Academic Structure 8 courses = 32 credit hours,
practical training = 10 credit hours
Master's thesis = 18 credit hours
ABOUT THE ACADEMIC TRACK
The Master of Arts in Arabic Language (Linguistics) seeks to provide a distinguished educational service, and graduate a qualified cadre equipped with scientific and professional skills, to meet the needs of the labor market locally and regionally, and serve the community, by providing a stimulating educational environment, and specialized academic competencies, using the means Modern electronic communications and technologies, in accordance with quality assurance and accreditation standards
Vision:
The Master of Arts in Linguistic Studies is an integrated academic track that is distinguished in its content and sources from the corresponding tracks locally, regionally and internationally.
Mission
The academic track seeks to qualify postgraduate students in the field of Linguistics highly and distinguishedly, by adopting specificity on the one hand, and introducing new curricula and knowledge on the other hand, in order to ensure understanding of constants and principles, and deepening in modern concepts and approaches, with the help of thinking and scientific research skills.
Objectives
1. Preparing qualified cadres in the field of linguistics to meet the needs of the Omani community, who are distinguished in this field.
2. Providing a qualitative addition nationally, regionally and globally in linguistics.
3. Providing the student with the scientific methodology of thinking and criticism in order to develop his scientific abilities and direct them towards creativity and innovation in linguistics.
4. Developing postgraduate students’ scientific thinking skills based on modern research methods.
5. Enriching knowledge by providing a distinguished scientific addition in the field of linguistics.
6. Linking the fundamentals in the field of linguistics with modern scientific methods in order to establish privacy and support communication.
7. Enhancing the student’s ability to solve problems and critical thinking to develop his skills in the fields of education and scientific research.Outputs:
After the end of the academic track, the student is expected to be able to:
1. Prepare specialized academic research with a high methodological level.
2. Employ higher thinking abilities in dealing with sources of knowledge related to his specialization.
3. He is good at employing his previous and contemporary knowledge in serving his local, Arab and international community.
4. Proficient in linguistic analysis skills.
5. He has knowledge in his specialty.
6. Learn about the latest developments and the most important research and studies in his specialization.
7. It studies the issues of linguistics in Omani society – such as the emergence of a hybrid language (lingo) or the issue of social influence on linguistic behavior or the issue of linguistic specificities – in a way that contributes to a deeper understanding of the Omani linguistic reality and supports the scientific and cultural movement.
The First Stage
- The student studies eight courses, distributed as follows:
√ Six compulsory courses.
√Two elective courses from among the courses offered by the faculty for master’s students.- The study is conducted through research seminars in each course, and the research seminar relies on multiple references and is in accordance with the scientific research methodology and standards.
- The study of each of the eight courses takes four credit hours for a minimum of four weeks, and it may be more than that according to the capabilities of each student, after which the student’s competency and knowledge test is held in the course he finished, then he starts in another course in the same way, and so on.
- Courses studied in the first year, the student has the right to extend the study for a period not exceeding a second year.
- If a specialization track is chosen within the general program, elective courses will have to be studied from the courses designated for the chosen specialization.
The Second Stage
● The student is assigned a virtual course that the faculty chooses from among the courses that the student studied at the bachelor’s level. This is a practical training for the student, with ten credit hours. The student must divide this course into twelve to fourteen abbreviated lectures. The student presents each lecture in the form of a written summary of its topic in Word format, accompanied by a video recording of it in the student’s voice using the Power Point program. Its duration is not less than ten minutes and not more than twenty. Accurate.
The Thrid Stage
Requirements for registering a thesis topic for a master’s degree in Arts and Humanities.
- The student must pass the prescribed academic courses with at least 70%.
- The student obtains a TOEFL certificate with a score of at least 450, or its equivalent, or obtains a corresponding certificate in the French language, with the exception of those who obtained a first university degree in one of the two languages, or in one of the two languages.
- The student submits a request to the university administration to register a master’s thesis with a suggested topic in one of the sub-specialized tracks.
- If the initial approval of the subject title is achieved, the Faculty Council shall specify a supervisor to guide the student and follow him up in preparing the plan.
- The research plan includes the importance of the subject and a critical presentation of the previous studies in it, and a specification of the research problem, then defining the methodology of the study and its main hypotheses or the questions that you want to answer, and the division of the study and its sources.
- The student presents his proposed plan in a scientific seminar. The plan discusses a topic and methodology.
- The student amends his plan based on the notes of the professors in the seminar if he is asked to amend it.
- The plan is presented after the seminar to the Faculty Council to take its decision regarding the registration of the subject.
