Course Descriptions
(0502101) English Language (I)  (اللغة الإنجليزية 1)    
This multi-skill English course aims at enhancing and developing students’ abilities in the four basic skills of English: listening, speaking, reading and writing, through learning basic sentence patterns, various elements of grammar, tenses, auxiliaries, yes-no and tag questions, passive, negative, agreement, articles, conditional sentences and noun references. Moreover, the course is designed to help students’ analytical thinking.

(0502102) English Language (II)  (اللغة الإنجليزية 2)                  
This intermediate English course is a continuation of the previous multi-skill English course 101.  It aims at further consolidation of the four language skills through more sophisticated teaching material.  In addition, the course will focus on the construction and usage of non-complex sentences, comparison of adjectives and adverbs, clauses, wh-questions, gerunds and infinitives.

 ( 0302245 )Study Skills    (مهارات دراسية باللغة الإنجليزية)
The aim of this course is to train students in the academic skills necessary for success in a variety of educational settings: dictionary use, note taking, library use, examination preparation, etc.,

 ( 0502121) English Grammar    (قواعد)
This course concentrates on grammatical categories; i,e, parts of speech.  The noun phrase, verb phrase, adjectives and adverbs and prepositions are studied in depth. This course is meant to prepare students to the subsequent more advanced course E 321.

(0302141) Reading Skill     (القراءة)
The primary objective of this course is to further improve students’ reading skills and help them acquire the reading strategies that are appropriate for dealing with literary and non-literary texts.  Such skills and strategies include guessing word meanings, extracting main ideas, understanding text, organization, predicting, checking comprehension, linking ideas, inferring, and giving responses

(0302142) Writing      (الكتابة)
This course aims at teaching students how to write a coherent and unified paragraph. The course should provide students with the necessary techniques to write correct and effective sentences. It also aims at teaching students how to observe correct punctuation, how to write topic sentences, how to develop such sentences into complete paragraphs. In addition, different paragraph patterns, such as, classifying, contrasting, and analyzing, etc., should be addressed.

 ( 0302143 )Listening and Speaking  (الاستماع والمحادثة)
The aim of this course is to help students reinforce and extend their listening and conversational skills. This is achieved through providing them with systematic and comprehensive training in the perception and production of English utterances of various types and lengths. Particular attention is given to stress, rhythm, and the more important types of word linking.  Formally levels, conversational syntax, and turn-taking rules are also emphasized.  High frequency introductory, transitional, and concluding elements of different communicative events should be discussed and intensively drilled so that they may become part of the student’s conversational repertoire.

(0302242)  Advanced Writing   (كتابة متقدمة)
The main objective of this course is to enable students to express themselves coherently in writing.  It exposes students’ to and gives them practice in extended writing beyond the sentence level, i,e,  The course should also focus on the organization of academic writing essays, reports, assignments and projects.

(0502 140) Introduction to Literature     (مقدمة في الأدب)
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the concept and definition of “literature”, literary terms and to the four major genres: poetry, fiction, drama and essay.  Moreover, selections of short stories, poems, one play and essays are studied and analyzed.

(0502242) History of English Literature (I)  (تاريخ الأدب الإنجليزي 1)
This is the first of two courses that trace the historical development of English Literature from its Anglo-Saxon origins till the present time.  This course covers the Old English Period, Middle English Period, Elizabethan Period, Restoration Period and the Eighteenth Century. The course discusses the general literary characteristics of each period. Special emphasis is given to important works, dates and the literary figures of each period.

 (0502343)History of English Literature (2) (تاريخ الأدب الإنجليزي)
This is the second course that deals with the history of English Literature.  This course traces the historical development of English Literature from the beginning of the Romantic Period till the present time.  In the Romantic period, the course covers the age of the Romantic Triumph and the Early Victorian Age. It also covers the Realistic Period, the late Victorian Age, the Edwardian Age, etc. The Contemporary Period is also covered in the course.  This course discusses the general literary characteristics of each period, with special emphasis on important works, dates literary figures in each period.

 ( 0502222) Introduction to Linguistics (مقدمة في اللغويات)
The course aims at acquiring students with the nature of language and its fundamental aspects including the basics of phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics
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 ( 0502223) Syntax I       (نحو1)
This course aims at familiarizing students with a linguistic theory oriented to the study of the structure of English sentences comprising elements of grammatical analysis, noun phrases, verb phrases, adjectival phrases, adverbial phrases, and prepositional phrases.

