Arabic Language Institute
Summer Intensive 2020

Elementary level Modern Standard Arabic
(ARA 101 & 102)
Prerequisite: None, this is a course for beginners
Credit hours: Eight (8) = 120 contact hours
Dates: June 8th – August 13th (10 weeks)
Days: Monday – Thursday (Three hours per day for four days per week)
Timing: 1:00pm – 4:00pm CST
Venue: Online
Textbook: Ahlan Wa Sahlan, by Mahdi Alosh and Allen Clark.
Tuition (excluding textbook costs): $1,600 for credit / $1,000 for auditors

Intermediate level Modern Standard Arabic
(ARA 201 & 202)
Prerequisite: At least two semesters of Elementary Arabic (ARA 101 & 102 or equivalent)
Credit hours: Eight (8) = 120 contact hours
Dates: June 8th – August 13th (10 weeks)
Days: Monday – Thursday (Three hours per day for four days per week)
Timing: 10:00 – 1:00 CST (Tentative)
Venue: Online
Textbook: Ahlan Wa Sahlan, by Mahdi Alosh and Allen Clark.
Tuition (excluding textbook costs): $1,600 for credit / $1,000 for auditors.

FLAS Fellowship compliant Intermediate level Modern Standard Arabic
(ARA 201 & 202)
This course is designed to meet FLAS requirements of 140 contact hours for the Intermediate level. It will be taught in conjunction with our regular 120 hour intensive Intermediate course, but supplemented with a total of 20 hours of calligraphy and introduction to Quranic recitation.
Prerequisite: At least one academic year of Elementary Arabic (ARA 101 & 102 or equivalent)
Credit hours: Nine (9) = 140 contact hours
Dates: June 8th – August 13th (10 weeks)
Days: Monday – Thursday (Three hours per day for four days per week plus two hours on Fridays)
Timing: (M-Th) 10:00 – 1:00 CST and (F) 10:00am – 12:00pm CST for supplementary lessons in calligraphy and Quranic recitation (tajwīd)
Venue: Online
Textbook: Ahlan Wa Sahlan, by Mahdi Alosh and Allen Clark.
Tuition (excluding textbook costs): $1,800 for credit only

Quranic Arabic
Prerequisite: At least one semester of Elementary Arabic (ARA 101 or equivalent)
Credit hours: Three (3) = 45 contact hours
Dates: June 1st – August 6th (4.5 hours/week; 10 weeks)
Days: Saturday and Sunday evenings
Timing: 5:30-7:45pm CST
Venue: Online
Textbooks: A New Arabic Grammar of the Arabic language, by Haywood and Nahmad & Arabic Through Quran, by Allen Jones.
Tuition (excluding textbook costs): $600 for credit / $375 for auditors

Introduction to Quranic recitation (tajwīd) class
Prerequisite: At least one semester of Elementary Arabic (ARA 101 or equivalent)
Credit hours: Three (3) = 45 contact hours
Dates: June 1st – August 6th (4.5 hours/week; 10 weeks)
Days: Tuesday and Thursday evenings
Timing: 6:30-8:45pm
Venue: Online
Textbook: Muṣḥaf al-Madīnah (students need to be reading from the same edition of the Quran for pedagogical reasons, given the orthographic variations among different versions; this one is the best for such purposes).
Tuition (excluding textbook costs): $600 for credit / $375 for auditors