Egyptian (EGYPT) 1
EGYPT 100B Introduction to Egyptian Egyptian (EGYPT) Hieroglyphs 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2022, Spring 2020, Spring 2018 Courses This course introduces the fundamentals of the language and hieroglyphic script of Middle Egyptian used to write stories and poems, Expand all course descriptions [+]Collapse all course descriptions [-] biographies and letters, magical spells, and eye-witness accounts of EGYPT 100A Introduction to Egyptian historical events from thousands of years ago. The study of this ancient Hieroglyphs 4 Units language enables students to read the classics of Egyptian literature Terms offered: Fall 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2017 and understand the emergence and development of one of the world’s This course introduces the fundamentals of the language and oldest writing systems, and the laws, customs, social structures, and hieroglyphic script of Middle Egyptian used to write stories, poems, religious beliefs of the ancient people of the Nile Valley. Lectures present biographies and letters, magical spells, and eye-witness accounts of the grammar and writing; much of the in-class time is devoted to the historical events from thousands of years ago. The study of this ancient translating and close reading of texts, with a discussion of their cultural language enables students to read the classics of Egyptian literature and historical context and meaning. and understand the emergence and development of one of the world’s Introduction to Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Read More [+] oldest writing systems, and the laws, customs, social structures, and Rules & Requirements religious beliefs of the ancient people of the Nile Valley. Lectures present Prerequisites: EGYPTIAN 100A or with the consent of the instructor the grammar and writing; much of the in-class time is devoted to the translating and close reading of texts, with a discussion of their cultural Hours & Format and historical context and meaning. Introduction to Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week Prerequisites: This course is a prerequisite for Egyptian 100B, offered in the spring semester. Both semesters of Egyptian 100 are required Additional Details prerequisites for any of the other ancient Egyptian language courses Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Undergraduate Hours & Format Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week Introduction to Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Read Less [-] Summer: 6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week EGYPT 101A Intermediate Egyptian 3 Units Additional Details Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2016, Fall 2014 Readings in Middle Egyptian hieroglyphic and hieratic texts. Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Undergraduate Intermediate Egyptian: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Prerequisites: 100A-100B Introduction to Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Read Less [-] Hours & Format
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Intermediate Egyptian: Read Less [-] 2 Egyptian (EGYPT)
EGYPT 101B Intermediate Egyptian 3 Units EGYPT H195 Senior Honors 2 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2017, Spring 2015 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Readings in Middle Egyptian hieroglyphic and hieratic texts. Directed study centered upon preparation of an honors thesis. Intermediate Egyptian: Read More [+] Senior Honors: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: 100A-100B Prerequisites: Limited to senior honors candidates
Hours & Format Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit up to a total of 4 units.
Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hours & Format
Additional Details Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week
Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Undergraduate Additional Details
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Undergraduate
Intermediate Egyptian: Read Less [-] Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required. EGYPT 102A Elementary Coptic 4 Units Terms offered: Fall 2002, Fall 2000, Spring 1997 Senior Honors: Read Less [-] Introduction to Sahidic dialect. Elementary Coptic: Read More [+] EGYPT 198 Directed Group Study for Upper Rules & Requirements Division Students 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 Prerequisites: German and Greek recommended Instruction in areas not covered by regularly scheduled courses. Directed Group Study for Upper Division Students: Read More [+] Hours & Format Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. Additional Details Hours & Format Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Undergraduate Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of directed group study per Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required. week
Elementary Coptic: Read Less [-] Additional Details EGYPT 102B Elementary Coptic 4 Units Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Undergraduate Terms offered: Spring 2003, Spring 2001 Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final Readings in Sahidic, other dialects. exam not required. Elementary Coptic: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Directed Group Study for Upper Division Students: Read Less [-]
Prerequisites: German and Greek recommended
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Undergraduate
Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.
