Princess Rahma University College - Al-Balqa Applied University

Department of Basic Science

The Department of Basic Sciences provides many obligatory courses for other programs and departments in the college such as Arabic Language, English Language, and Computer Skills. As well, the Military Science is taught in cooperation with the Jordanian Armed Forces - the Arab Army. These courses are important for developing the students’ linguistic and computer skills essential to meet the updated requirements, especially technological acceleration, and communication with others. The department also directly and by its specialized faculty members organizes the Placement Examinations tests in Arabic Language, English Language and Computer as these exams are required for new students to sit for when they join the college's programs. In addition, the Department of Basic Sciences teaches courses that promote research and aim to integrate the students’ linguistic, computer, research and teaching skills to enable them to handle different academic and professional tasks. The Department offers courses in Scientific Research Statistic Methods, Designing Teaching, Methods of Teaching Arabic Language and Methods of Teaching Mathematics.

Moreover, the department aims at offering courses that help develop the students’ religious, patriotic, and moral sense. The Islamic Culture course aims to teach students true Islamic principles that mandate dialogue, mutual understanding and peace. The department also offers the National Education and Military Sciences courses that aim to develop good citizenship and morals among students. The Department of Basic Sciences is considered the biggest department in the college; it has 21 faculty members who hold a Ph.D. degree and MA degree in various majors.

Department's Vision

Our vision is invest on the department’s academic programs to create an environment of legitimate competition that will serve the college, university, local community and the country in order to ensure excellence in performance, proficiency, durability, and flexibility to keep up with developments.

Department's Message

The department seeks to prepare individuals who can cope with modern scientific developments by having good language proficiency in Arabic and English as well as computer. The department supports various academic programs in the college in partnership with other departments in the college by offering academic courses to enhance the students’ professional and academic skills in response to the requirements of the labor market such as Scientific Research Statistic Methods and Designing Teaching courses. In addition, there must be complementarity in building up the student’s personality in accordance of the Islamic culture, the national education and morals of a good citizenship. As a result, the department offers academic courses that deal with these dimensions such as Islamic Culture , National Education and Military Science courses . Moreover, the department works to benefit from the academic members to serve the community in the fields of developing language and computer skills by holding specialized training courses in language and computer applications supervised by specialized staff members of the department.

Objectives

Keep up with recent scientific developments at the local, Arab, and global levels.
Improve students’ Arabic language, English language and computer skills.
Conduct courses targeting students and members of the local community.
Work with other departments in the college to prepare individuals / students to embark on the labor market.
Develop good values among students and building up their personalities.
Enhance interactive communication skills between students and teachers through research projects.
Participate in conferences and workshops to be informed of the latest scientific developments according to their specializations.
Establish language laboratories.
Offer other educational programs such as the Arabic and English language programs.

Faculty Members

Name	Academic Rank	Qualification	E-mail
Nazir Sihan Abu Nair	Ph.D.	Professor	natheer.sihan@bau.edu.jo
Monther Bisharah Awad Alswelmen	Ph.D.	Professor	Dr.mswelm@bau.edu.jo
Abeer Rashid Olimat	Ph.D.	Professor	abeer-rashed@bau.edu.jo
Mohammad Noor Bani Irshaid	Ph.D.	Professor	ayedziadat@bau.edu.jo
Mohammad Ibrahim Abu Jreban	Ph.D.	Professor	Mohmmad.abujreban@bau.edu.jo
Malloh Mufadi Barakat Al Slehat	Ph.D.	Professor	mallouh_abady@bau.edu.jo
Jamal Fawaz Al Omari	Ph.D.	Associate Professor	Drjamal@bau.edu.jo
Eman Basher Al Hussien Alawamleh	Ph.D.	Associate Professor	Eman.alhussein@bau.edu.jo
Basma Odeh Alrawashdeh	Ph.D.	Associate Professor	basma_rawashdeh@bau.edu.jo
Fatima Mohammad Mahmoud Hassan	Ph.D.	Associate Professor	Dr.falwahash@bau.edu.jo
Rakan Essa Alkayed	Ph.D.	Associate Professor	rakan.adwan@bau.edu.jo
Abdallah Ahmad Abdalaziz Alawamleh	Ph.D.	Associate Professor	Ab.AlAwamleh@bau.edu.jo
Musa Abdalqader Bakheet Alhrout	Ph.D.	Associate Professor	mosaalhrout@bau.edu.jo
Alaa Al Smadi	Ph.D.		alaa_al-smadi@bau.edu.jo
Maha Hamed Alsaydeh	Ph.D.		mohaalsaydeh@bau.edu.jo
Eatdal Awad Alziadat	MA		eatdalalaziadat@bau.edu.jo
Khloud Falah Alrahamna	MA		mayar103@bau.edu.jo
Mansour Ali Nweran Abu Sameha Almnaseer	MA		mansour_153@bau.edu.jo
Namer Ali Aletawi	MA		namer_jdou@bau.edu.jo
Fatima Daher Ahmad Abu Roman	MA		fatima_thaher@bau.edu.jo
Rasha Tarawneh	MA		rasha.altarawneh@bau.edu.jo