Pre-Professional Year 1

 

PRE-PROFESSIONAL YEAR 1

Semester 1  
Subject Code & No. Credit hrs
English Communication Skills I ENGL 101 5
English Language Structures and Drills I ENGL 102 4
English Academic Reading and Vocabulary I  ENGL 103 5
Arabic English Language Skills I ARBC 101 2
Islamic Culture  ISLM 101 2
Total  18
   
Semester 2  
Subject Code & No. Credit hrs
English Communication Skills II ENGL 111 2
English Language Structures and Drills II ENGL 112 2
English Academic Reading and Vocabulary II                                                 ENGL 113                           2               
Arabic English Language Skills I ARBC 111 2
Biology for Health Sciences BIOL 101 2
Chemistry for Health Sciences CHEM 101 4
Physics for Health Sciences PHYS 101 4
Total  18

 

 

THE PRE-PROFESSIONAL YEAR 1 (FIRST SEMESTER)

ENGL 101 - ENGLISH COMMUNICATION SKILLS I
Course Length: 15 Weeks
Semester: 1 (5 credits)
Oral Skills Lab: (5 hrs/week)
Writing 1: Elementary Composition (2 hrs/week)
Supplementary Reading and Discussion: (3 hrs/week)

Course Description

This is a four-month course in communication skills designed for students in their first semester of the Pre-Professional Program. It emphasizes the development of general listening and speaking skills essential for daily communication tasks inside and outside the classroom. It also introduces students to elementary composition techniques, and provides them with regular reading practice from a variety of sources such as graded readers and passages selected from original articles published in a variety of periodicals and newspapers. The course is divided into three components: an Oral Skills Lab, Supplementary Reading and Discussion Sessions, and Writing Workshops. The approach is multi-skilled; all four language skills are developed systematically and new vocabulary is integrated into thematically arranged units. Oral discussion sessions are a fundamental part of the Skills Lab and Supplementary Reading components, and student critiquing is an important part of the Writing Workshops.

 

ENGL 102 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE STRUCTURES & DRILLS I
Course Length: 15 Weeks
Semester: 1 (4 credits) - (5 hrs/week)

Course Description

This course is the first half of the Intermediate Language Structures and Drills sequence. It provides students with an overview of the English tense system in the active voice, and introduces them to basic patterns of sentence structure. It begins with a review of the simple and progressive tenses (present and past) and future forms with will and be going to, and then introduces the present perfect, present perfect progressive and past perfect forms. It also provides a review of direct question formation and simple noun phrase construction. Students are given practice in recognizing the basic clausal patterns of English and expanding sentence skeletons with modifying adjectives and adverbials. Throughout the course, grammatical structures are presented through an active oral approach and reinforced through extensive drill practice, guided conversation exercises and daily written homework assignments.

 

ENGL 103 - ENGLISH ACADEMIC READING AND VOCABULARY I
Course Length: 15 Weeks
Semester: 1 (5 credits)

Course Description

This course is the first half of the Intermediate Academic Reading and Vocabulary sequence. It emphasizes the development of reading and critical thinking skills essential for academic studies at the university level. Vocabulary development is also stressed throughout the course. Glossary lists are used along with the reading passages in the core textbooks and students are taught word building strategies. They are also taught how to infer the meaning of unknown words from context and are encouraged to use an English-English dictionary. Reading skills are reinforced through regular in-class activities and regular homework assignments.

 

ARBC 101 - ARABIC LANGUAGE SKILLS

Course Length: 15 Weeks each
Semester: 1 (2 Credits)

Course Description

This Arabic language course introduces the students to the skills of communication, which include listening, speaking and reading. The course also aims at introducing the basic skills for learning syntax, including the parts of speech such as the verb, noun and article, their forms and roles in speech. The course also covers syntactic analysis, including the dual, plural and verb conjugations. It also introduces Arabic dictionaries, their origin, kinds and how to use them.

 

ISLM 101 - ISLAMIC CULTURE

Course Length: 15 Weeks
Semester: 1 (2 Credits)

Course Description

This course provides students with an overview of Islamic culture, and presents fundamental and modern perspectives based on the Quran and Sunnah. It teaches the students that Islamic culture can fulfill their needs and can provide them with a comprehensive approach to life. It aims at protecting them from cultural invasion and devious and destructive thoughts that can undermine the cultural and intellectual structure of their Islamic society in the Kingdom. It also aims at inculcating a sense of belonging to the Islamic culture. The students are taught that Islamic culture is part of their faith, and as Muslims they should be proud of the high values of their religion.

