Bain English Language and Literature 2020
Bain English Language and Literature 2020
Bain English Language and Literature 2020
Program Components
CRD
Course Type
University Requirement (UR) 11
College Requirement (CR) 18
Major Support Requirement (MSR) 0
Major Requirement (MR) 57
Major Elective (ME)1 9
General Studies Elective2 (free
elective) 3
Minor3 30
Internship4 0
Total Credit (CRD) 128
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Student should select three courses from Major Elective (ME) List.
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Student should select one course from free elective courses list offered by any University Department.
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Student should take 10 courses as Minor track from one of the following specializations: American Studies, French,
Translation, Linguistics, or Literature.
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Translation Minor only
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Year 1 - Semester 2
Year 2 - Semester 3
Year 2 - Semester 4
As per Minor
Minor Minor 1 X X 3 Minor No
list
As per Minor
Minor Minor 2 X X 3 Minor No
list
2
Year 3 - Semester 5
Year 3 - Semester 6
Year 4 - Semester 7
Course Hours
Course Pre Major
Course Code Course Title
Type requisite GPA
LEC PRAC CRD
3
Year 4 - Semester 8
4
Free Elective Courses List
Student should select one course from free elective courses list offered:
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ISLM 114 Quranic Sciences 3 0 3 GSE none No
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Minor Programs
Minor in Linguistics
Course Hours Course Pre Minor
Course Code Course Title
LEC PRAC CRD Type requisite GPA
Students should choose four minor elective courses from the following list :
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FREN 142 French II 3 0 3 Minor FREN 141 Yes
8
Minor in Literature
Course Hours Course Pre Minor
Course Code Course Title
LEC PRAC CRD Type requisite GPA
9
Minor in French
Course Hours Course Pre
Course Code Course Title Minor
LEC PRAC CRD Type requisite GPA
Minor in Translation
Course Hours
Course Pre Minor
Course Code Course Title
LEC PRAC CRD Type requisite GPA
10
Minor in American Studies
Course Hours Course Pre Minor
Course Code Course Title
LEC PRAC CRD Type requisite GPA
AMST 211 Introduction to American Studies 1 3 0 3 Minor ------ Yes
AMST 212 Introduction to American Studies 2 3 0 3 Minor ------ Yes
AMST 213 American Fiction 3 0 3 Minor ------ Yes
AMST 214 American Poetry and Drama 3 0 3 Minor ------ Yes
See list
AMST XXX Minor Elective 1 3 0 3 Minor below
Yes
See list
AMST XXX Minor Elective 2 3 0 3 Minor below
Yes
See list
AMST XXX Minor Elective 3 3 0 3 Minor below
Yes
See list
AMST XXX Minor Elective 4 3 0 3 Minor below
Yes
See list
AMST 3/4XX Minor Elective 5 3 0 3 Minor below
Yes
See list
AMST 3/4XX Minor Elective 6 3 0 3 Minor below
Yes
*Students should select 6 courses (18 credit hours) of the following courses, AT LEAST two of them MUST be
upper division (3/4 XXX courses):
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Course Descriptions
College Requirement
Course Code: ENGL123 Course Title: Language Development I
This course is designed to help students refine their accuracy and fluency and build effective oral communication
skills in both academic and non-academic contexts through practicing active and critical listening skills including
note-taking, practicing in group discussions, debates, and giving oral presentations. It also expands students’
knowledge in the grammar, vocabulary, idioms, phrasal verbs and colloquialism that are necessary for effective and
accurate oral communicate. In addition, it also integrates reading skills related to listening comprehension to
improve students’ search for and focus on key points. The three institutional credits awarded for this course count
toward graduation requirements and are, thus, calculated into the general as well as the major GPA (MCGPA).
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Major Courses
Course Code: ENGL128 Course Title: Language Development III
This course is a continuation of ENGLU 203. It integrates skill instruction with emphasis on reading skills at C1 level
(CEFR). It provides practice in active and critical reading skills including identifying topic, details, and key points;
annotating; synthesizing information from one long text and a set of related texts to give oral and written
summaries; distinguishing fact and opinion; and making inferences. The course also provides instruction in grammar
and vocabulary to help students better understand linguistically complex texts. The three institutional credits
awarded for this course count toward graduation requirements and are, thus, calculated into the general as well as
the major GPA (MCGPA).
