Comprehensive Exam Track: Total Credit Hours Required to Finish the Degree ( 36 Credit Hours ) as Follows
Specialization Requirements
Students must pass all of the following courses
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Course Number |
Course Name |
Weekly Hours |
Cr. Hrs. |
Prerequisite |
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Practical |
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| 150046000 | ADVANCED RESEARCH METHODS | This course provides content on the logic of inquiry and the necessity for an empirical approach to practice. It is also addresses the process of formulating appropriate research questions, objectives, and hypotheses, techniques for reviewing literature, approaches for testing relationships and patterns among variables, methods of data collection and analysis, methods for assessing and improving the validity and reliability of data and measurements, and the ethics of scientific research. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150046020 | FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL THEORY | The purpose of this course is to introduce students to major thinkers and concepts in social theory. Social theory is the basis for our understanding of Society and the Social World, be it economic, social or political. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150046050 | LITERATURE, HISTORY, CULTURE | Students will look at the cultural, historical and political contexts of a selection of texts from different genres and the way that history, myth, politics, gender, and race affect their production and meaning. These factors will be considered in different national literatures, and attention will be given to the implications for translation theory | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150046100 | INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION | Students look at the problems of communication between different “layers” of a culture as well as between different cultural groups, considering the importance of symbols, rituals and values to cultural identity. The course will use material from different national cinemas to illustrate the challenge of understanding cultural difference. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150046210 | CULTURES-DEFINITIONS AND ISSUES | Culture in its broadest sense is a cultivated behavior; that is, the totality of a person’s learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, more briefly, behavior through social learning. Students examine various theories of culture in order to understand how different discourse reflects the cultural assumptions of their authors. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150046250 | TOPICS IN WORLD LITERATURE | This course allows the instructors to take texts from literature in one or more English’s (other than American and British) – those of the former Dominions, for examples, or those shaped by post- colonialism – or translation, or to focus on authors who have explicitly focused on cultural differences ( such as Henry James). | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150046300 | CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS | This course provides participants with a working knowledge of critical discourse analysis, and its application to translation practice by looking at questions of power ideology and hegemony. It explores how linguistic features of text constitute and are constituted by social, cultural and local relations, processes and contexts in which they are embedded. | 3 | - | 3 |
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Students must pass ( 15 ) credit hours from any of the following courses
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Course Number |
Course Name |
Weekly Hours |
Cr. Hrs. |
Prerequisite |
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Theoretical |
Practical |
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| 150046150 | LITERARY CRITICISM | This course in emphasis on the way a literary text reveals the cultural assumption of its author presumes a historical approach to literature; however, a student of literature needs to be familiar with approaches other than new historicism in order to appreciate the dynamics of a text. The student will make multiple examinations of a single text each in the light of a different theory. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150046350 | COMPARATIVE LITERATURE | The course looks at literature across national and cultural boundaries. In the first part, students consider such concepts as world literature, inter-literary vs. inter-semiotic relations, post-colonialism, and cultural globalization. The second part focuses on the significance of literary translators in the reception of foreign cultures. | 3 | - | 3 |
150046250 TOPICS IN WORLD LITERATURE This course allows the instructors to take texts from literature in one or more English’s (other than American and British) – those of the former Dominions, for examples, or those shaped by post- colonialism – or translation, or to focus on authors who have explicitly focused on cultural differences ( such as Henry James). |
| 150046400 | ORIENTALISM IN WESTERN LITERATURE | This course looks at the way of orientalism – the way “the orient” is perceived in the western world – is the product of western ideologies of identity, colonialism and enlightenment. It allows readers to understand how Arabs and Islam have been miss understood in the west, and how images of the middle east have provided a way criticizing European culture. | 3 | - | 3 |
150046050 LITERATURE, HISTORY, CULTURE Students will look at the cultural, historical and political contexts of a selection of texts from different genres and the way that history, myth, politics, gender, and race affect their production and meaning. These factors will be considered in different national literatures, and attention will be given to the implications for translation theory |
| 150046450 | OCCIDENTALISM IN ARAB LITERATURE | This course studies how” the west” is imaged by authors writing in Arabic, and how the Occidentalism of these authors (i.e. their images of the west) provide a way of both analyzing the political and social discourse of the modern Middle East as well as way contemporary authors view the “other” from dominant and subaltern positions. | 3 | - | 3 |
150046050 LITERATURE, HISTORY, CULTURE Students will look at the cultural, historical and political contexts of a selection of texts from different genres and the way that history, myth, politics, gender, and race affect their production and meaning. These factors will be considered in different national literatures, and attention will be given to the implications for translation theory |
