Pilihan program

Ringkasan program

The program aims to train scholars in the cultures of various Near Eastern peoples through study and interpretation of their languages and literatures, their history, and archaeological analysis of their cultures. Concentrations are provided in Arabic and Islamic Studies, Assyriology (Akkadian and Sumerian), Egyptology, and Graeco-Arabic Studies, and may occasionally be arranged in other fields.

Modul program

The modules include AKKD 501u, Elementary Akkadian, [AKKD 502bu, Intermediate Akkadian, [AKKD 503, Advanced Akkadian, [AKKD 504b, Second-Millennium Legal and Archival Texts, AKKD 505b, Historical and Archival Texts from First-Millennium Assyria, [AKKD 506b, Selected Mesopotamian Texts: Bilingual, [AKKD 508b, Akkadian Literature: Atrahasis, [AKKD 545a, Neo-Babylonian Texts: Administrative and Archival Records, ARBC 501u, Elementary Modern Standard Arabic, ARBC 502u, Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic, ARBC 503u, Advanced Modern Standard Arabic, ARBC 507bu, Modern Arabic Seminar, ARBC 510u, Intermediate Classical Arabic, ARBC 511U, Advanced Classical Arabic, EGYP 501u, Introduction to Classical Hieroglyphic Egyptian, [EGYP 510u, Biblical Coptic: Elementary Course, EGYP 512a/RLST 658aU, Egyptian Monastic Literature in Coptic, [EGYP 513a/RLST 660a, Research Seminar on the Monastic Federation of Shenoute, EGYP 514bu/RLST 653bU, Introduction to Gnostic Texts in Coptic, EGYP 531aU, Intermediate Egyptian I: Texts Relating to Egypt and Nubia, EGYP 533aU, Intermediate Egyptian I: Literary Texts, EGYP 535bU, Intermediate Egyptian II: Late Egyptian Stories, [EGYP 536b, Egyptian Medical Texts, [EGYP 537a, Egyptian Magical Texts, [EGYP 540a, Ancient Egyptian Epistolography, EGYP 550bu, Introduction to Demotic, [EGYP 566a, Late Period Historical Texts: Napatan Historical Inscriptions, EGYP 568b, Texts from the Amarna Period, EGYP 577aU, Egyptian Rock Inscriptions, [EGYP 578a, The Egyptian Netherworld Books, [EGYP 590b, Coffin Texts, EGYP 591au, Ancient Egyptian Love Poetry, HEBR 501u, Elementary Modern Hebrew, HEBR 502au and bU, Intermediate Modern Hebrew, HEBR 503aU, Advanced Modern Hebrew, [HEBR 503b, Advanced Modern Hebrew: Israeli Society, HEBR 504bu, Introduction to Modern Israeli Literature, [HEBR 505b, Contemporary Israeli Society in Film, HEBR 506au, Dynamics of Israeli Culture, [HEBR 507b, Medieval Commentaries on the Pentateuch, [HEBR 508a, Reading Medieval Hebrew Texts, [HEBR 509b, Reading Academic Texts in Modern Hebrew, HEBR 510bU, Conversational Hebrew: Israeli Media, [HEBR 514b, Commentaries on the Song of Songs, [HEBR 515b, Medieval Hebrew Texts, MESO 531, Beginning Sumerian, MESO 533, Advanced Sumerian, [MESO 543a, Neo-Assyrian History, [MESO 544b, Mesopotamian Scholarly Texts, MESO 559a or b, Directed Readings: Assyriology, MESO 560a, Historical Horizons in Ancient Mesopotamia, [MESO 572a or b, Prophecy in Mesopotamia, NELC 501b, Mesopotamian History of the Late Period, NELC 502a, Mesopotamian History of the First Millennium B.C., [NELC 502bu, World of Homer, [NELC 503au, Art of Ancient Palaces, NELC 504bu, Art of the Ancient Near East and Aegean, NELC 505aU, Arabic Seminar, [NELC 506, History of Assyria, NELC 507au/INRL 585a, Modern Arab Thought, NELC 508a, Ancient Painting and Mosaics, NELC 509bu/ARCG 744bU, The Age of Akhenaton, NELC 513a, Readings in Egyptian History, NELC 514a, Buried Cities: Thera, Pompeii, and Herculaneum, NELC 515b, The Bible in Its Ancient Near Eastern Setting, NELC 516bu, Mythology of the Ancient Near East, NELC 517b, Ancient Polytheisms, NELC 519au, Religion and Politics in the Ancient Near East, NELC 524bu, Egyptian Literature through the Ages, NELC 527u, Structure of Modern Turkish, NELC 534bu/HIST 531bu/RLST 659bu, Seminar: The Making of Monasticism, NELC 551bu, East Meets West: Drama and Theater in the Arab World, NELC 552au, Gender and Nationalism in Arab Women’s Writing, NELC 553bu, Introducing Palestine: Literary Survey, NELC 554au, Israeli Identity and Culture: 1948 to the Present, NELC 555a, Classical Arabic Literature in Translation, NELC 556a, Classics: The Arabic-Islamic World, NELC 557bU, Israeli Narratives (Seminar), NELC 563b, From Pictograph to Pixel: Changing Ways of Human Communication, NELC 566b, Prehistory of Nubia, NELC 580a, Settlement Archaeology in Egypt, NELC 587bu, Environmental History of the Near East, NELC 588bu/ANTH 773bu/ARCG 773bu, Civilizations and Collapse.

Persyaratan masuk bagi mahasiswa internasional

Applicants should have a demonstrated reading knowledge of French and German is required of all students. Competence in at least one is expected for admission; any deficiencies must be made good before admission to the second year of study. The GRE score and, for students whose native language is not English, a TOEFL score is also required. Foreign students can arrange to take these tests through the American Embassy in their respective countries.

Kualifikasi

Magister (S2)

Institusi penerbit ijazah

Yale University

Nama jurusan

Graduate School of Arts and sciences, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations