Agreement- based courses of study for students from abroad

Methodology

The presentation of the grammar is designed to expose the student the structures before explaining them, to facilitate its understanding.

Both the active participation in class through conversations, dictations and the translation of texts corresponding to different situations and, on the other hand, the audiovisual material will be, a fundamental learning strategy to improve the students` skills -such as reading and listening comprehension- in this level of Arabic Standard Course.
Syllabus

Lesson 1

1. 
   Grammar:
   
   1. 
      Radical, Root, Pattern;
      
   2. 
      The Broken Plural;
      
   3. 
      Declension and Nunation;
      
   4. 
      Stress;
      
   5. 
      Prepositions
      
2. 
   Texts:
   
   1. 
      Fī l-sūq (In the Market).
      
   2. 
      Ayna al-Ðarīq? (How to get to…)
      

1. 
   Grammar
   
   1. 
      The Past Tense (II)
      
   2. 
      The Verbal Sentence
      
   3. 
      The Objective Clause
      
   4. 
      The Nisba-Ending
      
2. 
   Texts.
   
   1. 
      Al-Istiqbāl (The Reception)
      
   2. 
      Fī l-madīna (Down-town)
      

1. 
   Grammar:
   
   1. 
      IÅāfa (relationship of possession) II
      
   2. 
      Affixed Pronouns
      
   3. 
      Adverbs (tanwīn al-fat¬a) II
      
2. 
   Texts.
   
   1. 
      Risāla ilà Mu¬ammad (A Letter to Mohammed)
      
   2. 
      Fī maktab al-safar (At the Travel Agency)
      

1. 
   Grammar:
   
   1. 
      The Imperfect Tense.
      
   2. 
      Demonstrative Pronouns
      
   3. 
      Diptotes.
      
2. 
   Texts.
   
   1. 
      ‘Inda al-baqāl (At the Greengrocer´s Shop)
      
   2. 
      Fī l-maБam (In the Restaurant)
      

1. 
   Grammar:
   
   1. 
      Subjunctive and Jussive
      
   2. 
      The Imperative
      
   3. 
      Negation
      
2. 
   Texts.
   
   1. 
      Ajbār al-‘ālamiyya (World News)
      
   2. 
      Fī l-maktaba (At the Bookshop)
      

The assessement will consist on a final test (50%); classroom participation and personal homework (50%) will also be taken into account in order to evaluate the students.

Test will be evaluated as follows:

25% listening

25% reading

25% writing

25% speaking

Bibliography

- “ “ . Elementary Modern Standard Arabic 2. Grammar and vocabulary. Cambridge: University Press, 1983.

- AGUILAR COBOS (et al.). Ash-shallal B1: Lengua árabe = arabic language = langue arabe. Almería: Albujayra, 2010.

- BRUSTAD, AL-BATAL, AL-TONSI. Al-Kitab fii Ta`allum al-`Arabiyya. A textbook for beginning Arabic. Part One. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2004-2007.

- “ “ . Al-Kitab fii Ta`allum al-`Arabiyya. A textbook for beginning Arabic. Part Two. Washington: Georgetown University Press, 2004-2007.

- HAYWOOD-NAHMAD. A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language. Lund Humphries, 2000.

- LAHLALI, El-Mustafa. How to write in Arabic. Edinburgh: University Press, 2009.

- SCHULTZ, Eckehard. Standard Arabic: an Elementary-Intermediate Course. Cambridge: University Press, 2008.

Lecturer: Dra. Gracia López Anguita (glopezanguita@us.es)

Lecturer: Dr. Manuel Uruburu Coulsa (uruburu@us.es)
Objectives

The course will broaden and deepen students' proficiency and communication in Modern Standard Arabic in the four skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. The main objective of this course is to enhance the students' abilities to understand spoken Arabic, to converse on a variety of topics (e.g. press, literature, social aspects, education, law, etc.), narrate, discuss and read authentic material in Arabic both in present/future (muÅāri`) and past tense. More attention will at this level III be paid to discussion and conversing in Arabic on a wider field of topics and through new expressions.

Through a progressive and comprehensive method -which will put the emphasis on the written material, provided by the teacher, as well as aural- the student will be introduced in the arabic language. In this level new materials such as songs and videos will be included as extra-activities.

