Programme Code: Q9S1

Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings

Start of programme: September

Mode of Attendance: Full-time or Part-time

Email: mw41@soas.ac.uk

Year 1

Choose from the List of Modules below to the value of 90 credits

Year 1 Alternate

Choose from the List of Modules below to the value of 60 credits

Year 2

Choose a module from the List of Modules below to the value of 30 credits

OR

Choose a module(s) from Postgraduate Open Options to the value of 30 credits

Year 2 Alternate

Choose a module from the List of Modules below to the value of 30 credits

PLUS

Choose a module from the List of Modules below to the value of 30 credits

OR

Choose a module(s) from Postgraduate Open Options to the value of 30 credits

Dissertation

Students must take the Dissertation

List of Modules (subject to availability)

At SOAS (NB: modules run in alternating years)

Students may, if qualified, take 30 credits from the following MA programmes run by UCL:

• Hebrew and other North-West Semitic languages (from MA in Hebrew and Jewish Studies)
• Ancient history, currently "Change and Continuity in the Ancient Near East" (from MA in Ancient History)
• Archaeology (from MA in Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East)

Programme Specification

• MA Ancient Near Eastern Languages Programme Specification (pdf; 170kb)

Important notice

Teaching & Learning

Knowledge

• How to assess data and evidence critically from manuscripts and digital sources, solve problems of conflicting sources and conflicting interpretations, locate materials, use research sources (particularly research library catalogues) and other relevant traditional sources.
• Subject specific skills (language): deeper understanding and wider experience of Akkadian language and other languages already acquired, as appropriate (e.g. Sumerian, Hittite); sound basic knowledge of languages studied for the first time, as appropriate (e.g. Sumerian, Hittite).
• Subject specific skills (other): ability to utilize written documentation to reconstruct cultural background, e.g. interpreting literature as a product of its civilization, understanding monumental inscriptions as royal artefacts and analysing documentary texts as witnesses of social and economic history.

Intellectual (thinking) skills

• Students should become precise and cautious in their assessment of evidence, and to understand through practice what documents can and cannot tell us.
  Students should question interpretations, however authoritative, and reassess evidence for themselves.

Subject-based practical skills

• Communicating effectively in writing.
• Retrieving, sifting and selecting information from a variety of sources.
• Listening and discussing ideas introduced during classes and seminars.
• Ability to plan and execute set tasks efficiently.
• Practice research techniques in a variety of specialized research libraries and institute.

Transferrable skills

• Writing good essays and dissertations.
  Structuring and communicating ideas effectively both orally and in writing.
• Understanding unconventional ideas.
• Studying a variety of written and digital materials, in libraries and research institutes, of a kind they will not have used as undergraduates.
• Presenting (non–assessed) material orally.

Tuition Fees

Full details of postgraduate tuition fees can be found on the Registry's Postgraduate Tuition Fees page.

This is a Band 1 tuition fee.

Fees for 2020/21 entrants. The fees below are per academic year. Fees go up each year, therefore, your tuition fee in your second & subsequent years of study will be higher. Our continuing students, on the same degree programme, are protected from annual increases higher than 5%.

Scholarships

For further details and information on external scholarships visit the Scholarships section

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