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OLET2123: Understanding the Arab World
2025 unit information
What should future professionals with a global outlook know about the Arab World? Who are the Arabs? What is Islam? What are some key social and political debates in the Arab World? This unit answers these questions and others. It promotes a cross-cultural vision underpinned by a more critical and nuanced understanding of the region and its people.
Unit details and rules
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Arts and Social Sciences
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Arabic Languages and Cultures |
| Credit points | 2 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. understand the historical, cultural, social, and political diversity of the Arab World, along with some of its changes, debates, and complexities
- LO2. critically reflect on how the region and its diverse people are represented in Western academia, the arts, and mass media, and evaluate sources for independent learning and research of the Arab World
- LO3. cultivate an understanding of self and others and cultural competence for engaging with Arabic speakers
- LO4. develop analytical researched arguments and communicate them in multimodal texts
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Semester 1 2025
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Online | Camperdown / Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2025
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Online | Camperdown / Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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