The aim of this course is to introduce the basic features of major literary genres in English literature: poetry, prose, and drama. The design of the course involves the explanation and modes of analysis of the different types of each genre. Selections for the course include a novel, a short story, an essay, a play, and a number of various poetic forms. Students will explore the basic characteristics of each form (language, figurative language, plot, setting, characterization, point of view, narrative voice, etc.) and learn to appreciate English literature.

The course offers both a historical survey and a literary history of the development of drama. It concentrates on critical analysis of the distinguishing features of the different genres and sub­genres in drama: tragedy, comedy, tragicomedy, morality, Elizabethan, Jacobean, comedy of manners, the well­made play, one act play, closet drama, mono­drama, superstar play, absurd play, etc. The course also introduces the practical or technical side of the theater by looking at stage conventions and artistry. The course aims at helping students gain awareness of the technicalities involved in the theater, as well as the correlation between the genres of drama and the diction, the characterization, and the stage setting. Students are expected to give presentations on their favorite form and try to write scenes based on themes, characters or forms of their choice.

The aim of this course is to introduce the major sub­disciplines in linguistics. Topics include the emergence of language, the sounds and sound systems of language, word structure, sentence structure, meaning, language use and variation, language history and language acquisition. The course combines theoretical and descriptive aspects of linguistic analysis as well as the application of basic tools and techniques used in the field.

This course is an introduction to the major poetic movements that shaped English poetry. Starting with Plato’s definition of poetry, the course traces the major developments in poetic conventions, modes and genres: Classicism, Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Victorianism, Aestheticism, Modernism (Symbolism, Impressionism, Imagism, Surrealism) and the contemporary experimental movements (Concrete, Beat, Slam). The poetry selections will be used as a vehicle to examine universal themes basic to the human condition, and to investigate these themes as they relate to life experiences. The course also teaches the skills one needs to study poetry with understanding and pleasure. During this course students will interpret, analyze, and critically evaluate representative works of these movements. Using examples from different periods, the students will be able to develop a sense of how poetic modes, genres, and forms change across different periods.

The course initiates students into the basic concepts, principles, and methods of sociology and the way these are employed for analyzing the structure of society (global structure and formation of institutions). Students will become aware of and able to analyze the social dimension of the construction of reality and tackle issues they may experience in their own societies.

The aim of this course is to enable students to read critically, evaluate what they read and formulate verbal or written opinions based on the best available evidence. It also covers methods of formal argumentation suitable for students majoring in linguistics and literature. During the course students will develop research, writing­process, and timed­ writing skills. They will also use primary and secondary sources to write an effective college­level documented expository essay.

The course offers an in­depth analysis of the main characteristics (themes, characters, and techniques of the golden age of the novel: the Victorian period). It focuses on major representative works by such authors as Austen, the Bronte sisters, Eliot, and Hardy. Both the form and the content will be scrutinized in order to highlight the multifaceted nature of the Victorian era and to trace its connection to the 18th and 20th century novel. The course makes students aware of the diversity of the Victorian novel and the various social, intellectual, and religious thoughts that permeated the age.

This course aims to improve formal and informal oral/aural and written communication skills of the students and help them prepare themselves for their careers which may require them to listen, read, speak and write in English, both for their professional and interpersonal communication in the globalized context. It is meant to enable students to use good English and perform the following: gather ideas and information, organize ideas relevantly and coherently, engage in debates, participate in group discussions, face interviews, write project/research reports/technical reports, make oral presentations for varied purposes, take part in social and professional communication, and self­ and peer­ critique. The course also lays emphasis on practice in listening at advanced levels with special attention to listening comprehension problems.

This course offers an introduction to various forms of American literature in the 19th and 20th century. It traces the relationship between the intellectual, political and cultural background of American poetry and the novel. The course focuses on major figures such as Emerson, Poe, Whitman, Melville, Hawthorne, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Pound, and Eliot. The course leads students to gain awareness in the multicultural nature of American literature, as well as with the specificity of the American experience.