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Course Code: ENGL306 Course Title: English Speech
Planning, organizing, and delivering from ten to twelve primarily informative, extemporaneous talks, including
introductions, demonstrations, definition, illustration, analysis, comparison/contrast, cause/effect and problem-
solution; other types of presentations will include oral interpretation and impromptu, argumentative, and
persuasive speeches
Course Code: ENGL319 Course Title: Literary Masterpieces of the Modern Word
Reading in World literature in translation, both in prose and verse, since the Middle Ages.
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Course Code: ENGL435 Course Title: Special Author
Intensive study of the works of a major literary figure (to be announced).
Course Code: ENGL440 Course Title: Contrastive Linguistics and Error Analysis
Critical differences between English and Arabic; the constructive analysis hypothesis; the predictive values of the
hypothesis as far as ARAB learners of English are concerned; other causes of errors; practical work involving the
identification and correction of learners’ errors; the significance of corrective feedback; the problem of pre-empting
errors.
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Minor Programs
Minor in Linguistics
Course Code: LING201 Course Title: Writing Systems and Literacy
An introduction to how human speech and thought are recorded in visual form; the origins of writing systems and
how they spread through space and time; the various types of writing; the process of decipherment; how we learn
to read and write; printing and spelling; the cultural impact of writing and literacy; the phenomenon of text and
instant messaging as a new writing system.
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Course Code: LING415 Course Title: Critical Discourse Analysis
This course addresses the theoretical and practical principles of critical discourse analysis (CDA). CDA examines how
social and power relations, identities, and knowledge are constructed through written, visual, and spoken texts in
social settings (e.g. local, institutional and societal domains). This course is designed to foster critical understanding
of how language is encoded and loaded with different cultural and ideological values and the different ways in which
language can be used to mediate ideological representations and constructions of different socio-political and
cultural categories, constructs and issues. The course will provide students with a working knowledge of CDA and its
application to qualitative and quantitative research and analysis of different public discourses.
Minor in Literature
Course Code: LITR234 Course Title: Studies in Short Fiction
This course deals with the novella, a distinctive and well-established genre in literature. It introduces world- famous
novellas by the great pillars of this genre, like D. H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Henry James, Virginia Woolf, John
Steinbeck, Leo Tolstoy, and others. And through careful analysis and criticism, the course aims at developing the
students’ critical and linguistic skills.
Course Code: LITR315 Course Title: English Literature and Culture III
The course continues from Engl.314, Studying English literature and culture from the Victorian to the Present (1832
– Present) focusing on various representative literary texts within their historical and cultural contexts.
Course Code: LITR318 Course Title: Literary Masterpieces of the Ancient World
An introduction to classical literature, primarily Greek and Roman, which has influenced later Western thought and
writing.
Course Code: LITR319 Course Title: Literary Masterpieces of the Modern World
Reading in World literature in translation, both in prose and verse, since the Middle Ages.
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Course Code: LITR416 Course Title: Contemporary Literature
Readings selected from prose fiction, poetry or drama since 1945.
Minor in French
Course Code: FREN 141 Course Title: French (l)
The emphasis is on the developing students' skills in communication in everyday situations. It gives students the
basic elements of composing simple phrases and writing short essays.
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Course Code: FREN 313 Course Title: Advanced French (Ill)
This course focuses on studying French language at a high level, concentrating on subjects such as press, hotels
and tourism through the study of various subjects and readings. At the same time, it gives the students essential
vocabulary and grammar.
Minor in Translation
Course Code: ARAB227 Course Title: Fundamentals of Arabic Syntax and Morphology
ومؤكدة{ وما يعتريها من تغييرات ] بالتقديم والتأخير، ومثبتة ومنفية،دراسة نظرية وتطبيقية مختصرة لبنية الجملة في اللغة العربية } اسمية وفعلية
. كما تعالج الدراسة أهم جوانب التصريف واالشتقاق والعدد والتذكير والتأنيث. وما يتعلق بها من نواسخ ومتعلقات،[والفصل والحذف
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Course Code: TRAN403 Course Title: Scientific & Technical Translation
The course offers intensive practice in the translation of scientific and technical texts from and into English and
Arabic. Attention is also paid to the translation of medical texts, such as hospital notices, medical reports and
brochures dealing with health matters.
