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The English Department offers three distinguished educational programs: Applied Linguistics, Translation, and Computational Linguistics. The duration of each program is four years. Admission into these programs is based on successful completion of required orientation courses in the Preparatory Year Program.
The main goal of the Preparatory Year Program is to improve the student’s oral and written skills in the English language, to introduce her to basic computer knowledge and operation, and to reinforce basic health awareness.
The development of the English language programs are based on:
- The needs of the local community and the interdisciplinary nature of academic subjects,
- The choice of the specializations that can help students to communicate with other cultures to keep abreast with the fast pace and challenges of the information age,
- The contents and structures of many similar programs in the United States, and the UK.
- The recommendations of leading international academic institutions, such as:
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