Credits: 3 (3,1,0)   Prerequisites: ENG012

This course provides a foundational overview of linguistics, exploring key areas such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. Students will examine how language functions at different levels and how it is shaped by cognitive, social, and cultural factors. The course introduces major linguistics theories and analytical methods, emphasizing language as a dynamic system. Through practical exercises and real-language analysis, students will develop critical skills for studying language systematically. Topics such as language acquisition, language variation, and language change will also be covered, offering insight into the diverse fields within linguistics.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: None

The course is designed to provide students with the grammar skills necessary for success in professional, academic, and social situations. The course will deepen students’ insights into English grammar and the linguistic analysis of English. The course helps students improve their ability to interpret what they read and express themselves accurately orally and in writing. It includes study of editing, active/ passive voice, verb tenses, modals and modal-like expressions, conditionals, the subjunctive, phrases, clauses, and different kinds of transitions. The course emphasizes grammatical fluency in English speech and writing.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: None

This course equips students with the analytical skills needed to critically engage with media messages in a digital and globalized world. It explores how media shape public perception, construct social realities, and influence cultural and political discourse students will examine issues such as media bias, propaganda, representation, and the role of corporate and political interests in media production. Through hands-on-activities and critical discussions, students will develop the ability to deconstruct media texts, assess credibility, and become more informed and responsible media consumers and creators.

Credits: 3 (3,1,0)   Prerequisites: ELAN130

The course introduces students to the study of speech sounds, focusing on both the physical properties of sounds (phonetics) and their abstract, systematic organization in language (phonology). Students will learn to recognize, transcribe, and analyze the sounds of human speech. Through practical exercises, students will develop the skills necessary for IPA transcription, sound analysis, and the identification of phonological patterns in various languages. By the end of the course, students will have a deeper understanding of how sounds function in speech and how they are organized in different languages.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: ELAN130

This course introduces the fundamental concepts and theories of semantics, the study of meaning in language. Students will explore how words, phrases, and sentences convey meaning through key topics such as lexical semantics, compositional semantics, and pragmatics. The course examines how meaning is constructed, interpreted, and influenced by language, culture, and context. Through practical exercises and discussions, students will develop skills to analyze meaning in spoken and written texts, enhancing their understanding of how language conveys ideas, emotions, and social signals.

Credits: 3 (3, 0, 0)   Prerequisites: ELAN205

This course is designed to enhance students' writing communication skills in the context of workplace situations. The primary focus of the course is on a wide array of office writing genres: text messages, emails, memos, brief business correspondences, reports, and formal business letters. Writing resumes, employment applications and follow-up letters are covered as well.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: ELAN234

This course examines how language functions in communication, focusing on the structures and patterns of spoken and written discourse. Students will explore discourse analysis as a method for studying language in context, analyzing how meaning is constructed through social interactions, texts, and communicative situations. Key topics include coherence, cohesion, turn-taking, speech acts, politeness strategies, power, identity, and ideology in discourse. Through the study of various genres such as conversation, media, academic texts and everyday communication, students will develop analytical skills to examine language use and its role in shaping social relationships.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: ELAN103

This course explores the principles of argument construction, evaluation, and debate strategies. Students will develop skills in logical reasoning, persuasive communication, and critical analysis while learning to construct, present, and defend arguments effectively. Key rhetorical concepts such as claims, evidence, reasoning, and counterarguments will be examined. Through practical debates and real-world case studies, students will learn to engage diverse perspectives, identify logical fallacies, and refine their argumentation techniques for media, politics, and public discourse.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: ELAN130

This course explores the role of media in shaping communication across cultures. Students will examine how cultural differences influence media creation, interpretation, and representation in global contexts. Key topics include culture, identity, representation, stereotypes, bias, and cultural diplomacy in media. Through case studies and practical projects, students will analyze television, film, social media, and news to understand how media portrays cultural values and identities. The course also examines the impact of globalization and technology on intercultural communication, equipping students with skills to create media content that fosters cross-cultural understanding.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: None

This course will provide a values-based approach to ethical professionalism and provide a method of thinking about and dealing with ethical issues in the workplace. The course will provide a discussion of what a profession is and what it means to act professionally. It will include a discussion of the features of moral reasoning and provide a case resolution method for dealing with ethical issues of the workplace. The course will cover in-depth those values central to moral life of any professional: integrity, respect for others, justice, compassion, and responsibility.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: None