This course investigates the nature and scope of comparative literary studies, focusing on the nature and assumptions of literary study undertaken from several different perspectives. The importance of translation, the role of theory and criticism, the opportunities and limitations of influence studies, the place of cultural studies, and other comparative topics are explored. A variety of texts from different literary traditions will be analyzed from different theoretical approaches. The course is designed to equip students with the tools necessary to critically analyze texts in light of other texts and to enable them to compare the rhetorical discourse and strategies implied in the texts.

The course traces the development of English poetry in the 19th and 20th century through an in­depth study of its major figures. The focus of the course is to delineate the changes in poetic modes and sensibility, from Romanticism to Modernism, and in the literary theory which permeated the period and affected directly and indirectly the poetry of the 20th century. Along these lines, the course will take a close look at works of poets such as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, the Nineties, Yeats, Eliot, Auden, and Larkin, among others.

This course offers students a close study of the development of the 20th century novel as an outcome and reaction to 19th century novel. The course focuses on how the writers of the early 20th century abandoned the previous literary conventions and adopted new ones in their under­ standing of the role of the novelist. Social, psychological, moral, literary, political, and philosophical called for experimentation in form, in narrative techniques, in characterization, and in style. The course gives special attention to some of the major novelists, such as Hardy, Conrad, Lawrence, Forster, Woolf, and Joyce. The course enables students to analyze the formalistic and thematic concerns of the novelists of the period.

This course aims to help students explore methods and approaches related to teaching English as a second/foreign language. Students will examine the latest methods and techniques of teaching listening, speaking, reading, writing, and communicative language teaching, English for specific purposes and content area language instruction. Cultural awareness and self­evaluation of teaching and materials will also be addressed. This course will also focus on the theories of teaching and learning English as a second/foreign language. Finally, it will offer students the opportunity to refine their leadership skills.

This course introduces the basic concepts of syntax and morpho­syntax, considering both functional and formal aspects. It introduces students to the study of the meaningful components of words and sentences, and of the principles by which parts of words are organized into larger lexical units (morphology), and by which words pattern into phrases and sentences (syntax). Data from English and other languages will be analyzed, in order to illustrate how language is structured.

This course provides students with basic knowledge of the sound systems of English with a view to both phonetic aspects and intonation. It includes the ways sounds are articulated, the physical features of specific sounds, phonology and phonetic transcription, the consonants and vowels of English, sounds in connected speech with consonantal gestures and vowel and vowel­like articulations. It also includes Syllabication and suprasegmental features. Students are required to listen and repeat short stretches of spoken discourse, to read phonemic transcriptions and dialogues and to transcribe speech sounds using the International Phonetic Alphabet.

This course offers a broad study of the development of the English language from its beginnings to the present time. The course addresses the relationship between the history of society and the history of sounds, inflection, and vocabulary of the English language. The course also surveys English grammar from the point of view of modern linguistic scholarship or transformational grammar. The course aims to help students understand how the English language should be used, rather than simply how it is used.

This course aims to prepare students for their internship by providing structured pre­internship experience while meeting regularly in a university class. Students will be provided opportunities for structured observations of actual classroom teaching (English as a Foreign Language) and applications of their knowledge in tutorial, small group and total class instruction. They will also have additional experiences in planning and developing course work (lessons, units). Finally, they will learn how to examine and develop effective procedures for record­keeping and improving classroom management.

This course is an introduction to major trends in literary theory from Plato to the end of the 18th century, covering Classicism, Renaissance, Neo­classicism, Romanticism, Realism and Naturalism, Symbolism, and Aestheticism. The aim of this course is to enable students to practice how to use different theories, to read literature, and how to relate literary theory to the cultural, political, social, and moral backgrounds.

The course focuses on the major trends of literary theory in the 20th century from Russian Formalism, American New Criticism, Structuralism, Psychoanalytical Criticism, Feminist, Marxist, Post­Structural, Reader­Response, Deconstructionist, to New Historicist Criticism. The course aims to enable students to practice how to use different theories, how to read literature, and how to relate literary theory to the cultural, political, social, and moral backgrounds.

