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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8. LOR's
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10. ECTS Form(if any)
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