2023/24 Undergraduate Programme Catalogue

BA Arabic, Islamic, Middle Eastern and North African Studies

Total credits: 480

Entry requirements:

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School/Unit responsible for the parenting of students and programme:

School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Examination board through which the programme will be considered:

School of Languages, Cultures and Societies

Relevant QAA Subject Benchmark Groups:

Programme specification:

Arabic is one of the world’s major languages and this degree allows students to become proficient while building their understanding of the cultural, religious, political and historical contexts that have shaped the Middle East, North Africa and wider Muslim world.

Students benefit from a firm grounding in spoken and written Arabic – strengthened further by spending a year in an Arabic-speaking country. This multidisciplinary programme approaches the field of study via theology, history, philosophy, sociology and political science. The complex and evolving nature of the field demands dynamic tools of analysis, and so apart from the conventional tools applied in the discipline, we also engage decolonial approaches and Critical Muslim Studies, the latter of which has been pioneered at the University of Leeds.

In addition to Arabic, students also have the option to study Persian, and they can access a wide range of co-curricular activities offered by the School's Iqbal Centre for Critical Muslim Studies, such as Qur’anic Arabic and the Islam & Gender reading group.

Year1 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Subject to a placement test, and where students have prior knowledge of Arabic, they may drop ARAB1001 Beginning Arabic 1 in semester 1 and take instead ARAB1030 Introduction to Arab and Islamic Civilisation.

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 20-40 credits from the following optional modules:

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of Discovery modules to bring their total to 120 credits.

Year2 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Students will spend this year of their programme in a country or region where the language of interest is used both in official contexts and as a daily means of communication. Where this period of residence abroad involves studying at a University, a list of approved locations and institutions will be provided for you during Level 1. Where you are able to choose a location, you must have this approved by the Year Abroad Tutor in your language area.

Compulsory modules:

Students are required to study the following core residence abroad module. Please note that the appropriate Level 1 module(s) in the language needs to be passed in order progress to the Year Abroad.

Year3 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study 20-40 Credits from the following optional modules:

Discovery modules:

Candidates may choose to study up to 20 credits of Discovery modules.

Year4 - View timetable

[Learning Outcomes, Transferable (Key) Skills, Assessment]

Compulsory modules:

Optional modules:

Candidates will be required to study the following compulsory modules:

Candidates will be required to study one of the following Final Year Project modules:

Candidates must study 20 credits from the following optional modules:

Last updated: 28/04/2023 14:20:58

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