The presentation of the grammar is designed to expose the student the structures before explaining them, to facilitate its understanding.

Both the active participation in class through conversations, dictations and the translation of texts corresponding to different situations and, on the other hand, the audiovisual material will be, a fundamental learning strategy to develop the students` skills -such as reading and listening comprehension- in this third level of Arabic Standard Course.

This third level as well as the second one will be based upon the textbook Standard Arabic by Schulz-Eckhardt-Reuschel.
Syllabus

Lesson 1:

1. 
   Grammar.
   

1. 
   The Numerals.
   
2. 
   Months.
   
3. 
   Kam (How much/how many)
   

2. 
   Texts
   

1. 
   ¤āmiþatī (My University)
   
2. 
   Fī l-funduq (In the Hotel)
   

1. 
   Grammar.
   
   1. 
      The Numerals (Continuation)
      
   2. 
      
      

1. 
   Cardinal Numbers
   

1. 
   Text
   

4. 
   Al-Islām wa-l-muslimýn (Islam and Muslims)
   
5. 
   þInda al-Tas¥īl (At the Registration)
   

1. 
   Grammar
   

2. 
   Texts
   

1. 
   The Speech of the President (kalimat al-Raÿīs)
   
2. 
   Interview (muqābala al-½u¬ufīya)
   

1. 
   Grammar
   

1. 
   Imperfect Tense of Irregular Verbs with wāw and yā´
   
2. 
   Some Doubly Weak Verbs
   

2. 
   Texts
   

1. 
   The Ryad International Book Fair (Ma`raÅ al-RiyāÅ al-Dawlī li-l-kitāb)
   
2. 
   At the Exchange Office (`Inda al-¼arrāf)
   

1. 
   Grammar
   

1. 
   The Use of Verb Kāna
   
2. 
   Use of nouns: Kullu and ¥amī`; nafs; ba`Å; `idda; a¬ad; ayy.
   

2. 
   Texts
   

1. 
   The Human Body (¥ism al-insān)
   
2. 
   At the Doctor (`inda al-Ðabīb)
   

The assessement will consist on a final test (50%); classroom participation and personal homework (50%) will also be taken into account in order to evaluate the students.

Test will be evaluated as follows:

25% listening

25% reading

25% writing

25% speaking
Bibliography

• 
  Abboud (ed.), Elementary Modern Standard Arabic 1. Pronunciation and writing, Cambridge, University Press, 1983.
  
• 
  “ “, Elementary Modern Standard Arabic 2. Grammar and vocabulary, Cambridge, University Press, 1983.
  
• 
  Aguilar Cobos (et alii), Ash-shallal B1: Lengua árabe = arabic language = langue arabe, Almería, Albujayra, 2010.
  
• 
  Brustad, Al-Batal, Al-Tonsi, Alif Baa. Introduction to Arabic Letters and Sounds, Washington, Georgetown University Press, 2004-2007.
  
• 
  “ “ , Al-Kitab fii Ta`allum al-`Arabiyya. A textbook for beginning Arabic. Part One, Washington, Georgetown University Press, 2004-2007.
  
• 
  Haywood-Nahmad, A New Arabic Grammar of the Written Language, Lund Humphries, 2000.
  
• 
  Lahlali, El-Mustafa, How to write in arabic, Edinburgh, University Press, 2009.
  
• 
  Schultz, Eckehard: Standard Arabic: an Elementary-Intermediate Course. Cambridge, University Press, 2008.
  

Lecturer: Dra. Ana Torres (torresga@us.es )

This class will explore the nature, challenges and results of conflict and coexistence among Jews, Muslims, and Christians in medieval Spain. It will examine the breakdown of tolerance leading to the expulsions of Spanish Jews in 1492, Spanish Muslims by 1502, and the Moriscos of Spanish Muslim descent in 1609. After reflecting on Medieval Spain and the coexistence of the three cultures in the Iberian Peninsula (al- Andalus), the class will study their historical evolution until today. In doing so, it will address current socio-economic and political challenges related to immigration, the coexistence of Christian, Muslims and Jewish communities in Spain, and international relations. Also, the class will analyze the main features of Arab contemporary society and examine how they condition relations with the West.

Classes will be lectured, but student active participation will be encouraged through the discussion of assigned readings, screening of films and student presentations.

