(ENGLISH) Dear guests, you can download a brief guide through our department from HERE.

(ARABIC) Dear guests, you can download a brief guide through our department in Arabic from HERE.

Teaching (lectures and exercises) at the undergraduate study at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature is conducted by professional teachers and associates with appropriate choices for teaching and associate positions.

The teaching team for the 1st cycle (undergraduate study) of studies in ac. 2023/24. you can download HERE.

The teaching team for the II cycle of studies in ac. 2022/23. you can download HERE.

The launch of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Faculty of Islamic Pedagogy of the University of Zenica represents a scientifically based and well-designed response of this institution to the needs of profiling teachers of the Arabic language arising from the existing Concept of Nine-Year Education and the Framework Curriculum of the FBiH, according to which the learning of the Arabic language , according to the optional criterion, predicts from the third or sixth grade.

 Basic nprinciples and starting points in the development of the Curriculum

The curriculum for the 1st cycle of (undergraduate) studies at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature was created based on the universal principles of modern profiling of teaching and translation staff, the needs projected by modernized curricula for preschool, primary and secondary education, and experiences related higher education institutions from Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad, and especially on respecting the basic principles of the Bologna Declaration, which especially refers to:

• affirming the new European study model, comparable criteria and methodologies;
• acceptance of a system based on three educational cycles, undergraduate,
• graduate/master's and postgraduate/doctoral studies;
• introduction of the ECTS system as a suitable means of affirming the widest exchange of students;
• affirming the mobility of students, teachers, researchers, administrative staff;
• affirming European and world cooperation in quality assurance;
• affirming and introducing a system of easily recognizable and comparable academic degrees supplements degrees.

When creating the Department's program, the following principles were especially emphasized:

• the unity of the model of all studies within the framework of Bosnia and Herzegovina studies, i.e. the unique duration of all study cycles (4+1+3 or 3+2+3);
• principle of optionality or modularity; students are tried to be offered the opportunity to choose some modules and thus take part in shaping their studies;
• the one-semester principle when designing modules;
• organization of studies in three credit groups, namely: in two credit groups of organized teaching subjects (compulsory and optional modules) and a third credit group of curricular and extracurricular scientific activities;
• the principle of modernity and responding to current educational needs in BiH, especially in the domain of comprehensive language profiling;
• the principle of the uniqueness of Bosnian cultural traditions and heritage and their compatible combination with the cultural traditions of the Near and Middle East;
• the principle of the need to combine the traditional and the modern in order to provide a high-quality and comprehensive response to modern standards in education.

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As a member of the University of Zenica, the Faculty of Islamic Pedagogy has undertaken to harmonize its study programs with the European credit transfer system, the so-called European Credit Transfer System (ECTS), according to which, in one year of study, as a rule, 60 ECTS points are acquired, that is, 30 ECTS points per semester.

Upon completion of the first cycle of four-year (undergraduate) studies at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature, students acquire 240 ECTS credits, thus meeting the establishment of a vertical system of passing through all three cycles, which are determined by the Bologna process (4 + 1 + 3).

 Description and references of the study

The first (first, undergraduate) study cycle at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature lasts four years, i.e. eight semesters and is designed as full-time and part-time.

In order to complete undergraduate studies and obtain diplomas and professional degrees, students must collect 240 ECTS credits (30 per semester, or 60 per year of study).

During the school year, the study lasts thirty weeks. Exams are organized in three exam periods: January-February, June-July and September, and continuous monitoring of students' progress is applied in accordance with the ECTS system.

In the study program, the subjects are evenly, logically and chronologically distributed according to the years of study so as to ensure the gradual acquisition of knowledge, from elementary in the lower years of study, to highly professional in the higher years of study.

In each study group, subjects are organized as compulsory (professional) and optional, and seminars, term papers, pedagogical-didactic activities and a final paper are also planned.

Candidates who have completed a four-year high school are admitted to the Department of Arabic Language and Literature. Candidates also take an entrance exam that is organized in accordance with the Rules of the Faculty.

 Study goals, competencies and abilities of students

The goal of undergraduate studies at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature is to enable enrolled students to acquire a good foundation of knowledge and skills that will help them develop a solid theoretical, critical, historical and cultural, and especially, methodical and practical understanding of the Arabic language and literary and cultural traditions. created in the areas where this language is used.

At the study of Arabic language and literature, students acquire the following professional and specialist competencies:

• language competence in Arabic at the C1-C2 level according to the European reference levels,
• basic knowledge of contemporary linguistic disciplines,
• basic knowledge of the theories and techniques of written and oral translation,
• knowledge of the culture of Arabic-speaking countries (geographical, cultural-historical, socio-political, economic and other aspects),
• knowledge of literary and scientific terminology and methodology,
• knowledge of the theoretical foundations of learning and teaching a foreign and second language, that is, the linguistic and cognitive theories on which they rest;
• knowledge of basic didactic principles, methods and procedures of teaching Arabic from a diachronic and synchronic point of view;
• knowledge of research techniques with regard to the process of learning and teaching Arabic as a foreign language.

Students acquire the following abilities:

• ability to linguistically analyze the structure and use of language,
• the ability to apply different methods in written and oral professional translation,
• the ability to individually interpret a literary work,
• the ability to apply an intercultural approach in comparative analyzes of cultural, economic, historical and political ties between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Arabic-speaking countries,
• the ability to plan, perform and critically reflect on the process of learning and teaching Arabic as a foreign language,
• the ability to use learning strategies and to teach language knowledge and skills,
• the ability to use IT and communication technologies,
• the ability to apply the techniques of scientific and research work.

 Struchneither name or degree which are stche finishshetc study

Upon completion of the four-year undergraduate study at the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the Faculty of Islamic Pedagogy in Zenica, students obtain the title GRADUATES PROFESSOR OF ARABIC LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

For detailed insight into the curriculum of the Department, click here HERE. (January 2012 version)
For a detailed insight into the curriculum of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature (Cycle I), click here HERE. 
For a detailed insight into the curriculum of the Department of Arabic Language and Literature (II cycle), click HERE.