This unit is designed primarily for students with no experience in Arabic. Its main objective is to teach you how to communicate in both modern standard Arabic and in a dialect in a range of situations, while learning about Arab cultures. Speaking, writing, listening and reading comprehension skills, will be developed through communicative activities. In addition, online resources and classroom activities will complement face-to-face teaching.

ARBC1602 is the continuation of ARBC1601 Junior Arabic 1A. It aims at building your communicative abilities, as well as extending your vocabulary, and developing further your written skills (reading and writing). Having completed ARBC1602, students can continue onto ARBC2613.

This unit focuses on Arab societies and cultures. Main themes include: national boundaries, ethnic and religious diversity, Islam, Muslim contributions to world civilisations, religion and politics, including colonialism and nationalism, aspects of cultural life, including women and gender issues.

This unit examines contemporary Arab cultural productions. It covers the period from the nahdah (Arab renaissance in the XIX century) until today. Main themes include: Arab modernity and the birth of the novel; representation of otherness in Arabic literature; political dissidence and creative writing; visual arts, cinema, music, and popular culture.

This unit will continue to build up your communicative ability and extend your knowledge of modern standard Arabic vocabulary and structures through interactive classroom activities and exercises. You will continue to work on your reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills with an emphasis on understanding the application of grammatical structures and acquiring greater cultural competency.

This unit is a continuation of ARBC2613 and aims at further strengthening your communicative skills in Arabic, specifically your ability to speak, understand, read, and write. You will be able to extend your knowledge of Arabic vocabulary and structures through interactive classroom activities and exercises, realistic dialogues, role-play, and the use of a range of authentic material in Arabic. You will learn more about Arab cultures in the process. On completion of this unit, students progress to ARBC3615.

This unit examines the history of Muslim veiling, the religious discourses which are regularly cited as dictating a dress code for Muslim women, and the historical, political, regional, and cultural variations in veiling practices. We also consider the multiple meanings that the veil has had for Muslim women, and pay attention to Muslim women's voices of resistance toward stereotypical images of the veil as they are disseminated by the media and by fundamentalist Islamist regimes.

This unit traces the history and development of Arab diasporic communities over the past two centuries in Australia, Europe, and the United States. We explore the cultural, ethnic, and religious diversity of these communities both at national and local levels and examine the multiple ways in which Arab immigrants are maintaining and reconfiguring their cultural, ethnic, and religious identities through cultural and artistic productions. This unit also offers an experiential learning aspect through structured encounters with various Arab communities in Sydney.

This unit examines the cultural production of artists from the Arab world and its diasporas. We look comparatively at the way artists (painters, photographers, musicians, performers) respond to the political and social climates of the societies in which they live and the extent to which they challenge social, political, and religious norms. We offer an overview of the multiple diasporas from which artists work and the influential role they play on the international scene and in social media.

This unit focuses on the interplay between gender, culture and politics in the Arab world. Representations of gender and sexuality, and their politicization, will be studied through feminist, literary, and historiographical criticism, permitting a deep historical understanding of current debates.

This unit focuses on Egyptian social, cultural and political history, from the Napoleonic expedition (1798) to the 2011 Revolution and its aftermath. The analysis of modern ideas, movements and cultural productions, such as novels and movies, reveals Egypt's leading role in contemporary Arab cultures.

This unit aims to expand your communicative skills, using a variety of texts, films, and electronic sources. Emphasis will be on extensive vocabulary development and reading skills through greater focus on complex sentence construction and development of strategies for expressing opinions and impressions. The unit will also focus on developing information-gathering skills and Class presentation techniques in Arabic.

This unit will consolidate your communicative skills in Arabic, extend your vocabulary, and understanding of grammar. It will continue to help you develop your vocabulary, your reading, listening, and writing skills through a variety of texts, films, recordings, and electronic resources. An understanding of contemporary Arab societies and cultures will be enhanced through study of authentic written and audiovisual materials, including short stories and novel extracts.

This unit introduces you to Arabic media in its diverse forms and stylesboth written and electronic. It allows you to practice your advanced Arabic language skills, enrich your understanding of Arab cultures, and become familiar with specialized vocabulary, structures, and regional variations. In the process, you will develop your analytical and critical skills.

This unit aims to further strengthen your advanced practical language skills in Arabic, including writing and communication, with a focus on contemporary media from different regions of the Arab world. It will focus on two or three themes that are newsworthy at the time the class is taught , enriching your cultural and political understanding of central events taking place in the Arab world.

This advanced unit introduces you to a selection of Arabic literary texts from different genres (literature, theatre, poetry, cinema, arts, music) and time periods. Theme will vary from year to year, but will include Arab identity, postcolonialism, feminism, gender and sexualities, women, and youth cultures.

The Arabic Honours program consists of advanced language tuition, research seminars and the writing of about 12,000 words thesis under supervision.

Refer to ARBC4011

Refer to ARBC4011

Refer to ARBC4011

This unit of study will provide students with a grounding in the historical context of and reasons for conflict in Israel/Palestine. It will enable them to identify the causes of conflict and attempted avenues for peace, as well as making them aware of the politicised nature of much of the scholarship on the region. The unit commences in the Ottoman period and traces the rival of aspirations of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism, as well as the geopoitical dimensions of the conflict. The unit will enable students to gain detachment from the dominant narratives about the issues so they are equipped to form their own judgements.