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Starting from the acquired grammar knowledge (specially the morphological derivation), AB 1040 works on going into more specialized vocabulary in various fields such as intellectual conversation, objective description, expressing one’s opinion, etc. Besides, this course pursues production skills, so the students can grow linguistically in handling of Arabic and acquiring a more detailed lexical mass.

AB5020 seeks to give students grammar basics with which they can start to structure their knowledge and practice and make comparisons with other linguistic systems they know. The two conjugations, the two kind of sentences and other material allows the students to go further and to progress in organizing the new lexicon in order to produce sentences in Standard Arabic. The domain covered by the course starts from everyday life and aims to reach fundamental description vocabulary for all kind of documents : dialogs, texts, songs, maps, school documents, proverbs, etc.

This course covers the beginnings of art in Europe and the Mediterranean,from the earliest known representations in cave paintings through to the art of the great cathedrals. This will include Ancient Near Eastern, Egyptian,Greek, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, African, and Western Medieval art. The course is structured chronologically and will also emphasize the themes of the classical tradition and its alternatives, as well as diverse expressions of sacred arts and architecture. Major monuments in all media-architecture,sculpture, painting, and the so-called "minor arts"-will be studied. Original works of art on view in Paris will form an essential part of the course and the assignments. We will also emphasize multiple perspectives and interpretations for works of art and their global receptions and contexts.

Uses the unsurpassed richness of the art museums of Paris as the principal teaching resource. The history of Western Art is studied through the close examination of a limited selection of major works in a variety of media. The works chosen illuminate the political, social and religious contexts of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the Baroque and Rococo periods, and the modern epoch. The course has an extra course fee of 35 euros.