POLI 425 - The Arabic Language, Media and Politics in the Middle East (3 credits)

(Prereq: POLI 101 or permission of the instructor) Understanding basic terms in the Arabic Language is a key to understanding politics, media, culture and Islam in the Middle East. In this course students will gain the basic tools to enable them to understand current political discourse through main sources of Arabic media, gain basic elements and terms of modern Arabic language, and facilitate their studies of the Middle East.