Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations - University Of Pennsylvania

Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from University Of Pennsylvania is a Campus Master Area Studies degree that prepares you for a Liberal Arts career. The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC) engages in the interdisciplinary humanistic study and teaching of the cultures of the Near East (often called the Middle East ) as they express themselves in languages and texts, broadly defined to include written and oral sources, as well as art, architecture, archaeology, and material culture. These cultures encompass the geographic region that stretches from North Africa through the eastern Mediterranean, Arabia and Iran. Its programmatic foci are the civilizations of Mesopotamia/Iraq, Egypt, Israel, Syria, Arabia, Anatolia/Turkey and Persia/Iran. It teaches Sumerian, Akkadian, Hittite, Egyptian, Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish, and other languages of the region, from ancient through modern. Students may pursue graduate studies in these major fields: Cuneiform Studies (primarily Sumerian and Akkadian), Egyptology, Biblical Studies , and Rabbinic and Classical Jewish Literature. View more details on University Of Pennsylvania . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Area Studies courses.