Study Programme

The full programme requires the student to complete 120 ETCS, according to the following scheme.

N.B. The following division between first- and second-year examinations is recommended but not rigid, and the student has the option of choosing the order in which to take the examinations.

FIRST YEAR  

Groups

ECTS

AAO – 12 ECTS:

  • Archaeology of Near East (Mesopotamia and Arabia) (12 ECTS)

or

6 + 6 ECTS to be chosen among:

  • Advanced Sanskrit (6 ECTS)*
  • Culture and history of ancient India (6 ECTS)*
  • Iranian Philology (6 ECTS)

12

STA – 18 ECTS to be chosen among:

  • Ancient Egyptian Epigraphy (6 ECTS)
  • Ancient Egyptian Language and Texts (6 ECTS)
  • Assyriology (6 ECTS)
  • Egyptian Archaeology (6 ECTS)
  • Hieratic (6 ECTS)*
  • Hieratic II (6 ECTS)*
  • History of Religions (6 ECTS)
  • Hittitology (6 ECTS)
  • Museological aspects of Egyptology (6 ECTS)
  • Social History and Material Culture of Ancient Egypt (6 ECTS)

18

LAM – 6 ECTS to be chosen among:

  • Syriac (6 ECTS)
  • Ugaritic (6 ECTS)

6

AFI – 12 ECTS to be chosen among:

  • Advanced Sanskrit (6 ECTS)*
  • Ancient Egyptian Epigraphy (6 ECTS)
  • Ancient Egyptian Language and Texts (6 ECTS)
  • Assyriology (6 ECTS)
  • Culture and history of ancient India (6 ECTS)*
  • Egyptian Archaeology (6 ECTS)
  • Hieratic (6 ECTS)*
  • Hieratic II (6 ECTS)*
  • History of Religions (6 ECTS)
  • Hittitology (6 ECTS)
  • Iranian Philology (6 ECTS)
  • Museological aspects of Egyptology (6 ECTS)
  • Social History and Material Culture of Ancient Egypt (6 ECTS)

12

EXT – A language laboratory of your choice with suitability

  • Laboratorio di arabo colloquiale (6 ECTS)
  • Laboratorio di lingua francese B (6 ECTS)
  • Laboratorio di lingua francese C (6 ECTS)
  • Laboratorio di lingua inglese B (6 ECTS)
  • Laboratorio di lingua inglese C (6 ECTS)
  • Laboratorio di lingua spagnola B (6 ECTS)
  • Laboratorio di lingua spagnola C (6 ECTS)
  • Laboratorio di lingua tedesca B (6 ECTS)
  • Laboratorio di lingua tedesca C (6 ECTS)

6

TIR – Laboratories or traineeships or participation to excavations

  • Comparative Oriental codicology (3 ECTS)
  • Laboratory of Near Eastern Archaeology (3 ECTS)
  • Reading Egyptian Texts (3 ECTS)
  • Traineeship/excavation

6

First year total ECTS

60

 

SECOND YEAR

 

Groups

ECTS
AAO 6 ECTS to be chosen among those not already taken:

  • Advanced Sanskrit (6 ECTS)*
  • Culture and history of ancient India (6 ECTS)*
  • Iranian Philology (6 ECTS)
6
STA – 6 ECTS to be chosen among:

  • Ancient Egyptian Epigraphy (6 ECTS)
  • Ancient Egyptian Language and Texts (6 ECTS)
  • Assyriology (6 ECTS)
  • Egyptian Archaeology (6 ECTS)
  • Hieratic (6 ECTS)*
  • Hieratic II (6 ECTS)*
  • History of Religions (6 ECTS)
  • Hittitology (6 ECTS)
  • Museological aspects of Egyptology (6 ECTS)
  • Social History and Material Culture of Ancient Egypt (6 ECTS)
6
LAM – 6 ECTS to be chosen among those not yet taken:

  • Syriac (6 ECTS)
  • Ugaritic (6 ECTS)
6
AFI – 6 ECTS to be chosen among those not yet taken:

  • Advanced Sanskrit (6 ECTS)*
  • Ancient Egyptian Epigraphy (6 ECTS)
  • Ancient Egyptian Language and Texts (6 ECTS)
  • Assyriology (6 ECTS)
  • Culture and history of ancient India (6 ECTS)*
  • Egyptian Archaeology (6 ECTS)
  • Hieratic (6 ECTS)*
  • Hieratic II (6 ECTS)*
  • History of Religions (6 ECTS)
  • Hittitology (6 ECTS)
  • Iranian Philology (6 ECTS)
  • Museological aspects of Egyptology (6 ECTS)
  • Social History and Material Culture of Ancient Egypt (6 ECTS)
6
Free choice courses – 12 ECTS

 

12
Final Written Dissertation:

The final exam will consist in the drafting of a degree thesis that is the product of an original research, personal and organic re-elaboration of contents consistent with the training course, and that demonstrates the ability to use published or unpublished sources in an autonomous, informed and methodological way. coherent. The topic of the paper for the final exam must fall within the scope of one of the scientific-disciplinary sectors present in the organization of the Degree Course and indicated in the Didactic Regulations.
The thesis work, to which 24 credits are reserved, will be carried out under the supervision of one or more supervisors and discussed in front of a commission of professors of the course itself. To be admitted to the discussion of the paper for the final exam, the student must have previously achieved a total of 96 ECTS between exams and extracurricular activities.

 

24
Second year total ECTS 60

* Alternating years: Hieratic/Hieratic II, Advanced Sanskrit/Culture and history of ancient India

 


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