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STRUCTURE OF UNDERGRADUATE ACADEMIC PROGRAMS

The structure of undergraduate academic programs consists of the following elements:

▪ University Requirements: set of core academic subjects that all PSU students in a
College must take.

▪ College Requirements: set of courses designed to meet the specific needs of individual colleges

▪ Program Requirements: set of courses designed to meet the specific needs of individual degree
programs
▪ Major or Field of Specialization Requirements: set of core subjects that constitute the main
areas of knowledge in a particular field of specialization of each academic degree

▪ Electives: a discrete number of courses allotted in each academic degree that can expand the
students' knowledge in their fields of specialization or to broaden the range of their intellectual
pursuits

▪ Experiential Learning or Community Link: set of programs or activities targeted to enrich the
students' knowledge through practical experience, observations of real work behaviors, and
hands-on application of knowledge gained from classroom lectures and discussions to actual
situations such as solving real organization problems and concerns

▪ Language of Instruction: except for those subjects that are devoted to the study of the Arabic
Language and Islamic Studies, the medium of instruction at PSU is English.

CHS DEGREE PROGRAMS

Students seeking degrees in the CHS must earn a minimum of 133 credits as illustrated in the
table below.
NUMBER OF CREDITS AL TRAN
UNIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS 23 23
COLLEGE REQUIREMENTS 32 32
PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS 27 26
CONCENTRATION REQUIREMENTS 33 34
COLLEGE ELECTIVES 9 9
FREE ELECTIVES 9 9
TOTAL 133 133

While both the Applied Linguistics and Translation degree programs both total 133 credits, the AL
Department offers two concentrations: English for Professions [ELP] and Teaching English as a
Foreign Language [TEFL], hence the differentiation in the table above. The University Requirements
(see below) and the College Requirements are uniform.

UNIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS
REQUIRED COURSES IN ENGLISH REQUIRED COURSES IN ARABIC
COURSE # TITLE CRS COURSE # TITLE CRS
ENG 101 INTENSIVE ENGLISH WRITING 3 ARAB 101 ARABIC WRITING I 2
COM 201 COMMUNICATIONS SKILLS 3 ARAB 103 ARABIC WRITING II 2
PSY 101 INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY 3 ARAB 203 ARABIC WRITING III 2
ISC 101 ISLAMIC ETHICS 2
ISC 103 ISLAMIC ECONOMIC SYSTEM 2
ISC 105 HOLY QURAN SCIENCES 2
ISC 203* NEW FINANCIAL TRANSACTIONS 2
SUBTOTAL 9 SUBTOTAL 14
TOTAL 23
*The Applied Linguistics and the Translation students can study (ISC203 New Financial Transactions) or
(ISC205 Family in Islam) as a university requirement.