<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Arabic-L: Wed 03 Nov 2010<br>Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <<a href="mailto:dil@byu.edu">dil@byu.edu</a>><br>[To post messages to the list, send them to arabic-l@byu.edu]<br>[To unsubscribe, send message from same address you subscribed from to<br><a href="mailto:listserv@byu.edu">listserv@byu.edu</a> with first line reading:<br> unsubscribe arabic-l ]<br><br>-------------------------Directory------------------------------------<br><br>1) Subject: AALIM Spring Deadline<br><br>-------------------------Messages-----------------------------------<br>1)<br>Date: 03 Nov 2010<br>From: Driss Cherkaoui <<a href="mailto:aalimorocco@yahoo.com">aalimorocco@yahoo.com</a>><br>Subject: AALIM Spring Deadline<br><br><div>The deadline for application to the intensive Arabic spring semester program at AALIM, the Arab American Language Institute in Morocco, is December 1, 2010. Application forms on the website, <a href="http://www.aalimorocco.com">www.aalimorocco.com</a>. IBN KHALDOUN SCHOLARSHIP available for up to $3000 tuition reduction. </div><div><br></div><div>Spring semester 2011, 13-week intensive Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) program includes:</div><div><br></div><div>Academic component</div><div><br></div><div>- 3 classroom hours per day, Monday through Friday, of MSA 15 hours/wk</div><div><br></div><div>- 1 classroom hour per day, Monday through Friday, of Darija 5 hours/wk</div><div><br></div><div>- Introduction to North African Culture, an interactive MSA class 2 hours/wk</div><div><br></div><div> (Tuesday and Thursday afternoon)</div><div><br></div><div>- Directed MSA conversation class (Monday and Friday afternoon) 2 hours/wk</div><div><br></div><div>- Movie club (Arabic films) or cultural activity (Wed. afternoon) 2 hours/wk</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Total, NOT counting the cultural activities/movies: 312 contact hours/13 weeks</div><div><br></div><div>Room and board (see <a href="http://www.riadidrissi.com">www.riadidrissi.com</a>)</div><div><br></div><div>- Double occupancy in AALIM partner guest house (riad) in the Medina</div><div><br></div><div>- 2 meals/day: breakfast and main mid-day meal</div><div><br></div><div>- 5 Friday mid-day meals with Moroccan families</div><div><br></div><div>Other</div><div><br></div><div>- Orientation tour of Meknes</div><div><br></div><div>- Educational materials, not including textbooks</div><div><br></div><div>- Outside of class teaching assistant</div><div><br></div><div>- Office hours with professors, 3 hours/wk</div><div><br></div><div>- Day trip to the Roman ruins of Volubilis and the village of Moulay Idriss</div><div><br></div><div>- Day trip to Azrou</div><div><br></div><div>- Certificate of program completion</div><div><br></div><div>- Documentation at no charge for university credit if requested</div><div><br></div><div>- Final party</div><div><br></div><div>Not included</div><div><br></div><div>- R/T airfare to Morocco</div><div><br></div><div>- Airport pick-up and/or drop-off (available at additional cost)</div><div><br></div><div>- Third daily meal</div><div><br></div><div>- Medical expenses or insurance</div><div><br></div><div>- Personal expenses</div><div><br></div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>End of Arabic-L: 03 Nov 2010</body></html>