RA421 : Modern Literary Criticism

Department

Academic Program

Bachelor in Arabic Language

Type

Compulsory

Credits

02

Prerequisite

Overview

Modern Literary Criticism Course RA424: It is taught to students of the fourth academic year of the Department of Arabic Language for two hours per week. In this course, the student studies an introduction to modern literary schools, linguistic, psychological, philosophical, and social approaches, and a historical overview of classicism, romanticism, and new realism from A social point of view, the salient features in the personality of these schools, the origins of the noble criticism (its theories, trends and figures in the West and the Arabs) and the most important modern critical approaches and figures, applications of poetic models of the Arab critical approaches and figures.

The course aims to:

Know the concept of modern literary criticism.

Standing on the nature of the literary work and its function.

Familiarity with literary genres.

The value of the study returns to the student:

Mention the stages that modern literary criticism went through.

To mention the most important issues of modern criticism.

To count modern monetary approaches.

Intended learning outcomes

Mental skills:

To enumerate the major issues of literary criticism.

To distinguish between methods of criticism in the modern era.

- To reveal the influence of the incoming curricula.

Practical and professional skills:

Acquiring the skill of reading the books of modern critics.

Acquiring the skill of using modern technology in research and presentation.

- The student should be able to criticize the text based on what he understood of critical rules.

Teaching and learning methods

The course is presented to the student through: - Lectures. - Panel discussions - Homework and research (information gathering)

Methods of assessments

Evaluation methodWritten midterm exam 30%5% oral examactivity 5%Final exam 60%