Total Credit Hours Required to Finish the Degree ( 129 Credit Hours ) as Follows
University Requirements
Students must pass all of the following courses
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| 000011110 | COMMUNITY SERVICE | COMMUNITY SERVICE | 1 | - | 0 |
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| 010610014 | BEGINNING ENGLISH | In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main idea and supporting details; make predictions about a text; answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents; identify parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of unknown words from context; and recognize prefixes and suffixes. In Writing, students learn to write both simple and compound sentences with correct punctuation and capitalization. They write at the sentence and paragraph level using simple present tense, simple past tense, and simple future tense. In Grammar, students review the basic parts of speech and their functions in a sentence, the simple tenses (present, past, and future) and present and past continuous, pronouns, prepositions of time and location, articles, singular and plural nouns, and question formation. | 3 | - | 0 |
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| 010610025 | INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH | In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main and supporting details; make predictions and answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents, parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of contextual words; recognize prefixes and suffixes, recognize noun, adjective, and adverb clauses, and distinguish between fact and opinion. | 3 | - | 2 |
010610014 BEGINNING ENGLISH In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main idea and supporting details; make predictions about a text; answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents; identify parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of unknown words from context; and recognize prefixes and suffixes. In Writing, students learn to write both simple and compound sentences with correct punctuation and capitalization. They write at the sentence and paragraph level using simple present tense, simple past tense, and simple future tense. In Grammar, students review the basic parts of speech and their functions in a sentence, the simple tenses (present, past, and future) and present and past continuous, pronouns, prepositions of time and location, articles, singular and plural nouns, and question formation. 010610026 INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH LAB The Language Center courses are designed to help students cope with university education in English. The unlock listening and speaking 2 (Intermediate English Lab.) focuses on developing students’ listening, speaking and critical thinking skills. Students watch videos, listen to audios, think critically to be able to speak about different topics using a simplified academic language. The intermediate English lab is meant to prepare students for speaking and listening contexts. Students learn strategies for improving listening comprehension and stimulating critical thinking. The language lab component is specifically designed to improve students’ speaking and listening skills. |
| 010610026 | INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH LAB | The Language Center courses are designed to help students cope with university education in English. The unlock listening and speaking 2 (Intermediate English Lab.) focuses on developing students’ listening, speaking and critical thinking skills. Students watch videos, listen to audios, think critically to be able to speak about different topics using a simplified academic language. The intermediate English lab is meant to prepare students for speaking and listening contexts. Students learn strategies for improving listening comprehension and stimulating critical thinking. The language lab component is specifically designed to improve students’ speaking and listening skills. | 2 | 1 |
010610014 BEGINNING ENGLISH In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main idea and supporting details; make predictions about a text; answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents; identify parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of unknown words from context; and recognize prefixes and suffixes. In Writing, students learn to write both simple and compound sentences with correct punctuation and capitalization. They write at the sentence and paragraph level using simple present tense, simple past tense, and simple future tense. In Grammar, students review the basic parts of speech and their functions in a sentence, the simple tenses (present, past, and future) and present and past continuous, pronouns, prepositions of time and location, articles, singular and plural nouns, and question formation. |
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| 010610035 | ADVANCED ENGLISH | This is an integrated skills course in which students work on reading, Writing, listening' and speaking. In reading, student learn to distinguish between fact and opinion,determine the author's purpose or point of view, justify answers to comprehension questions,make inferences, read academic texts, recognize grammatical relation ship in atext. In Writing, student learn to write complex sentences and comma splices. In Grammar, the review parts of speech, articles, and phrases and clauses. | 3 | - | 2 |
010610025 INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main and supporting details; make predictions and answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents, parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of contextual words; recognize prefixes and suffixes, recognize noun, adjective, and adverb clauses, and distinguish between fact and opinion. 010610036 ADVANCED ENGLISH LAB This course aims at developing students listening and speaking skills. This is to be accomplished through helping them enrich their lexical input so that they can understand English language in its spoken forms as a focus and in its written form too. As a result, they will be able to communicate successfully. The course provides students with a series of listening, speaking, reading, pronunciation and vocabulary exercises that meet Bloom’s learning objectives. Furthermore, it aims at developing their critical thinking skills. |