| 150046500 | SELF AND AGENCY IN LITERATURE | The concept of the self is central to modern western culture, especially in the English speaking world in whose individualist, religions, politics, economics, social sciences and philosophical traditions it has long formed a key reference point. This course will explore the ways in which English literature both produces formations of the self, and questions those formations. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150046550 | NARRATIVE AND NATIONALISM | Students develop their critical abilities by reading and engaging with contemporary critical arguments concerning literature and significance of nation as a cultural construct. Examining texts defining nationhood, they investigate the various political, social, and economic contexts in which these texts were written and published | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150046600 | LANGUAGE USE AND MEDIA | This course offers students a theoretical framework for the analysis of language use in the media which are consciously international in scope (e.g. Facebook, blogs, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, E-mail, Movies, Television, and Radio etc.). The course focuses on strategies and linguistic means for realizing speech acts and the linguistic properties of informal speech. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150046650 | POSTMODERNISM AND GLOBALIZATION | The course will focus on various forms of narratives and their development of narratives within one particular nation or cultural setting. Texts are taken from literary theory, media studies, anthropology, philosophy, sociology and history. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150046700 | SEMIOTICS | This course explores the semiotics movement through the work of its founding theorist, Ferdinand de Saussure. The relationship of semiotics to hermeneutics, new criticism, and Russian formalism is considered. Key semiotic binaries-such as langue and parole, signifier and signified, and synchrony and diachrony – are explored. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150046750 | MULTICULTURALISM | This course explores texts reflecting the multicultural nature of modern society, and the way language and discourse in the arts, humanities, media, and popular culture reflect the ethnicity, race, gender, and social class of society’s members. The focus is on contemporary societies, but attention will also paid to the historical development of national cultures. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150046800 | TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION | This course looks at the process of translation and adaptation as responses to the differences between and within social codes, taking into account the characteristics of the target culture and language. Attention will be paid to the otherness of the text of the original, on the one hand, and the national characteristics of the translation, on the other. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150046850 | POLITICS OF EXILE | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150046900 | DECOLONIZING SPACE / DESIGN | 3 | - | 3 |
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Thesis\Treatise Track: Total Credit Hours Required to Finish the Degree ( 36 Credit Hours ) as Follows
Specialization Requirements
Students must pass all of the following courses plus ( 6 ) credit hours for the Thesis
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Course Number |
Course Name |
Weekly Hours |
Cr. Hrs. |
Prerequisite |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Theoretical |
Practical |
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| 150046000 | ADVANCED RESEARCH METHODS | This course provides content on the logic of inquiry and the necessity for an empirical approach to practice. It is also addresses the process of formulating appropriate research questions, objectives, and hypotheses, techniques for reviewing literature, approaches for testing relationships and patterns among variables, methods of data collection and analysis, methods for assessing and improving the validity and reliability of data and measurements, and the ethics of scientific research. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150046020 | FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL THEORY | The purpose of this course is to introduce students to major thinkers and concepts in social theory. Social theory is the basis for our understanding of Society and the Social World, be it economic, social or political. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150046050 | LITERATURE, HISTORY, CULTURE | Students will look at the cultural, historical and political contexts of a selection of texts from different genres and the way that history, myth, politics, gender, and race affect their production and meaning. These factors will be considered in different national literatures, and attention will be given to the implications for translation theory | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150046100 | INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION | Students look at the problems of communication between different “layers” of a culture as well as between different cultural groups, considering the importance of symbols, rituals and values to cultural identity. The course will use material from different national cinemas to illustrate the challenge of understanding cultural difference. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150046210 | CULTURES-DEFINITIONS AND ISSUES | Culture in its broadest sense is a cultivated behavior; that is, the totality of a person’s learned, accumulated experience which is socially transmitted, more briefly, behavior through social learning. Students examine various theories of culture in order to understand how different discourse reflects the cultural assumptions of their authors. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150046250 | TOPICS IN WORLD LITERATURE | This course allows the instructors to take texts from literature in one or more English’s (other than American and British) – those of the former Dominions, for examples, or those shaped by post- colonialism – or translation, or to focus on authors who have explicitly focused on cultural differences ( such as Henry James). | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150046300 | CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS | This course provides participants with a working knowledge of critical discourse analysis, and its application to translation practice by looking at questions of power ideology and hegemony. It explores how linguistic features of text constitute and are constituted by social, cultural and local relations, processes and contexts in which they are embedded. | 3 | - | 3 |
