Academic Plan

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.

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.

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.

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.

240111000

COMPUTER SKILLS

A basic, introductory course in personal computers, it introduces students to basic computer concepts in hardware, software, networking. The course will include a basic computer literacy including computer concepts, fundamental functions and operations of the computer. Topics include identification of hardware components, basic computer operations, and use of some software applications such as windows operating system, a word processing using Microsoft Word, a spreadsheet using Microsoft Excel, and a presentation software using PowerPoint.

220111151

PHOTOJOURNALISM

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220111050

INTRODUCTION TO MASS SELF-COMMUNICATION

A general introduction in the science of communication and media, in terms of definition, emergence and development from ancient times until our present moment, its importance in life and societies, its functions, roles, and its various fields and branches: public opinion, ethics of media work, advertising and publicity for public relations ..etc. Through the course, the student is provided with skills by analyzing the various theoretical concepts and knowledge related to communication and media in terms of reality, practice, and the nature of the transformations that this sector is witnessing in light of the information revolution. The course also focuses on the most important transformations brought about by the information society on the reality and nature of communication, leading to the new communication formula called "mass self-communication". It is mass communication because it has a latent ability to reach a diverse global audience, and at the same time it is self-communication, because the production of the message determining the future or the recipients is subjective.

220211050

INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC RELATIONS

The course seeks to introduce the student to the concept of public relations, its definitions, its historical beginnings, its origins, its development, fields that are interested in it, its roles and the importance of its presence in organizations of different specializations, sizes and types, its divisions and departments, and the ideal form that it should have. The course also discusses the relationship of public relations with the internal and external public, and its relationship with higher management.

220111102

JOURNALISM WRITING SKILLS

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220211050

INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC RELATIONS

The course seeks to introduce the student to the concept of public relations, its definitions, its historical beginnings, its origins, its development, fields that are interested in it, its roles and the importance of its presence in organizations of different specializations, sizes and types, its divisions and departments, and the ideal form that it should have. The course also discusses the relationship of public relations with the internal and external public, and its relationship with higher management.

220111050

INTRODUCTION TO MASS SELF-COMMUNICATION

A general introduction in the science of communication and media, in terms of definition, emergence and development from ancient times until our present moment, its importance in life and societies, its functions, roles, and its various fields and branches: public opinion, ethics of media work, advertising and publicity for public relations ..etc. Through the course, the student is provided with skills by analyzing the various theoretical concepts and knowledge related to communication and media in terms of reality, practice, and the nature of the transformations that this sector is witnessing in light of the information revolution. The course also focuses on the most important transformations brought about by the information society on the reality and nature of communication, leading to the new communication formula called "mass self-communication". It is mass communication because it has a latent ability to reach a diverse global audience, and at the same time it is self-communication, because the production of the message determining the future or the recipients is subjective.

220111050

INTRODUCTION TO MASS SELF-COMMUNICATION

A general introduction in the science of communication and media, in terms of definition, emergence and development from ancient times until our present moment, its importance in life and societies, its functions, roles, and its various fields and branches: public opinion, ethics of media work, advertising and publicity for public relations ..etc. Through the course, the student is provided with skills by analyzing the various theoretical concepts and knowledge related to communication and media in terms of reality, practice, and the nature of the transformations that this sector is witnessing in light of the information revolution. The course also focuses on the most important transformations brought about by the information society on the reality and nature of communication, leading to the new communication formula called "mass self-communication". It is mass communication because it has a latent ability to reach a diverse global audience, and at the same time it is self-communication, because the production of the message determining the future or the recipients is subjective.

220111050

INTRODUCTION TO MASS SELF-COMMUNICATION

A general introduction in the science of communication and media, in terms of definition, emergence and development from ancient times until our present moment, its importance in life and societies, its functions, roles, and its various fields and branches: public opinion, ethics of media work, advertising and publicity for public relations ..etc. Through the course, the student is provided with skills by analyzing the various theoretical concepts and knowledge related to communication and media in terms of reality, practice, and the nature of the transformations that this sector is witnessing in light of the information revolution. The course also focuses on the most important transformations brought about by the information society on the reality and nature of communication, leading to the new communication formula called "mass self-communication". It is mass communication because it has a latent ability to reach a diverse global audience, and at the same time it is self-communication, because the production of the message determining the future or the recipients is subjective.

220111050

INTRODUCTION TO MASS SELF-COMMUNICATION

A general introduction in the science of communication and media, in terms of definition, emergence and development from ancient times until our present moment, its importance in life and societies, its functions, roles, and its various fields and branches: public opinion, ethics of media work, advertising and publicity for public relations ..etc. Through the course, the student is provided with skills by analyzing the various theoretical concepts and knowledge related to communication and media in terms of reality, practice, and the nature of the transformations that this sector is witnessing in light of the information revolution. The course also focuses on the most important transformations brought about by the information society on the reality and nature of communication, leading to the new communication formula called "mass self-communication". It is mass communication because it has a latent ability to reach a diverse global audience, and at the same time it is self-communication, because the production of the message determining the future or the recipients is subjective.

