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Arabic Language Institute

Summer Intensive 2025

Arabic Language Institute is pleased to offer the following course in summer 2025:

  • Intensive Elementary Arabic (equivalent to one full academic year of Arabic study)
  • Intensive Intermediate Arabic (equivalent to one full academic year of Arabic study)
  • Qur’anic Arabic: Non-intensive, non-credit course
  • Qur’anic recitation (迟补箩飞墨诲): Non-intensive, non-credit course Details are below

Please contact Dr. Talaat Pasha at tpasha@aicusa.edu for questions regarding the Arabic Language Institute and our summer 2025 Arabic language classes.

Elementary level Modern Standard Arabic

(ARA 101 & 102)

Prerequisite: None, this is a course for beginners
Credit hours: Eight (8) = 120 contact hours
Dates: May 19 鈥� July 24 (10 weeks, 3 hrs./day, four days per week)
Days: Monday 鈥� Thursday
Timing: 10:00am 鈥� 1:00pm CT (Tentative)
Venue: Online (via Zoom)
Textbook: Ahlan Wa Sahlan, by Mahdi Alosh and Allen Clark.
Tuition (excluding textbook costs): $250/credit hour ($2000 for the full 8 credit course) for students seeking academic credit; $150/credit hour ($1200 for the full 8-credfit course) for auditors/students not interested in the academic credit.

Intermediate level Modern Standard Arabic

(ARA 201 & 202)

Prerequisite: At least two semesters of Elementary Arabic (ARA 101 & 102 or equivalent)
Credit hours: Eight (8) = 120 contact hours
Dates: May 19 鈥� July 24 (10 weeks, 3 hrs./day, four days per week)
Days: Monday 鈥� Thursday
Timing: 10:00 am 鈥� 1:00 pm CT (Tentative)
Venue: Online (via Zoom)
Textbook: Ahlan Wa Sahlan, by Mahdi Alosh and Allen Clark.
Tuition (excluding textbook costs): $250/credit hour ($2000 for the full 8 credit course) for students seeking academic credit; $150/credit hour ($1200 for the full 8-credfit course) for auditors/students not interested in the academic credit.

FLAS Fellowship compliant Intermediate level Modern Standard Arabic

(ARA 201 & 202)

This course is designed to meet FLAS requirements of 140 contact hours for the Intermediate level. It will be taught in conjunction with our regular 120-hour intensive Intermediate course, supplemented with a total of 20 hours of language drills and co-curricular activities.

Quranic Arabic

Prerequisite: At least one semester of Elementary Arabic (ARA 101 or equivalent)
Credit hours: Three (3) = 45 contact hours
Dates: May 19 鈥� July 24 (4.5 hours/week; 10 weeks)
Days: Saturday and Sunday evenings
Timing: 5:30 pm – 7:45 pm CT (Tentative)
Venue: Online
Textbooks: A New Arabic Grammar of the Arabic language, by Haywood and Nahmad & Arabic Through Quran, by Allen Jones.
Tuition (excluding textbook costs): For credit seeking students $750, for auditing students $450

Introduction to Quranic recitation (迟补箩飞墨诲) class

Prerequisite: At least one semester of Elementary Arabic (ARA 101 or equivalent)
Credit hours: Three (3) = 45 contact hours
Dates: May 19 鈥� July 24 (4.5 hours/week; 10 weeks)
Days: Tuesday and Thursday evenings
Timing: 6:30 pm – 8:45 pm CT (Tentative)
Venue: Online
Textbook: Mu峁ａ弗af al-Mad墨nah (students need to be reading from the same edition of the Quran for pedagogical reasons, given the orthographic variations among different versions; this one is the best for such purposes).
Tuition (excluding textbook costs): For credit seeking students $750, for auditing students $450.