- In the event of approval, the decision of the Faculty Council is presented to the University Council to approve the registration, and the date of registration is calculated from the date of approval by the University Council.
Jury discussion and degree awarding
- The minimum period for preparing a master’s thesis is nine months, starting from the date of approval of the University Council to register the subject, and the maximum is two years, which can be extended for a third exceptional year upon the recommendation of the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council, provided that the total period of the student’s enrollment in the degree does not exceed four years.
- The supervisor submits a semi-annual report that includes what has been accomplished, and what is required in the remaining period.
- After the student completes the thesis and the supervisor reviews it, the supervisor submits to the university administration a report stating that it is valid for discussion, including an evaluation of the student’s performance during the thesis preparation period of 140 degrees, along with submitting a full copy of the thesis signed by him, and a letter with the names of the jury proposed by the professors of the specialty, for presentation to the Council the faculty.
- It is required that before the student’s discussion, at least fifteen days have passed from the date of approval of the jury committee from the faculty.
- The jury committee formed to discuss the thesis is six months, which may be renewed for a similar period based on a report from the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council.
- The period of validity of the committee formed to discuss the thesis is six months. It may be renewed for a similar period based on a report from the supervisor and the approval of the Faculty Council.
- Each member of the jury writes a detailed scientific report on the validity of the thesis for discussion, and evaluates the thesis out of 100 degrees, and the average of the three degrees is taken.
- The student may not be discussed unless he obtains at least 70% of the supervisor’s evaluation of his performance and the jury members’ evaluation of the thesis in the individual reports.
- Submit a post-dissertation group report signed by all members of the jury evaluating the thesis discussion out of 100.
- The thesis is approved after common discussion by the jury with one of the grades shown in the following table:
Definition Point Grade Excellent 4.00 A+ Excellent 3.75 A Very Good 3.50 B+ Very Good 3.00 B Good 2.50 C+ Average 2.00 C Pass on probation 1.50 D+ Pass on probation 1.00 D Fail 0.00 F
- The following grades are not taken into account for the semester or cumulative GPA.
Thesis or project in progress : DP Incomplete : I In progress : IP Registration has been suspended : L The grade has not been decided : NGR Did not take the final exam. : NP Transferred course. : T Withdraw from the course. : W The course covers two semesters, the degree is given at the end of the spring or summer semester. : YR There are no credit hours. : NC One credit hour taken as a private student. The credit hours and the degree do not count towards the degree : ND Re-submitted course, only the last grade is used in calculating the GPA. : R Credit taken as a special student. Credit hours and grade counted towards a degree. : S Credits
Before the 2016-2017 fall semester 1 credit point is equivalent to 1 semester lecture hour. In the 2016 – 2017 fall semester the University introduced the ECTS – European Credit Transfer System.Academic Calendar
International Suleiman University calendar is based on the semester system. Each semester has a duration of 15 weeks including the week of the final exam. The summer semester is 10 weeks long, including the final exam.
Core Courses for General Track
Scientific Research Methodology
Course code: MAH101
Course name: Scientific Research Methodology
Credit hours: 4.00
The course deals with research methods in language; It deals with the different linguistic approaches, especially the normative and descriptive approaches, and the approaches to language study in general, and focuses on the research writing approach, starting from selecting the topic to preparing a list of sources and references.
Philology
Course code: MAAR101
Course name: Philology
Credit hours: 4.00
The course provides a theoretical introduction to the definition of basic philological issues, sources of argument, linguistic strains, and dual linguistics.
Applied Linguistics
Course code: MAAR102
Course Name: Applied Linguistics
Credit hours: 4.00
This course is concerned with identifying the concept of applied linguistics and its development, and examining the concept of acquisition and teaching of the language. It also aims to identify linguistic errors and their levels, identify the methods of contrastive analysis and error analysis, and identify the method of Arab linguists in analyzing errors.
Linguistic Schools
Course code: MAAR103
Course name: Linguistic Schools
Credit hours: 4.00
The course aims to deal with a historical introduction to linguistic schools and their impact on linguistic research since their inception in the wake of the linguistic renaissance in the West in the late nineteenth century and what followed. This course also provides the possibility of making comparisons between those schools and their curricula and between the Arab linguistic trends and schools such as the al-Bayaniya school of al-Jahiz and the school of systems. With Al-Jurjani, the comprehensive school with Al-Sakaki, and the Al-Tarqiyya school with Ibn Khaldun, and identifying the aspects of agreement and disagreement between those schools in order to determine the influence and being affected in that.
