my Modules @ Unisa - University of South Africa

Arabic
Arabic (Major Combinations for Arabic)
Major combinations:
NQF Level: 5: ARB1501
NQF Level: 6: ARB1602, ARB2603, ICS1602
NQF Level: 7: ARB2704, ARB2705, ARB3706, ARB3707 and
ICS3707
Elementary Arabic - ARB1501
Semester module
NQF Level: 5
Credits: 12
Purpose: To enable students to acquire basic Arabic
grammar, the language skills of understanding Arabic
sentences and of following simple dialogues and internalising
them.
Pre-Intermediate Arabic - ARB1602
Semester module
NQF Lev el: 6
Credits: 12
Co-requisite: ARB1501 or ARB101K
Purpose: To enable students to acquire the basic language
skills of reading, writing, understanding and speaking, with
particular focus on the verb structures of Arabic strong verbs.
Intermediate Arabic - ARB2603
Semester module
NQF Level: 6
Credits: 12
Prerequisite: ARB1501, ARB1502 or mother tongue
speaker
Purpose: To allow students to acquire more advanced skills
of reading, writing and speaking, as well as knowing and
understanding weak verbs, in relation to the Arabic language.
Advanced Arabic - ARB2704
Semester module
NQF Level: 7
Credits: 12
Prerequisite: ARB1501, ARB1502 or mother tongue
speaker,
Co-requisite: ARB2603
Purpose: Students will learn more about stylistic techniques
of the Arabic language, as well as sentence construction and
analysis.
Basic Arabic Literary Texts - ARB2705
Semester module
NQF Level: 7
Credits: 12
Prerequisite: ARB2603
Co-requisite: ARB2704
Purpose: To advance the student’s mastery of Arabic by
an introduction and analysis of selected classical and modern
Arabic texts.
Specialist Arabic Literary Text - ARB3706
Semester module
NQF Level: 7
Credits: 12
Prerequisite: ARB2603, ARB2704, ARB2705
Purpose: To advance the student’s mastery of Arabic by
an introduction and analysis of selected classical and modern
Arabic texts.
Advanced Arabic Literary Texts - ARB3707
Semester module
NQF Level: 7
Credits: 12
Prerequisite: ARB2603, ARB2704, ARB2705
Co-requisite: ARB3706
Purpose: To enable students to articulate the theory and
history of modern Arabic prose literature through analysis and
emergence of new themes.
Arabic Grammar and Philology - ARB4801
(ARBLITE)
Year module
NQF Level: 8
Credits: 24
Purpose: This module equips students with a firm
understanding of Arabic grammar, philology, stylistics and
semantics; insights into the linguistic development of Standard
Arabic, as well as the emergence and features of diaglossia;
and the capacity to determine the position of Arabic on a map
of regional and global languages.
Qur’Ranic Translation and Commentary - ARB4802
(ARBQTC4)
Year module
NQF Level: 8
Credits: 24
Purpose: This module equips students with a firm
understanding of the Qur’anic text; insights into the
understanding of Qur’anic commentaries; the ability to read
Arabic commentaries which developed over the past fourteen
centuries; and to further comprehend the texts.
Further Specialist Arabic Literary Texts - ARB4803
(ARBCMC6)
Year module
NQF Level: 8
Credits: 24
Purpose: This module equips students with a strong
understanding of select Arabic classical, modern and
contemporary professional texts; insights into the linguistic
development of select Arabic texts, from the seventh to the
nineteenth centuries in prose, poetry and rhythmic prose; and
selected contemporary texts that allow students to master
discourse in fields like classical Islam, diplomacy, politics, law,
trade, industry, technology, sport, fashion and economics.
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