Undergraduate English Courses
CORE CURRICULUM COURSES: POST-FOUNDATION ENGLISH COURSES
Length & Structure of Post-Foundation Courses
After completing or being exempted from the Foundation English requirements, students studying majors taught in English take the two required courses: English Language I (ENGL 202) and English Language II (ENGL 203).
Both are three credit-hour courses aimed at promoting advanced academic skills, with a particular focus on academic writing and critical thinking. In English Language I, students develop their ability to produce different fundamental essay writing genres. The course also develops students’ academic vocabulary, critical reading and reflection skills. Finally, students are introduced to online learning platforms as well as paraphrasing skills for academic writing. English Language II introduces students to summary and responce paper writing. it also fosters the skills necessary for students to develop a research topic, a research question and an appropriate outline. In addition, students are taught how to conduct independent library searches both physically and online, paraphrase and incorporate referenced source information into their writing and write a referenced academic term paper. After the completion of both courses, students will have the skills and abilities to successfully complete the academic writing requirements demanded by their major courses at QU.
CORE CURRICULUM COURSES: ENGLISH FOR COMMUNICATION COURSES
There are six university required English courses taught by the Foundation Program Department of English for students who study in Arabic in the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business & Economics, Law, Education, and Sharia and Islamic Studies. Students will complete up to four courses maximum depending on their undergraduate study plan, and they are as follow:
- English 1 (ENGL 110)
- English 2 (ENGL 111)
- English for Communication 1 (ENGL 250)
- English for Communication 2 (ENGL 251)
- English for Business Communication (ENGL 252)
- English Communication for Law (ENGL 253)
Length & Structure of English for Communication Courses
All courses bear three credit hours and are delivered over five hours per week. This is to ensure active use of English with pair, group and project work. All courses integrate the four skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing. ENGL 110 and ENGL 111 provide practice in developing all four skills at the basic to lower-intermediate level. ENGL 250 builds upon these courses with a greater emphasis on reading and writing. ENGL 251, ENGL 252 and ENGL 253 also focus on reading and writing at a more advanced level scenarios. However, a student will only complete one of these three courses, with a Law major taking ENGL 253, a Business Major taking ENGL 252 and other majors taking ENGL 251. After completing all four necessary courses, students should have a comfortable level of competency in English, whereby they can cope flexibly with English in the university, the workplace and society.
Undergraduate Math Course(s)
Length and Structure of the Pre-Calculus Course
Pre-calculus (MATH P100) is a university requirement course delivered by the Foundation Program Department of Mathematics. This course prepares students for Calculus. It covers polynomials and rational inequalities, graphs and functions, exponential and logarithmic functions. It also helps students to find values of basic trigonometric functions of any angle, use algebra to simplify trigonometric expressions, establish identities, and introduce trigonometric identities. It is a four hour per week course (3 hours in the class and 1 hour in the lab).