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Historical background:
Damascus University is the leader of higher education in Syria, and she is known as the mother of Syrian universities.
190 1 year, the School of Pharmacy of Damascus University was established, which is the predecessor of Damascus University. It was officially renamed Syrian University on 1923. With the establishment of the new college, 1953, she officially changed its name to Damascus University.
In the academic field, the development of Damascus University has been given top priority, which has established Damascus University as a leader in the field of education.
At present, with the gradual development and competitive situation of other universities, Damascus University is also facing its critical development stage.
Under the leadership of President Dr. Bashar al-Assad, Damascus University will surely make more remarkable achievements in academic research and play an important role in modernization.
As a pioneer of Arabic teaching, Damascus University plays an obvious role in language publishing and standard setting, hoping to promote academic development and summarize the country's past, present and future.
Damascus University has 15 departments, 8 affiliated hospitals, 1 nursing school and 7 language centers.
The Arabic Language Center (ALC) of Damascus University is the most famous language department of Damascus University. He specializes in teaching foreigners Arabic. ALC was established in 1995. Students from nearly 100 countries, different cultures and academic backgrounds study in this center. ALC's international reputation comes from its high-quality teaching level and experienced teachers.
Teaching methods:
The characteristic of our course lies in the comprehensive development of learners' listening, speaking, reading and writing abilities. The ALC center will cultivate students' skills in all aspects.
In order to best meet the needs of students, ALC is committed to studying modern teaching methods and curriculum design. In fact, ALC has also summarized the research experience and published many books and materials. ALC teachers hope to use the latest methods to teach Arabic. ALC uses dynamic interactive activities to help students communicate with native Arabic speakers.
ALC's courses include culture and social customs, and this concern for cultural customs has benefited a lot from studying in Syria. In addition, the books we use are also very unique, including one called Al-Kitaab Alasaasi [Basic Reader]. This book was published by the Arab UNESCO of the Arab League.
ALC is famous for its extensive use of Arabic in class. All descriptions and interactions between teachers and students are done in Arabic. All textbooks are in Arabic. The experience of ALC shows that extensive use of Arabic can help students use Arabic better. In advanced courses, some students find it difficult to keep up, so ALC uses Arabic as the only explanation language. In addition, ALC accepts students from different language backgrounds and requires everyone to communicate in Arabic. This policy is conducive to further cooperation and mutual assistance among students, making learning Arabic at any stage have an excellent experience.
Employees:
ALC has 18 teachers, all of whom are experts in the field of Arabic teaching. All ALC teachers attend training courses and courses provided by international Arabic teaching experts. These courses are jointly organized with American universities and educational institutions, such as Ohio State University. This makes ALC consistent with the most advanced international teaching methods. ALC is also committed to training local Arabic researchers in Syria so that they can help foreigners learn Arabic in the future. The new teachers can meet the needs of more and more students who want to learn Arabic in ALC.
Goal:
At present, we are making more academic achievements in the field of language teaching. Our goals are as follows:
Become the most professional language teaching and research institution;
Conferring master's and doctor's degrees in the field of language teaching;
Improve language skills and work better in government and public departments and organizations;
Training experts in academic research and social, political, economic, anthropological and cultural fields;
Study the cultural role of language learning.
Location:
ALC is the main part of the Language College of Damascus University. ALC is adjacent to the College of Literature, Dentistry, Medicine and Science, and is located in Al Mazzeh Expressway, Fayez Mansour Street and Humanities Campus in the west of Damascus. You can easily use public or private transportation to get to any place in Damascus.
ALC can provide a good environment for students to communicate freely with students from Damascus and non-Damascus colleges.
Technology:
ALC has all kinds of modern technical facilities. For example, ALC has two literature research rooms;
A network laboratory with 20 computers. Students can use the computer at the appointed time. This research room is also used to teach online courses and computer projects for Arabic learning.
An audio/video research room can accommodate 20 independent seats. This research room has a video library with carefully selected video files to help students learn. We encourage students to use this laboratory during working hours.
The library provides books in various fields and disciplines, including sociology, history and literature. The library also provides simple story readers, dictionaries, anecdotes and daily newspapers in English and Arabic. Students can come to the library to read books during working hours.
Special projects &; Cooperation in cultural and scientific research:
Special projects;
S0AS, Oriental and African Studies Project of University of London, UK;
Durham University Project, UK
Deakin University Project, Australia;
Rein University Project in France;
Danish Southern University Cooperation Project
Student exchange and cultural cooperation projects:
Ohio State University
Damascus University mainly cooperates with Ohio State University in all aspects, and the most important cooperation is to provide Arabic teaching workshops for Arabic teachers. Dr Mahdi Alosh, professor of Arabic at Ohio State University, spared no effort to help and guide Arabic teaching. This studio was established in 2002, and ALC welcomes students from Ohio State University every year. Many students participated in the DSAP summer Arabic program in Damascus. Recently, ALC cooperated with Ohio to design new teaching methods to teach Arabic. For example, oral learning in Syria is one of the projects.
Other projects in the summer of 2006 include:
University of Maryland; Georgetown University.
Student exchange programs in other universities must be approved by the Ministry of Higher Education in Damascus:
Osaka University, Japan;
University of Tokyo, Japan;
Albert Lodfig Freiburg University, Germany
University of Leipzig, Germany
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Russian Ceglia Benske Public University