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Josephine El Karkafi

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Contact Information

4111 Literatures, Cultures & Linguistics Building
707 S. Mathews Ave. | MC-168
Urbana, IL 61801
Senior Instructor

Biography

Josephine teaches beginning, intermediate, and Levantine Colloquial courses of Arabic. She also taught intermediate intensive courses in the Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim World (SILMW) at The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (UIUC). Since arriving at UIUC in 2015, she regularly makes the “List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students.” Previously, she studied and taught Sociology in Lebanon. In 2015 - 2016 she developed the Arabic High School Program at UIUC. In 2018 she was certified for "Transitioning to Teaching Language Online"  in synchronous and asynchronous modes from the University of Minnesota.

Courses Taught

ARAB 201 Elementary Standard Arabic, level 1

ARAB 202 Elementary Standard Arabic, level 2

ARAB 210 Colloquial Arabic, Levantine dialect, level 1

ARAB 211 Colloquial Arabic, Levantine dialect, level 2

ARAB 403 Intermediate Standard Arabic, level 1

ARAB 404 Intermediate Standard Arabic, level 2

 

 

Additional Campus Affiliations

Center for Global Studies