The aim of the course is to introduce the fundamental principles and findings in contemporary scientific psychology. It helps students gain knowledge about the systematic and scientific study of behavior and mental processes of human beings. Students will learn psychological facts, principles, and phenomena associated with each of the major subfields within psychology, ranging from perceptual, cognitive and physiological processes, to social, personality and child development. It also provides an analysis of the factors in learning, through a survey of the major theories of learning. It provides students with the opportunity to appreciate the role of psychology in modern living, and it allows them to build insight into their own behavior.

This course introduces some basic approaches to the study of meaning in linguistics, including word meaning, and an analysis of the relationships between words in a language system, words and concepts, and words and objects in the world. It also introduces pragmatics, the theory of utterance comprehension. It offers a broad overview of the concepts and tools required for analyzing how linguistic communication works. Meaning will be tackled from two angles, context­independent (semantics), and context­dependent (pragmatics). In the semantics part students will look at how meaning is associated with words (lexical semantics) and grammatical constructions (grammatical semantics). While in the pragmatics part students will explore both micropragmatics (reference, deixis, speech acts) and macropragmatics (conversation, the importance of context and ways of speaking).

This course is designed to focus on major issues in literature, such as gender, racial, ethnic, religious, political, colonial and postcolonial, cultural and multicultural. The course focuses on the universality of the human experience in the dialectic of the Self and Other, of East and West, of Male and Female, of Master and Slave. Accordingly, the course examines works from different countries, periods, and cultures that could be selected for study to illustrate any of the above issues, such as works by Joseph Conrad (United Kingdom), David Malouf (Australia), William Faulkner (America), Chinua Achebe (Nigeria), Gibran Khalil Gibran, Amin Rihani (Lebanon), and Najeeb Mahfouz (Egypt). The course aims to raise awareness of the inter­relationship between literature and society in all of its facets, and to sharpen the ability of students to analyze cultural nuances and subversions.

The focus of the course is on modern drama which has been preoccupied with expressing the spirit of the modern age. A profound sense of disillusionment, fragmentation and absurdity of human experience pervades the plays of this period. The course investigates the reasons for and the dramatizations of the modern condition by studying European and American drama, illustrated by representative works of the major Irish, American and British playwrights. Although the focus of the course will be on Synge, O'Casey, Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, O'Neill and Albee, both the precursors (Ibsen, Strindberg, Checkov, and Shaw) and the inheritors of modern drama (Hare, Storey, Mamet, Shepard, etc.) will be introduced. The course aims at helping students gain awareness in the cultural experience of modern drama, and the rendering of the theater as a private space for the playwright’s alienation from the audience and from language itself. It familiarizes students with movements such as Naturalism, Symbolism, Realist, and Absurdist, and how these movements manipulate stage settings, language, and other dramatic features.

The aim of this course is to introduce students to topics suggested by their special interests and those of the Faculty or their instructor, and not included in the regular curriculum. Topics may include study of the grammar of a language whose structure is significantly different from English, with special emphasis on problems of interest in the study of linguistic universals. The course aims to give students a detailed examination of the grammar of the English language, be it through its own structure or through the structure of another less familiar language.

The course is a close examination of the early beginnings of the novel in the 18th century, culminating with the Gothic School. After introducing the different factors (social, economic, and literary) that brought about the rise of this genre, the students will be introduced to the prevalent modes/techniques as well as the main themes that concerned early novelists such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, and Mary Shelley. Moreover, successful completion of the course will enable students to construct appropriate oral and written statements concerning literary, historical, cultural, and philosophical movements from the classical up to approximately the romantic era.

The course is designed to introduce students to a representative sample of Shakespeare's dramatic output. The six plays for study include two comedies, two tragedies, a history play and a romance, covering virtually the entire period during which Shakespeare was active as a playwright. The aim of the course is to provide an understanding of the historical conditions ­ above all the theatrical ­ in which Shakespeare lived and worked.