Ancient Near East: Introduction, 7.5 credits
Academic year 2022/2023
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Autumn 2022, 50%, Distance learning
Start date: 29 August 2022
End date: 6 November 2022
Application deadline: 19 April 2022
Application code: UU-56207 Application
Language of instruction: English
Location: Flexible
Selection: Final school grades (60%) - Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (40%)
Outline for distance course: Learning activities and examination on the distance courses are internet-based. Examination takes place through weekly assignments and a final exam. The course is taught via the university’s learning platform Studium and the video platform Zoom. The student needs access to a computer with speakers, microphone, and broadband connection to follow the course.
Number of mandatory meetings on campus: 0
Registration: 28 July 2022 – 28 August 2022
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Autumn 2022, 50%, Campus
Start date: 29 August 2022
End date: 6 November 2022
Application deadline: 19 April 2022
Application code: UU-56202 Application
Language of instruction: Swedish
Location: Uppsala
Selection: Final school grades (60%) - Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (40%)
Registration: 28 July 2022 – 28 August 2022
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Autumn 2022, 50%, Distance learning
Start date: 29 August 2022
End date: 6 November 2022
Application deadline: 19 April 2022
Application code: UU-56205 Application
Language of instruction: Swedish
Location: Flexible
Selection: Final school grades (60%) - Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (40%)
Number of mandatory meetings on campus: 0
Registration: 28 July 2022 – 28 August 2022
Entry requirements: General entry requirements
Fees:
If you are not a citizen of a European Union (EU) or European Economic Area (EEA) country, or Switzerland, you are required to pay application or tuition fees. Formal exchange students will be exempted from tuition fees, as well as the application fee. Read more about fees.
Application fee: SEK 900
Tuition fee, first semester: SEK 11,250
Tuition fee, total: SEK 11,250
About the course
This course provides you with broad historical and cultural-historical knowledge of the Near East, from when people began to settle down until the beginning of our era.
We study the many cultures that inhabited the area stretching from the Mediterranean east coast, through Syria, Iraq and southern Turkey, to Iran. We see trade, ideas and technology, migrations and conflicts connecting people across the region and beyond. The earliest state formations in Iraq and eastern Syria, Sumer, Babylon and Assyria, take center stage. Here we find the most varied evidence in the region for investigating human living conditions, their perception of the world, and the historical developments, all due to the amount of archaeological finds and hundreds of thousands of preserved texts in cuneiform written on clay tablets.
More information
Contact
Department of Linguistics and Philology
Engelska parken Thunbergsvägen 3H
Box 635, 751 26 UPPSALA
Telephone: 018-471 2252
Email: info@lingfil.uu.se
Student office
Telephone: +46 18 471 22 52
info@lingfil.uu.se