Faculty of Arts

Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature

Course Description

ENGL 100Intensive English(3 Cr.) 
This course is offered for students who have failed the English component of Bethlehem University Entrance Exam. It aims to help them attain the language proficiency required for ENGL 120. It covers the basic language skills: reading, writing, listening, and speaking.

ENGL 120English Language Skills I(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to improve students’ language skills in preparation for their university study.  It focuses on the language skills (reading, writing, listening and speaking) necessary in an academic environment.

ENGL 121English Language Skills II(3 Cr.) 
This course is a continuation of ENGL 120. It aims at further developing the students’ reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills required at university level.

ENGL 203English Writing Skills I(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to introduce prospective English majors to writing as a process which consists of three stages: pre-writing, writing and rewriting. Focus is placed on the characteristics of good essay writing. Students practice writing cause/effect, classification, and narrative essays. Readings are used as source materials for the writing activities.

ENGL 204English Writing Skills II(3 Cr.) 
This course is a continuation of ENGL 203. Students practice writing comparison/contrast, argumentation, and literary essays. Readings are used as source materials for the writing activities.

ENGL 205Oral Communication Skills(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to improve the effectiveness and fluency of the students’ oral communication skills in a variety of settings. Students engage in a number of activities such as role-plays, dialogues, group discussions, interviews, and informative and persuasive speeches.

ENGL 206English Grammar I(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to review the fundamentals of English grammar. It also aims at raising students’ awareness of grammatical correctness in their written production.

ENGL 213English Language Skills III(3 Cr.) 
This course aims at providing non-major students with additional opportunities to improve and apply the reading, writing, listening and speaking skills and sub-skills introduced in ENGL 120 and ENGL 121. It alsofocuses on the study skills and critical thinking skills necessary for success in an academic setting using materials from the student’s field of study. The course also aims at expanding the learner’s vocabulary.

ENGL 214Prose Fiction(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to equip students with the tools they need to engage in the critical/analytical reading and interpretation of fiction. Emphasis is on an in-depth analysis, and interpretation of individual short stories and novels. The course also highlights the cultural, historical, religious contexts of the selected works, and the elements of fiction.

ENGL 215Drama(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to introduce students to the study of drama. It covers a range of time periods and various movements and genres. The course focuses on the structural elements of plot, character, thought, and verbal style of plays selected from the classical periods to the present

ENGL 216Poetry(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to introduce students to poetry as a literary genre. It also aims to foster in students a critical understanding and appreciation of the poetic arts as well as a broad knowledge of the characteristics of the poetry of various literary periods.

ENGL 218Reading for Academic Purposes(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to improve students’ critical reading ability by developing the skills required for reading at university level. It also aims to provide practice in a variety of reading sub-skills and strategies.

ENGL 227Research in Literature and Language(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to introduce students to the basic concepts and procedures of conducting research in literature and language.

ENGL 231English Business Communication(3 Cr.) 
This course is offered to business students.  It aims to improve their business communication skills. The students will engage in a number of written and oral business communication tasks. (Pre-requisite: Engl 213)

ENGL 301Introduction to Linguistics(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to introduce students to the basic concepts of modern linguistics. It also aims at raising students’ awareness of the complexity and regularity of language. Emphasis is given to an analysis of the English language phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.

ENGL 303English Grammar II(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to provide a review and practice of the basic grammar structures. It aims to lead students away from a concern with forms and dependence on memorization to an awareness of the meanings and uses of structures.
(Major elective, pre-requisite: ENGL 206)

ENGL 304 Contrastive Study of Arabic and English (3 Cr.)
This course focuses on English as the target language.  It involves a contrastive study of Arabic and English phonological, morphological and syntactic structures.
(Major elective, pre-requisite: ENGL 301)

ENGL 305Second Language Acquisition(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to provide students with an overview of the most recent theories that account for the ability of human beings to acquire and learn their L1 and L2. It will also explore individual differences that affect language learning.
(Major elective, pre-requisite: ENGL 301)

ENGL 307Error Analysis(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to introduce students to the concept and procedures of Error Analysis and to raise their awareness of grammatical correctness. The students will utilize their knowledge of English grammar to identify, reconstruct, and explain the performance errors of Arab learners of English as a foreign language.
(Major elective, pre-requisite: ENGL 206)

ENGL 310Sociolinguistics(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to give students an appreciation of the relationship between language and society and language and culture. It also aims to expose students to a variety of topics dealing with the general theme of language in its social context.