| 010610036 | ADVANCED ENGLISH LAB | This course aims at developing students listening and speaking skills. This is to be accomplished through helping them enrich their lexical input so that they can understand English language in its spoken forms as a focus and in its written form too. As a result, they will be able to communicate successfully. The course provides students with a series of listening, speaking, reading, pronunciation and vocabulary exercises that meet Bloom’s learning objectives. Furthermore, it aims at developing their critical thinking skills. | 2 | 1 |
010610025 INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH In Reading, students learn to skim; scan; identify the main and supporting details; make predictions and answer questions about a text; identify signal words, transitions, pronouns, and referents, parts of speech and verb tenses; guess the meaning of contextual words; recognize prefixes and suffixes, recognize noun, adjective, and adverb clauses, and distinguish between fact and opinion. 010610026 INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH LAB The Language Center courses are designed to help students cope with university education in English. The unlock listening and speaking 2 (Intermediate English Lab.) focuses on developing students’ listening, speaking and critical thinking skills. Students watch videos, listen to audios, think critically to be able to speak about different topics using a simplified academic language. The intermediate English lab is meant to prepare students for speaking and listening contexts. Students learn strategies for improving listening comprehension and stimulating critical thinking. The language lab component is specifically designed to improve students’ speaking and listening skills. |
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| 040111001 | ARABIC LANGUAGE | This course aims to teach the students the basics of Arabic language, and the methods of correct writing starting from the word itself till the syntax and expressions, the course focuses in particular on correct practice of the Arabic language in writing and pronouncing. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511011 | PALESTINIAN STUDIES | The migration of Arab tribes from Arab Peninsule to Palestine, major political and cultural developments in palestine during cann'anites period, the Assyrian-Egyptian Rivaly in Palestine, Palestinians and Jews, Palestine under Creek and Roman Rule, The Arab Islamic period, political and cultural conditions during Ummayad and Abbasaid period, Islam-crusades colission in pPalestine, Palestine under Ottoman Rule, Rule played by Ahmad Pasha Al-Jazzar and Thaher Al-Omar, Egyptian occupation 1831, European penetration and Zionist settlements, Sykes-Pekot Agreement, Balfour declaration and Britsg mandate, Brotain and Liquidation of Palestine land, Palestinian resistance movement, 1936 Uprising and the scheme of Palestine partition 1937, Partition resolution and 1948 war, Launching of the PLO and the 1967 war, 1987 Uprising, Independence Declaration 1988, Oslo Agreements , Future outlook. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040521301 | FUNDAMENTALS OF RESEARCH METHODS | This course is a basic one for all university students because it tackles the way of conducting research. The students through this course are exposed to the quantitative and qualitative researches and the differences between them. It also covers the meaning of hypothesis and its types, along with research questions and research problems. Through this course the students can come to know more about literature review and how to differentiate between primary and secondary literature. | 2 | - | 2 |
010610035 ADVANCED ENGLISH This is an integrated skills course in which students work on reading, Writing, listening' and speaking. In reading, student learn to distinguish between fact and opinion,determine the author's purpose or point of view, justify answers to comprehension questions,make inferences, read academic texts, recognize grammatical relation ship in atext. In Writing, student learn to write complex sentences and comma splices. In Grammar, the review parts of speech, articles, and phrases and clauses. 010610036 ADVANCED ENGLISH LAB This course aims at developing students listening and speaking skills. This is to be accomplished through helping them enrich their lexical input so that they can understand English language in its spoken forms as a focus and in its written form too. As a result, they will be able to communicate successfully. The course provides students with a series of listening, speaking, reading, pronunciation and vocabulary exercises that meet Bloom’s learning objectives. Furthermore, it aims at developing their critical thinking skills. |
| 240111000 | COMPUTER SKILLS | A basic, introductory course in personal computers, it introduces students to basic computer concepts in hardware, software, networking. The course will include a basic computer literacy including computer concepts, fundamental functions and operations of the computer. Topics include identification of hardware components, basic computer operations, and use of some software applications such as windows operating system, a word processing using Microsoft Word, a spreadsheet using Microsoft Excel, and a presentation software using PowerPoint. | 2 | - | 2 |
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Students must pass ( 8 ) credit hours from any of the following courses
