Explore complex Arabic language, literature, and Islamic culture through authentic texts, critical analysis, and independent research.

Advances students’ Arabic proficiency through intensive reading, writing, speaking, and listening while exploring authentic texts, linguistic structures, and cultural themes.

Enhances advanced Arabic proficiency through intensive reading, writing, and discussion, emphasizing complex texts, rhetoric, cultural analysis, and fluent communication skills.

A course exploring major periods, genres, and themes of Arabic literature through close reading, analysis, and interpretation of classical and modern texts.

Introduces major Hadith collections, transmission history, classification methods, and analytical tools essential for understanding Islamic tradition and evaluating prophetic reports.

Develops students’ Modern Standard Arabic academic skills through advanced reading, writing, and communication tailored for scholarly analysis and academic success.

Explores major linguistic theories and methods through Arabic morphology, phonetics, syntax, and semantics, blending classical scholarship with modern linguistic approaches.

Explores Qurʾanic origins, revelation, exegetical methods, and modern interpretive issues through classical and contemporary scholarship in tafsīr studies.

Introduces core translation methods, emphasizing accurate Arabic-English translation through text analysis, collaboration, and strategies for preserving meaning, tone, and style.

Advances Modern Standard Arabic proficiency through complex texts on Islamic thought, developing students’ analytical, writing, and linguistic skills in contemporary academic Arabic.

Explores how language encodes meaning through semantics and pragmatics, analyzing literal meaning, context, reference, and communication across linguistic and cognitive systems.