Professor
Michael Cooperson
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Spring 2015 - This class was so much fun! We got to translate a wide variety of things, from an online opinion piece to poetry to YouTube videos. For our final project we could choose basically anything we wanted. Professor Cooperson knows so much about translation and taught us a lot of great techniques and approaches. This class will definitely make you rethink English as well as Arabic. The students in the class were all of different levels in Arabic, from native speakers to intermediate students, and the class suited all of us nicely.
Spring 2015 - This class was so much fun! We got to translate a wide variety of things, from an online opinion piece to poetry to YouTube videos. For our final project we could choose basically anything we wanted. Professor Cooperson knows so much about translation and taught us a lot of great techniques and approaches. This class will definitely make you rethink English as well as Arabic. The students in the class were all of different levels in Arabic, from native speakers to intermediate students, and the class suited all of us nicely.
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I took Arabic 150 Classical Arabic Lit in English with Prof. Cooperson. He's such a chill teacher and amazingly smart for his young age. He knows a billion languages and seems to have native fluency in them. His class wasn't difficult and at the same time, I learned a whole lot! There are three quizzes, three short papers on a topic of your choice among a list of a bunch of possibilities, and there's a final. The quizzes and final consist of ID's, a couple multiple choice, and maps. On those quizzes you usually have a choice on what you answer. Also, he hands out all the readings and we didn't have to buy a book. BUT read all the readings CAREFULLY! Lots of questions on quizzes are regarding specifics in them. Really cool professor and his class was my favorite of last quarter.
I took Arabic 150 Classical Arabic Lit in English with Prof. Cooperson. He's such a chill teacher and amazingly smart for his young age. He knows a billion languages and seems to have native fluency in them. His class wasn't difficult and at the same time, I learned a whole lot! There are three quizzes, three short papers on a topic of your choice among a list of a bunch of possibilities, and there's a final. The quizzes and final consist of ID's, a couple multiple choice, and maps. On those quizzes you usually have a choice on what you answer. Also, he hands out all the readings and we didn't have to buy a book. BUT read all the readings CAREFULLY! Lots of questions on quizzes are regarding specifics in them. Really cool professor and his class was my favorite of last quarter.
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