Course Code: AMST 214 Course Title: American Poetry and Drama
A survey of major American poets and dramatists, including 19th century poets such as Whitman and Dickinson, and
representatives of the 20th century such as Pound, Eliot, Stevens, Ginsberg, and Plath. Drama will begin with the
works of O’Neill and continue with major successors such as Williams, Miller, Albee, et al.
Course Code: AMST 201 Course Title: US History I: from the Colonial Period to 1877
Survey of American history from the early American experience to the end of the Era of Reconstruction. Political
institutions, constitutional development, the Revolution, the sectional crisis, the Civil War, race relations, economic
development, foreign policy, and intellectual and cultural ideas.
Course Code: AMST 202 Course Title: US History II: from 1877 to the Present
Survey of US history from the end of the era of Reconstruction to the present. The rise of new constitutional and
political developments, America’s ascent to industrial supremacy, America’s rise as a world power, World War I,
the Great Depression, World War II, the Cold War, social, political and cultural changes since the 1960s, and the
rise of neo-conservatism and neo-liberalism
Course Code: AMST 205 Course Title: American Government I - National and Local
Theories in government that influenced the framers of the US Constitution, Federalism, political participation, public
opinion, the media, political parties and interest groups at the national and local levels
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Course Code: AMST 206 Course Title: American Government II - National and Local
Political institutions at the national and local levels, such as the legislature, judiciary and the executive. America’s
economic policy, bureaucracy, civil liberties, civil rights, and foreign and defense policies
Course Code: AMST 224 Course Title: History of US-Middle East Relations
The historical development of the US approach and policies toward the Middle East since the Colonial era, with
special emphasis on the relationship from World War I to the present.
Course Code: AMST 225 Course Title: The Geography of the United States
A survey of the physical, political and cultural geography of the United States.
Course Code: AMST 250 Course Title: American Law and Institutions
A descriptive survey of the constitutional and structural principles, processes and functions of the American
governmental system, along with an examination of major political institutions.
Course Code: AMST 420 Course Title: America’s Role in International Affairs
A historical survey of America’s rise to international prominence and a discussion of its current place on the
international scene and its stance on various regional and global issues.
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University Requirements Courses Descriptions
Course Code: ARAB 110 Course Title: Arabic Language Skills
This course focuses on basic Arabic skills including form, function, and meaning. It also helps the student to
appreciate and understand structures and approach them from a critical point of view, through various genres in
literature.
ونقدا – وبيان خصائصها الجمالية وقيمها، وداللة – ومعالجة أساليبها – قراءة وتذوقا، ومعجما، وتركيبا،دراسة أساسيات اللغة العربية – صياغة
. من خالل نصوص تتناول مختلف األجناس األدبية شعرا ونثرا،الداللية والتعبيرية
Course Code: HIST 122 Course Title: Modern History of Bahrain and Citizenship
Spatial identity of Bahrain: Brief history of Bahrain until the 18th century; the historical roots of the formation of the
national identity of Bahrain since the 18th century; the modern state and evolution of constitutional life in Bahrain;
the Arabic and Islamic dimensions of the identity of Bahrain; the core values of Bahrain’s society and citizenship
rights (legal, political, civil and economic); duties; responsibilities and community participation; economic change
and development in Bahrain; Bahrain’s Gulf, Arab and international relations.
الجذور التاريخية لتكوين الهوية الوطنية للبحرين منذ القرن الثامن، مختصر تاريخ البحرين حتى القرن الثامن عشر ميالدي،الشخصية المكانية للبحرين
القيم األساسية لمجتمع البحرين وحقوق، البعد العربي واإلسالمي في هوية البحرين، الدولة الحديثة وتطور الحياة الدستورية في البحرين،عشر الميالدي
العالقات، التطور االقتصادي والتنمية في البحرين، المسؤوليات والواجبات والمشاركة المجتمعية،)المواطنة (القانونية والسياسية والمدنية واالقتصادية
.الخليجية والعربية والدولية للبحرين
Course Code: ARAB 100 Course Title: Arabic Language for Special Groups
ودراسة أساسيات اللغة العربية للمبتدئين [ قراءة وكتابة ومحادثة] وكيفية التعامل مع، ورسم كلماتها، وأصوات حروفها،تعريف الطالب بالهجائية العربية
.نصوصها فهما واستيعابا
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