This course covers the principle and theory of translation. It covers the history of recent theoretical development in translation studies through readings from the most important texts in translation theory. It analyses the major concepts, issues and theories of translation in relation to its historical context. The course will also assist students in making the connection between translation theories and practice to ensure effective use of the theories and to make an informed decision in translation activities.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN110

This course explores a range of theoretical issues and practical problems concerning the field of translation. It also examines the far-reaching significance of translation and uses insights and practices from the translation field to help students improve their communication skills. Students will be able to explore cultural, social, aesthetic, political, economic, and ethical considerations through further readings in translation issues, through comparisons of English/Arabic translations, and through written exercises that put theory into practice using proper translation tools and resources. The skills gained in this course will also be useful in improving oral and written communication between or within cultures and languages.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN121

This course aims to develop students’ sight translation skills in order to support interpreting at the next stage of learning. The course is designed in an incremental manner in terms of text difficulty. It is intended to develop students’ interpreting skills from the basic to more advanced level. The teaching sessions are divided into two components: lectures and tutorials/workshops. Lectures provide students with the knowledge and key skills related to sight translation. Tutorials/workshops are conducted for students to perform sight translation exercises, discuss translation pitfalls and corresponding strategies, and conduct peer reviews.

Credit 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN231

This course aims to offer an introductory overview of the consecutive and bilateral interpreting techniques and skills. It concentrates on the development of the essential basic skills, i.e.: note taking, presentation skills, stress management, vocabulary building. Throughout the course, students will work with consecutive and bilateral interpreting exercises from and into English and Arabic languages. In addition to general subject areas such as trade and economics, this course also focuses on technical areas, such as computers, science and technology, and industry. Current affairs are also a key topic for the consecutive and bilateral interpreting classes.

Credit 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN110

To reflect and address the current inseparable nature of technologies from professional translation, this course aims to endow students with the necessary knowledge and skills needed to benefit from and use these technologies. Accordingly, students will be taught how to translate with a professional CAT tool, produce a term base, undertake text analysis with a corpus concordancer. Moreover, the course will provide students with the foundational conceptual knowledge of the history and limitations of the technological translation tools they will be taught. This will give students a better understanding of how to best utilize these tools.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN110

The course targets translation of medical texts. Students will be trained on analyzing texts to understand the context, terms and concepts in the original text before looking for equivalences in the other language. To best deal with medical texts, the medical terminology most commonly used by doctors and other health practitioners in text types such as medical reports, diagnosis, and medical procedures are examined with special attention given to word formation (e.g. Latin roots, suffixes and prefixes).

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN241

The increased availability of audiovisual content due to social media platforms like YouTube, and the crossing of cultural domains by companies such as Netflix has increased the need for subtitling. To reflect the growing demand for audiovisual translators, this course aims to endow students with the conceptual understanding of subtitling and the technical skills to produce subtitles for diverse content. To accomplish this, students will be taught how to use Aegisub, which is an open-source subtitle editing application that can produce high quality material. In addition, the course will cover various approaches to produce and critically evaluate subtitles for a range of genres from comedy to documentaries.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN232

This course aims to provide advanced training in consecutive and bilateral interpreting where advanced practical exercises are designed to develop and systematically improve analytical skills required for active listening, source speech comprehension, information processing and retrieval strategies, note-taking techniques, split attention and basic presentation skills. This course will focus on the consolidation of these skills and the development of strategies in relation to a given language pair and direction, and the associated linguistic, social and cultural challenges. This course allows students to discuss their own practice in relation to professional interpreting requirements and to exercise their research and preparation skills for various assignments.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN110

This course familiarizes students with the registers and discourse characteristics of business and media language varieties in both English and Arabic. It aims to develop and reinforce the skills and techniques required for translating texts bearing such features into the two languages. In the field of Business, the focus is on text types such as bank statements, financial reports and business correspondence. In the field of media, text types such as news items, press reports, newsletters, and promotional texts are examined.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN241

Since its early origins in the 1950s, Machine Translation (MT) has conceptually had the potential to radically alter human communication, and in this regard, the course will engage with the history and social relevance of MT. Also, the course will endow students with the knowledge of the different types of MT, and describe the sectors that MT is most applicable. In addition, the course will teach students the practical skills needed to use MT in the realm of professional translation, which includes pre- and post-editing tasks. Students will learn how to post-edit with an open-source application, MateCat, and with a professional CAT tool that integrates MT. Furthermore, students will be introduced to the application of MT to second language learning.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN333

