Programmes in Arabic Department

100 LEVEL FIRST SEMESTER (HARMATTAN)

COURSE NO.	COURSE TITLE	CREDITS	STATUS
GNS 111	Use of English 1	2	C
ARA 124	Translation from and into Arabic I	3	C
ARA 125	Introduction to Arabic Literature	3	C
ARA 126	Arabic Morphology I	2	C

SECOND SEMESTER (RAIN)

COURSE NO.	COURSE TITLE	CREDITS	STATUS
GNS 112	Use of English 1I	2	C
ARA 121	Intermediate Arabic Grammar	3	C
ARA 122	Arabic Composition I	2	C
ARA 123	Arabic Reader and Comprehension	3	C
ARA 142	Beginner’s Arabic Conversation II	1	C

200 LEVEL FIRST SEMESTER (HARMATTAN)

COURSE NO.	COURSE TITLE	CREDITS	STATUS
GNS 211	Philosophy, Logic and Nigerian Culture	2	C
ARA 223	Arabic Composition II	2	C
ARA 224	Translation from and into Arabic II	2	C
ARA225	Pre-Islamic Arabic Literature	2	C
ARA227	The Art of Speech-making in Arabic	2	C
ARA 228	Arabic Syntax I	2	C

SECOND SEMESTER (RAIN)

COURSE NO.	COURSE TITLE	CREDITS	STATUS
GNS 212	Introduction to Social Sciences and Citizenship Education	2	C
ARA 229	Arabic Morphology II	2	C
ARA 222	Arabic Reader	3	C
ARA 226	Arabic Literature of the Early Islamic Umayyad period	2	C

300 LEVEL FIRST SEMESTER (HAMATTAN)

COURSE NO.	COURSE TITLE	CREDITS	STATUS
GNS 311	History and Philosophy of Science	3	C
ARA 321	Arabic Literature of the Early Abbasid period	2	C
ARA 325	Arabic Rhetoric I	2	C
ARA 327	Advanced Arabic Reader I	2	E
ARA 331	Arabic Calligraphy	2	R
ARA 332	Arabic Phonetics	2	C
ARA 335	Arabic Syntax II	2	C
ARA 337	Classical Arabic Criticism	2	C

SECOND SEMESTER (RAIN)

COURSE NO.	COURSE TITLE	CREDITS	STATUS
ARA 324	Art and Practice of Translation	2	R
ARA 326	Arabic Prosody	3	C
ARA 328	Arabic Composition and Translation	3	C
ARA 330	Development of Arabic Grammar	2	R
ARA 336	Arabic Morphology III	2	E
ARA 388	Research Methods in Arabic	2	R

400 LEVEL FIRST SEMESTER (HARMATTAN)

COURSE NO.	COURSE TITLE	CREDITS	STATUS
ARA 421	Arabic Literature of Post-Classical Period	2	E
RAL 422	Modern Arabic Literature I	2	E
RAL 424	West African Arabic Literature I	2	C
RAL 430	Advanced Arabic Reading	2	R
RAL 432	Arabic Literature in Spain	2	E
RAL 434	Advanced Arabic Syntax	2	C
RAL 436	Advanced Translation and Composition	2	R
RAL 437	Modern Arabic Literary Criticism	2	R

SECOND SEMESTER (RAIN)

COURSE NO.	COURSE TITLE	CREDITS	STATUS
RAL 423	Modern Arabic Literature II	2	R
RAL 425	West African Arabic Literature II	2	E
RAL 426	Modern Arabic Literature in Nigeria	2	EL
RAL 427	Arabic Rhetoric II	2	R
RAL 433	Literature on Biladu S-Sudan	2	E
RAL 435	The Theatre in Arabic	3	R
RAL 438	Classical and Modern Literature	2	E
RAL 499	Long Essay	5	C

(b)	M.A. Arabic degree courses are as follows:

FIRST SEMESTER (HARMATTAN)

COURSE NO.	COURSE TITLE	CREDITS	STATUS
ARA 651	Arabic Prosody	2	C
ARA 652	Arabic Literary Criticism	2	C
ARA 654	The Growth of al-Balaghah	2	E
ARA 672	Early Islamic and Umayyad Literature	2	E
ARA 673	Emergency of New Themes in ‘Abbasid Literature	2	C
ARA 676	Modern Arabic Poetry	2	E
ARA 681	Arabic Literature on Nigeria by Nigerian Authors	2	R
ARA 692	Research Methods	2	C

SECOND SEMESTER (RAIN)

COURSE NO.	COURSE TITLE	CREDITS	STATUS
ARA 653	The Growth of Arabic Grammar	2	R
ARA 655	The Qur’anic Rhetoric	2	C
ARA 663	Arabic Grammar I	2	C
ARA 664	Arabic Grammar II	2	E
ARA 674	Post- Classical Period	2	R
ARA 677	The Arabic Short Story and Novel	2	E
ARA 691	Seminar on Arabic	2	R
ARA 699	Research Project	5	C

(c)	The Ph.D. programme is by research under the supervision of competent lecturers who are Ph.D. holders and not below the grade of Senior Lecturer