2. Media Classes (Three hours a day)
The higher level media course builds upon the Media Taster course by increasing students’ insight. It provides an excellent opportunity to experience what it is like to be a journalist.
Students spend three hours daily studying and analyzing Middle Eastern media, including news stories and features produced by broadcasters such as Al Jazeera, BBC Arabic and al-Arabiyya. The course offers both language and cultural education to its students and allows students to engage and apply their Arabic language skills in a stylized learning environment.
240 USD a week.
(for students of intermediate or advance level – study group)
3. Ten-Week Program (Ahlan Jordan only)
Ahlan’s comprehensive media and language Ten Week Program offers students an unparalleled journalistic study into Arab media through a intense six week communication-orientated language course and one full-time internship with the internationally renowned Petra News Agency. This course is designed to provide students with versatile skills for a variety of future career paths, such as a media, professional or academic environments.
The programme schedule is divided as follows:
4 weeks of MSA + JCA courses with Ahlan
2 weeks of Media classes with Ahlan
2 weeks of theoretical and practical courses at Petra News Agency
2 weeks of an internship at a local media organization (to be determined in-country)
4 weeks of MSA + JCA courses with Ahlan
8 one-to-one classes during the final weeks, to support work done at the internship
Price: 2,400 USD
(for students of intermediate or advance level)