ENGL 313The Novel(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to focus on reading analytically, critically, and thoroughly novels by pre-modern, modern, and contemporary authors. It exposes students to the variety of modes, traditions, conventions of the novel and its sub-genres.

ENGL 320Literature of the Romantic Period(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to expose students to a detailed study of the major pre-Romantic and Romantic poets, novelists and essayists, from 1775 to 1824. It focuses on the different trends, elements and influences that characterize the period.
(Major elective, pre-requisite: Engl 215)

ENGL 322Advanced Oral Communication(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to improve the effectiveness and fluency of students’ oral communication both at the receptive and productive levels in a variety of settings. Theory on important forms of communication is analyzed and is reinforced with practical projects. (Major elective, pre-requisite: ENGL 205)

ENGL 323 Oral Interpretive Reading(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to develop skills for recreating an author's experience recorded in a literary piece and for communicating that experience to an audience through oral reading. It also focuses on augmenting students’ ability of literary interpretation and on increasing their skills in public performance.
(Major elective, pre-requisite: ENGL 214)

ENGL 324Literature of the Victorian Age(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to expose students to a detailed study of representative works of Victorian poets, novelists and essayists within the social and intellectual context of the age. It focuses on the various trends, elements and influence that characterize the period.
(Major elective, pre-requisite: ENGL 214)

ENGL 325 Introduction to Literary Criticism (3 Cr.) 
This course aims to introduce students to the various schools and approaches of literary criticism. It also introduces the principal issues, concepts, terms, and methods employed in modern literary criticism. Students will use critical theories covered in the course to interpret selected literary texts.

ENGL 326English for Advocacy(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to advance the English language skills of students in the field of advocacy. A variety of theories and sample cases of advocacy and conflict resolution will be introduced.  Students advocate orally and in writing selected topics relevant to their social, economic and political contexts.
(Major elective, pre-requisite: ENGL 206)

ENGL 327Learning Strategies(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to help students develop an awareness of the learning processes and strategies that can improve their understanding, production, and learning of a language. Students will be provided with opportunities to use a variety of learning strategies.
(Major elective, pre-requisite: ENGL 301)

ENGL 328Women in Literature(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to examine literature by and about women, including poetry, essays, novellas and novels. Readings include twentieth-century literature by celebrated Arab, European, and American women writers. It also introduces feminist literary theories, including feminist psychoanalytic theory, feminist stylistics, and minority women’s theory.
(Major elective, pre-requisite: ENGL 214)

ENGL 329Professional Communication(3 Cr.) 
The course aims to expand and strengthen the students’ speaking, listening, and writing skills in professional settings. Students will engage in a variety of communicative tasks. They will also practice a number of professional skills.
(Pre-requisite: ENGL 205)

ENGL 330 Discourse Analysis(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to introduce students to the concepts and methods of discourse analysis. It examines the contextual features of the communicative act, the information structure, and the formal and informal levels of language use.

ENGL 333The Holy Land in Travel Writings(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to examine a variety of Western Literature of Travel in the Holy Land, with emphasis on the writings of the 19th century. Readings include voyages of discovery and self-discovery, confrontations with the ‘other’, as well as the Westerner’s perspective and impressions of Palestine and Palestinian history, religious practices, environment, dress codes and culture.
(Major elective, pre-requisite: ENGL 214)

ENGL 334Palestinian Literature(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to introduce students to the riches of Palestinian literature and to acquaint them with the critical responses it receives in the Arab World and beyond.  It discusses the historical, political, cultural, and religious influences that helped shape the various trends in Palestinian literature written by Palestinian authors in their homeland and in exile. The course covers selections from different genres originally written in English or in an authorized English translation.
(Major elective, pre-requisite: ENGL 214)

ENGL 335Individual Author(3 Cr.)
This course aims to focus on selected works of a single author.  Students will concentrate on reading, interpreting, and analyzing the author’s selected works and relating them to his/her life and times and critical traditions around him/her. A different author is selected each semester, with a balance between renowned British, American and other world writers, novelists, poets, and playwrights.

