Program Overview

Program Overview

The Assyriology (Ancient Near East Studies) degree programme focuses on the Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, and Hittite cultures in their entire impressive diversity.

Facts & Formalities

• Degree: Bachelor of Arts
• Type of programme: Undergraduate
• Start of programme: Winter semester only
• Standard period of study: 6 semesters
• Language(s) of instruction: German
• Fees and contributions: 161.10 € / Semester
• Application procedure: Subjects with no admission restrictions
• Application deadlines: Information about deadlines can be obtained after you have put together a degree program.

Course Content

In the Bachelor’s degree programme, students will learn the fundamentals of the Akkadian language and the highly-complex cuneiform scripts and gain an overview of the history and cultural history of the ancient Near East. In pursuing the degree programme as a minor subject, students are required, within a relatively short period of time, to master the basics of the ancient Near East Akkadian language and to learn the cuneiform script in its various forms.

Course Structure

This programme may be combined as a 25% minor with a 75% major in another subject.

Additional Degrees

• Bachelor 50%
• Bachelor 75%
• Master, consecutive