Elementary Coptic: Read Less [-] Egyptian (EGYPT) 3
EGYPT 199 Supervised Independent Study EGYPT 201B Middle Egyptian Texts 4 Units and Research 1 - 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2007, Fall 2005, Spring 2000 Terms offered: Prior to 2007 The course is designed as a continuation of Egypt 201A and will be Enrollment is restricted by regulations shown in the . based on the same type of reading, translation, grammatical and Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read More [+] philological analysis of the Middle Egyptian literary and magical texts of Rules & Requirements 201A but requiring a deeper knowledge of the grammar and translation techniques. Readings will include magical spells for daily and funerary Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. use, texts from stelae, the story of the “Eloquent Peasant” and extracts from the ancient Egyptian “Wisdom Literature.” Hours & Format Middle Egyptian Texts: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 0 hours of independent study per week Prerequisites: Concurrent or previous enrollment in EGYPT 201A or Additional Details consent of instructor Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Undergraduate Hours & Format Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week exam not required. Additional Details Supervised Independent Study and Research: Read Less [-] Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Graduate EGYPT 201A Middle Egyptian Texts 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2021, Fall 2019, Fall 2016 Grading: Letter grade. The course will be based on the reading, translation, grammatical and philological analysis of Middle Egyptian literary and magical texts. Instructor: Lucarelli Readings include spells of the ancient Egyptian funerary corpora of Middle Egyptian Texts: Read Less [-] the Coffin Texts and Book of the Dead, texts from stelae of the Middle Kingdom, the Middle Kingdom story of Sinuhe. EGYPT 202 Hieratic 4 Units Middle Egyptian Texts: Read More [+] Terms offered: Fall 2021, Spring 2020 Rules & Requirements Hieratic is the cursive form of the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic script, Prerequisites: Concurrent or previous enrollment in EGYPT 100A and which was mostly written on papyrus and ostraca (potsherds used as a EGYPT 100B or consent of instructor writing surface) with a brush and ink. This course introduces the Hieratic writing system used in Middle and Late Egyptian texts. The course will Hours & Format include reading, transcription, and translation of selected texts written in Hieratic, dating from the Old Kingdom to the Ramesside Period. Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Hieratic: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements Additional Details Prerequisites: Concurrent or previous enrollment in Middle Egyptian Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Graduate or EGYPTIAN 100A and EGYPTIAN 100B; and EGYPTIAN 200A and Grading: Letter grade. EGYPTIAN 200B or Late Egyptian (EGYPTIAN 203) or with the consent of the instructor Instructor: Lucarelli Hours & Format Middle Egyptian Texts: Read Less [-] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Hieratic: Read Less [-] 4 Egyptian (EGYPT)
EGYPT 202B Egyptian Texts 3 Units EGYPT 204A Introduction to Demotic 4 Units Terms offered: Spring 2019, Spring 2018, Spring 2017 Terms offered: Fall 2020 Philological analysis of texts of a single genre and period. Demotic (derived from the Greek word demos, meaning "people") is Egyptian Texts: Read More [+] the spoken and written language used by the people of Egypt during Rules & Requirements the Saite, Persian, Ptolemaic, and Roman periods (664 BCE–452 CE). Knowledge of this stage and script of the ancient language is essential Prerequisites: Concurrent or previous enrollment in 201A-201B or for a proper understanding of Egypt during the later periods. After an consent of instructor introduction to the script and grammar (including non-verbal sentences and simple verbal forms), we will read and translate texts chosen from a Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction. wide variety of sources: mummy labels, inscribed votive stelae, liturgical, Hours & Format funerary, and magical texts, and oracles. Introduction to Demotic: Read More [+] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week Rules & Requirements
Additional Details Prerequisites: A year-long university-level course in one of the stages of the ancient Egyptian language (Middle Egyptian, Late Egyptian, Old Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Graduate Egyptian, or Coptic), or the permission of the instructor
Grading: Letter grade. Hours & Format
Egyptian Texts: Read Less [-] Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
EGYPT 203 Late Egyptian 4 Units Additional Details Terms offered: Spring 2022 This course is designed to introduce students to the study of Late Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Graduate Egyptian, a later stage of the ancient Egyptian language used in the New Grading: Letter grade. Kingdom from ca 1500 to 1000 BCE. This course will cover Late Egyptian grammar through reading and translating literary texts written in both Introduction to Demotic: Read Less [-] hieroglyphic and Hieratic scripts, in particular, the main literary tales of the “Two Brothers” and “Wenamun” will be examined. EGYPT 204B Demotic Texts 4 Units Late Egyptian: Read More [+] Terms offered: Spring 2021 Rules & Requirements This course builds upon material introduced in Egyptian 204A, continuing the study of Demotic (derived from the Greek word demos, meaning Prerequisites: Concurrent or previous enrollment in Middle Egyptian “people”), the stage of the ancient Egyptian language used by the people or EGYPTIAN 100A and EGYPTIAN 100B; and EGYPTIAN 200A and of Egypt during the Saite, Persian, Ptolemaic, and Roman periods EGYPTIAN 200B or with the consent of the instructor (664 BCE-452 CE). Knowledge of this stage and script of the ancient Hours & Format language is essential for a proper understanding of Egypt during the later periods. Grammar covered this semester includes all forms of Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week verbal sentences and clauses. We will read from a variety of genres, including oaths, marriage contracts, and literary, funerary, magical, and Additional Details mythological texts. Students will obtain skills to transliterate, translate, Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Graduate and grammatically analyze Demotic texts. Demotic Texts: Read More [+] Grading: Letter grade. Rules & Requirements
Late Egyptian: Read Less [-] Prerequisites: Egyptian 204A or Consent of Instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Demotic Texts: Read Less [-] Egyptian (EGYPT) 5
EGYPT 205 Ptolemaic Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts 4 Units Terms offered: Prior to 2007 This course introduces the hieroglyphic texts of the temples of the Ptolemaic and Roman periods--a time when an increase in the number of signs, and the values that they could hold, widened the scribal playing field for creating expressions that function on multiple aural, visual, and thematic levels. In addition to studying the language, grammar, content, and purpose of the texts, we will examine individual scribal techniques used to foreground words and phrases singled out for emphasis, showing how they create interconnections between texts, reliefs, and architecture in the three-dimensional space of the temple. Ptolemaic Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts: Read More [+] Rules & Requirements
Prerequisites: Egyptian 100A and Egyptian 100B or Consent of Instructor
Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
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Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week
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Subject/Course Level: Egyptian/Graduate
Grading: Letter grade.
Ptolemaic Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts: Read Less [-]