ENGL 336Literature of the Modern and Post Modern Period(3 Cr.) 
This course aims to investigate the cultural and political contexts of modern and post-modern literature, and the two major literary movements of modernism and post-modernism. Selected English literary works and texts of world literature in authentic English translation are closely discussed.
(Major elective, pre-requisite: ENGL 214)

ENGL 337Topics in American Literature(Cr. 3) 
This course aims to introduce students to major American writers from the 17th century to the early part of the 20th century. It also aims to expose students to the American tradition in literature and to trace the cultural and literary developments of this tradition.
(Major elective, pre-requisite: ENGL 214)

ENGL 338Literature of the Colonial and Post Colonial Period(3 Cr.)  
This course aims to introduce students to selected critical and literary works from the vast body of Colonial and Post-Colonial writings in English. It addresses the historical, cultural, religious and political contexts of selections by several colonial and post-colonial authors. Readings cover various geographical regions including Africa, the Middle East, the Far East, and South America.
(Pre-requisite: ENGL 325)

ENGL 389Senior Seminar(1 Cr.)            
This course aims to allow the students to demonstrate the knowledge, skills and experience that they have gained during their study in the department by providing them the opportunity to research an area of interest in language or literature under the supervision of one of the department faculty members.

ENGL 399  Topics in Language and Literature (3 Cr.)
This course aims to allow department faculty members or visiting professors to offer new courses of interest to them and to the students.
(Major elective, pre-requisite: ENGL 214 or ENGL 301)

FREN 131   Elementary French I (3 Cr.)
The course aims to introduce the students to the French language, focusing on understanding and interaction skills with simple sentences and everyday expressions. There will also be work to improve skills outside class. This course meets four times a week.

FREN 132   Elementary French II  (3 Cr.)
This course is a continuation of FREN 131 and it aims to teach the French language, focusing on understanding and interaction skills. At the end of this course, the students will be able to communicate successfully in many basic situations of daily life. There will also be work to improve skills outside class. This course meets four times a week.

FREN 223   French Communication Skills I (3 Cr.)
This course aims to introduce the students to French culture and civilization, using authentic documents. It also focuses on oral skills. The students will start preparing presentations and team work (articles, "dossiers"…).

FREN 224   French Communication Skills II (3 Cr.)
This course is a continuation of FREN 223; it focuses on cultural aspects through authentic documents. It also introduces the students to methodical reading.

FREN 230   Intermediate French I  (3 Cr.)
The course aims to develop the students’ basic knowledge in grammar and vocabulary to enable them to understand and interact in daily situations. Practical work to enhance interaction includes: tasks with oral documents, identifying meanings using contextual information. There will also be work to improve skills outside class.

FREN 240   Intermediate French II (3 Cr.)
This course provides students further practice in the basic language skills, developing understanding, speaking, writing and reading skills, and pronunciation and grammar in functional situations and simple tasks. Practical work includes: phonetic drills, understanding short audio interactions, describing one’s surroundings and preferences with structured sentences and specific vocabulary both in oral reception and production and in writing. There will also be work to improve skills outside class.

FREN 325   Advanced French Communication Skills (3 Cr.)
This course aims to develop accuracy and fluency in the language and to give the students further practice in oral skills.

FREN 340   French Culture and Literature (3 Cr.)
This course is the continuation of FREN 330; it aims to give further competence in the independent use of French and simultaneously stimulates students with authentic documents and realia.

FREN 335     French for Tourism I (3 Cr.)
This course aims to enable the students to use French in professional situations. The purpose is to allow the students to express themselves at work. We will work on oral and written skills, vocabulary and grammar. (Teaching material: Hotellerie-restauration.com)

FREN 336     French for Tourism II (3 Cr.)
This course is the continuation of FREN 335. It aims to give the students further practice in the use of French in professional settings. It aims to help them to develop fluency in expressing themselves at work. We will work on oral and written skills, vocabulary and grammar. (Teaching material: Hotellerie-restauration.com)
At the end of FREN 336, the students will be able to pass the DFP Tourisme & Hôtellerie exam B1.

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