Modern and contemporary Arabic literature

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Program Overview

Field: Arabic Language and Literature

Branch: Literary Studies

Specialty: Modern and Contemporary Arabic Literature

The Master's program in Literary Studies aims to enable students to achieve a set of objectives and acquire a range of competencies, including:

  1. Enabling students to develop their academic abilities and linguistic skills, preparing them for writing research papers, theses, and dissertations, and training them in rigorous academic writing and composition.
  2. Providing students with a solid understanding of the frameworks and foundations of literary theories and literary studies.
  3. Enabling students to grasp the transformations that have occurred in literary schools, movements, and trends, and to understand the laws and dynamics governing these changes.
  4. Familiarizing students with a variety of literary theories and trends, and helping them understand the fundamental principles and concepts of each theory, while mastering the specific terminology and conceptual frameworks.
  5. Developing the ability to clearly and accurately distinguish the boundaries and overlaps between the various literary movements and schools.
  6. A deep understanding of literary texts—their hidden meanings and underlying structures—prepares students to apply diverse critical approaches to the analysis of these texts.


Teaching Language : arabic

Curriculum Highlights

Core Courses

Semester 1

Exploratory Teaching Unit

  • Interactions between Literature and the Arts
  • Folklore Studies and History

Methodological Teaching Unit

  • Literature and Critical Discourse
  • Analysis of Poetic Discourse
  • Literary Research Methodology

Core Teaching Unit

  • Issues in Modern Arabic Literature 1
  • Modern Arabic Narratology

Core Teaching Unit

  • Issues in Arabic Literature and Orientalism
  • Arabic Literature and World Literatures

Cross-disciplinary Teaching Unit

  • Translation

Semester 2

Core Teaching Unit

  • Issues in Contemporary Arabic Literature
  • Contemporary Arabic Narratology

Core Teaching Unit

  • Arabic Poetics
  • Literary Theory and Aesthetics

Cross-disciplinary Teaching Unit

  • Computer Science

Exploratory Teaching Unit

  • Parallel Arabic Literature
  • Algerian Folk Literature

Methodological Teaching Unit

  • Analysis of Novelistic Discourse
  • Contemporary Literary Theory and Globalization
  • Literary Research Methodology

Semester 3

Core Teaching Unit

  • Issues in Maghrebi Literature Written in French
  • Genre Interference in Arabic Literature

Core Teaching Unit

  • Resistance Literature
  • Biographical and Autobiographical Literature

Cross-disciplinary Teaching Unit

  • Corruption and Professional Ethics

Exploratory Teaching Unit

  • Translation
  • Terminology

Methodological Teaching Unit

  • Bibliography of Literary Studies
  • Communication Skills and Teaching Techniques
  • Electronic Documentary Research

Semester 4

Graduation Thesis (Dissertation)

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