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B001568 - EGYPTIAN STUDIES
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Suggested readings
Learning Objectives
Prerequisites
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Course program
Academic Year 2020-21
Coorte 2018 - 3-years First Cycle Degree (DM 270/04) in HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY, FINE ARTS, ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES
Course year
Third year - First Semester
Belonging Department
History, Archaeology, Geography, Fine and Performing Arts (SAGAS)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
L-OR/02 - EGYPTOLOGY AND COPTIC CIVILIZATION
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
36
Teaching Term
14/09/2020 ⇒ 04/12/2020
Attendance required
Yes
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Lectureship
Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course is divided into two parts, about 3/4 and 1/4 of the lessons. The first part deals with the history and archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt; the second part a close examination of a subject will be dealt with.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
K. Bard, Archeologia dell'antico Egitto, Roma, Carocci Ed., 2013. Suggested reading: N. Grimal, Storia dell'antico Egitto, Bari, Laterza, 1990 and ff. edd.. Suggested reading: D. Agut & J.C. Moreno-Garcia, L'Egypte des Pharaons - De Narmer à Dioclétien, Paris, Ed. Belin 2016.
Learning Objectives
The course wants to let the students get full knowledge of the documents and means which have allowed a reconstruction of ancient Egyptian history and civilization; moreover, to get learning skills so that the main monuments of pharaonic age can be identified and set in their proper background. The teacher will explain the latest acquisition, in order to develop reflection and critical method.
Prerequisites
None.
Teaching Methods
Lessons, with the help of images and, when necessary, didactic material.
Further information
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Type of Assessment
Oral examination , also for Erasmus students or other foreign students, and also for those who have agreed upon a special program, as unable to attend the regular courses: at least three questions on the following subjects: the fundamentals of the historical reconstruction; chronological and historical setting of a period; identification and description of one of the monuments dealt with during the lessons. Questions would check the students' knowledge and understanding with regard to historical processes , main events with correct chronological framing; learning skills and applying knowledge and understanding with regard to important archaeological monuments and sources.
Course program
First part: fundamentals of the discipline, of the chronological and historical reconstruction; modern partitions of Pharaonic history; historic topography with description of the principal monuments, set in their historical and religious background. Second part: The Second Intermediate Period: after the Middle Kingdom, from a rich and united Egypt to a period of divisions and occupation (ca.1700 - 1500 a.C.)