This course is designed to lay the foundation for developing the basic skills and strategies of simultaneous interpreting. Students are introduced to the context of simultaneous interpreting and the nature of the underlying transfer process, the tools and equipment used, the code of practice, the customer and booth etiquette. Working with their language pair, they will be taught how to apply the different techniques used in simultaneous interpreting, identify problems likely to arise in this particular mode of interpreting and solve them using appropriate interpreting strategies and procedures. Students will develop skills specific to simultaneous interpreting of real speeches used in different fields.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN334

This course is designed to further develop and enhance the students' professional skills and strategies of simultaneous interpreting knowledge and tools. Practical and small group teaching sessions provide guidance and input in advanced interpreting skills and subject contents, enabling students to do guided practices in class and independent learning at home. The scheduled practical activities, i.e. remote simultaneous interpreting (RSI) and mock conference, enable students to prepare and perform interpreting tasks assigned to them, putting their skills to the test in simulated real-life settings. Multilingual group simulations of real-life interpreting situations will also be introduced in the course.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN110

This course promotes students’ skills in translating legal and political texts burdened with the complexity of structure and terminology. The essential elements of legal and political writing styles are introduced for this type of formal translation work. Text types such as court decisions, contracts, and notary deeds are dealt with. On the political side, students translate text types such as editorial articles, speeches, diplomatic and international organizations' documents.

Credits: 3(3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN334

This is a semester-long translation project of a written or spoken text where students are required to do one of the following translation projects: a- Translate a specialized book (or part of a specialized book) of no less than 10,000 words, b- Translate a specialized electronic content of no less than 10,000 words, or c- Translate and record a voiceover of a documentary film, the verbatim script of which should be no less than 5,000 words.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN121

This course focuses on the final stages of translation work covering the topics of revising, editing and publishing in electronic formats. Students are trained to revise and edit their own work, translations done by others, and machine generated translations. The course is highly interactive, including discussions, peer-editing, group work and simulations. The course also offers extensive training to students on using relevant technological tools.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN241

This course is designed to provide students with knowledge and practical training in the field of localization, including, but not limited to, the fundamentals of localization, software, website, video game and phone app localization. Students will explore the technical, commercial, linguistic and cultural implications of localization, in the process of which critical thinking problem-solving, research and technology tool skills will be applied.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN121

This course introduces the students to the task of literary translation. It features practical exercises on literary genres such as prose, drama, and poetry. It also deals with the literary problems posed: maintaining equivalence of meaning and form, preserving author’s creativity and stylistic features, etc.

Credits: 10   Prerequisites: Departmental Approval

The aim of the course is to provide students with an opportunity to spend a specified period of time in several local and possibly international institutions and companies, and according to a suggested work plan of training. The duration of the program is 7 months and carries a 10 credit hours weight. The evaluation and supervision of the student’s performance are provided by both the hosting workplace and the relevant department.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN121

This course trains students how to use proper translation strategies to overcome linguistic and cultural problems when translating into the target language. These challenges include: international societal structural differences, grammar and sentence construction variation, inconsistencies in terminology, use of inappropriate language level, general inaccuracies and inconsistencies in translations, literal translations and related language issues. Students will also be trained in how to deal with problems related to cultural terms, objects, customs, procedures and concepts.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN121

This course introduces students to the key skills of summary translation and their applications to various situations. Throughout the course, students will learn how to understand and assess the needs of special contexts, read through various texts for the most important points then summarize and translate into the target language. Additionally, students will be able to effectively integrate the component cognitive processes of both summarization and translation of various translation tasks and make faster translation-related decisions.

Credits: 3(3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN110

This course is designed to provide students with knowledge and practical training in the translation of office communication documents, which include, but are not limited to, memos, meeting agendas, meeting minutes, e-mails, policies and procedures, reports, PPT presentations, advertisements and contents of websites. Students will be trained on employers’ expectations in particular basic translation skills, including accuracy of content and register appropriateness, problem-solving and critical thinking skills, communication and collaboration skills, and research and technology tools skills.

Credits: 3 (3,0,0)   Prerequisites: TRN231

This course introduces students to Public Service Interpreting both in preparation for further learning and training on other interpreting modes, and for readiness to work in employments requiring language mediation between interlocutors in offices and public service circles such as hospitals and other health facilities, law firms and institutions, and tourism and hospitality. Students will be trained on skills and techniques as appropriate to Public Service Interpreting, in and out of their two working languages –Arabic and English, in particular active listening to and fast oral delivery of messages transmitted between interlocutors.