About the Section:

This unit comprises several required courses which provide students with a variety of basic skills. The unit offers this course to be taught by specialized and distinguished instructors whose goal is to serve the Jordanian community in order to achieve excellence in education with all its affiliation, in compliance with international quality assurance standards. The interaction between instructors and students prompts the latter to develop sound logical thinking in research.

Vision:

Excellence and creativity in teaching university requirements.

Message section:

Providing a creative learning environment for basic knowledge of university requirements.

Objectives:

1. Introduce students to basic language skills and religious concepts.
2. Enable the student of computer skills in theory and practice.
3. Know the positive trends for belongings to the homeland and its history.
4. Educating the student about the laws and their role in controlling the behavior of individuals and maintaining their rights.
5. Acquire a healthy structure that leads to self-confidence.
6. Providing thinking skills.
   
   

Program learning outcomes:

1. Knowledge of basic communication and language skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) in Arabic and English.
2. Knowledge of computer and internet skills.
3. Knowledge of laws and due rights in transactions.
4. Familiarity with critical, creative, and innovative thinking and problem-solving skills.
5. Knowledge of ethical, human, social, religious values, principles, of belonging, citizenship and national sense.
6. Knowledge of the events of Arab, Islamic and contemporary history.

Overview:

The Psychology Department at Isra University was established in 2011. It is considered the most current psychology department in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Due to the university’s resolution in establishing a department specialized in teaching psychology in a cohesive and comprehensive manner both theoretically and practically. It has benefited from the expertise of the local and international universities having prominent psychology departments. This has granted the Psychology Department at Isra University an outstanding reputation ever since its inauguration as it locally possesses unprecedented research capabilities.


Mission:

  The message of the department focuses on preparing qualified psychologists in order to meet the demands of society. The department also aims at drawing up a developmental plan to raise public awareness of psychological services with a professional educational methodology.


Vision:

The Department seeks to achieve excellence in teaching and research in psychology and its various branches in order to keep pace with the latest global scientific advances in the field. It also aims to prepare graduates who are optimally equipped both theoretically and practically, by providing them with the necessary technical skills to succeed in their mission as psychologists, thus qualifying them to function with high competency in various professions in the field.


Resources:

The Department is supplied with a clinic and a psychiatry lab, outfitted with the latest scientific equipment and psychometrics, in order to train students and supply them with the practical skills complementing the theoretical aspects in some of the academic courses. The Psychology Department provides courses pertaining to clinical, developmental, social, industrial and organizational, neurological, and cognitive aspects.


Academic Plan:

The Psychology Department has granted the first graduate degree (Bachelor’s degree) in psychology ever since its establishment. The academic plan focuses on providing students with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills necessary to qualify psychologists, in accordance with the latest standards and levels. Consequently, the academic and guidance plans have been designed along with the latest scientific advancements, preparing psychology students for the bachelor’s degree stage and supplementing them with the practical aspect.


Students’ Activities:

The Department focuses on motivating students to participate in the specialized cultural activities, and encouraging them to attend and participate in the department’s seminars, lectures and workshops held at the college.


The Department’s Future Plans:

The Psychology Department in Isra University aspires, in its future developmental plan, to provide quality academic and practical programs on the higher education level by keeping pace with the ongoing needs of the educational field and the advancements in the field of preparing and training psychologists. The Department also seeks to maintain an active participation in local community services.

About the Department

Welcome to the Department of English Language/Translation at Isra University in Jordan. The Department of English Language and Translation at Isra University was established on 3 August 2005. It is considered one of the first academic departments to be established in private universities in Jordan. The Department provides students with courses in English language and general linguistics and other specialized courses in written and oral translation, legal translation, administrative translation, media translation, and tourism translation, in addition to training final year students at highly specialized and accredited translation centers.

The Department is considered one of the largest departments at the Faculty of Arts, as the number of students enrolled in the bachelor’s degree at the beginning of the academic year 2023/2024 are approximately (277). The students in this Department are taught by an integrated group of distinguished faculty members who are graduates of Jordanian and foreign universities. The Department also provides the highest-ranked student a full scholarship that includes covering of tuition fees to study a master’s degree in the Department of English Language and Literature at Isra University. The Department is currently planning to open a master’s program in Applied Translation in the coming years.

Vision:

Excellence and creativity in the field of translation (English-Arabic) study and research.

Mission:

Commitment to leadership standards in providing a creative educational and research environment for community development.

Program Objectives:

1. Equipping students with written and oral translation skills.
2. Developing student’s cognitive and intellectual abilities.
3. Keeping pace with the requirements of the job market and knowledge developments.
4. Creativity and innovation in the field of practical translation.

Expected Outcomes:

1. Acquiring linguistic and basic skills in English language.
2. Acquire the necessary knowledge in oral translation and interpretation.
3. Understanding different fields of knowledge.
4. The ability to adapt to work environments and conditions.
5. Contact and communicate in different ways.
6. The ability to solve translation problems.
7. The ability to analyze different texts.
8. Enhancing critical thinking skills.