources
2. Grammar
3. Practices
4. Tests
This course presents carefully selected poems that are interesting, readable, and classical of the major schools and periods in the history of British and American literature. The subjects of the poems selected include: love, youth, life, war, peace, and all other aspects of human life. The instructor will lead students in reading poems aloud, analyze poems syntactically, explain the themes appreciatively and critically, so that the profound meaning and great beauty of each poem can be displayed clearly. Classroom lectures are combined with discussions among students. Through introducing students to the original works of British and American poems, this course is aimed at enabling students to have a deep understanding of Western culture, history, philosophy and other humanitarian knowledge. This course is also aimed at helping students improve their English reading ability, cultivate their interest in literary appreciation and learn some critic methods of studying and analyzing a poem. Students are required to write some critical essays so as to consolidate their writing ability and lay a good foundation for their writing of graduation papers.
This course aims to help students to read more effectively by presenting and developing the various skills needed for successful reading comprehension. The content of this course is designed for advanced learners of English, including all examples of contemporary of British and American English taken from a variety of sources such as newspapers, magazines, novels, advertising materials and instructions. The students will be instructed how to extract main ideas, how to read for specific information, how to understand text organization, how to predict, how to check comprehension, how to infer, how to deal with unfamiliar words, how to link ideas, how to understand complex sentences, how to understand writer's style, how to evaluate the text, how to react to the text and how to write a summary.
It' s obvious that good listening is closely related to one's social and business dealings. This course aims to help students to discover how to listen to English effectively through exploring how to teach listening well so that they can listen to English more effectively and precisely while developing the various skills needed for successful listening comprehension. This course explains the ins and outs of what good listening skills the students should master. The content of this course is designed for learners of English with good foundation of English language. It includes all kinds of backgrounds of English speaking. The students will also be instructed how to extract main ideas, how to identify and understand for specific information, how to understand English with different accents, how to predict, how to check comprehension, how to infer, how to deal with unfamiliar words, how to link ideas, how to understand content from different cultures.
This course introduces students to the how the use of English, and any other languages, is related to place, situation, users, style, identity, gender, ethnicity, social strata and other factors. They will also explore topics such as accents, dialects, sociolects, varieties of English, English as a world language, code-switching, diglossia, language attitudes, stance, social and regional differences of language, bilingualism, language planning, language maintenance and language death.
This is a starting course for students to acquire some basic skills needed to engage with theoretically informed writing in literary studies. Students will be introduced to the nature of literature and the methods of anaylzing literature. Critical perspectives and theoretical languages that have informed literary study for the past thousands years from 360 BC to present will be briefly introduced to the students. The students will learn how different theories of literature have emerged as responses to particular issues in culture, philosophy and in society.
The history of a language is the history of the people who speak it, those who read and write it, and those who come into contact with it. The course will examine the origin and development of the English language, from its earliest beginnings in the misty past, through Old English (or Anglo-Saxon), Middle English, Early Modern English and Present-Day English, and across the post-modern World Englishes. To be able to do this, the students will be introduced to the origins of English and its changes, modern English grammar, old English, Middle English, English of Renaissance, Prescriptive Grammar, English of 19th Century and American English. At the same time, some culture events will be introduced in order to make it clear how those events influenced the changes in the English language. and across the post-modern globe. The study of what language is and how it changes, and how these changes are grounded in parallel cultural changes, is, therefore, a subject of intrinsic value, especially to those interested in literature, linguistics, history, and cultural studies