M.A. Digital Studies of Ancient Texts
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About the programme
Digital Studies of Ancient Texts (DISTANT) is an interdisciplinary Master of Arts at Freie Universität Berlin, taught in English and offered by the Institutes of Ancient Near Eastern Studies and Egyptology. It combines the study of languages and texts from the Ancient Near East and Egypt with the questions and methods of the Digital Humanities. Building on your prior knowledge of Ancient Near Eastern or Egyptian written sources, languages and writing systems, you take subject courses that apply methods from philology, cultural studies and history and modules on computational methods and digital tools. The page currently lists no first-semester admissions. It suits graduates in Classical Studies or Digital Humanities with knowledge of ancient languages such as Akkadian, Ancient Egyptian or Coptic.
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For admittance to the master’s program applicants need to fulfill the following admission requirements:
- You must hold a first university degree (e.g. a bachelor’s degree) comprising of at least 180 credit points (ECTS). 60 ECTS must have been earned in courses that are relevant to the content of the Master's program from the fields of Classical Studies and/or Digital Humanities. From those 60 ECTS at least 25 must derive from language skills in one or more of the following languages: Akkadian, Ancient Egyptian, Coptic, Hittite, Sumerian.
- Applicants who did not complete a university degree at an institution where coursework was conducted in English must demonstrate English language skills at C1 level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) or an equivalent.
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1.Application form
2.Passport Certificates
3. Bachelor Degree Certificate/Provisional Degree Certificate
4.Bachelor Degree Transcripts
5. Bachelor Degree Grading System Certificate
6.Secondary School Certificates(10+12)
7.SOP
8. LOR's
9.CV
10. ECTS Form(if any)
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