PART 1

Iberian Peninsula.

Lesson 3 The three cultures in medieval Spain (II): the breakdown of tolerance leading to the expulsions of Spanish Jews in 1492, Spanish Muslims by 1502, and the Moriscos of Spanish Muslim descent in 1609. (Film: Expulsados 1609).

Lesson 4 The three cultures and multiculturalism today (I): migration towards the West and socio-cultural integration. The case of Almería’s horticulture industry and the crisis of El Ejido.

Lesson 5 The three cultures and multiculturalism today (II): Arab-Muslim indigenous communities in Europe. The case of the coexistence of Christian, Jewish and Muslim communities in the North African Spanish autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla.

Lesson 6 The three cultures and multiculturalism today (III): the threat of al-Qaeda in the Maghreb (AQIM) and Western policy options: the “Alliance of civilizations”. The Arab Spring of 2011, a new beginning for Western-Arab relations?

Lesson 7 Milestones in contemporary Arab history: the First World War, the end of the Ottoman Empire, the legacy of European colonialism, and the rise of Arab nation- states.

Aswany, A. al-. On the State of Egypt: A Novelist's Provocative Reflections. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2011.

Barakat, H. The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993.

Cleveland, W. A History of the Modern Middle East. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2004. Dodds, J.D., M.R. Menocal, and A. Krasner Balbale. The Arts of Intimacy: Christians, Jews, and Muslims in the Making of Castilian Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. Hourani, A. A History of the Arab Peoples. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1991.

Jayyusi, S.K. The Legacy of Muslim Spain. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1994.

Lapidus, I.M. A History of Islamic Societies. Cambridge, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Menocal, M.R., and H. Bloom. The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews, and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spain. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 2002. Pennell, C. R. Morocco Since 1830: a History. London: Hurst & Company, 2000.

Zoubir, Y.H., and H. Amirah Fernández. North Africa: Politics, Region, and the Limits of

Optional reading

Tolan, Sandy. The Lemon Tree: an Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East. London: Bloomsbury, 2007.
Assessment

Active participation: 20%

Assignments: 40% (readings and film reviews)

Final examination: 40%

Full-Tenure Lecturer, Spanish-American Literature. Degree Completion Prize (1993). Ph.D. Prize (1996). Special Mention, in the Competition sponsored by the Provincial Council, Sevilla, “Nuestra América” (1996). Specialist field: the New Spanish-American Narrative (magic realism, the novel of dictatorship, the novel of violence), and Contemporary Spanish-American Drama.

His publications include the following books: Césares, tiranos y santos en El otoño del patriarca. La falsa biografía del guerrero” (Sevilla, Diputación de Sevilla, 1997), Lengua y Literatura Españolas. Educación Secundaria de Adultos (in collaboration with Sevilla, Editorial MAD, 1999) and Comentarios filológicos sobre el realismo mágico (Madrid, Arco Libros, about to be published). His articles, published in the United States, includethose which appear in Revista Hispánica Moderna, Revista de Estudios Colombianos), in France, CARAVELLE. Cahiers du Monde Hispanique et Luso-Bresilien, in Colombia, Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico, Estudios de Literatura Colombiana, Huellas, Historia y Cultura, in Mexico,La Casa Grande), and in Spain, Letras de Deusto. He has acted as visting lecturer in Colombia, Venezuela, the United States, and Morocco.
Congosto Martín, Yolanda (ycongosto@us.es)

Ph.D. in Hispanic Philology since 1997. Assistant Lecturer, Department of Spanish Language, Linguistics, and Literary Theory, Faculty of Philology, University of Sevilla, since 1996. Lectuer in the Agreement-Based Courses for Students from Abroad, University of Sevilla. Research Group membership: “Historia Lingüística del andaluz,” and “Patronímica Románica”, both directed by Professor Manuel Ariza. Specialist research fields: Dialectology and History of the Spanish Language (Phonetics and Phonology, Lexicology, Morpho-Syntax, Historical Sociolinguistics). She has published a wide range of articles in relation to this subject-matter, within the field of Studies in Spanish Language, and has presented papers in scientific symposia and conferences, both internationally and within Spain.

Educacion: Fine Arts Degree from the University of Kansas., Master´s Degree (Tesina) from the University of Seville, Facultad de Bellas Artes., Departamento de Bellas Artes, Doctorate in progress.

