82-114 Arabic for Global Exchange Online
6 units, Carnegie Mellon University
Arabic for Global Exchange is a course in Arabic language and culture that utilizes cognitive learning technologies and computerassisted language instruction to enhance educational, governmental, and business exchanges that are increasingly vital to public policy and economic development in the global economy. This is a minicourse for individuals with no proficiency or extremely limited knowledge of Arabic language and culture who are about to begin study or work in an Arabicspeaking context. The course introduces learners to basic concepts and information to facilitate entry and engagement in an Arabicspeaking environment. The Arabic for Global Exchange project aims to meet a need for high quality, communicationoriented instructional materials to introduce basic cultural knowledge and survival language. Arabic for Global Exchange is a sixweek, sixlesson, halfsemester course equivalent of six weeks of universitylevel instruction, or roughly sixty hours of student effort. Each of the six lessons in the course includes texts and activities to promote acquisition of cultural content in English as well as basic introductory exposure to the Arabic language. Contact the instructor directly for meeting daytime information
Prerequisites: none listed
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