This class prepares students for academic conversation across the content areas. They will learn speaking, and listening skills to acquire information, create knowledge, express and share ideas, ask questions and raise issues, pursue answers, argue points, come to consensus, and communicate and collaborate with others.
Course Catalogue
Course Code: ENG 2810
Course Name:
Art of Speaking and Listening
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
Course Code: ENG 2820
Course Name:
English for Professional Purposes
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course is designed to prepare students to use English in the workplace by developing their ability to communicate effectively in English in a wide range of professional settings. This is a course for students who wish to develop their skills in working with frequently used workplace documents (meeting minutes, memo, etc.) and genres (company profile, business messages etc.).
Course Code: ENG 2821
Course Name:
English for Academic Purposes
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The aim of English for Academic Purposes (EAP) course is to help students improve their competence in English language so that the students can use English language effectively in academic contexts. This course is designed to enhance students’ confidence and competence in using English in academic contexts.
Course Code: ENG 2822
Course Name:
English in Media
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
The course objective is for students to develop an informal and critical understanding of media English. This course will teach not only the basics of English, but also those aspects of writings, such as reporting speeches, house styles and jargon, specific to the language of journalism.
Course Code: ENG 2850
Course Name:
The Experience of Literature-I
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is designed for the students of other departments who chose English as minor. They will have an experience of different genres of literature by studying extracts from drama and poetry.
Course Code: ENG 2851
Course Name:
The Experience of Literature II
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is designed for the students of other departments who chose English as minor. It is a continuation of The Experience of Literature-I that focused on drama and poetry. The Experience of Literature–II focuses on prose literature both fiction and nonfiction. Besides short stories and nonfiction, a variety of novels are selected from different timelines that present the trend of the time.
Course Code: ENG 2860
Course Name:
Advanced Reading and Writing
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course is designed to meet students’ academic reading and writing needs. It enables students to read longer passages at a reasonable rate, critically reflect on reading materials and communicate thoughts by writing according to suggested in-text citation and reference style.
Course Code: ENG 2880
Course Name:
Advanced Reading Techniques
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course introduces techniques not only to read but also to interact with a reading text for academic purposes. It exhibits information to distinguish between different purposes of reading. However, it mostly emphasizes on the required set of skills to read academic books and scholarly articles written for language teaching and learning.
Course Code: ENG 301
Course Name:
Old and Middle English Literature (in modern English)
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course on Chaucer and his contemporaries will examine the economic, the social, and the political conditions of the last half of the fourteenth century in England, Chaucer’s place in this world, and the relation of this to Chaucer’s poetry.
Course Code: ENG 302
Course Name:
A History of the English Stage
Credit Hours:
3.00
Detailed Syllabus:
This course teaches the history of the English stage from its earliest phase to the recent time. Major aspects: evolution of the stage, Miracle and Mystery cycles, the Elizabethan stage, acting conventions, authorial concerns and emendations, costumes and props, and the stage as a metaphor.