Entry requirements

A Bachelor's degree, equivalent to a Swedish Kandidatexamen, from an internationally recognised university.

Learning outcomes

After passing the course, the student should be able to:

• account for basic knowledge of the early history of Asia Minor based on material and written sources,
• critically discuss how different ancient peoples formed cultures in the region: the Hittites, the Trojans, the Lydians, the Friezes, the Greeks, the Romans and the Byzantines,
• account for and analyse a selection of the most important archaeological and historical sites of these cultures and the relationship with neighbouring cultures.

Content

Minor Asia, or Anatolia, coincides geographically with today's Turkey. The area has always been a meeting place and also a war scene between peoples from the interior of Asia and peoples from Europe. The course will chronologically study the cultures that ruled the area from the world's oldest city in Çatal Hüyük, through Assyrians, Hittites, Frights, Sounds, Trojans, Greeks and Romans to the Great Byzantine Empire. The Swedish excavations in Labraunda are studied in particular.

Instruction

Instructions ar given in the form of lectures and seminars.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University´s disability coordinator.

Assessment

Examination takes place in one or more of the following forms: PM writing, group work and active seminar participation.

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the University's disability coordinator.