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| 040511052 | ISRAELI & ZIONISM STUDIES I | This course is a continuation of the first course, it focus on the study of the political system in Israel and on the security institution and the decision-making and electoral system and foreign policy of Israel, and an introduction to the Arab party scene in Israel as well as a presentation of the Israeli media organization. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511053 | JERUSALEM: CIVILIZATION AND HISTORY | Existence of Jerusalem, its ancient history, historical monuments and archaeological excavations, administrative situation developments and Architectural expansion, economic and education life, holy buildings, archeologic museums and schools. The strategy of Judaization and the Zionism occupation of the city, the Future and solutions of the political Jerusalem, and its situation with the international division projects. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511061 | ISRAELI & ZIONISM STUDIES II | This course deals with the historical development of Jews in modern times, the conditions in which they lived in Europe and the Middle East, and the circumstances that led to the emergence of the Zionist movement, its activity and its role in the establishment of Israel and the Israeli society. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511071 | DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT | This course covers issues in development studies and options in politics, sociology, international relations, economics and international business including development policy and planning. It aims to familiarize students with theories and findings concerning development and to offer managerial tools to practical problems. It equips students with the ability to create solutions to problems from variety of disciplines, including economics and the functional areas of management, political science, sociology, and geography. This course will cover wide variety of institutional contexts including local and international private business, non-government organizations, central and local governments, international and national regulatory and donor institutions. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511081 | HOME GARDENING | This course aims to introduces how to create home gardens and how to coordinate and take care for them | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511091 | FINE ARTS | This course aims to introduce students to the four main arts (visual arts, music, theater and architecture), focusing on the basic relations between the two arts: the first is to give a number of lectures, works shops, articles that contains international art works addressing the sources, function, materials, style and composition of the work. The second method is to assign an artistic subject to each student at the beginning of the semester for scientific research following an academic method, the student presents his research summary at the end of the semester in the form of a lecture accompanied by a research paper. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511101 | CURRENT WORLD ISSUES | The course deals with the changes in the world order since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the impact of these transformations on a range of political issues in the modern world. The most prominent of these are the new world system, the role of the United Nations in issues of peace and war, regional and international civil wars, globalization and terrorism. Weapons of mass destruction, and other current political issues that arise during the course. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511121 | PHYSICAL EDUCATION | This course aims to explain the concepts of Physical Education and its major elements . The course contains a practical component that supports the theoretical concepts by relating physical activities with human health and correct shape habits. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511133 | THE PALESTINIAN PRISONERS MOVEMENT | This course aims at scrutinize the Palestinian Prisoners movement. Light will be shed on the historical stages the movement went through during in the last sixty years. The course highlights the legality of detaining those prisoners and show the international law’s violation by the Israeli forces and governments. Prisons, interrogation centers, and detention camps are defined and shown in one of the chapters and there illegal geographical places are to be shown during the semester. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511140 | LAW IN OUR LIFE | This course introduces the definitions of the law and its terms, sections, resources, illustrations, and its implementations,along with the current legal system in Palestine, the Palestinian laws, general rights and freedoms in Palestine | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511150 | ISLAMIC CULTURE | This course is an exploration to the culture in general and Islamic culture in particular as well as the development in the Muslim World. The course informational intended to raise the awareness about the sociological aspects, cultural perspective of Islam and various problems in the Muslim World. However, it is also designed to provide a variety of cultural perspectives of the intern Muslim states institutions, the role of religious institutions, women, and the economic institution of the Muslim World. This course is going to develop a ?better understanding ? that student will find in many areas of life, work, and relationships in the Muslim World as well as with other Western countries. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511160 | DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS | This course deals with the development of democracy, its applications, models, and its importance to modern societies. As well as an overview of human rights, their evolution, divisions, nature and international protection. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511170 | TECHNOLOGY IN OUR LIFE | The technology in our life course addresses the concepts and principles of technology, and the impact of using technology in the society. The course covers the main factors that contribute to the technology evolution, the concept of information systems and their components, and the functional levels of employees in institutions that use information systems. The course also deals with the concepts of the Internet, information security, multimedia, social networking, and their role in influencing society. The course will also explain the work of the search engines and how to use them. Provide the needed information and criteria for students to choose the appropriate computer or mobile and how to protect his data from malware and viruses. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511180 | INTRODUCTION TO ASTRONOMY SCIENCE | This course aims to present the historical context for the development of astronomy and highlight the role of the Arab-Islamic civilization in the development of this science, introduce the process of astronomical observation, introduce the units of measurement of astronomical dimensions and methods of measuring the dimensions of astronomical bodies. Moreover, students will be able to learn about the solar system and all its components in detail, learn about the characteristics and evolution of stars, stellar clusters and stellar asteroids, learn about galaxies and their types, and focus on the Milky Way. Finally, students will gain knowledge about the origin, age and shape of the universe. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511190 | HISTORY OF CIVILIZATION | This course aims to introduce students to the basic concepts related to civilization, and the theories of its emergence and fall. The course also addresses the elements that must be available for the establishment, growth and development of a civilization. Additionally, the course reviews the different aspects of civilization: political, economic, social, religious and cultural, while focusing specifically on upholding the value of reason and law, dialogue between religions and cultures, one opinion and the other opinion, the values of tolerance, and upholding the value of human rights. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511200 | INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS | This course will teach student basic elements of the economic system and the basic tools for economic analysis such as Demand & Supply, markets production as will as markets it will also teach students the basic macroeconomics concepts such as GDP economic growth inflation and economic policy. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511211 | ANTHROPOLOGY | This course examines the evolution of population science, its theories, its importance and its relation to other sciences. It also examines population dynamics: mortality, birth and migration. It examines analytically the composition, distribution and problems of population. It also expose to the population science and its relationship in development issues and planning. The course also highlights the population, environmental, cultural, economic and health factors affecting its growth, and focuses on the differences between industrial societies and third world societies, including Arab society. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511220 | ANTI-CORRUPTION CHALLENGES AND SOLUTION | This course aims to raise awareness about corruption and its definition, types, causes, affects, outcomes, and ways of fighting corruption, to be able to fight corruption in the Palestinian society that suffers from wide corruption for different reasons, which will help on knowing the places of corruptions and find solutions for it and enhance integrity values , transparency principles and accountability system in the Palestinian society. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511230 | FRENCH LANGUAGE | This course, which introduces the French alphabet and method of writing words, masculine and feminine nouns, singular and plural, also includes sentence level, types of sentences, personal pronouns, verb conjugations, direct and indirect objects. Visual aids such as drawings and pictures are used to advantage. Editing short responses, accepting or turning down offers, giving thanks or apology, brief justifications of answers, are some learning exercises. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511240 | GERMAN LANGUAGE | This course teaches words and grammatical structures and rules mostly used in daily communication. The course covers a number of things: greetings, introducing people, naming household things, like food and drinks, ordering a meal, entertaining visitors, managing work, making arrangements for appointments, renting an apartment, buying things, … etc. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511250 | ENERGY RESOURCES & USE | An- overview of global energy resources is given, leading to a historic review of human energy use and power generation. Society's energy demands and the pertinent energy follows are analyzed from the perspective of different sectors, including industry , households, agriculture, as well as the commercial and public sectors - in a Palestine . The importance of energy efficiency and conservation within the context of future energy supply is dealt with from a life - cycle and environmental perspective. Future energy systems and energy use scenarios are discussed, with a focus on promoting the use of renewable energy resources and technologies | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511260 | INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY | Study human actions, behavior, its cultures, social behavior, development, and individual differences. The course is informational, intended to raise awareness about the psychology aspects of individuals' lives and various problems that concern people. Psychology offers a unique view of the world we live in as it allows one to see the "invisible" forces that shape and channel our lives as we interact with others in society. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511270 | INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY | Study human society, its cultures, social organizations and institutions. The course is informational intended to raise up the knowledge about the social aspects of individuals' lives and various problems that concern people; however, it is also designed to provide a variety sociological theoritical perspectives as well as to develope a "sociological imagination" that students will find useful in many areas of life, work, and relationships with others. Sociology offers a unique view of the world we live in as it allows ont to see the "invisible" forces that shape and channel our lives as we interact with others in society. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511280 | HUMAN & ENVIRONMENT | Environmental Science and Ecosystems, Population Explosion & limited Resources, Environmental Themes : Water pollution & treatments, Environmental Themes :Solid Waste, Environmental Themes: Air Pollution & Control, Environmental Themes: Socio-Economics-Solution, Housing & the Residential Environment, Community Noise, Biodiversity & wild-Life, Toxicology, Pesticides in the Environment, Environmental Impact Assessment, Palestine Environment. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511290 | HISTORY OF SCIENCE | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511311 | INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | The course focuses on international relations that studies the science interaction of knowledge fields, especially its historical development and theoretical concepts that fall within its general scope, and the emergence of theoretical methods such as realism, idealism, legal, behavioral and Marxism, in addition to the factors that impact in the creation of the event in international relations, especially geography, demography, economy and military, as well as ruin, diplomacy and balance of power. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511321 | SCIENCE,TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY | This course aims to introduce the processes of change in contemporary societies in general, the study of change factors and their impact on social life, and the impact of change on the rest of the cultural and social patterns within the social construction. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511400 | TURKISH LANGUAGE | Once the student completes the required hours of the Turkish Language Principles course, they will: be able to introduce themselves using their name and nickname and get to know others. The student will also identify their nationality and the nationality of others and can talk about the languages they know. Moreover, the student will be able to introduce themselves and describe their surroundings using sign names, numbers, enumeration of numbers, months, days and colors. As for the second unit, the student can describe his family in detail, can talk about their house, and talk about their day by using the the present tense. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511421 | CRITICAL THINKING | This course provides students opportunities of analysis, synthesis, prescription, and application of critical thinking, and decision with making within the organization. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511490 | حقوق الانسان والنوع الاجتماعي | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511500 | السينما الفلسطينية – سرديات بديلة | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511511 | MODERN ARAB THOUGHT | The course deals with the definition of philosophy and its objectives and visions, where it goes back to the Greek roots of the Arab philosophy and then moves on to the Arab thought before Islam and presents a detailed explanation of the Arab philosophy and its prominent figures such as Al-Farabi, Ebin Rashd, Ebin Khaldun and others. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511521 | ARCHEOLOGY | This course introduces archaeology as a science, the origin of civilizations, history of research on Palestine archaeological treasures, role of Western archaeological institutions and schools in crystallization of theoretical and applied methodologies, relationship between archaeology and other sciences. The course also explains the importance of pottery in archaeological studies, types of archaeological sites, ways of discovering archaeological sites, ways of dating ruins, and methods of excavations, the how's of interpreting archaeological evidence, and excavation authority. The course also includes field studies of archeological sites | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511611 | HEBREW LANGUAGE | Principles and foundations of Hebrew which should enable students to express themselves orally and in writing. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511621 | CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS | This course aims to identify the topics of public sociology related to the subject of sociology, its principles and its most important theories and perspectives, As well as the study of social life as a whole and its relationship to the complex patterns of social systems and social groups and culture that it consists of, and finally to identify the patterns of different social organizations in society in addition to the presentation of basic social processes that occur in society. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 040511990 | EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION | Effective communication is the key to professional success, which will eventually lead to winning a job. In this course, students will receive advice on personal communication and learn the principles and methods of communication that will help them express themselves and their ideas clearly, and present them in the best way. Students will also learn what, when and how they can communicate with employers, and how effective communication will affect their admission process anywhere. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 280311110 | INTRODUCTION TO SIGN LANGUAGE | This course designed to provide students with the basics of sign language in terms of theory and practice .It focuses on sign language definition, components, usage, and various types. The course will enable students to acquire a knowledge and understanding of the Arabic finger alphabet, Palestinian Sign Language, different sign language terms, and visual nonverbal communication. Moreover, the course will focus on the distinctive body postures, facial expressions, and mouthing that accompany signing. Students will learn necessary vocabulary needed to tell about jobs, colors, directions, religions, numbers, and food. Grammatical features such as pronouns, plural forms, negation, emphasis, and questions will also be covered in this course. | 2 | - | 2 |
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Faculty Requirements
Students must pass all of the following courses
