The aim of the course is to enable students to function at a basic every day survival level (basic vocabulary, grammar, morphology, syntax and phonetics). On completion of the course students should be able to communicate in and understand Arabic on a number of practical every day matters. Cultural awareness will be developed. Language learning skills, including autonomous learning and how to approach authentic materials will be developed. Some transferable skills will also be developed. Medical related issues/vocabulary will also be covered.

For full module details please see the CLIE SSC language modules site at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/languages-international-education/study/modules/language-sscs

The Law and Religion course will prompt you to reflect about the role of the State in a democracy, the interactions between community, individual and national...

The Law and Religion course will prompt you to reflect about the role of the State in a democracy, the interactions between community, individual and national identity and more generally, the role of the law in fostering tolerant societies.

The module will explore recent legal controversies surrounding religion and will touch on a wide variety of areas: constitutional law, employment law, human rights, discrimination, family law, education, to name but a few. It will examine conceptual concerns such as the acceptability of imposing majority values in our multicultural societies, the problem of balancing conflicting individual fundamental rights, the role of courts in drawing the limits between acceptable and unacceptable illiberal claims. The teaching method will however be inductive as we will start with practical problems, drawing theoretical debates from the case at hand. The course should appeal to anyone interested in how law can solve practical controversies. A propensity to think outside the boundaries of a given discipline is recommended as a cross-disciplinary and comparative approach will be adopted.

There will not be a particular textbook recommended for the course, but relevant material will be indicated prior to each of the 10 two-hour (interactive) lectures and discussed further in the three tutorials.