BA Arabic Studies

• Study abroad in Arabic-speaking countries.
• Contact speakers of Arabic and get involved in events about Middle Eastern culture beyond the University in multicultural Manchester - from public lectures to cultural celebrations including cinema, music and food festivals.
• Top 10 in the UK for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024).

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Our BA Arabic Studies course will enable you to achieve an advanced language level in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) while studying the language within its cultural and historical context.

You will start as an absolute beginner in reading, writing, speaking and listening and develop to an advanced level by the end of the four-year course.

You will also look more widely at Arab culture and literature and you will be introduced to social and cultural trends in the Arab Middle East and beyond.

The course is carefully structured so you can measure your progress step by step.

Learning modern Arabic also opens the door to the vast literature of classical Arabic, including religious and secular texts, and provides a perfect platform from which to learn one or more of the colloquial dialects.

You will spend your third year studying abroad at an academic institution in an Arab country, an ideal way to improve your fluency in the language while gaining a fascinating first-hand experience of the Arab world.

You can choose from a wide variety of course unit options to focus on your special interests or to study other disciplines within the University, such as linguistics, history, archaeology or the social sciences.

Although language units may show here as optional, they are a mandatory part of your modern languages degree and you will take the units relevant to your level of language in each year of study.

It is compulsory to study language at all levels of your modern languages degree.

34 points overall. 6,5,5 in Higher Level subjects

All applicants to the University (from the UK and Overseas) are required to show evidence of English Language proficiency.

The minimum English Language requirement for this course is either:

• GCSE/iGCSE English Language gradeC/4 or;
• IELTS 7.0 overall with no less than 6.5 in any one component or;
• An acceptable equivalent qualification.

Please note that if you hold English as a second language iGCSE qualification, we may also require you to offer one of our acceptable equivalent English Language qualifications or achieve a higher grade in your iGCSE than the one stated above. Please contact the academic School for clarification.

The UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) requires that every student from outside the UK and the EU must show evidence of a minimum level of English Language in order to be granted a UK visa (Tier 4 visa) to study at undergraduate or postgraduate level. This level is often referred to as the 'B2 level'.

Additionally, our individual Schools may ask for specific English Language proficiency levels that are necessary for their academic programmes. In most cases these requirements are likely to be higher than the B2 level.

Further information about our English Language policy, including a list of some of the English Language qualifications we accept, can be found on our English Language requirements page.

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