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| 020411010 | PRINCIPLES OF MARKETING | This is an introductory marketing course, which aims at introducing students to basic marketing terminology, concepts, theories, ideas and practices. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 030111110 | INTRODUCTION TO LAW | This course deals with the general theory of law and its definition, its origin, characteristics, bases, branches, sources, interpretation and sphere of application. Part two deals with the general theory of right concerning its definition, types, persons, object, sources, uses, and means of its protection. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 030114410 | PRIVATE INTERNATIONAL LAW | This subject deals with the definition of private international law, its sources, and the law applicable to the legal relationship having foreign elements. It also studies Rules of choice of law in matters of personal status (Family Law), real rights, contractual and non-contractual obligations, rules of international judicial jurisdiction with a special reference to the Palestinian law and the enforcement of foreign judgments. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 030121210 | PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW (1) | This subject deals with many topics such as definition of public international law, the base of its obligation, its sources and its relation with other branches of law. It studies the state in view of its factors, its forms, its right and duties, its responsibility and succession, it also deals with international and regional and continental organizations. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 030123250 | INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS | This course deals with the general theory of the international organization in terms of its established tool, its legal personality, the law applicable to it and its membership, the countries representation and its relation to the organization, the distribution of powers within the international organization, decision-making and its financing. International organizations, particularly the United Nations and regional organizations, especially the League of Arab States and the European Union. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 030123260 | DIPLOMATIC & CONSULAR LAW | This course deals with the establishment of diplomatic and consular law, the development of the rules governing diplomatic and consular missions, diplomatic immunities and privileges through the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations and the 1963 Treaty on Consular Relations. Special missions and diplomatic missions recommended in international organizations through the 1968 and 1975 Vienna Conventions. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 030141410 | LEGAL TERMINOLOGY IN ENGLISH | The purpose of this course is to acquaint the student with the English legal terminology and this is through the study of the theory of obligations. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 040511132 | ELECTION AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION | This course covers the concepts of elections and the electoral process, and the concept of political participation: its components, characteristics, levels, and importance. The course also focuses on the system of human rights and civil liberties; Its charters and characteristics. In addition, the course deals with the nature of democracy as a concept and its relationship to a set of values and concepts such as democratic transformation, political upbringing, and the principle of separation of powers. Finally, the course discusses the electoral systems and their impact on the electoral process, the electoral process in Palestine, including the presidential elections, the legislative council, and the local councils. | 2 | - | 2 |
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| 220112150 | COMPUTER APPLICATIONS FOR MEDIA | An organized entry into the world of computers and its various uses, especially in the media fields, and this includes the basic matters associated with programs such as: Windows and Microsoft Office, from writing, saving, modifying, cutting and pasting to the process of publishing press information over the Internet. Moreover, the course covers preparing press websites on the Internet, in terms of editing, design, word and image processing, from a media perspective and a public relations point of view. The course also trains the process of accessing information through the Internet, and exploring a set of digital applications that help the media person and public relations practitioner to organize information better and present their work in an interactive way to the public and all users. | 2 | 2 | 3 |
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| 220112751 | SPECIAL TOPIC IN DIGITAL MEDIA | * | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 220212251 | WRITING SKILLS FOR PUBLIC RELATIONS | * | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 220212260 | MEDIA IN ENGLISH LANGUAGE | 3 | - | 3 |
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Specialization Requirements
Students must pass all of the following courses
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| 030121100 | HISTORY OF LAW | This course deals with Human society, its component, its origin, evolution of different legal regimes (family, Judge, marriage and contract), development of ancient laws and various old legislations, especially Islamic law together with contemporary legal systems (Latin, Anglosaxon and German). | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 210743120 | COMMUNICATION THEORY | This course provides an overview communication theory and examines how these theories impact the work of digital diplomacy professionals. Topics covered include models and theories of communication, individual and group communication, organizational communication, mediated communication, mass communication and persuasion. Special emphasis will be placed on the way that media and technology have impacted communications. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 210743130 | PRACTICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS | This course is an introduction to the field of public relations and provides an overview of public relations practices and strategies. Topics covered include the history and growth of public relations, strategic communication and public opinion, media relations and social media, government and community relations, integrated marketing communication and crisis management. There will also be a discussion of laws and ethics in public relations. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 210743140 | ESSENTIALS OF NEGOTIATIONS | This course introduces students to the theory and practice of negotiations and conflict resolution. Students will study different strategies and styles of negotiations and how to deescalate conflict once it occurs. Topics covered include distributive bargaining, ethics in negotiation, emotion and cognition, communication, power and influence, multiple party negotiation and cross-cultural negotiation. