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Ancient Near Eastern Studies (B.A.) (2 Subjects)

Features

Hundreds of thousands of clay tablets originated in ancient Mesopotamia between the Tigris and the Euphrates between 3000 BC and the birth of Christ. The reflections concerning mankind, its life and its world mirrored therein have radiated outwards to cultures such as those of Greece and Israel and even continue to challenge current thinking. Ancient Near Eastern Studies investigates these advanced civilisations and in particular those of the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians. This degree programme offered at Göttingen University focuses on philological and cultural anthropological aspects, mainly covering the areas of language, history, literature and religion.

Programme:
Ancient Near Eastern Studies (B.A.) (2 Subjects)
Degree:
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) (2 subjects)
Standard period of study:
6 semesters
Start:
Only the winter semester
Language of the programme:
German
Admission:
open
(enrolment without previous application)
Orientation events:
Orientation events are offered

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Details

Ancient Near Eastern Studies is a young science which, in exploring this early advanced civilisation, is currently making fundamental new discoveries in many areas, with its materials constantly growing through excavations and museum work. The course of studies in Göttingen concentrates in particular on Sumer, Babylonia and Assyria; it provides the basic philological knowledge required to work with the texts and covers topics of cultural science such as literature, religion and history, with the main focus on Sumerian and Babylonian mythology. Anyone who is interested and has the necessary talents can already contribute to research at an early stage or make ancient oriental themes fruitful for our time by journalistic or artistic means.

This course introduces students to the Sumerian and Babylonian-Assyrian languages and their texts. The acquisition of language skills involves from the very beginning an introduction to highly interesting texts which provide insights into the historical context, poetry and philosophy of a more-than-2000-year-old culture.

The subject Ancient Near Eastern Studies belongs to the Faculty of Humanities. The great diversity of subjects of this faculty provides numerous options for combination of subjects. But combinations with subjects from other faculties are also conceivable. The most important criterion for an individual combination of subjects is personal interest. A combination with related subjects in terms of content, geographical closeness and/or methodology, such as Egyptology, Classical Philology or Theology makes just as much sense as a combination with more methodology-oriented subjects such as Religious Studies, General Linguistics, Linguistics and Literary Studies (German Philology), Cultural Anthropology, or a combination with subjects exploring the medieval and modern Orient such as Arabic Studies or Iranian Studies. Finally, a combination with arts-oriented subjects may also open up interesting perspectives.

Journalism, publishing, libraries, tourism, museums, foundations, IT, knowledge management, sciences and various forms of art.

Related and consecutive/graduate programmes


Structure

In the two-subject Bachelor's programme, two subjects are studied on equal terms.

A total of 180 credits are earned for the Bachelor's degree Bachelor of Arts (B.A.).

The two subjects each account for 66 credits. The area of professionalisation accounts for 36 credits.

The subject Ancient Near Eastern Studies introduces students to the Sumerian and Babylonian-Assyrian languages and cuneiform script, and provides knowledge in cultural science in the areas of literature, religion, history and mythology research. These areas will be studied simultaneously and complement each other in an ideal way.

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Admission

Start:
Winter semester only
1st subject semester:
open admission (enrolment without previous application)
2nd to 6th subject semester:
open admission (enrolment without previous application)

EU
Non-German citizens without a German educational qualification

Non-EU
Citizen from a non-EU country (or stateless person)


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Tina Seufer and Eva Wolff

Humboldtallee 17
DE-37073 Göttingen

Phone: +49 (0)551 39 21888 (Seufer)
Phone: +49 (0)551 39 26713 (Wolff)

Email: studienberatung@phil.uni-goettingen.de

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Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14 (KWZ)
37073 Göttingen

Phone: +49-551 39 21248

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