Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (Arabic)
| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| ARB1001 | Arabic 1 | 8 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| ARB1025 | Introduction to Arabic Studies | 4 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| Semester 2 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| ARB1002 | Arabic 2 | 8 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| ARB1042 | Arabic Literature: The Abbasid Period | 6 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
Requirement for regular progression to Year 2:26 ECTS credits in Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (Arabic)26 ECTS credits in the other area8 ECTS credits in optional study-unitsTotal credits for this year: 60 ECTS credits
In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to register for 16 ECTS credits in elective study-unit on offer during the year.
| Year (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| LLT1160 | Sociolinguistics: An Introduction to Language Variation and Change | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| ARB2016 | Arabic 3 | 8 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| ARB3031 | Arabic Readings: Classical Arabic Literature | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| NES2016 | Archaeology and Nationalism in the Middle East | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| ANT2003 | Nation, State and Society in the Middle East/North Africa | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ARB3047 | Arabic Linguistic and Literary Themes | 6 ECTS | |||||||||
| LIN1024 | Hands-on Language | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| LLT1011 | Introduction to Linguistics 1 | 6 ECTS | |||||||||
| LLT2180 | Language Variation and Change: Historical Linguistics | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| LLT2360 | Language and Culture of Deaf People | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| LLT2510 | Introduction to Programming for Language Applications | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| MAL1020 | Minn Djalett Għarbi għal Ilsien Nazzjonali: L-Istorja tal-Malti | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| MAL1021 | Daħla għal-Lingwistika | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| MAL1070 | L-Eqdem Testi Poetiċi Maltin | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| NES2003 | Introduction to Semitic Languages | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Semester 2 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| ARB2003 | Maghrebi Arabic | 4 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| ARB2034 | Arabic Literature: The Modern Period | 6 ECTS | |||||||||
| ARB3057 | Arabic 4 | 8 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| LIN2022 | Models of Grammar | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| LIN2350 | Issues in Phonetics and Phonology | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| NES1004 | Origins of the Alphabet | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
Requirement for regular progression to Year 3:46 ECTS credits in Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (Arabic)10 ECTS credits in the subsidiary area 4 ECTS credits optional study-unitsTotal credits for this year: 60 ECTS credits
| Year (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| ARB3099 | Dissertation | 12 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| ARB2018 | Approaches to the Study of Political Discourse in the Middle East | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ARB3005 | Arabic Dialectology | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ARB3018 | Arabic 5 | 8 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| ARB3019 | Directed Study in Arabic Studies | 4 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| ARB3032 | Arabic Readings: Modern Arabic Literature | 4 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| Semester 2 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| ARB2012 | Media Arabic | 6 ECTS | |||||||||
| ARB3004 | Arabic Readings: Contemporary Arabic Writings | 4 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| ARB3006 | Dialectal Arabic | 4 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| ARB3011 | Synoptic Study-Unit 1: Arabic Grammar | 6 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| ARB3012 | Synoptic Study-Unit 2: Classical and Modern Arabic Texts | 6 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
Requirement for successful completion of Year 3: 60 ECTS creditsRequirement for award of B.A. (Hons) in Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (Arabic): 180 ECTS credits, of which:132 ECTS credits in Middle Eastern and Asian Languages and Cultures (Arabic)36 ECTS credits in the subsidiary area12 ECTS credits optional study-units
English
In addition to the compulsory study-units, students are required to choose study-units to the value of 4 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.
| Year (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| ENG1077 | Literary Criticism and Theory: An Introduction | 6 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| ENG1082 | Shakespeare and Tudor Drama | 4 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| ENG1076 | Genre: Prose | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| ENG1083 | Introduction to English Syntax and Phonetics | 4 ECTS | (NC) | ||||||||
| ENG1173 | Romantic Poets 1: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG1174 | English Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: An Introduction | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| Semester 2 | |||||||||||
| Compulsory Units (All students must register for this/these unit/s) | |||||||||||
| ENG1078 | Writing Seminars 1 | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG1274 | English Fiction of the Nineteenth Century: Further Studies | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| ENG1071 | Chaucer: An Introduction | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG1080 | English in Society 1 | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG1273 | Romantic Poets 2: Byron, Keats, Shelley | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG1278 | The Art of the Essay | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
Requirement for regular progression to Year 2:26 ECTS credits in English26 ECTS credits in the other area8 ECTS credits in optional study-unitsTotal credits for this year: 60 ECTS credits
Students are required to choose study-units to the value of 10 ECTS credits from the elective study-units on offer during the year.
| Year (This/these unit/s start/s in Semester 1 and continue/s in Semester 2) | |||||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| ENG2033 | Maltese Literature in English | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2077 | Practical Criticism | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2081 | The Modern Novel | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2099 | From Plato to Pater | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Semester 1 | |||||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| ENG2031 | Studying English Language at Undergraduate Level | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2049 | Topics in English Pragmatics | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2053 | The Postcolonial Novel (Australian) | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2054 | Metaphysical Poetry and Baroque Writing in England | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2068 | Medieval Literature into Film | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2071 | Shakespeare into Film | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2078 | Writing Seminars 2 | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2096 | The Pre-Raphaelites and their Circle | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2118 | Aspects of English Phonology | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2133 | Maltese Literature in English: Prose | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2177 | Practical Criticism: Narrative | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2180 | Nineteenth Century American Poetry: An Introduction | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2199 | From Plato to Pater (Part 1) | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2255 | Eighteenth-Century Prose 2: Further Studies | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2290 | Genre: Creative Nonfiction | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2480 | English in Society 2 | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG3091 | Linguistics Seminar 1 and 2 | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| Semester 2 | |||||||||||
| Elective Units (Elective units are offered subject to availability, a minimum number of student registrations and time-table constraints) | |||||||||||
| ENG1372 | Shakespeare: The Second Tetralogy of History Plays | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2007 | Milton and the Epic Voice | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2030 | Second Language Acquisition of English | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2041 | High Modernism in English and American Literature | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2042 | The English Novel in the Later Nineteenth Century: Henry James | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2052 | The Postcolonial Novel 1: African | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2057 | Stylistics | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2063 | Theories of Literature 3: Gender and Power | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2064 | Theories of Literature 4: Postcolonialism | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2066 | Current Debates in Literary Theory | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2067 | Chaucer and Medieval Literature | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2092 | Travel Writing | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2097 | Children's Literature | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2173 | Modern Drama | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2176 | Victorian Poetry | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2276 | Modern Poetry | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2277 | Practical Criticism: Poetry | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2299 | English Language Studies IV | 4 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2333 | Maltese Literature in English: Poetry | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
| ENG2380 | Nineteenth Century American Short Story | 2 ECTS | |||||||||
This programme of study is governed by the General Regulations for University Undergraduate Awards, 2019 and by the Bye-Laws for the award of the Bachelor of Arts and the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - B.A. (Hons) - under the auspices of the Faculty of Arts.