UCL - Interuniversity FNRS Postgraduate seminar in Arabic Texts

[GLOR2901]

[15h] 5 credits

Teacher(s):

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

At the end of the course, the student should have acquired :
- thorough familiarity with a specific aspect of Arabic literature, particularly of the Classical period, and its historical, religious and cultural settings;
- advanced knowledge of modern scholarly approaches to various aspects of Arabic literature;
- the communication skills required to actively contribute to a discussion on a relevant topic.

Main themes

Each year, this cross-institutional seminar is organized for two entire days and highlights a specific corpus of texts belonging to Arabic literature, mostly of the Classical period. Texts to be studied derive from Muslim, Christian, Jewish and confessionally neutral environments, and concern one of the relevant genres: geography or travel accounts, historiography, scientific and religious texts, poetry, texts for entertainment, etc.
The seminar is organised in turns by the participating universities (UCL, ULg, ULB) and each time deals with the recent or current research carried out by a visiting scholar (usually from abroad), who will define the corpus of texts, in collaboration with the local organizers.
Students are expected to actively engage in group discussions with the visiting scholar.
Please note: for UCL students, the texts in question may (partly) coincide with texts studied in other courses, notably Classical Arabic II (GLOR 2661-2662) and Middle Arabic (GLOR 2721-2722).

Content and teaching methods

This cross-institutional seminar highlights a specific corpus of texts belonging to Arabic literature, mostly of the Classical period. The seminar is organised in turns by the participating universities (UCL, ULg, ULB) and each time deals with the recent or current research carried out by a visiting scholar. Students are expected to actively engage in group discussions.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Prerequiste : sound knowledge of Classical Arabic, at the level of the Masters programme..
Examination : certification of partipation
support : texts will be distributed partly prior to the seminar, in digital format (for UCL, on the iCampus digital environment), and partly during the seminar.