0202710                Contrastive Textology       3.0
This course builds on the MA course titled Contrastive Linguistics (0202541) and moves students beyond the contents of that course. It basically focuses on topics such as genre analysis (which is determined by three categories: field, tenor and mode), relevance of genre analysis to translation studies, text categorizations according to Werlich (1976/1983), de Beaugrande and Dressler (1981) and Hatim (1984), text structure and texture, managing and monitoring in translation, Speech Act theory and its relevance to translation studies, standards of textuality, types of parallel corpora, and their applications into translation studies.

0202711                Critical Discourse Analysis               3.0
Critical discourse analysis is a compulsory course that aims at enabling students to examine how writers produce texts and how these texts may be received and interpreted by a wider audience. CDA views translation as a social act that aims at answering questions such as: who is translating for whom? What is being translated and when? What are the effects on the receiving culture or audience? The selection of grammatical structures, lexical items, verbs, pronouns as well as nouns in producing a text plays an important role in analyzing the text and uncovering the hidden beliefs and ideologies of the text producer. This course includes topics such as: discourse organization, pragmatic functions of linguistic elements, systemic functional linguistics, thematic organization, power, and dominance and how these concepts are represented in texts and speeches. Students will also be acquainted with how to critically analyze speeches and texts, especially political texts, in order to identify the producer's underlying ideologies, attitudes, emotions and feelings, which are not always explicitly stated, towards an event, a group of people, or any phenomenon. Identifying such notions is essential for properly rendering them from a source language into a target one.

0202713                Semantics and Pragmatics                3.0
This course discusses, on the one hand, advanced topics in word and sentence meaning (i.e., lexical relations; derivational relations; entailment; presupposition; tense; aspect; modality; evidentially; thematic roles; deixis; context; reference; inference; and speech acts); and, on the other, theoretical approaches to semantics such as componential analysis; generative semantics; formal semantics; cognitive semantics; and computational semantics, and to pragmatics such as Austin's; Searle's; Grice's; and Leech's.

0202714                Advanced English Syntax       3.0
This course explores in depth the structures of Arabic and English clauses and sentences in order to address a range of currently open theoretical questions and to introduce the main schools of contemporary syntactic theorizing, including derivational theories such as minimalism, and lexicalist models such as functional grammar. The course focuses on syntactic description and argumentation, and students will be introduced to a variety of syntactic structures onto which they will apply theory.

0202715                Corpus Linguistics             3.0
Corpus Linguistics is a methodology used to investigate linguistic phenomena. It involves use of computational tools over large, electronic, annotated text collections or corpora. This course provides a general introduction to corpus-based language study. Students will be introduced to: (i) some basic techniques in corpus analysis; (ii) principles in the design, categorization, and coding of corpora; (iii) and some applications of Corpus Linguistics. The course requires use of computers on a weekly basis.

0202716                Paper 1                  3.0
This is a directed reading course on a special topic that culminates in a publishable research article. It involves specialized research by qualified students under the direction of a faculty member who shares the same research interest. Permission of the professor who will supervise the student's work is required. Prerequisite to the course is the successful completion of 12 credit hours of PhD courses.

0202720                Current Trends in Translation Studies          3.0
The objective of this course is to encourage and promote research and scholarship in translation; it introduces students to a wide range of topics and issues related to translation including: history of translation theory; translation strategies; cognitive scientific approaches to translation and interpreting; translation and technology; bilingual (English-Arabic) reference corpora for translators and translation studies; cross-linguistic and cross-cultural impact of translation; translation and taboo; ideology in translation; text analysis and translation; translation quality assessment; genre translation; multimedia translation; translator training; translation ethics; the translation profession.

0202721                Paper 2 3.0
This is a directed reading course on a special topic that culminates in a publishable research article. It involves specialized research by qualified students under the direction of a faculty member who shares the same research interest. Permission of the professor who will supervise the student's work is required. Prerequisite to the course is the successful completion of 0202716.

0202722                Translation and Technology            3.0
The focus of this course is on critical appreciation of Machine Translation, Computer-Assisted Translation, Software Localization, and the workflow of translation project management. It studies a sample of machine translation systems, translation memory, terminology extraction, and project management. Students shall be trained on the process of translation with technology, the use of cloud computing, editors, termbases, interactive translation, corpus construction, and on such technologies as Google Translate, Tarjem, Google as a Corpus, Trados Translator's Workbench, and Sketchengine parallel corpora.

0202725                Seminar in Translation/ Linguistics               3.0
This is a seminar that addresses a topic of a general interest to students. The topic can be related to translation or linguistics. It could cover topics as diverse as the new developments in linguistics and their impact on translation, challenges of translation teaching in Arab universities, central texts in Arabic translation, Arabization of linguistic terminology, translation ethics, ideology, loss and gain in translation and sociocultural issues in community translation. The topics of the special seminar change frequently to reflect the interests of the participants and course instructors. Students will be allowed to take this course more than once, depending on their needs and/ or interest.

0202726                Stylistics and Translation                  3.0
This course aims to integrate concepts in stylistics and to explore their applicability to translation criticism and practice. It focuses on differing features and aspects of style in a range of texts, both literary and non-literary, and aims to equip students to cope better with such problems in translation and construct new strategies for dealing with such problems, as well as generating translations in light of stylistics.

0202727                Dissertation          24.0
The student must complete an independent scientific research under the supervision of a faculty member. The thesis work should provide the student with in-depth understanding of a research problem in his/her chosen field of Linguistics or Translation. The student should apply scientific research methodology in identifying problems, performing extensive literature review, designing and implementing an original solution that contributes to current research in the area, conducting experiments and/or providing theoretical proofs, writing reports, and presenting the solution.