This advanced course is designed for students who have successfully completed five semesters of Modern Standard Arabic. Students will continue to develop the skills needed to comprehend and produce the language of the media in Arabic. Students will be exposed to a wide variety of prepared and authentic material from the Arabic Press, TV and radio broadcasting, film and the Internet. Emphasis will be placed on enhancing the students' linguistic proficiency by building their vocabulary and familiarity with commonly used idiomatic expressions. The aim of this course is to help students produce the language at a more sophisticated level. In addition, part of the course will focus on students developing the ability to successfully translate material from Arabic into English and vice versa. Not only will we focus on some of the challenges that translation--both into and from--Arabic presents, but students will be offered some basic strategies for successfully working between the two languages.