Academic Plan

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BEGINNING ENGLISH

In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main idea and supporting details; make predictions about a text; answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents; identify parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of unknown words from context; and recognize prefixes and suffixes. In Writing, students learn to write both simple and compound sentences with correct punctuation and capitalization. They write at the sentence and paragraph level using simple present tense, simple past tense, and simple future tense. In Grammar, students review the basic parts of speech and their functions in a sentence, the simple tenses (present, past, and future) and present and past continuous, pronouns, prepositions of time and location, articles, singular and plural nouns, and question formation.

010610014

BEGINNING ENGLISH

In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main idea and supporting details; make predictions about a text; answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents; identify parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of unknown words from context; and recognize prefixes and suffixes. In Writing, students learn to write both simple and compound sentences with correct punctuation and capitalization. They write at the sentence and paragraph level using simple present tense, simple past tense, and simple future tense. In Grammar, students review the basic parts of speech and their functions in a sentence, the simple tenses (present, past, and future) and present and past continuous, pronouns, prepositions of time and location, articles, singular and plural nouns, and question formation.

010610025

INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH

In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main and supporting details; make predictions and answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents, parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of contextual words; recognize prefixes and suffixes, recognize noun, adjective, and adverb clauses, and distinguish between fact and opinion.

010610025

INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH

In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main and supporting details; make predictions and answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents, parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of contextual words; recognize prefixes and suffixes, recognize noun, adjective, and adverb clauses, and distinguish between fact and opinion.

010610026

INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH LAB

The Language Center courses are designed to help students cope with university education in English. The unlock listening and speaking 2 (Intermediate English Lab.) focuses on developing students’ listening, speaking and critical thinking skills. Students watch videos, listen to audios, think critically to be able to speak about different topics using a simplified academic language. The intermediate English lab is meant to prepare students for speaking and listening contexts. Students learn strategies for improving listening comprehension and stimulating critical thinking. The language lab component is specifically designed to improve students’ speaking and listening skills.

010610025

INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH

In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main and supporting details; make predictions and answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents, parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of contextual words; recognize prefixes and suffixes, recognize noun, adjective, and adverb clauses, and distinguish between fact and opinion.

010610026

INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH LAB

The Language Center courses are designed to help students cope with university education in English. The unlock listening and speaking 2 (Intermediate English Lab.) focuses on developing students’ listening, speaking and critical thinking skills. Students watch videos, listen to audios, think critically to be able to speak about different topics using a simplified academic language. The intermediate English lab is meant to prepare students for speaking and listening contexts. Students learn strategies for improving listening comprehension and stimulating critical thinking. The language lab component is specifically designed to improve students’ speaking and listening skills.

010610035

ADVANCED ENGLISH

This is an integrated skills course in which students work on reading, Writing, listening' and speaking. In reading, student learn to distinguish between fact and opinion,determine the author's purpose or point of view, justify answers to comprehension questions,make inferences, read academic texts, recognize grammatical relation ship in atext. In Writing, student learn to write complex sentences and comma splices. In Grammar, the review parts of speech, articles, and phrases and clauses.

010610036

ADVANCED ENGLISH LAB

This course aims at developing students listening and speaking skills. This is to be accomplished through helping them enrich their lexical input so that they can understand English language in its spoken forms as a focus and in its written form too. As a result, they will be able to communicate successfully. The course provides students with a series of listening, speaking, reading, pronunciation and vocabulary exercises that meet Bloom’s learning objectives. Furthermore, it aims at developing their critical thinking skills.

210211140

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE I

This course is an overview of fundamental knowledge of ancient and modern architecture in the broadest sense. Topics covered include history of architectural theory, history of materials and building techniques; analysis of distinct edifices from design to construction processes; attention to historically significant architects and architectures, natural and built landscape through some influential examples, present and future scenarios.

010610035

ADVANCED ENGLISH

This is an integrated skills course in which students work on reading, Writing, listening' and speaking. In reading, student learn to distinguish between fact and opinion,determine the author's purpose or point of view, justify answers to comprehension questions,make inferences, read academic texts, recognize grammatical relation ship in atext. In Writing, student learn to write complex sentences and comma splices. In Grammar, the review parts of speech, articles, and phrases and clauses.

010610036

ADVANCED ENGLISH LAB

This course aims at developing students listening and speaking skills. This is to be accomplished through helping them enrich their lexical input so that they can understand English language in its spoken forms as a focus and in its written form too. As a result, they will be able to communicate successfully. The course provides students with a series of listening, speaking, reading, pronunciation and vocabulary exercises that meet Bloom’s learning objectives. Furthermore, it aims at developing their critical thinking skills.

040511011

PALESTINIAN STUDIES

The migration of Arab tribes from Arab Peninsule to Palestine, major political and cultural developments in palestine during cann'anites period, the Assyrian-Egyptian Rivaly in Palestine, Palestinians and Jews, Palestine under Creek and Roman Rule, The Arab Islamic period, political and cultural conditions during Ummayad and Abbasaid period, Islam-crusades colission in pPalestine, Palestine under Ottoman Rule, Rule played by Ahmad Pasha Al-Jazzar and Thaher Al-Omar, Egyptian occupation 1831, European penetration and Zionist settlements, Sykes-Pekot Agreement, Balfour declaration and Britsg mandate, Brotain and Liquidation of Palestine land, Palestinian resistance movement, 1936 Uprising and the scheme of Palestine partition 1937, Partition resolution and 1948 war, Launching of the PLO and the 1967 war, 1987 Uprising, Independence Declaration 1988, Oslo Agreements , Future outlook.

210211110

ELEMENTS OF DRAWING FOR COMPOSITION

In the applied arts, composition is the placement or arrangement of elements or 'ingredients' in a work , as distinct from the subject. The term composition means 'putting together' and can apply to any creative work, from music to writing to design, architecture or photography, that is arranged using conscious thought.

210211110

ELEMENTS OF DRAWING FOR COMPOSITION

In the applied arts, composition is the placement or arrangement of elements or 'ingredients' in a work , as distinct from the subject. The term composition means 'putting together' and can apply to any creative work, from music to writing to design, architecture or photography, that is arranged using conscious thought.

210211130

ITALIAN I

The course is focused on providing the students with the basic skills to understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type, to introduce him/herself and others and to ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has, to interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.

210211300

INTERIOR DESIGN II

This course is a research and design course. It combines the research phase to inform and produce the practical. The course offers the skills and knowledge to comprehend and apply the most important aspects of interior design. It builds on the fundamental design concepts to investigate and explore all aspects of the interior: Human experience, Human factors, Lifestyle and social preferences and their influence on the occupation and experience of the interior space.

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ANTHROPOLOGY OF PLACE

This course is an overview of anthropological theories about how societies organize the cultural experience of place. Topics covered include basic methods of ethnographic research, links between power and definition of space, how groups give different meaning to various places (sacred, domestic, public, gendered, and so on), how the experience of place is culturally shaped and transmitted, the situated cultural actions through which people interact with their surrounding.

210211140

HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE I

This course is an overview of fundamental knowledge of ancient and modern architecture in the broadest sense. Topics covered include history of architectural theory, history of materials and building techniques; analysis of distinct edifices from design to construction processes; attention to historically significant architects and architectures, natural and built landscape through some influential examples, present and future scenarios.

210211400

INTERIOR DESIGN I

The course will introduce lectures and studio sessions. The lectures will allow the students to learn about the theories of interior design, and how they were developed through history, and the ways in which they are applied in existing spaces given as examples. The studio sessions will allow the students to apply what they learn through the lectures of this course and other courses they undertake, to develop their projects. Throughout the studio, the students will undertake sketch problems, midterm and final projects.

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FUNDAMENTALS OF ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION

This course introduces students to the principles and processes of architectural design. The focus will be on understanding and designing with basic architectural elements and on the organization of habitable spaces in plan, facade, and section. Habitation and basic shelter are key topics in architecture design, as they relate to the basic architectural elements, and are explored in depth in this studio. The design process will be presented as the realization of an architectural idea that arises in response to both the context, which is the natural and built environments in which the building will exist, and the program, which is the functional and experiential requirement of the human activity to be supported and enhanced by the building.

