This is a year-long course in which students will learn to read, write and converse in Arabic while becoming familiar with the basic grammar of Modern Standard Arabic. Students will also be exposed to the Egyptian variety of colloquial Arabic. This is a communicative-oriented course which revolves around the daily practice of vocabulary, conversation and different grammatical structures in class. You will be expected to speak Modern Standard Arabic in class from an early stage. Students will also be expected to take advantage of the technological resources available for the study of Arabic on the internet, as well as the technological aids available as part of our textbooks for this course, Alif Baa and Al-Kitaab fii Ta'allum al-'Arabiyya from Georgetown University Press. Format: lectures, five hours a week. Evaluation is based on tests, daily homework, and active class participation. No prerequisites. No enrollment limit (expected: 15). Students registered for Arabic 101 and 102 are required to attend and pass the sustaining program during the winter study period. Credit is granted only if both semesters of this course are taken.

Hour: VARGAS

Note: for those students who would like to continue their study of the language, Intermediate Arabic (CRAB 301) will be offered as an independent study under the Critical Languages program.