Undergraduate Programme :: Department of Arts and Social Sciences

B.Sc (Ed) Arabic

Admission Requirement:

Admission into our undergraduate program is annual. Applicants who took the UTME are admitted into 100 Level 4-year degree program provided they satisfy other requiremets:

Direct Entry:

Admission into 200Level attracts candidates with NCE, A.B.U. affiliate Diploma of Arabic or from any recognized university, and IJMB results/Certificates, with at least C grade in Arabic. This is in addition to a minimum of ‘0’ level passes at credit level, including Arabic and English Languages.

U.T.M.E :

For the purpose of admission into 100L, a candidate is required to have a minimum of five (5) 0 level credit passes, including Arabic and English Languages, in the Grade II Teachers Certificate, WAEC, NECO or SAISS/STQ or equivalent Certificates, in addition to have written and passed UME examination.

Graduation Requirement:

A student must have obtained a minimum of 126 credit units to qualify for graduation.

All prescribed core, cognate and elective courses must have been passed.

Teaching practice must have been undertaken and passed, as this is also regarded as a core course.

The student must have obtained a CGPA of not less than 1.50.

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100 Level Courses

S/N	Course Code	Course Title	Credit Units	Semester
1	GENS 101	Nationalism	1	First
2	GENS 102	Environmental Health	1	First
3	GENS 103	English and Communication Skills	2	First
4	GENS 107	History of Scientific Ideas	1	First
5	EDUC 101	History of Education	2	First
6	EDAL 101	Basic Arabic Grammer for Arabic Teacher	2	First
7	EDAL 103	Oral Arabic for Arabic Teacher	1
8	EDAL 105	Language & Literature Integration for Arabic Teacher	2	First
9	ARBC 101	Introduction to Phonetics & Phonology	3	First
10	ARBC 103	Introduction to Lexical Categories	3	First
11	ARBC 105	Introductory study of Classical Poetry	3	First
12	EDUC 102	Introduction to Educational Psychology	2	Second
13	EDAL 102	Language/Linguistics for Arabic Teacher	2	Second
14	EDAL 104	Introduction to Language Methods	2	Second
15	ARBC 102	Introductory Study of Modern Prose	3	Second
16	ARBC 104	Introductory Study of Modern Poetry	3	Second
17	ARBC 106	Composition and Comprehension	3	Second
18	ARBC 108	Sentence Structure	3	Second
S/N	Course Code	Course Title	Credit Units	Semester

200 Level Courses

S/N	Course Code	Course Title	Credit Units	Semester
1	EDUC 201	Sociology of education	2	First
2	EDUC 203	Psychology of learning	2	First
3	EDUC 207	Curriculum and Instruction	2	First
4	EDUC 209	Instructional Technology	2	First
5	EDAL 201	Aural – Oral Skills for Language	2	First
6	EDAL 205	Reading & Writing in Arabic Language	2	First
7	GENS 201	Moral Philosophy	1	First
8	ARBC 201	Introduction to Morphology (elective)	2	First
9	ARBC 203	Pre Islamic and Early Islamic Prose	2	First
10	GENS 101	Nationalism	1	First
11	GENS 102	Environmental Health	1	First
12	GENS 103	English and Communication Skills	2	First
13	GENS 107	History and Philosophy of Science	1	First
14	EDUC 204	Educational Psychology	2	Second
15	EDUC 208	Philosophy of educatior	2	Second
16	EDAL 208	Introduction to Literature Methods	2	Second
17	EDAL 210	Multilingual/Bilingual Education	2	Second
18	ARBC 202	Introduction to Syntax (elective)	2	Second
19	ARBC 210	The Ummayyad Poetry	2	Second
20	ARBC 212	The Ummayyad Prose	2	Second
21	ARBC 206	Introductory Rhetorics	2	Second
S/N	Course Code	Course Title	Credit Units	Semester

300 Level Courses

S/N	Course Code	Course Title	Credit Units	Semester
1	EDUC 301	Educational Statistics	1
2	EDUC 303	Curriculum Innovation	2	First
3	EDUC 309	Guidance and Counselling	2	First
4	EDAL 303	Discourse Analysis	2	First
5	EDAL 305	Subject Methods (Junior Level)	2	First
6	ARBC 301	Intro. To His Study of Arabic Grammar (Elect.)	2	First
7	ARBC 305	Classical Prosody	2	First
8	ARBC 307	Abbasid Poetry	2	First
9	ARBC 309	Abbasid Prose	2	First
10	EDAL 301	Research Method in Arabic	2	Second
11	EDAL 308	Subject Methods (senior level)	2	Second
12	EDAL 310	Creative Writing	2	Second
13	EDAL 310	Micro-Teaching	2	Second
14	ARBC 302	Andalusian (Spanish Arabic) Poetry	2	Second
15	ARBC 304	Advanced Nominal Morphology (Elect.)	2	Second
16	ARBC 306	Intro. To Arb & Isl. Civilization in Africa (Elect.)	2	Second
17	ARBC 308	Theory of Translation	2	Second
18	ARBC 310	Andalusian (Spanish Arabic) Prose	2	Second
19	ARBC 314	Advanced Rhetorics	2	Second
S/N	Course Code	Course Title	Credit Units	Semester

400 Level Courses

S/N	Course Code	Course Title	Credit Units	Semester
1	EDUC 401	Teaching Practice	9	First
2	EDUC 403	Research Project	3	First
3	ARBC 401	Advanced Arabic Syntax	2	First
4	ARBC 403	19th Century W/African Literature	2	First
5	ARBC 409	Classical Literature Theory & Criticism	2	First
6	EDAL 410	Language Testing	2	Second
7	ARBC 402	Modern Poetry	2	Second
8	ARBC 404	Modern Literary Theory and Criticism	2	Second
9	ARBC 406	Modern & Traditional Arabic Grammar (Elect.)	2	Second
10	ARBC 408	20th Century W/African Arabic Lit. (Elect)	2	Second
11	ARBC 412	Introduction to Comparative Literature	2	Second
12	ARBC 418	Development of Arabic Drama	2	Second
13	EDUC 402	Measurement & Evaluation	2	Second
14	EDUC 404	Curriculum II (Inn & Impl)	2	Second
S/N	Course Code	Course Title	Credit Units	Semester

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