| Location: | Tangier, Morocco |
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| Hosting Institution: | American Institute for Maghrib Studies - Tangier American Legation Museum (TALM) |
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| Language Offered: | Modern Standard Arabic and Moroccan colloquial dialect |
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| Levels offered and pre-requisite language study: | Intermediate and Advanced
Minimum requirement: completion of one year of college-level Arabic, or its equivalent, prior to the start of the program.
Note: If using the Al-Kitab textbook series, students should have completed approximately 7 to 12 chapters of Book I prior to the program start date.
Advanced - Minimum requirement: completion of two years of college-level Arabic, or its equivalent, prior to the start of the program. Note: If using the Al-Kitab textbook series, students should have completed approximately 7 chapters of Book II prior to the program start date.
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| Dates of Program: | June 11 - August 15, 2009
Dates are inclusive of travel and pre-departure orientation in Washington, DC. Air travel will be arranged for participants after selection. Students are required to participate in the full program, including the pre-departure orientation. |
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| Curriculum Information: | Students will be required to attend all program activities, including classroom instruction and cultural excursions. Absences will only be excused for medical reasons.
Students will study both Modern Standard (MSA) and colloquial Arabic. The program will use the Al-Kitaab series (parts 1 and 2) published by Georgetown University Press. In addition to the material in Al-Kitaab, texts that are specifically tied to the North African context in which the students are studying will be used in the classes.
Students will be asked to sign a language pledge committing them to speak only Arabic during the day and while on the American School campus.
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| Housing and Meals: | Students will be housed in double-occupancy rooms at the American School in Tangier, which is also where classes are held. Students will be provided a modest living stipend to cover meals not included in regular program activities. |
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| Information on Hosting Institution: | The Tangier American Legation Museum (TALM), a thriving cultural center, museum, conference center and library in the heart of the old medina in Tangier, is housed in the only historic landmark of the United States located abroad. Saved from destruction by a small but dedicated group now known as the Tangier American Legation Museum Society, (TALMS) the museum now operates with a locally-hired staff under the leadership of the Museum Director, Thor Kuniholm.
As the representative of The American Institute for Maghrib Studies in Morocco, TALM has hosted many AIMS conferences on a wide variety of subjects –the status of women in North Africa, the walled Arab city in history, environmental issues, language in North Africa, North African literature, and in 2004 a conference on Rethinking the Jewish Presence in North Africa . Through these periodic AIMS conferences, TALM encourages communication among North African scholars introducing them to the resources of the TALM research library. The AIMS Maghribi scholar program administered in Morocco by TALM, compliments this objective by offering short term grants to Tunisian and Algerian scholars to conduct research in Morocco.
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| Student Testimonials: | 2008 CLS Participant, Undergraduate Student, Loyola Marymount University
"My experience participating in the Critical Language Scholarship was extremely valuable and has had an impact on my academic, professional, and personal growth and development. The class instruction was my favorite part of the entire program and played the most integral role in my progression in Arabic. I was most impressed with how patient my instructors were in the first few weeks of the program. Classes emphasized spoken Arabic much more than written Arabic and I benefited from this greatly...I feel that the level of education I received in Tangier far exceeded the level of any university course I have ever taken, and I am extremely grateful to have been able to learn and study in such an efficient system." |