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 210743150 | MODERN DIPLOMACY | This course provides an overview of the practice of diplomacy and the main actors and tools of modern diplomacy. Topics covered include the changing nature of diplomacy, political actors, tools and instruments of diplomacy, international organizations and diplomacy, the role of embassies and consulates, media and diplomacy, economic diplomacy, public diplomacy and diplomacy and international law. Special emphasis will be placed on the challenges of 21st century diplomacy. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 210743210 | POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH METHODS | The course examines the role of research in political science and provides an overview of commonly used qualitative and quantitative research methods. Topics covered include creating a research proposal, research design, measurement of variables, sampling, qualitative and quantitative research methods as well as regression analysis and correlation. Special emphasis will be placed on communicating findings of political science research through traditional written reports as well through digital, online and social media. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 210743220 | PUBLIC DIPLOMACY | This course is an introduction to the field of public diplomacy and its role in traditional diplomacy. Topics covered include the scope and evolution of public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy, international broadcasting, public diplomacy for country and nation branding, public diplomacy and persuasion, global approaches to public diplomacy, ethics and social issues in public diplomacy, digital public diplomacy and corporate diplomacy. Special emphasis will be placed on the many applications of public diplomacy in government, non-government organizations and corporations. | 3 | - | 3 |
210743150 MODERN DIPLOMACY This course provides an overview of the practice of diplomacy and the main actors and tools of modern diplomacy. Topics covered include the changing nature of diplomacy, political actors, tools and instruments of diplomacy, international organizations and diplomacy, the role of embassies and consulates, media and diplomacy, economic diplomacy, public diplomacy and diplomacy and international law. Special emphasis will be placed on the challenges of 21st century diplomacy. |
| 210743250 | SEMINAR IN DIGITAL DIPLOMACY | This seminar will focus on digital diplomacy and the transformation that has occurred in traditional diplomacy as a result of social media and other digital technologies. Topics covered include tactics and strategies in digital diplomacy, the use of digital diplomacy for advancing policy and reputation management, how digital diplomacy can shape crises and future challenges for digital diplomacy. Special emphasis will be placed on the use of digital diplomacy outside of government including by non-government organizations and corporations. | 3 | - | 3 |
210744120 DIGITAL DIPLOMACY THEORY AND PRACTICE |
| 210744110 | MEDIA RELATIONS | This course is an overview of media relations strategies and issues in both traditional and new media. Topics covered include the relationship between public relations professionals and the media, laws and ethics that impact media relations, methods for working with the media, creating media releases, developing media kits and events, strategies for working with television, radio and print media and strategies for working with social media. | 3 | - | 3 |
210743130 PRACTICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS This course is an introduction to the field of public relations and provides an overview of public relations practices and strategies. Topics covered include the history and growth of public relations, strategic communication and public opinion, media relations and social media, government and community relations, integrated marketing communication and crisis management. There will also be a discussion of laws and ethics in public relations. |
| 210744120 | DIGITAL DIPLOMACY THEORY AND PRACTICE | 3 | - | 3 |
210743220 PUBLIC DIPLOMACY This course is an introduction to the field of public diplomacy and its role in traditional diplomacy. Topics covered include the scope and evolution of public diplomacy, cultural diplomacy, international broadcasting, public diplomacy for country and nation branding, public diplomacy and persuasion, global approaches to public diplomacy, ethics and social issues in public diplomacy, digital public diplomacy and corporate diplomacy. Special emphasis will be placed on the many applications of public diplomacy in government, non-government organizations and corporations. |
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| 210744130 | POLITICAL COMMUNICATION | This course provides an overview of the theories and principles of political communication and the role of the contemporary media in political communication. Topics covered include contexts for viewing the field of political communication, history and genre of political discourse, political systems, institutions and media, interpersonal and small group political communication and the altered political communication landscape. Special emphasis will be placed on how digital and social media has transformed political communication. | 3 | - | 3 |
210743120 COMMUNICATION THEORY This course provides an overview communication theory and examines how these theories impact the work of digital diplomacy professionals. Topics covered include models and theories of communication, individual and group communication, organizational communication, mediated communication, mass communication and persuasion. Special emphasis will be placed on the way that media and technology have impacted communications. |
| 210744210 | POLITICAL ECONOMY | This course provides an introduction to the study of political economy and examines the history and theory of political economy as well as contemporary issues and debates. Topics covered include cooperation and conflict in the global political economy, global trade and production, global finance and financial crises, globalization and the state, and global growth, equality and the environment. Emphasis will be placed on the impact of increased technological development on the future of the global political economy. | 3 | - | 3 |
