Certificate in Ancient Near Eastern Studies

The Certificate in Ancient Near Eastern Studies is based on the first year of the BA programme in Ancient Near Eastern Studies (ANES).
Full-time syllabus (one year):
Where the course is taken full-time, in one year, the student normally takes an introductory course in Akkadian (Babylonian and Assyrian) in the cuneiform script, a course in the literature of the Middle East at SOAS, and two UCL units, typically modules in the Archaeology and History of south-west Asia.
Introductory Akkadian - 155900426 (1 Unit) - Full Year
Literatures of the Near and Middle East
Two more units, e.g. introductory units in Sumerian or Hebrew and western Asiatic archaeology
Part-time syllabus
Where the course is taken part-time, over two or three years, the student has the option of taking a more intensive language-learning programme. Part-time programmes can be built out of the following first and second-year units:
Introductory Akkadian
Introductory Hittite
Hittite Texts 1
Akkadian texts I
Introductory Sumerian
UCL HEBR1005 Introduction to classical Hebrew
UCL ARCL1009 Introduction to Egyptian and Near Eastern Archaeology (0.5 unit)
UCL ARCL1011 Texts in archaeology (0.5 unit)
Normally two units are taken in the first year of the part-time syllabus.
Convenors
Andrew R George
Mark Weeden