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Students must pass ( 9 ) credit hours from any of the following courses
|
Course Number |
Course Name |
Weekly Hours |
Cr. Hrs. |
Prerequisite |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Theoretical |
Practical |
|||||
| 150046150 | LITERARY CRITICISM | This course in emphasis on the way a literary text reveals the cultural assumption of its author presumes a historical approach to literature; however, a student of literature needs to be familiar with approaches other than new historicism in order to appreciate the dynamics of a text. The student will make multiple examinations of a single text each in the light of a different theory. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150046350 | COMPARATIVE LITERATURE | The course looks at literature across national and cultural boundaries. In the first part, students consider such concepts as world literature, inter-literary vs. inter-semiotic relations, post-colonialism, and cultural globalization. The second part focuses on the significance of literary translators in the reception of foreign cultures. | 3 | - | 3 |
150046250 TOPICS IN WORLD LITERATURE This course allows the instructors to take texts from literature in one or more English’s (other than American and British) – those of the former Dominions, for examples, or those shaped by post- colonialism – or translation, or to focus on authors who have explicitly focused on cultural differences ( such as Henry James). |
| 150046400 | ORIENTALISM IN WESTERN LITERATURE | This course looks at the way of orientalism – the way “the orient” is perceived in the western world – is the product of western ideologies of identity, colonialism and enlightenment. It allows readers to understand how Arabs and Islam have been miss understood in the west, and how images of the middle east have provided a way criticizing European culture. | 3 | - | 3 |
150046050 LITERATURE, HISTORY, CULTURE Students will look at the cultural, historical and political contexts of a selection of texts from different genres and the way that history, myth, politics, gender, and race affect their production and meaning. These factors will be considered in different national literatures, and attention will be given to the implications for translation theory |
| 150046450 | OCCIDENTALISM IN ARAB LITERATURE | This course studies how” the west” is imaged by authors writing in Arabic, and how the Occidentalism of these authors (i.e. their images of the west) provide a way of both analyzing the political and social discourse of the modern Middle East as well as way contemporary authors view the “other” from dominant and subaltern positions. | 3 | - | 3 |
150046050 LITERATURE, HISTORY, CULTURE Students will look at the cultural, historical and political contexts of a selection of texts from different genres and the way that history, myth, politics, gender, and race affect their production and meaning. These factors will be considered in different national literatures, and attention will be given to the implications for translation theory |
| 150046500 | SELF AND AGENCY IN LITERATURE | The concept of the self is central to modern western culture, especially in the English speaking world in whose individualist, religions, politics, economics, social sciences and philosophical traditions it has long formed a key reference point. This course will explore the ways in which English literature both produces formations of the self, and questions those formations. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 150046550 | NARRATIVE AND NATIONALISM | Students develop their critical abilities by reading and engaging with contemporary critical arguments concerning literature and significance of nation as a cultural construct. Examining texts defining nationhood, they investigate the various political, social, and economic contexts in which these texts were written and published | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150046600 | LANGUAGE USE AND MEDIA | This course offers students a theoretical framework for the analysis of language use in the media which are consciously international in scope (e.g. Facebook, blogs, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, E-mail, Movies, Television, and Radio etc.). The course focuses on strategies and linguistic means for realizing speech acts and the linguistic properties of informal speech. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150046650 | POSTMODERNISM AND GLOBALIZATION | The course will focus on various forms of narratives and their development of narratives within one particular nation or cultural setting. Texts are taken from literary theory, media studies, anthropology, philosophy, sociology and history. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150046700 | SEMIOTICS | This course explores the semiotics movement through the work of its founding theorist, Ferdinand de Saussure. The relationship of semiotics to hermeneutics, new criticism, and Russian formalism is considered. Key semiotic binaries-such as langue and parole, signifier and signified, and synchrony and diachrony – are explored. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150046750 | MULTICULTURALISM | This course explores texts reflecting the multicultural nature of modern society, and the way language and discourse in the arts, humanities, media, and popular culture reflect the ethnicity, race, gender, and social class of society’s members. The focus is on contemporary societies, but attention will also paid to the historical development of national cultures. | 3 | - | 3 |
- |
| 150046800 | TRANSLATION AND ADAPTATION | This course looks at the process of translation and adaptation as responses to the differences between and within social codes, taking into account the characteristics of the target culture and language. Attention will be paid to the otherness of the text of the original, on the one hand, and the national characteristics of the translation, on the other. | 3 | - | 3 |
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