 

THE PRE-PROFESSIONAL YEAR 1 (SECOND SEMESTER) 

ENGL 111 - ENGLISH COMMUNICATION SKILLS II
Course Length: 15 Weeks
Semester: 2 (2 credits)

Course Description

This is a four-month course in oral and written communication designed for students in their second semester of the Pre-Professional Program. It emphasizes the development of listening and speaking skills essential for daily communication tasks inside and outside of the classroom. It also includes regular composition exercises to give students writing practice at the paragraph level. The approach is multi-skilled; all four language skills are developed systematically and new vocabulary is integrated into thematically arranged units. The course is divided into two components: Oral Skills Lab and Writing Workshops.

 

ENGL 112 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE STRUCTURES AND DRILLS II
Course Length: 15 Weeks
Semester: 2 (2 credits) - (4 hrs/week)

Course Description

This course is the second half of the Intermediate Language Structures and Drills sequence. It includes a review of the simple noun phrase, pronouns, count and non-count nouns, article usage and quantifiers, and covers modal auxiliary verbs and passive constructions appropriate for academic and scientific writing. It also provides students with a brief introduction to complex sentence structure, focusing primarily on the adjective clause and gerunds and infinitives. Throughout the course, grammatical structures are presented through an active oral approach and reinforced through extensive drill practice, guided conversation exercises and daily written homework assignments.

 

ENGL 113 - ENGLISH ACADEMIC READING AND VOCABULARY II
Course Length: 15 Weeks
Semester: 2 (2 credits) - (4 hrs/week)

Course Description

This course is the second half of the Intermediate Academic Reading and Vocabulary sequence. It emphasizes the development of reading and critical thinking skills essential for academic studies at the university level. Vocabulary development is also stressed throughout the program. Glossary lists are used along with the reading passages in the core textbooks and students are taught word building strategies. They are also taught how to infer the meaning of unknown words from context and are encouraged to use an English-English dictionary. Reading skills are reinforced through regular in-class activities and homework assignments.

 

ARBC 111 - ARABIC LANGUAGE SKILLS II
Course Length: 15 Weeks
Semester: 2 (2 Credits)

Course Description

The course aims at developing the writing skills of the students, starting at the word level and proceeding to the sentence, paragraph and essay levels. The course includes an introduction to Arabic editing terms and presents a definition of writing. It also covers the different modes of writing and the historical stages of recording written Arabic. The course also handles the components of writing such as the word, the sentence and the paragraph. It discusses the style and the characteristics of eloquent writing. The students also do literary analysis that includes prose and poetry, and receive training in writing summaries, letters and reports.

 

BIOL 101 - BIOLOGY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES
Course Length: 15 Weeks
Semester: 2 (2 Credits)

Course Description

This is an introductory course that aims to introduce students to the basic principles and concepts of biology. The course emphasizes the molecular and cellular basis of life, biochemical processes, cellular structure and function, cell growth and division. It also includes an introduction to viruses and bacteria. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to demonstrate understanding of life at the cellular and molecular levels.

 

CHEM 101 - CHEMISTRY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES
Credit Hours: 4
Course Length: 15 Weeks
Semester: 2

This course is divided into two parts: 

Part 1 : General Chemistry
The fundamentals of chemistry are covered in this part. Topics include chemical foundations, chemical composition and stoichiometry, classification of chemical reactions, atomic structure and periodic table, chemical bonding and molecular structure, major definitions of acids, bases and buffers, solution chemistry, liquids and solids, and intermolecular attractions.

Part 2 : Organic Chemistry
The organic chemistry part provides a broad introduction to the basic principles, theories and applications of the chemistry of carbon compounds. Topics include modern structural theory, organic nomenclature, stereochemistry, an introduction to functional group chemistry, preparation, reactions of alkanes, alkenes, alkynes, cyclic hydrocarbons, alkyl halides, aromatic compounds, ethers, epoxides, alcohols, phenols, aldehydes, ketones, carboxylic acids and derivatives, and amines. The organic part also provides an introduction to the chemistry of aromatic compounds.

 

PHYS 101 - PHYSICS FOR HEALTH SCIENCES
Course Length: 15 Weeks
Semester: 2 (4 Credits)

Course Description

A study of some of the major concepts and laws of classical and modern physics which will provide students with a foundation for understanding, at a conceptual level, the natural phenomena and technological applications encountered in medical fields (EKG, X-ray, CAT scan, Human eye, Endoscopes, Lasik, Radiation Therapy, etc.) and everyday life (GPS, Energy, Power, Sound Waves, Superconductivity, Global Warming, Ozone Layer, Radiation, Nuclear Reactors, Ipods, etc.).

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