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The Arabic FSP will use the facilities of both the Tangier American School (TAS, www.as-t.org) and the Tangier American Legation Museum (TALM, www. legation.org). TAS has a large and beautiful campus in the modern city which includes the use of a residence hall and classroom facilities for our program. The Tangier American Legation Museum (TALM), located in the medina, has an excellent English-language library for North African studies, and frequently serves as a conference and cultural center. With both TALM and TAS, we will have magnificent program space in both the modern and ancient parts of the city.
Students will take three courses in Tangier: Arabic 31 and 32 (Advanced Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Moroccan Arabic), and Arabic 11 (Director's Seminar). For ten weeks, the students will be in Arabic class for three hours a day, five days a week. There will be two sections of each language class, with approximately eight students and four local Arabic teachers. Students will also sign a language pledge to ensure that they speak Arabic at all times during the program. The language pledge will be reinforced by the residence structure of student housing: students will live in a dormitory with two Morocco graduate student tutors, who will arrange for speaking activities and ensure the maintenance of the language pledge.
In addition to regularly scheduled cultural trip within Tangier and to important cities such as Fez, Rabat, Casablanca, and Marrakech, the program will offer cooking and music lessons, and lectures in Arabic. The director's seminar for the fall 2009 offering is "Modern Morocco: Literature, Politics and Society," which will incorporate novels, memoirs, films, and guest lectures by prominent authors and officials. The tentative schedule for fall 2009 has not yet been posted, but we anticipate the program to parallel the dates of the normal ten-week term. Curriculum
Arabic 11: Director's Seminar
Arabic 31: Advanced Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Moroccan Arabic
Arabic 32: Advanced Modern Standard Arabic and Colloquial Moroccan Arabic
Living Accommodations
Students will have homestays for the first 3 weeks. For the rest of the term, students will reside in the TAS campus dormitory with two Morocco graduate student tutors
Prerequisites
Two of the following three courses with a B+ average grade or permission of the instructor
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