260141120 FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS |
| 210744220 | FOREIGN POLICY | This course provides an introduction to the field of foreign policy and the theoretical and practical applications of foreign policy. Topics covered include current and historical perspectives of foreign policy analysis, actors, structures and foreign policy analysis, foreign policy decision making, instruments of foreign policy, public diplomacy, role of media and public opinion in foreign policy, primacy of national security and economic statecraft. Special emphasis will be placed on the relationship between international relations theory, political science and foreign policy analysis. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 210744230 | GRADUATION PROJECT | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 260133230 | SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS | This course explores the use of social media for strategic communication and campaigns. Topics covered include the role of social media in organizations, research in social media, strategic planning for social media, strategic writing for social media, audience segmentation and analysis, creating, managing and curating social media content as well as the creation and evaluation of social media campaigns. Special emphasis will be placed on how the different applications of social media and future trends in social media. | 3 | - | 3 |
210743130 PRACTICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS This course is an introduction to the field of public relations and provides an overview of public relations practices and strategies. Topics covered include the history and growth of public relations, strategic communication and public opinion, media relations and social media, government and community relations, integrated marketing communication and crisis management. There will also be a discussion of laws and ethics in public relations. |
| 260134210 | DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION | This course provides a foundation in digital transformation and examines the strategy, execution and technology required for organizations to transform digitally. Topics covered include an overview of digital transformation strategy, digital governance and risk management, digital organization and change management, experimental learning and design thinking, digital product management, Agile and DevSecOps and digital enterprise architecture. Special emphasis will be placed on current and emerging applications of digital technology. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 260141110 | INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 260141120 | FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 210743160 | LEADERSHIP ETHICS | This course is an introduction to the theoretical and practical questions of morality, ethics and social responsibility in leadership and the process of ethical decision-making. Topics covered include normative leadership theories, ethical perspectives on leadership, leadership and character, ethical decision making and behavior, meeting the global challenges of ethical leadership and ethical crisis management. Special emphasis will be placed on creating an ethical organizational climate. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 210743240 | THEORIES OF CONFLICT RESOLUTION | 3 | - | 3 |
210743140 ESSENTIALS OF NEGOTIATIONS This course introduces students to the theory and practice of negotiations and conflict resolution. Students will study different strategies and styles of negotiations and how to deescalate conflict once it occurs. Topics covered include distributive bargaining, ethics in negotiation, emotion and cognition, communication, power and influence, multiple party negotiation and cross-cultural negotiation. |
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| 260133160 | MEDIA, CULTURE , SOCIETY | This course explores the societal and cultural impact of media in the modern world. Topics covered include elements of media, media technologies, media power and control, construction of news, expansion and transformation of advertising, media and the public sphere and media, race and ethnicity as well as media, gender and sexuality. Special emphasis will be placed on the role of emerging digital, interactive and mobile media technologies. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 260133220 | CYBERSECURITY | This course provides an overview of the current landscape of cybersecurity and the role of cybersecurity in every type of organization. Topics covered include need for a cyber strategy, building a cyber strategy, cyber-attack and defense strategies, common types of cyber-attacks, threat intelligence, and incident response and disaster recovery should an attack occur. Special emphasis will be placed on tools and techniques for proactively monitoring and managing an organization’s vulnerabilities to prevent attacks. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 260134110 | MANAGING DIGITAL INNOVATION | This course provides a foundation in managing digital innovation and examines how effective knowledge management can make organizations more innovative. Topics covered include the innovation process, organizing for digital innovation, strategizing for digital innovation, innovation projects and teaming, project liminality and open innovation, the role of objects in organizing for digital innovation, opportunities and challenges for innovation and the future of digital innovation. Special emphasis will be placed on the role of digital in fostering innovation and managing knowledge. | 3 | - | 3 |
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| 260134130 | INTRODUCTION TO DATA SCIENCE | This course is an introduction to the emerging field of data science, a field that combines business strategy, information technology and modeling methods. Topics covered include the evolution of data science, the benefits and opportunities of data science and its relation to machine learning and data infrastructure uses. Special emphasis will be placed on practical techniques for analyzing data including the use of statistical modeling as a data tool. | 3 | - | 3 |
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