(0502241) British and American Novel till the 19th Century  
(الرواية الإنجليزية والأمريكية منذ البدايات وحتى القرن التاسع عشر)
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the history, development and types of the novel.  Moreover, students are expected to study closely one British novel from the seventeenth century, one from the nineteenth century and two American novels from the nineteenth century. They should also be able to identify and recognize the characteristic features of the novelists studied in the course. This course pays special emphasis on differences in temper, sensibility and techniques used by different writers.

(0502342) British and American Poetry in the 19th Century
(الشعر الإنجليزي والأمريكي في القرن التاسع عشر)
This course aims to introduce students to representative poetry by major British and American poets. Various selections representing narrative, lyric and dramatic are studied and analyzed. Moreover, it emphasizes poetic language, which is compressed and elevated beyond that of ordinary discourse.  Students will be asked to analyze and examine elements like subject matter, technique and style. Attention is to be directed toward speaker, imagery, diction, symbolism, theme, figurative language, mood and tone.

(0502344) British and American Drama   المسرحية الإنجليزية والأمريكية) ))   
This course is intended to familiarize students with the basic elements of drama (dialogue, characterization, action, plot, etc.)  Students will be required to study at least two British plays and two American ones from different periods.

(0502221 ) History of English Language    (تاريخ اللغة الإنجليزية)
This is a survey of the origins and development of English language to the present time, old English, Middle English and Modern English.  The course aims to give students an insight into the development of English in such a way as to preserve a proper balance between internal history, sounds and inflections, and external history, the political, social and intellectual forces that have determined the course of that development at different periods. By the end of the term, students should be able to explain the characteristics of the English language during the various stages of its development, including the cultural and linguistic forces that shape English.

(0502322) English Phonetics & Phonology  (الصوتيات)
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the field of general phonetics, speech sound production, and description. Emphasis throughout the course is on the sounds of English and suprasegmental features.  Students are given ample practice in the language lab

(0502130 )Translation (I)    ( 1ترجمة)
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the basic principles and techniques of translation with simultaneous training on translation from Arabic into English and vice versa.  Texts to be translated are to reflect various types of registers and styles.  Students are expected to translate particular texts in class and out at home.

(0502441)  Literary Criticism   (نقد أدبي)
This is an advanced course intended primarily to introduce students to literary theories, traditional, new criticism, formalism, structuralism and post structuralism, reader-response, historicism and new historicism.   The course includes a brief introduction to the history of literary theory and its major concerns.  Students are required to select, analyze, and interpret a text according to one of the approaches discussed in the classroom.

(0502442) Shakespeare    (شكسبير)
This is a general course on Shakespeare. It is intended primarily to introduce students to Shakespeare’s life, age, contribution to and influence on English literature.  Five plays representing Shakespeare’s literary merits and development are selected for study and analysis. These respectively represent the histories, Roman plays, tragedies, romances and comedies. Students are required to write a paper on one of the plays and to discuss its language, imagery or characters.  It is preferable that students are shown video versions of the plays for the sake of comparison and analysis

(0302442) Teaching English Methodology
(أساليب تدريس اللغة الإنجليزية  )
This course aims at developing class members’ pedagogical skills through matching insights into the nature of language and use from source discipline such as linguistics and psychology, with insights from the classroom. The course will include compact review of the proliferation of approaches and methods since they are a conspicuous characteristic of non-first language teaching. Although theories underlying current approaches and methods will be briefly discussed, the major focus of the course will be on classroom tasks and activities and the management of learning.  Part of the course will be devoted to practicing the application of approaches and methods in classroom.

(0502443) Comparative Literature      (أدب مقارن)
The aim of this course is to introduce students to basic concepts of comparative literature. The course specifically embarks on the study of literary influences and other elements. At least two works from two different literatures are suggested models form European literature.  One author’s work or a collection of short works, of course, in English translation, from French, Spanish, German, Italian, or Russian is required to be studied and compared to an English or an American one.  Students are expected to study and conduct a comparative analysis of these two authors’ works.