Professional Experience: Has worked as an artistic painter selling paintings in exhibitions. Has worked as a professor in various schools for foreign exchange students in Seville; C.I.E.E, I.S.C., y S.A.I.. Has worked as a guide for C.C.C.S. throughout Spain and has also worked guiding trips outside of Spain in various destinations such as Africa.
Escobar Borrego, Fco. Javier (fescobar@us.es)

Full-Tenure Lecturer, Department of Spanish Literature, University of Sevilla. He obtained research grants both from the University of Sevilla and the Ministry of Education and Science to enable him to carry out his Ph.D. Thesis, La leyenda de Psique y Cupido en las letras españolas del siglo XVI. Tradición clásica y contexto europeo. His specialist fields are: Renaissance Poetry and Renaissance Prose Fiction, Gutierre de Cetina, Juan de Mal Lara, Fernando de Herrera, Francisco de Medrano, and Diego López de Cortesana; the classical tradition of the myth of Psyche and Cupid in Golden Age Spanish Litearture; translation of Apuleyo’s Asno de Oro by Diego López de Cortegana, of Virgil’s Bucólicas by Juan Fernández de Idiáquez; of 20^th century poetry: Salmos by Miguel de Unamuno. With regard to his lecturing, he has given Courses on Medieval Spanish Literature, Golden Age and Enlightenment Literature within the Department with which he is linked, together with Agreement-Based Courses with Universities Abroad: Literatura Española II (Siglos de Oro), Cervantes y el Quijote, Literatura Española III (Siglos XVIII-XX), El Flamenco: expresión cultural y sociolingüística de Andalucía. Likewise, he combines his activities as a philologist with his profession as a flamenco guitar performer.

Full-Tenure Lecturer, Department of Integrated Philologies, Faculty of Philology, University of Sevilla. He has lectured in Arabic language and literature in the Universities of Córdoba (1987-98) and Sevilla (1998-02). His research is centered on aspects of Scientific Literature in Al-Andalus.

Was awarded his Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies in the University of Sevilla, in 2012, specializing in Spanish American Literature, with a Thesis on the figure of the Cuban-Spanish writer, Lino Novás Calvo, for which he received the Special Doctorate Prize. He has published the following books: Lino Novás Calvo’s The Slave Driver and Modern Biography (2013) and Biographical and Autobiographical Chronicles '1933-1936’ (2014). He is also the author of published articles in journals such as Bulletin of Hispanic Review (UK), Afro-Hispanic Review (USA), Con-texts (Colombia), Култура / Culture (Macedonia) or Amadis (France). Contributing chapters on Novás, on the Guatemalan Luis Cardoza y Aragón, and on Modern Biography, he has participated in collectively written books such as Travelers, Diplomats and Exiles: Hispanic Writers in Spain '1914-1939' (Viajeros, diplomáticos y exiliados. Escritores hispanoamericanos en España ‘1914-1939’) vol. I (2012), Literary Trivia Trivialidades literarias (2013), or Setting Up Prose (En pie de prosa) and The Other Spanish-American Avant-Garde (La otra vanguardia hispana) (2014). His key research areas are Cuban Literature, Cuban Literary Biography, Autobiography, and the Cuban Police. Between 2008 and 2013 he taught Spanish American Poetry and Narrative (from the Colonial Period to the twentieth century) within the Departmental Area of Spanish American Literature in the Faculty of Philology, University of Sevilla. He currently teaches in the Department of the Didactics of Language and Literature, as well as in that of Combined Philologies​​.

Born in Bahía Blanca, Argentina, in 1955; Ph. D. in Philology, University of Sevilla; holder of Degree in Letters, Universidad Nacional del Sur – Classical Philology Section (Universidad Nacional del Sur, Bahía Blanca, Argentina). Currently he is Full-Tenure Lecturer in the Faculty of Communication, University of Sevilla, and is a member of the research group MAECEI working in the field of the analysis of Institutional and Private-Sector Communication.

