Department of Translation - Jerash University
Department of Translation

Course Description

As a compulsory department requirement, this Course introduces the BA students at the Faculty of Arts to the tools and/or instruments and techniques of collecting data and analyzing/interpreting information. Students are expected to learn how to narrow down a topic, assemble a bibliography, create a working plan for a research paper and come out at the end with a well-organized piece of research.
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This course is designed to enhance the students general skills in reading compreusin, speaking and writing. The program is designed to help student internalize esseutial syntactic patterns of English.
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As a compulsory university requirement, this Course is mainly devoted to enhance the students' four basic language skills in Arabic (as a mother language) from both receptive and productive perspectives: reading, writing, listening and speaking. The program generally helps the students take on and internalize the essential semantic fields and syntactic patterns of such a synthetic language as Arabic. The Course is designed for beginners introducing them to the standard means of communication in modern standard Arabic. It is proficiency-based, implying that all of its activities are aimed at placing the students in the context of a native-speaking environment.
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As a compulsory university requirement, this Course aims to develop national cohesion, cultivate the instinct for survival as a nation and boost confidence in their nation's future. Involving units on the country’s history and political/socioeconomic development, it also emphasizes on cultivating a sense of belonging and emotional rootedness to Jordan.
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As a compulsory faculty requirement, this Course helps students acquire fluent and efficient writing skills. It aims at encouraging them generate ideas, construct meaningfully correct sentences, sequence and organize their ideas into well-structured paragraphs, and use the (English and/or Arabic) grammar in a more eligible and appropriate manner.
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As a compulsory faculty requirement, this Course focuses on the receptive and productive skills: reading, writing, listening and speaking. It supports the students’ communication skills at a higher level and recaps any content(s) covered in previous beginners or intermediate programs. The students are given the opportunity to practice vocabulary in new situations; they are prepared to converse fluently and with confidence, being helped create their own cultural awareness and better understandings of such topics as norms, values, life-styles and traditions. Reading through various texts and contexts and writing both grammatically and meaningfully sound paragraphs are considerable targets of this Course.
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As a compulsory faculty requirement, this Course is basically designed to focus on how a poetic text in either Arabic or English is comprehended, analyzed and discussed in light of some other ones. Students are helped learn about poetry in general and such poetic issues as rhyme, rhythm and mode/tenor in particular and how poetry is different from prose.
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As a compulsory faculty requirement, this Course aims at enriching students' skill in browsing an Arabic library’s soft and/or hard resources. Students are let learn about online databases and bibliographic citation indexes with a focus on political/socio-economic affairs in the Middle East. It includes news sources, periodical articles, bibliographic citations, and book reviews.
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As a compulsory faculty requirement, this Course intends primarily for potential English majors and is designed to teach language through literature of all kinds or genres. The Course gives a principal emphasis on reading and appreciating various literary texts together with familiarizing students with major literary and linguistic terms or techniques.
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As a compulsory faculty requirement, this Course is the discipline that focuses on understanding how human beings acquire knowledge and how they are shaped by learning environment. It studies the processes and cognitive, behavioral and developmental factors that take place during learning, and how a learning environment affects study outcomes.
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