Major Elective Courses (15 Credit Hours)

(0302243 )Advanced Reading    (قراءة متقدمة)
The aim of this course is to help students identify different types of reading skills required for different reading situations. The course also will focus on developing intensive reading skills through examination of text contents and identifying the main ideas and making summaries of the texts.
(0502444 ) Romantic Poetry   (الشعر الرومانطيقي)
The course aims at exploring the different notions of romantic poetry among the prominent poets of the romantic era beginning with William Blake, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, S.T. Coleridge, Percy Shelley and John Keats. Besides the reading of selected poems, the course will also focus on essays such as Preface to Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria, which shed light on romantic poetry.  Also some German and French romantics will be of great use to the course.
(0502461) Research Writing  (كتابة ورقة بحث)  
This aim of the course is to give students an advanced training in writing. It is designed as a guide to write a formal (term) paper on a linguistic or literary topic.  The outline of course includes information about the following topics: the parts of the paper (introduction, body, conclusion and references), the use of abbreviations and numbers, spelling and punctuation, stylistic matters like capitalization, underlining, etc., presentation of quotation, tables, illustrations, graphs, etc., and footnoting.  Students are also trained on selecting a topic, narrowing the scope of the paper, searching for related material and references, and in synthesizing collected information about the topic.  Students are encouraged to write a  five-page report and a twelve to fifteen-page research paper on a specific topic which requires them to research for sources in the library.
(0502323  ) Pronunciation    (نطق وتكلم)      
The first half of the course aims at offering a brief introduction to the field of phonetics followed by training sessions on the recognition, production, description and transcription of the sounds of English. The second half aims at training students on how to enunciate English utterances in terms of stress, rhythm and intonation.  Students are required to listen to selected cassettes either at home, in the classroom or in the language lab.
(0502243) The Short Story     (القصة القصيرة)
The course is intended to introduce students to the short story as a genre fiction originated in the 19th century.  At least, ten short stories by English, American, or other European authors in translation, will be selected to represent different techniques, themes and subjects.  Students are required to select a short story (not discussed in the classroom) and explore it critically by analyzing its point of view, narrative technique, character, setting, theme, style, etc.

(0502 324)  English Verbal Structure      (الفعل في اللغة)
The course aims at studying the English verb system thoroughly: tense, aspect, phrase, catentatives, phrasal and prepositional verbs, verb complementation, and modal auxiliaries.  Students are required to write a paper on a topic that is relevant to the study of the English verb
 

(0502446 ) Metaphysical Poetry   (الشعر الميتافيزيقي)
The aim of this course is to introduce students to some illustrative examples of metaphysical poetry written by John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert, Abraham Cowley, Richard Crashaw, and Henry Vaughn.  Students are also introduced to the kind of Elizabethan love poetry which is more colloquial, witty, ironic and at the same time more passionately intense and more psychologically probing.  Students are expected to recognize and to identify those metaphysical features and characteristics that do not necessarily belong to metaphysical poetry but which have permeated English poetry later.

(0502448)  Special Subject in Literature (موضوع خاص في الأدب)         
This is a relatively course intended to provide students with an in-depth study of a particular genre, period, author, movement, or topic.  Students are expected to participate fully in the discussions.  A relatively long paper, seven to ten pages, is to be handed in showing the students’ command of the basic theme, development, and bibliography related to his or her topic of choice.

(0502325) Error Analysis    (تحليل الأخطاء اللغوية)
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the major views representing the Error Analysis approach to language learning.  This introduction is achieved through reading a selection of original articles.  Students are trained on how to identify, label and account for errors produced by Jordanian and Arab students learning English through investigating plausible sources of errors.  Towards the end of the course, class members are expected to hand in a report summarizing the results of a piece of relevant research.

(0502421) Discourse Analysis              ( تحليل الخطاب اللغوي)

The Course will introduce students to major kinds and levels of procedures of discourse analysis. It will explore issues such as Goff man's communication theory, Vygotsky’s activity theory, speech act theory, conversational analysis, politeness theory, and other pragmatic theories. Students will have the opportunity to explore such theories and issues through reading and analyzing classic and current articles gaining practice in analyzing real language data and dealing with common research problems enabling them to initiate their own discourse analysis. Students will be required to write short reports and make in- class presentation and discussion about their works >                                                                                 

(0502326)  Syntax (II)      (نحو2)
The aim of this course is to study English complex sentences thoroughly. The clausal system of English and the processes of subordination, co-ordination, sentence connection and ellipsis are emphasized. Students are required to solve a number of syntactic problems.

