Hassen Bettaieb
Instructor
Modern Languages
EMAIL: hbettaieb@bmcc.cuny.edu
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Hassen Bettaieb currently holds the position of Adjunct Lecturer of Arabic at BMCC teaching both beginner and advanced classes. He is an Arabic and French Linguist with a Master’s in international Relations with a focus in Middle East Studies and a Bachelors in French Literature. Prior to BMCC, he was a Lecturer of Arabic and French at Lake Forest College in Illinois and has taught Arabic classes at Rutgers University in Brunswick, NJ. He is passionate about teaching and loves to provide political and cultural context to his classes by talking about current events and using local music, cinema, and poetry as part of his teaching tools. He is natively Tunisian, is passionate about motorcycles and has travelled extensively around the world.
Expertise
Degrees
University of Arkansas
MA, Political Science/Middle East Studies 2010
California State University, Northridge
BA, French Literature 1993
Université Paris-SorbonneUniversité Paris-Sorbonne
DEUG, Applied Foreign Languages – Arabic, French, English 1983
Courses Taught
- Elementary Arabic I is a complete beginner-level course for students who have had no previous background in Arabic. Listening, speaking, reading and writing are emphasized with an introduction to Arabic culture.
- Students will continue the study of basic Arabic begun in ARB 105. They will also further their skills in listening comprehension, speaking, reading and writing in Arabic. Prerequisite: ARB 105 or departmental placement test
- This is an elementary Arabic course for students who can speak Arabic but have no formal training in the language. Students who have taken ARB 105 and /or ARB 106 will not receive credit for this course. This course is designed to help heritage speakers of Arabic to enhance their reading and writing competence of the target language in the formal and high-level register. The course especially focuses on improving students’ Arabic grammar, usage, and their critical reading and writing strategies in Arabic through project-based assignments. This course is taught in Arabic. Prerequisite: Departmental approval based on language proficiency exam
- This course offers students an opportunity to enhance their Arabic reading, writing, speaking and comprehension skills through active class use of vocabulary and grammar. The course's balanced four-skills approach endeavors to prepare students to use the language in a natural way for communication in a variety of situations. It emphasizes the use of language for oral communication without neglecting the other basic language skills. This class will use reading and writing activities to extend student's grasp of vocabulary and grammatical structures and to further their comprehension of and ability to express themselves in Arabic.
Prerequisite: ARB 106 or ARB 107 or departmental approval - This course is designed to advance student proficiency and communication in Modern Standard Arabic. The structural and grammatical usages of Arabic are emphasized, as necessary linguistic tools for the improvement of the learner’s proficiency and fluency. The overall intended learning objective is to enable students to critically analyze Arabic texts and discourses, and express ideas in Arabic at an appropriate level. Advanced Arabic focuses on reading extracts of articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers, while incorporating music, advanced texts, and watching audio/video excerpts from major Arabic outlets.
Prerequisite: ARB 200 or departmental approval
Research and Projects
Publications
- Political Decentralization in Tunisia (2008) https://www.academia.edu/3421205/Political_Decentralization_in_Tunisia_2008
- End Game in Tunisia? The Dynamics of a Failed Democratic Transition (January,2008) https://www.academia.edu/3421172
/End_Game_in_Tunisia_The_Dynamics_of_a_Failed_Democratic_Transition_January_2008_ - Strategy to Combat Desertification In Tunisia: Objectives and Challenges https://www.academia.edu/3421162/STRATEGY_TO_COMBAT_DESERTIFICATION_IN_TUNISIA_OBJECTIVES_AND_CHALLENGES
- Political Behavior and Partisanship in the US .https://www.academia.edu/3421210/Political_behavior_and_partisanship_in_the_US