220111050

INTRODUCTION TO MASS SELF-COMMUNICATION

A general introduction in the science of communication and media, in terms of definition, emergence and development from ancient times until our present moment, its importance in life and societies, its functions, roles, and its various fields and branches: public opinion, ethics of media work, advertising and publicity for public relations ..etc. Through the course, the student is provided with skills by analyzing the various theoretical concepts and knowledge related to communication and media in terms of reality, practice, and the nature of the transformations that this sector is witnessing in light of the information revolution. The course also focuses on the most important transformations brought about by the information society on the reality and nature of communication, leading to the new communication formula called "mass self-communication". It is mass communication because it has a latent ability to reach a diverse global audience, and at the same time it is self-communication, because the production of the message determining the future or the recipients is subjective.

220112150

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS FOR MEDIA

An organized entry into the world of computers and its various uses, especially in the media fields, and this includes the basic matters associated with programs such as: Windows and Microsoft Office, from writing, saving, modifying, cutting and pasting to the process of publishing press information over the Internet. Moreover, the course covers preparing press websites on the Internet, in terms of editing, design, word and image processing, from a media perspective and a public relations point of view. The course also trains the process of accessing information through the Internet, and exploring a set of digital applications that help the media person and public relations practitioner to organize information better and present their work in an interactive way to the public and all users.

220212260

MEDIA IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE

220113301

GRAPHIC DESIGN FOR DIGITAL MEDIA

This course provides journalism and media students an overview on Digital Graphics needed for Digital Media. Students will learn the needed skills for producing, editing, enhancing, saving and presenting pictures. Students will learn about different color spaces. This course also provides students with the skills needed for choosing the suitable graphics for specific media. Students will be able to edit photos, extract and merge parts, improve use the right color space for the application. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to know the suitable software packages for producing needed graphics

220111050

INTRODUCTION TO MASS SELF-COMMUNICATION

A general introduction in the science of communication and media, in terms of definition, emergence and development from ancient times until our present moment, its importance in life and societies, its functions, roles, and its various fields and branches: public opinion, ethics of media work, advertising and publicity for public relations ..etc. Through the course, the student is provided with skills by analyzing the various theoretical concepts and knowledge related to communication and media in terms of reality, practice, and the nature of the transformations that this sector is witnessing in light of the information revolution. The course also focuses on the most important transformations brought about by the information society on the reality and nature of communication, leading to the new communication formula called "mass self-communication". It is mass communication because it has a latent ability to reach a diverse global audience, and at the same time it is self-communication, because the production of the message determining the future or the recipients is subjective.

220111102

JOURNALISM WRITING SKILLS

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220211050

INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC RELATIONS

The course seeks to introduce the student to the concept of public relations, its definitions, its historical beginnings, its origins, its development, fields that are interested in it, its roles and the importance of its presence in organizations of different specializations, sizes and types, its divisions and departments, and the ideal form that it should have. The course also discusses the relationship of public relations with the internal and external public, and its relationship with higher management.

220211050

INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC RELATIONS

The course seeks to introduce the student to the concept of public relations, its definitions, its historical beginnings, its origins, its development, fields that are interested in it, its roles and the importance of its presence in organizations of different specializations, sizes and types, its divisions and departments, and the ideal form that it should have. The course also discusses the relationship of public relations with the internal and external public, and its relationship with higher management.

220211050

INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC RELATIONS

The course seeks to introduce the student to the concept of public relations, its definitions, its historical beginnings, its origins, its development, fields that are interested in it, its roles and the importance of its presence in organizations of different specializations, sizes and types, its divisions and departments, and the ideal form that it should have. The course also discusses the relationship of public relations with the internal and external public, and its relationship with higher management.

220211100

THEORIES AND MODELS OF MEDIA AND PUBLIC RELATIONS

roots of its theories coming from psychology, sociology, political science ... etc, and the emergence of special media theories explaining the role of the media in societies and individuals, and linking these theories through their historical development with media and public relations research, as well as focusing on theoretical knowledge of communication science by learning about the concept of communication, its types, its models, the components of the communication process, the factors of effective communication, and the functions of mass communication methods. The course also reviews the most important modern and contemporary theories of communication that explain the relationship of societies and individuals with the different media platforms.

220211050

INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC RELATIONS

The course seeks to introduce the student to the concept of public relations, its definitions, its historical beginnings, its origins, its development, fields that are interested in it, its roles and the importance of its presence in organizations of different specializations, sizes and types, its divisions and departments, and the ideal form that it should have. The course also discusses the relationship of public relations with the internal and external public, and its relationship with higher management.