(0502327) Schools of Linguistics  (مدارس علم اللغة
The course aims at surveying the various schools of linguistic theory: Structuralism ,Functionalism, Transformational Generative Grammar, Relational Grammar, Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar, Lexical Functional Grammar, etc.,  Students are required to write a term-paper and to analyze one aspect of any language within the framework of one of these schools
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(0502330) Translation (II)         (ترجمة2  )
This course is a continuation of 332 Translation (I), but of more advanced nature. In this course, students are exposed to different registers and styles, scientific, military, journalistic, technical and literary.  Class exercises and home assignments include translation of a number of passages of various length and critiques of translations.

 ( 0502422) Sociolinguistics       (علم اللغة الاجتماعي)
This course aims at studying language in its social and cultural contexts. It also aims at providing students with a general introduction to this branch of linguistics, the different varieties of language and their social-cultural values, the inter relationships among language, culture, thought, etc.,

(0502447) British and American Poetry in the 20th Century
(الشعر الإنجليزي والأمريكي في القرن العشرين)
This course aims at providing students with a brief historical overview of the development of the genre in Britain and the United States during World War I and World War II till the present time.  Representative poetry by major English and American poets is selected for study and analysis; Students are expected to examine and analyze the elements of poetry as imagery, diction, symbolism, tone and figurative language.

(0502341)  British and American Novel in the 20th Century
(الرواية الإنجليزية والأمريكية في القرن العشرين)
This course aims to give students the opportunity to develop their reading and understanding of key 20th century British and American novel, and to enable students to develop a background understanding of the development of 20th century novelistic tradition, and those social, cultural and ideological contexts, which have reformed that development.  Emphasis will be on the relationship between the novel and modern society: this includes responses and expressions of alienation, ideological politics, questions of war, class, religion and faith.   Selection of novels should include two English and two American ones.

(0502328) Semantics                             (  علم المعاني ) 
The course aims at studying models of semantic interpretation provided by formal theories of grammar.  Concentration is on problems of reference, co reference, and quantification.  Students are required to hand in a short paper on a relevant topic

 ( 0502423) Psycholinguistics        (علم اللغة النفسي) 
The aim of this course is to tackle the relationship between language and the brain.  The course introduces students to the theories of the production and acquisition of language by children and adults as related to the human brain mechanisms as well as to the research on these issues.  The practical part of this course may include the following:
showing documentary films illustrating research done on the subject such as films on laboratory experiments on brain lateralization, aphasic people, etc.,
asking students to conduct a mini field research on related topics such as the relationship between left-or-right-handedness and ear preference, acquisition of certain aspects of English language, etc.,

(0302345) Second Language Acquisition
(اكتساب اللغات الأجنبية)
The aim of this course is to survey some background information related to current dominating the research in second language acquisition (SLA).  The topics in this course may include theories of SLA, the Contrastive Hypothesis, Error Analysis, factors affecting SLA (e.g., age, critical period, motivation, personality, first language, neurological aspects, etc.,) strategies of language learning, and the contribution of SLA research to language teaching.  Students are required to hand in a term paper on a relevant topic
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 (0302265) Computer- Assisted Language Learning (CALL)           تعليم اللغة الإنجليزية بالحاسوب
The major purpose of this course is to provide students with a theoretical framework on using technology in language learning/ teaching. It traces the developments of CALL, namely, behaviorist, communicative, and integrative. It also stresses the types and patterns of technology employed by each school for Language learning/ teaching, such as the use of PCs, e-mails, Internet, and multimedia, in promoting language skills and components.

(0502115) French Language                         اللغة الفرنسية) ) 
This language course is intended for students not majoring in French or having little or no previous knowledge of it. It concentrates on the acquisition of basic grammar and vocabulary, and on the development of basic writing, reading, speaking and listening skills

 (0502113) German Language                        اللغة الألمانية) )
This language course is intended for students not majoring in German or having little or no previous knowledge of it. It concentrates on the acquisition of basic grammar and vocabulary, and on the development of basic writing, reading, speaking and listening skills.

(0502111) Russian Language             (  اللغة الروسية)          
This language course is intended for students no majoring in Russian or having little or no previous knowledge of it. It concentrates on the acquisition of basic grammar and vocabulary, and on the development of basic writing, reading, speaking and listening skills.

 (0502117) Hebrew Language            (  اللغة العبرية )                                                                                             
This language course is intended for students not majoring in Hebrew or having little or no previous knowledge of it. It concentrates on the acquisition of basic grammar and vocabulary, and on the development of basic writing, reading, speaking and listening skills