LONDON'S GLOBAL UNIVERSITY
Ancient History and Egyptology
BA
UCAS code: VQ14
www.ucl.ac.uk/prospectus/history
Ancient History and Egyptology BA
This three-year specialist degree enables you to
study the history, culture and language of
ancient Egypt in the wider framework of the
history of the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern
world from the early third millennium to the end
of the first millennium BC.
Degree summary
•
UCL is uniquely equipped to offer this degree, since a first-class
Egyptology library and an important study collection of Egyptian
antiquities (the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology) are housed
here.
•
The programme invites you to approach Egypt in three distinct ways:
as an historian, as an archaeologist (through its material culture) and
as a philologist (through its language).
•
Drawing upon UCL History, related UCL departments and relevant
University of London colleges, the programme offers a wide variety of
options and an unrivalled range of ancient language courses.
•
Exceptional resources, including the British Museum and British
Library, are within walking distance, and other London-based
museums and organisations provide unrivalled opportunities for
accessing primary source material.
The programme includes six compulsory first-year courses, a research
project of 5,000 words in the second year, a final-year dissertation and
options chosen from a range of full-year and half-year courses.
All students learn the Egyptian language, hieroglyphic and demotic
scripts, and the history of the peoples living on the banks of the Nile, the
Euphrates and the Tigris, as well as their neighbours in Nubia, Anatolia
and Iran.
When choosing optional courses in the second and third year, you can
focus on languages, ancient history and/or archaeology.
The range of ancient languages available at UCL and related University
of London colleges is unrivalled anywhere in the UK. You can, for
example, learn Ancient Hebrew in UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies or
Akkadian, Sumerian or Hittite at the School of Oriental and African
Studies (SOAS).
Your learning
Many of our courses include lectures, but our approach to learning mainly
places emphasis on active student participation in seminar discussion
(usually in groups of 15). Essays you write will be returned to you in
individual face-to-face tutorials to provide constructive, personal
feedback.
Your work will be assessed by a mixture of examinations and written
coursework. Significant weight is given to an extended essay based on
original sources produced in your final year.
Your career
The programme is designed to teach many transferable skills: how to
gather and organise evidence; how to analyse it and present a structured
argument; how to express yourself clearly, both in writing and orally.
UCL's History graduates have excelled in a wide range of occupations, as
lawyers, financial advisers, stockbrokers, television producers, diplomats,
journalists, bankers, teachers, museum curators, and in the health
service, the police and overseas development programmes, as well as in
progressing to further study.
First destinations of recent graduates (2010-2013) of this programme
include:
•
•
•
Full-time student, MA in Egyptology at the University of Oxford
Intern, Dorset County Museum
Full-time student, MA in Ancient History at UCL
Degree structure
In each year of your degree you will take a number of individual courses,
normally valued at 0.5 or 1.0 credits, adding up to a total of 4.0 credits for
the year. Courses are assessed in the academic year in which they are
taken. The balance of compulsory and optional courses varies from
programme to programme and year to year. A 1.0 credit is considered
equivalent to 15 credits in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
Year One
Compulsory courses
Concepts, Categories and the Practice of History
Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Language
Introduction to Egyptian and Near Eastern Archaeology
Late Egyptian Language and Texts
Texts in Archaeology
Writing History
Optional courses
Either:
The Near East to 1200 BC: The Earliest States
or
The Near East, 1200-336 BC
Year Two
Compulsory courses
Archaeology of Ancient Egypt
Research Seminar (5,000-word Research Project)
A further Egyptian language course
Optional courses
Either:
The Near East to 1200 BC: The Earliest States
or
The Near East, 1200-336 BC.
Plus a further 1.0 credit from a wide range of optional courses in ancient
history, ancient languages, egyptology, history or from another approved
interdepartmental programme. You must have taken courses to a
minimum of 4.0 credits in Egyptology and 4.0 credits in ancient history (or
an approved related discipline) by the end of your degree programme.
Final Year
Compulsory courses
Dissertation
Optional courses
You will select 3.0 credits from a wide range of optional courses in ancient
history, ancient languages, archaeology, Egyptology, history or from
another approved interdepartmental programme. You must have taken
courses to a minimum of 4.0 credits in Egyptology and 4.0 credits in
ancient history (or an approved related discipline) by the end of your
degree programme.
Entry requirements
A levels
Promising applicants will be asked to supply further information to help us
in determining whether to offer a place.
Fees
A level grades
A*AA-AAA
UK/EU fee
£9,000 (2016/17)
A level subjects
History, Ancient History or Classical Civilisation
required.
Overseas fee
£16,130 (2016/17)
AS levels
For UK-based students a pass in a further subject
at AS level or equivalent is required.
Notes
Details about financial support are available at:
www.ucl.ac.uk/study/ug-finance
GCSE
English Language and Mathematics at grade C;
Ancient European Language at grade B also
welcomed. For UK-based students a foreign
language at grade B is required.
IB diploma
IB points
38-39
Subjects
A score of 18-19 points in three higher level
subjects including grade 6 in History, with no
score lower than 5. A minimum of 5 is required at
standard level in a modern or ancient European
language.
Contacts
Contact
Undergraduate Programmes and Admissions
Assistant
Email
christopher.allen.14@ucl.ac.uk
Telephone
+44 (0)20 7679 7125
Prospectus entry
www.ucl.ac.uk/prospectus/history
Key facts
REF
82% rated 4* (‘world-leading’) or 3*
(‘internationally excellent’)
Department
History
Faculty
Social & Historical Sciences
Other qualifications
Full lists of all degree programmes and other entry requirements can be
found on our website at: www.ucl.ac.uk/otherquals
Undergraduate Preparatory
Certificates
UCL's Undergraduate Preparatory Certificates (UPCs) are intensive
one-year foundation courses for international students of high academic
potential, who are aiming to gain access to undergraduate degree
programmes at UCL and other top UK universities.
For more information see our website: www.ucl.ac.uk/upc
Your application
Application for admission should be made through UCAS (the
Universities and Colleges Admissions Service). Applicants currently at
school or college will be provided with advice on the process; however,
applicants who have left school or who are based outside the United
Kingdom may obtain information directly from UCAS.
Each candidate's profile is considered as a complete picture, taking into
account your interest in and suitability for the degree, as shown in your
personal statement and referee's report, as well as achieved and
predicted grades. Your ability to present an argument, evidence of
intellectual curiosity and your enthusiasm for and commitment to studying
history will also be assessed.
PDF Updated: February 19, 2016
Information correct at time of going to press. See website (www.ucl.ac.uk/prospectus/history) for latest information
Mr Chris Allen