Faculty of Arts (FOA) at a Glance, 2006-2007

A Welcoming Foreword  

Prof. Sameh Rawashdeh the Dean of Arts Faculty welcomes all. It is an honour to serve as the Dean of Arts, and a privilege to extend my services to all -collegues and students alike.The faculty of Arts has three departments-Arabic,English, Humanities& Social Sciences- and we are hopeful that it will be a very promising journey toward higher degree of excellence.Best of luck to all!

 Mission Statement  

Stemming from the larger mission of Tafila Technical University (TTU) to be one of the distinguished faculties of the University, FOA (though newly born) aims at providing students with the best and most complex – in - demands quality education, especially in English, Arabic, humanities and social sciences. Indeed, FOA aims at paving the way for its graduates, a promising workforce in the future, to be engaged in public service at the national, regional and international levels by nurturing cultural enrichment and providing an array of educational and training opportunities to the public at large to meet their needs. Led by scholars, researchers and teachers, FOA will spare no effort to encourage academic research programs that not only do good to national economy growth and development, but also to the common human welfare and prosperity. Working in close collaboration with other faculties, FOA ensures high-quality, research-based and intellectually challenging educational experience.  

Vision  

FOA aims at training students to achieve academic distinction and simultaneously have ethical, moral and spiritual excellence. FOA will make sure to instill the values of integrity, dignity and honor of the rich Arab Islamic culture in students, thus making them talented and upright citizens and consequently making worthy contributions to the future of the new generations. Being aware of the importance of partnerships and co-operation locally, regionally and internationally, FOA,though a relatively new faculty, has had a few exchange agreements with prominent international universities and academic institutions. FOA will be dedicated to the exploration of new knowledge and exchange of information and research to help the nation face the challenges and the ever-pressing, ever-changing demands of the future. To be sure, FOA is commited to quality education that represents a good value to all students. The philosophy common to our programs is to provide students with appropriate skills and knowledge to enhance their abilities and future careers. 

 About FOA'S Establishment 

 When Tafila Technical University was established in 2005, the Faculty of Arts did not yet exist as an independent Faculty at that time; in fact it was only part of the Faculty of Education. This newly born Faculty came into existence in September 2006 comprising 3 departments:  Arabic, English Language and Literature, and, a month later, the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences was created. The first two departments offer B.A. degrees; none offers M.A. or Ph.D. degrees at this point, and the department of Humanities and Social Sciences offers no degrees as such. The Departments of Arabic Language and Literature, English Language and Literature, and Humanities and Social Sciences thus constituted the nucleus of this yet-to-emerge Faculty which has 30 teaching staff members all in all and a total of 5 administrative officials. Students who are enrolled in the Faculty amount to nearly 445.  

Aims and Objectives

  In accordance with the high objectives of Tafila Technical University, the Faculty of Arts aims at accomplishing the following: - Instilling a sense of belonging to the nation in the new coming and creating a generation of students equipped with sublime morals, firmly held belief in Allah and the national unity. - Highlighting aspects of Islamic civilization and architecture by the virtue of the valuable courses to be taught in these specific fields and majors. - Teaching intellectual and authentic human values, a rich cultural resource, thus providing students with the means of development and progress, which, in turn, enables the Arab society at large to develop. - Preparing specialized workforce in the fields of basic specializations, in accordance with the needs of society and its development, and providing its graduates with knowledge, disciplinary principles and the methods of applying them in day – to – day life and teaching. - Spreading Arabic, the language of the Holy Qur'an, in non-Arab and Islamic societies, and, meanwhile, educating its students in English, being a universal language used for international  communication  .