210211400

INTERIOR DESIGN I

The course will introduce lectures and studio sessions. The lectures will allow the students to learn about the theories of interior design, and how they were developed through history, and the ways in which they are applied in existing spaces given as examples. The studio sessions will allow the students to apply what they learn through the lectures of this course and other courses they undertake, to develop their projects. Throughout the studio, the students will undertake sketch problems, midterm and final projects.

210211300

INTERIOR DESIGN II

This course is a research and design course. It combines the research phase to inform and produce the practical. The course offers the skills and knowledge to comprehend and apply the most important aspects of interior design. It builds on the fundamental design concepts to investigate and explore all aspects of the interior: Human experience, Human factors, Lifestyle and social preferences and their influence on the occupation and experience of the interior space.

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URBAN SOCIOLOGY

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3D PRINTING

The course is about shaping sand in 3D using additive fabrication methods supported by computational design and self-made equipment. Development of the Design Method "D-Shape Design Process", with the executive algorithmic automated design of any kind of building. Definition of volumes, form finding related to the boundary environmental conditions, wall thickness optimization, predisposition for the cavities for MEP and thermal insulation, non interference check, subtractive lightening procedure, topology optimization design of foundations, automatic development of the cell printed shell.

210211300

INTERIOR DESIGN II

This course is a research and design course. It combines the research phase to inform and produce the practical. The course offers the skills and knowledge to comprehend and apply the most important aspects of interior design. It builds on the fundamental design concepts to investigate and explore all aspects of the interior: Human experience, Human factors, Lifestyle and social preferences and their influence on the occupation and experience of the interior space.

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FUNDAMENTALS OF RESEARCH METHODS

This course is a basic one for all university students because it tackles the way of conducting research. The students through this course are exposed to the quantitative and qualitative researches and the differences between them. It also covers the meaning of hypothesis and its types, along with research questions and research problems. Through this course the students can come to know more about literature review and how to differentiate between primary and secondary literature.

210211120

ENGLISH FOR INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE

This ESP (English for Specific Purposes) course is designed

210211220

FUNDAMENTALS OF ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION

This course introduces students to the principles and processes of architectural design. The focus will be on understanding and designing with basic architectural elements and on the organization of habitable spaces in plan, facade, and section. Habitation and basic shelter are key topics in architecture design, as they relate to the basic architectural elements, and are explored in depth in this studio. The design process will be presented as the realization of an architectural idea that arises in response to both the context, which is the natural and built environments in which the building will exist, and the program, which is the functional and experiential requirement of the human activity to be supported and enhanced by the building.

210211220

FUNDAMENTALS OF ARCHITECTURAL COMPOSITION

This course introduces students to the principles and processes of architectural design. The focus will be on understanding and designing with basic architectural elements and on the organization of habitable spaces in plan, facade, and section. Habitation and basic shelter are key topics in architecture design, as they relate to the basic architectural elements, and are explored in depth in this studio. The design process will be presented as the realization of an architectural idea that arises in response to both the context, which is the natural and built environments in which the building will exist, and the program, which is the functional and experiential requirement of the human activity to be supported and enhanced by the building.

210212140

ADVANCED ARCHITECTURAL DRAWING

This course is an exploration of the AutoCad Software through exposing the students to the features and possibilities in the software. This course will enable the students to create and edit simple 2D drawings using the few basic tools of the AutoCad software. Then Throughout the course, the students will continue to develop working with these tools while being introduced to the more advanced tools in the software. Most of the frequently used commands will be covered while providing the students with the correct strategy and mind set to self-learn the remaining commands and tools.

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FINAL THESIS RESEARCH

The Thesis Research -offered as an introductory research phase to the Thesis Design Project Phase (which the students are expected to take in their final semester of study). The Thesis research introduces the students to think thoroughly and responsively of their final thesis design project in a comprehensive manner through investigating an emerging issue relevant to Architectural Space Design under the supervision of the Course instructor. The course instigates the graduating students to analyze and understand the macro and micro settings that shall inform A Final Design-related Thesis Project of their choice under the supervision of the course coordinator

210211300

INTERIOR DESIGN II

This course is a research and design course. It combines the research phase to inform and produce the practical. The course offers the skills and knowledge to comprehend and apply the most important aspects of interior design. It builds on the fundamental design concepts to investigate and explore all aspects of the interior: Human experience, Human factors, Lifestyle and social preferences and their influence on the occupation and experience of the interior space.