UCAZ connects cultures from the world with Middle-Eastern cultures to learn firsthand with and from people in the Middle East.
UCAZ provides you with a holistic approach to teaching and learning Arabic and Middle-Eastern cultures with the aim of developing in language learners the ability to understand, reflect and mediate the Middle-Eastern cultures as part of their language learning experience.
UCAZ is launched at an opportune time in the history of the Middle-East and gives you a lifetime chance to learn about and with its people.
UCAZ program flexibility of online courses and modules are designed to fit a wide range of groups. It provides Arabic learning courses both online and face-to-face from beginners to advanced level as well as opportunities to learn Arabic language in the Middle-Eastern country of your choice with a focus on its culture and at your pace. It connects you with a community of people who share the same interests: learning about the Middle-East with people from the Middle-East.
It links the most qualified international educators with learners through its network using innovative methodologies based on new communication technologies delving in experiential learning, generative topics, fun and engaging activities with firsthand experience.
UCAZ aims is to provide learners and instructors with an integrated approach to learning Arabic cultures by leveraging proven blended learning (both online and face-to-face) methodologies with an emphasis on community building. The aggregated experiences will yield a powerful outcome with a continuum in learning and a growing community interested in connecting with Middle-Eastern cultures.
UCAZ provides you with the ability to learn Arabic language and ME cultures supported by a platform to stay connected with both the language and the community of learners to sustain the level of proficiency that you have acquired.
It provides you with the opportunity to live the culture of the Orient by joining “Cultural-Linguistic Visits” to Arabic cities and communities, where you will get to the roots of the words and expressions to widen your knowledge of such a rich language and culture. The program flexibility offers several options: you can learn online, face-to-face or in a mixed mode.
Previous researches have demonstrated that learning a foreign language is more than a simple task of assembling lexical terms in grammatically accurate sentences. It involves fundamentally learning to communicate with others in that language and such communication involves an interaction and engagement with its culture.
Furthermore, the combination of new methodologies emphasize communicative competence through group work, cooperative learning, and group interaction and have given a new dimension to the interactive processes and interpersonal relationships in language acquisition.
UCAZ programs are designed to harness these new methodologies by utilizng integrated tools which stimulate language acquisition by connecting learners around the world.
Language is taught “holistically”, in context to connect learners in authentic and collaborative writing based on communication that is meaningful to them and connected to the culture of their choice. Communication, interaction and collaboration are at the heart of UCAZ programs which will result in a deep understanding of cultures through active participation and interaction to the behaviors and thoughts of others.