Issues in Modern Linguistics
Course code: MAAR104
Course name: Issues in Modern Linguistics
Credit hours: 4.00
The course deals with historical, social, psychological, biological, and anthropological linguistics in terms of: defining it and its principles, topics, and objectives, with the aim of enabling the learner to understand historical and modern linguistics, and to compare different linguistics, and clarify their objectives, principles, and topics.
Foundations of Grammatical Theory
Course code: MAAR106
Course name: Foundations of Grammatical Theory
Credit hours: 4.00
The course aims to define the foundations on which Arab grammarians built the theory of Arabic grammar, to identify the reality of syntax and its originality in Arabic, to enable the student to understand the issue of the factor and its impact on constructing grammar, to facilitate his ability to distinguish between estimated and omitted elements from the context, and to recognize the need for security of ambiguity in The discourse, through dealing with the phenomenon of syntax, factor, cause, deletion and estimation, interest and security of ambiguity.
Elective Courses for General Track
Phonetics
Course code: MAAR151
Course name: Phonetics
Credit hours: 4.00
The course deals with the study and analysis in two aspects: the first: theoretical, by examining the concept of phonology and its methods of study. This science also studies traditional phonetic research, the importance of the physical analysis of sounds and how it is done, it also studies the syllable theory, the syllable structure of the Arabic language, stress and intonation, and phoneme theory ( phoneme), contextual phonemic phenomena, historical phonetic changes, and stops at the practical functions performed by this science.
The second: an applied laboratory study on recorded samples of sounds. It aims to distinguish between the methods of studying phonology, interpreting the auditory analysis of sounds, and analyzing the syllable structure in the Arabic language, and applying that to recorded phonemic models.
Computational Linguistics
Course code: MAAR152
Course name: Computational Linguistics
Credit hours: 4.00
This course aims to give a theoretical introduction to computational linguistics, and the basics of automatic processing of natural language. The course also aims to give a basic idea about text analysis, automatic processing of grammar, and automatic processing of word construction. This course presents a mixture of knowledge that includes linguistic knowledge and related computer knowledge with artificial intelligence. This is consistent with the era of modern information technology, which is moving towards smart computer systems that can deal with humans in their natural language.
Semantics
Course code: MAAR153
Course Name: Semantics
Credit hours: 4.00
This course deals with the study of issues of meaning at the level of morphemes, words, expressions, structures, and text, by providing an explanation of some basic terms of science, such as the definition of icon, sign, symbol, reference, saying, sentence, order, and speech. The course also reviews the efforts of Arab scholars, especially fundamentalists and philosophers, in semantic research. The course then deals with the role of functional linguistics in the semantic concept, and some semantic theories in order to enable the learner to study semantic theories such as conceptual, indicative, behavioral, analytical, semantic fields, and context.
Texts from Arabic Grammar
Course code: MAAR154
Course name: Texts from Arabic Grammar
Credit hours: 4.00
The course deals with an analytical reading of texts from the grammatical heritage books, chosen by the professor, taking into account: diversity, historical gradation, and comparison between them. Al-Masaa’il by Al-Farsi, “The Meanings of the Qur’an” by Al-Farra’, “The Arabization of the Qur’an” by Al-Nahhas, “Amali Tha’lab” and “Al-Muhtaseb” by Ibn Jinni, with the aim of enabling the student to be able to understand the texts of the ancients, analyze the grammatical texts, and identify the different opinions of grammarians on some grammatical issues.
Morphology: its history and issues
Course code: MAAR155
Course Name: Morphology: its history and issues
Credit hours: 4.00
The course aims to identify the origins of the science of morphology and its most important figures. It also seeks to demonstrate the impact of morphology on the Arabization of innovations.
The history of morphology: its origins and development, morphological authoring methods, and the study of some of the following morphological issues: between conjugation and derivation, morphological scale, derivational scale, phonetic scale, diminutive scale, attributing verbs to pronouns, verb stress, sources and derivatives.
Glossary and Terminology
Course code: MAAR156
Course Name: Glossary and Terminology
Credit hours: 4.00
The course aims to highlight the importance of the term in Arabic disciplines. It also acquaints the student with the most important sources of dictionaries and the basics of the lexical industry. It deals with the concept of the lexicon, the importance of studying the lexicon and the term and their connection to semantic work, lexicography and its problems, the relationship between lexicon and its sources, the change of lexical significance in the literary text, general dictionaries, and special dictionaries.
Welcome to Institute of Postgraduate Studies
Degree: Master's DegreeTrack code: MA101AHStudy method: Distance LearningCredit hour: 60How long it takes:Full time: 2 yearsPart time: 4 yearsLimit time: 6 years