This course aims to develop student language skills by giving a detailed analysis of Arabic syntax via a dynamic approach using practical texts and exercises. This course also broadens student knowledge of the Arabic language, both on oral and written levels, through exploration and analysis. It also gives the students the opportunity to be acquainted with Arabic grammar and linguistic studies or references that will be needed while writing.

This course enables students to master all grammatical functions and to manipulate the different types of clauses: independent, main and subordinate. The overall method adopted is inductive and the approach is that of text grammar.

The course focuses on essay writing for specified purposes and audiences. Throughout the course, students will explore how to recognize appropriate grammatical structures, organizational patterns, rhetorical phrases and academic style, before correctly using what they learn in writing. Emphasis will be placed on enabling students to produce well formed, accurate, and comprehensible written responses that meet the standards and conventions of academic style. In addition to writing, they will experience editing and revising a variety of essays and short papers at college level.

This course is designed to improve the Arabic language performance of the students, and to help them learn, through the different patterns of expression (poetry, literary writings, articles, reports, etc.) how to analyze, connect, distinguish and deduce in order to better understand or write texts. This course also aims to raise the awareness of future translators of the formal and stylistic particularities of each type of discourse.

This course aims to introduce students to the analyzes of different oral or written discourses they face, through communication theories, enunciation and argumentation. It will also develop formal and stylistic particularities of each type of discourse.

The course studies current events in the Anglophone world. The introduction defines the concept of current event, and identifies the Anglophone countries and their common character underlying their various ways of life. Part One examines the special current events relative to each Anglophone country, namely, the United Kingdom and The British Isles, The Republic of Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, South Africa, India, Nigeria, The Caribbean, and The United States of America. Part Two reflects on the wider world current events that may affect the Anglophone world, such as governance, terrorism, globalization, human rights, democratization, and settlement of international disputes, migration and environmental and economic issues. Finally, the current events of yesterday and of today, no less than those of tomorrow. The course will also explore “the next society” that we want to be members of.

This main objective of the course is to educate future translators in the major political, economic and social contemporaries, apprehended in their philosophical, historical and human dimensions. It also aims to create in students the habit of reading the world press (French in particular) to familiarize them with the analysis styles used and to think critically.

This course aims to help students acquire the basic rules of Arabic morphology and syntax (from the perspective of functional grammar). It will allow them to produce a grammatically correct text. The method adopted uses a text or a series of typical examples, from which the students derive the rule, acquire it and apply it appropriately.

This course is not designed to train corporate lawyers. Indeed, its primary objective is to ensure that future translators acquire knowledge and expertise in the field of commercial law and business, which are necessary for the practice of their profession. Through specialty texts, students can access the concepts and terminology of the field of study and be able to develop, through a semasiological process, specialized lexicons containing words, their synonyms and their immediate contexts.

This course aims to provide modern solutions for fast and accurate translation; to compete in the global market, we need a fast and accurate way to translate our correspondence, our offers, our contracts and other communications, placing stress on the time factor as an essential aspect.

The student, either a translator or interpreter, will eventually be required to work within the framework of the main international institution, the United Nations. The main objective of the course is, therefore, to present at the UN and its specialized agencies (operation conferences within these agencies, procedures, and specialized vocabulary etc.)

This course aims to introduce students to an understanding of economic reasoning and fundamental concepts and mechanisms of the economy at national and international level, in order to familiarize them with the specific terminology in this area and help them to translate specialized texts from French into Arabic and vice versa.

This course trains students to understand and translate economic texts from English into Arabic, and vice versa. The topics of the translated texts include basic concepts of economics, microeconomics and macroeconomics. Students will be able to understand and apply all stages of economic translation, concept analysis, terminological research and context analysis.

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 is designed to exercise linguistic habits (competence and performance) of students, to enable them to translate a French text into Arabic and vice versa, making it easy to read and avoiding, as far as possible, the usual interference.

This course takes the same structure as that of TRD 321, but covers relatively longer and more complex texts.

The objective of this course is to introduce students to translation from Arabic into English and vice­versa, through a wide variety of texts that may range from technical and scientific to literary; with emphasis on the concepts in both languages rather than on lists of vocabulary.

The objective of this course is to let students translate, from Arabic into English and vice­versa, a wide variety of long texts that may range from technical and scientific to literary, with emphasis on cultures and civilizations. Students are also invited to do documentary research based on the notion of “translation documentation”, in order to completely understand the key concepts related to any domain whatsoever.

The course aims to introduce students to the first translation strategies, to make them gain mastery of their techniques and practice the application of the general rules. It familiarizes students with the technical translation processes they can use in their professional lives.

The course will highlight the fundamental rules that govern the structure of a written law, and its legal style. It will help students to decipher the structure of a court order, law, contract, a written legal and notarized doctrinal text,; the drafting often routed by the first steps of the translator. The course will also seek to point out a few key rules controlling the legal style. It will show how the legal style uses a special design and a high precision vocabulary. The course also aims to prevent apprentice translators, for example, some of the most common defects in the drafting and legal translation.

This course aims to make students aware of the fact that the advent of the first language and terminology had some impact on the translation process. It is to assess the contribution of linguistic and terminology in translation studies, explaining how the translators accept the science of language as a precision tool in their professional practice. On the theoretical level, it will explain the decisive influence of language and terminology on translation, in the context of structuralism, Europe, the Prague Circle, and the United States, under the leadership of Eugene Nada, whose work marked a new attitude showing that translation is no longer considered as only an art. Finally, it will demonstrate how the theoreticians of language and terminology are many, how, to emphasize the need to link the theory of translation to a theory of language. In practical terms, this course will include an overview of the morphology, lexicography, lexicology and terminology etc.

The purpose of this course is to enable students to discover for themselves, and to deduce from texts, the basic principles of Translation Studies; allowing them to go beyond the limits of translation by correspondence (transcoding) to the interpretative translation, stressing the importance of the context to the text.

This course is designed to cover both branches of lexicology: lexical semantics and lexical morphology. After defining the discipline, as well as the components of the word and the lexicon, students will study lexical semantics (linguistic sign, lexicographic definitions, semic analysis and semantic relations). Then they will learn the approach of lexical morphology, i.e. word formation processes (derivation, composition and particular systems).

This course aims to enable students to recognize the structures and forms of discourse, speed reflexes and improve their language fluency; to refine the choice of words and expressions. The three languages ­ Arabic, French and English ­ will be worked in the same way and also in all combinations.