Besides his lecturing, his main lines of research are: the analysis of communication in politics and publicity, on the one hand, and literature, on the other hand. With regard to both, he has published a range of books and articles, including: Estrategias de la persuasión. Mito y propaganda política, Sevilla, Alfar, 1996; El mito clásico en la obra de Jorge Luis Borges. El laberinto, Sevilla, Alfar, 1998; Cine, literatura y propaganda. De Los santos inocentes a El día de la bestia, Sevilla, Alfar, 1999; Comunicación y propaganda. Una aproximación plural (co-edited with Antonio Pineda), Sevilla, Comunicación Social, 2004; Los Heraldos de Acero: La propaganda de guerra y sus medios, (Editor), Sevilla, Comunicación Social, 2004; and the following articles (scientific publications in Spain and abroad): “Los santos inocentes: símbolo y drama”, in Discurso. Revista Internacional de Semiótica y Teoría Literaria, number ¾, 1989, pages 141-157; “La autorreferencia en el discurso publicitario”, in Comunicación y Sociedad, Pamplona, 1991, Vol. IV, number 1-2, pages 139-14; “La crítica del mito en la narrativa de Julio Cortázar”, in Cauce, number 14-15, Sevilla, 1992, pages 403-417; “Jorge Luis Borges: Teoría y práctica de la intertextualidad”, in Anthropos number 142-143, Barcelona, 1993, pages 46-54; “Tras la huella del Minotauro”, in Anthropos number 142-143, Barcelona, 1993, pages 77-86; “Mito y publicidad”, in Questiones publicitarias number 1, Sevilla, 1993, pages 72-86; “Historia y ficción en Historia del cerco de Lisboa de José Saramago”, in Plural, number 278, México, 1994, pages 30-39 and in Lusobrasilisca: i protagonisti dèl racconto/2, Roma, 1996, pages 137-161; “Propaganda y publicidad política: algunas cuestiones terminológicas”, i Questiones publicitarias, number 3, Sevilla, 1994, pp. 96-104; “Integrismo y comunicación en el discurso publicitario”, in Questiones publicitarias, number 5, Sevilla, 1996, pages 9-22; “El laberinto en Todos los nombres de José Saramago, in Revista Colóquio/Letras, number 151/152, Fundación Calouste Goulbenkian, Lisboa, 1999, pages 453-461; “El Evangelio de Saramago: historia, ficción, traición”, in Ínsula number 663, Madrid, 202, pages 12-28; “Cine y tragedia: de Edipo Rey a Lawrence de Arabia”, in Comunicación, number 1, Sevilla, 2002, pages 37-62.

He has presented a wide range of papers in conferences and symposia, in the fields of both communication and literature. In collaboration with Dr. Manuel Ángel Vázquez Medel, he initiated the field of studies concerning Image Banks of the Collective Unconscious applied to Communication and Literature in the University of Sevilla, within which framework two international symposia have been organized.

Since 2002, he is Director and Organizer of the Sessions on Communication and Propaganda, an event which, this present year, will reach its fifth edition, and will be dedicated to the issue of Fundamentalism.
Johnson, Jerry L. Ph.D. ( johnsonjerry879@gmail.com)

Academic Record; B.A. from Drake Univesity, 1961 (Romance Philology/American History M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, 1964, 1966 (Romance Philology Independent studies at George town Univesity, Hofstra Univesity., 1961-62 (History/Spanish Linguistics). NDA Scholarship for Applied Linguistics at Hofstra University, 1961 (summer)Fulbright Scholarship to Spain, 1965-66. Teaching Experience: Falls Church High School, 1962-63 (Spanish, French).University of Virginia, 1964.1971 (Spanish language and literature).Michigan State University, 1974 (Summer lecturer on Understanding the Spanish Press).University of Maine, 1976 (Summer session, Verbal morphemes and the time spectrum).Work Experience Resident Director for CIEE programs in Spain, 1971-200.United States Consular Agent form western Andalusia, 1987-2009. Academic Director, EnterEvent/ISiS, www.enterevent.es, 2009 to present.

Publications: Artículos de costumbres de M. J. de Larra. Barcelona, 1971. Vicente García de la Huerta. Salamanca, 1975. Cuatro tragedias neoclásicas españolas. Salamanca, 1981. N. Alvarez de Cienfuergos. Barcelona, 1987. Claves para un vocabulario español. Sevilla, 1992. Memberships and Organizational Positions. Professional Activities: President of Gamma Tau of Theta Chi, 1959-61. President of the Consular Association of Seville, 2003-2005.