This course improves student skills in writing research proposals and conducting basic research. It enables students to become critical readers of professional literature and develop a critical spirit of inquiry by providing a structured way of thinking about information studies problems and their resolutions. Thus, students will practice writing a typical research proposal which includes: thesis statement/ hypothesis, context, variables, literature review, research methods, outlining, results, and so forth. They will also apply basic aspects of quantitative and qualitative analyses within the frame of research proposals. The purpose of this course is to provide students with research training: knowledge and skills. It includes theoretical and methodological teachings, in addition to practical applications. It introduces students to research techniques and analysis methods, and provides them with the methodological framework required to write a research paper or a thesis. The course also includes a purely technical and formal objective: empowering students to apply the rules of research presentation in accordance with what is required by the University, or even on a universal scale, through the implementation of practical work adapted for this purpose (using methodology books, reviewing dissertations or theses, project outlines to be submitted, reports on the proceedings of defense sessions, etc.).

This seminar aims, through a diachronic approach, and starting from the relationship between thought, language and civilization, to shed light on the great trends, movements and schools which have marked, with the passing centuries, Arabic society and culture, and this from within literary texts and founding documents.

This seminar introduces students to the fields of applied linguistics. It explores how children from infancy to the early school years learn their first language and presents an overview of psychological research and theory on language acquisition. It also covers applications of various branches of linguistics to the methods and approaches of teaching Arabic language.

The aim of the seminar is to define the features of major literary genres: poetry, prose, and drama. The design of the course involves the explanation and modes of analysis of the different types of each genre.

The course is designed to focus on major issues in literature, such as gender, racial, ethnic, religious, political, colonial and postcolonial culture and multiculture. This course aims at raising the student awareness of the inter­relationship between literature and society in all of its facets.

The aim of the course is to define the features of major literary genres: poetry, prose, and drama. The design of the course involves the explanation and modes of analysis of the different types of each genre. It focuses on contemporary authors and on current fields of interaction between arts, sciences and literature.

The aim of this course is to make the students aware of the importance of studying linguistics theory in order to be acquainted with the grammatical efforts of former Arab grammarians (al khaliil bin Ahmad, Sibawaih Ibn Jinny) who analyzed, in their books, the Arabic language through a scientific methodology which does not differ from the linguistic methodology adopted by the generative and transformational grammar. Topics include, but are not limited to, the grammaticality of sentences, the definition of human language, the linguistic competence, and the nominal phrase.

This seminar will acquaint the students with basic methods and concepts of criticism through close reading of key texts (lyric poetry, drama, short fiction) by major authors. It will offer the students the chance to investigate what constitutes the field of comparative literature. They will trace the history of the discipline and explore traditional as well as recent areas of research, such as interdisciplinarity and global and multicultural comparativism. Students will investigate how to more fluently cross the boundaries of disciplines and national literatures. The course involves a thorough reading and understanding of the background, history, and literature associated with world literatures.

The seminar focuses on the aesthetics of drama and distinguishes between modern and contemporary drama writing and classical drama poetics. It analyzes Lebanese and Arab theater from a pragmatic and intercultural perspectives.

This course aims to help students to approach the literary texts, understanding them by using the modern criticism, studying the form of texts, structure, linguistic style, and evaluating them as performance text meant for production. Students research and study literary elements of narrative forms, and storytelling traditions of different cultures.

This course introduces students to the diverse genres of international literature and to masterworks produced by Arabic authors. It will help students to read, analyze, and research diverse and significant literary texts. Genres studied include fiction (novels and short stories), drama, comedy, lyrical literature, imagined story, speech, poetry and prose.

The dissertation, which consists of 100 to 150 pages, crowns the completion of the Master’s degree by elaborating upon an Arabic literature subject. It leads the students to manage the difficulties of writing a scientific work supported by appropriate research and presented in a rigorous and clear manner. Through the dissertation, the students must successfully prove that they master the components of the methodology required to achieve a scientific work, and that they are able to analyze, argue, illustrate, and defend a thesis, as well as validate a problem, relying on strong and authentic documents and bibliographic references.