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BA Ancient Cultures at University of Göttingen

University of Göttingen, Germany

Programme overview

A warm welcome to a journey through the history of the advanced civilisations of the ancient world: From the pyramids to the Tower of Babel, from Stonehenge to the Partheon, from the Colosseum to the Hagia Sophia, from the desert fathers of Egypt to the Christians of India, from Homer's Iliad to Virgil's Aeneid, from Caesar to Charlemagne. At Göttingen, you have the possibility to take on an extraordinarily wide-ranging, multifaceted and exciting course of study about the cultures of antiquity in Europe and around the Mediterranean.

Faculty: Faculty of Humanities  |  Duration: 6 semesters (3 years)  |  Study mode: full-time; German-taught  |  Intake: Only the winter semester  |  Location: Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Germany

What you will study

Ancient Cultures is offered at Göttingen as a single-subject Bachelor's degree programme. A focus will be selected for the core subject studies.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Admission: open (enrolment without previous application). Winter semester only 1st subject semester: open admission (enrolment without previous application).

Intake: Only the winter semester

Duration: 6 semesters (3 years)

Apply through the official page: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/46792.html

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