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Bachelor of Ancient History

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Faculty:
Faculty of Arts
Department:
Department of Ancient History
Award:
Bachelor of Ancient History (BAncHist)
Study Mode:
Full-time, Part-time
Attendance Mode:
Internal, External
Candidature Length:
Full-time: 3 years
Study Period Offerings:
Session 1 (March), Session 2 (August)
General requirements:
Minimum number of credit points required for the degree 72
Minimum number of credit points required at 200 level or above 42
Minimum number of credit points required at 300 level or above 18
Completion of a designated People unit
Completion of a designated Planet unit
Completion of other specific minimum requirements as set out below
Note:
Students must complete one designated People unit and one designated Planet unit. One of those units must be taken outside the Department administering the program of study which the student is admitted to, and the other unit must be taken outside the Faculty administering the program of study which the student is admitted to. Units which are already a required unit of the student's program of study will not satisfy the People unit requirement or Planet unit requirement.

In order to graduate students must ensure that they have satisfied all of the general requirements of the award: see the general requirements listed above.

Specific minimum requirements:

Credit points

100 level

Required
9 cp from
 
Ancient Greece Tyranny and Democracy 800-399BC (3)
 
 
Rome: From Republic to Empire (3)
 
 
Antiquity's Heirs: Barbarian Europe, Byzantium, and Islam (3)
 
 
Myth in the Ancient World (3)
 
 
The Archaeology of Ancient Israel and the Near East (3)
 
9
Egyptian Archaeology: An Introduction (3)
 

200 level

Required
either
or
 
Archaeology and Society: Archaeological Evidence (3)
 
3
Ancient Egyptian Culture and Society (3)
 
Required
6 cp from
 
Ancient Greek A (3)
 
 
Ancient Greek A (3)
 
 
Latin A (3)
 
 
Ancient Hebrew A (3)
 
 
Coptic Egyptian A (3)
 
 
Latin A (3)
 
 
Classical Hebrew A (3)
 
 
Coptic I (3)
 
 
Egyptian Hieroglyphs A (3)
 
6
Egyptian Hieroglyphs A (3)
 
Required
6cp from
 
AHIS units at 200 level
6
Rome and the Caesars (3)
 

300 level

Required
either
or
 
Capstone Unit: Greece, Rome, Late Antiquity (3)
C
3
Capstone Unit: Egypt and the Near East (3)
C
Required
3
Advanced Reading Unit in Ancient History (3)
 
Required
9cp from
9
AHIS units at 300 level

Additional

Required
6cp from
 
Ancient Greek B (3)
 
 
Latin B (3)
 
 
Classical Hebrew B (3)
 
 
Coptic II (3)
 
 
Egyptian Hieroglyphs B (3)
 
 
Egyptian Hieroglyphs B (3)
 
 
Reading for Special Purposes (3)
 
6
 
or
Reading for Special Purposes 1 (3)
 

Balance of credit points required:

 
 
27
Electives

TOTAL CREDIT POINTS REQUIRED FOR THIS PROGRAM

72
Note:
Units marked with a C are Capstone units.