The faculty was established in 1994. It grew and thrived until it became one of
the biggest faculties of the university in terms of number of students, professors
and academic fields. The faculty includes two departments and a unit:
- Arabic language and Literature.
- English Language and Literature and Translation .
- University Requirement Coordination Unit
The faculty has worked to spread and maintain Arabic language. It has also worked
to prepare a generation of specialists who serve the country and contribute to the
studies and researches that the community needs. It holds a scientific conference
every two years, organizes a scientific day yearly, and provides an integrated academic
structure for students such as modern labs, particularly the digital labs in the
department of English language. The faculty has been able to bring over fifty-nine
competent teaching members from Jordan and abroad. Furthermore, it sent nine M.A
instructors and B.A students to some prestigious European universities and Jordanian
ones for having PhD and M.A in English language and Translation within the plan
of the faculty which aims at developing the quality and raising the scientific,
practical and theoretical aspects.
The faculty aims to be distinguished among its Jordanian counterparts by constant
development of education and quality assurance. Achievements were accomplished when
Arabic language and Literature Students had the first position among all governmental
and private universities in Efficiency Test held by the ministry of higher education
and research in the first semester of the academic year 2006-2007 and the same position
among all private universities in the first semester of the next year. Moreover,
the faculty inaugurated MA program in English Language and Literature and started
teaching it in 2010-2011 as MA program in Arabic language and Literature was inaugurated
2011-2012.