History of ancient Egypt

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Course ID:	3600-EG-DSE-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.9 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0229) Humanities (except languages), not elsewhere classified The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	History of ancient Egypt
Name in Polish:	Dzieje starożytnego Egiptu
Organizational unit:	Faculty of Oriental Studies
Course groups:	General university courses General university courses General university courses in the humanities
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	Polish
Type of course:	general courses
Short description:	History of ancient Egypt from the earliest times to the conquest by Alexander the Great.
Full description:	The lecture gives an outline of the history of ancient Egypt, with a special focus on pharaonic times, ie. from the formation of the Egyptian state in the 4th millennium BC through the conquest of the country by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC. The political history is an structural axis of the lecture and a starting point to discuss selected problems of culture and art, including the results of Polish archaeological and Egyptological research.
Bibliography:	N. Grimal, Dzieje starożytnego Egiptu, Warszawa 2006 (lub wydanie francuskie/angielskie) B. Kemp, Starożytny Egipt: Anatomia cywilizacji, Warszawa 2009 (lub wydanie angielskie) I. Shaw (red.) The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt, Oxford 2000
Learning outcomes:	The student should: Knowledge: - has basic knowledge of history of the ancient Egypt - can name and characterize basic cultural phenomena of the ancient Egypt Skills - can use the knowledge of history of the ancient Egypt to analyze and interpret events taking place in the modern world Competence: - has awareness of the cultural distinctness of the ancient Egypt and its significance for understanding modern world - is aware of significance the culture of the ancient Egypt
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	Written examination
Practical placement:	Not applicable

This course is not currently offered.

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