Description

Have you ever wondered why the ancient Egyptian culture is so popular and fascinating? Introduction to Egyptology is a unique online course of CTM that offers you a useful tool to study a wide scope of interesting areas of Egyptian pharaonic history, archaeology and language. Each module contains overview of key terminology, and carefully chosen tasks and exercises which develop your learning and language skills and critical thinking in English. Are you ready to join us on an adventurous journey?

This year-long course will guide you step by step through the study of ancient Egypt, and you will be asked to accomplish a series of tasks, quizzes, and assignments which will help you to understand the amazing culture of the ancient Egyptian. You will gain new information on the topic, you will learn how to study with academic texts, and the course will also help you to develop your learning and language skills. In order to successfully complete the course, you will be asked to accomplish 1modules, each covering one important area of interest in the study of ancient Egyptian culture.

The aim of the course is to provide you with a comprehensive overview of the study of Egyptology in various areas, including ancient Egyptian history, archaeology, religion, language and writing system. Last module makes the whole course unique, since it is devoted to the ancient Egyptian language and script, and you will learn basics of Egyptian grammar and be able to read some Egyptian inscriptions in hieroglyphs. 

The course may be of key help to you with your preparation for entrance exams in Egyptology or other related fields at university.

Course Structure

Course Structure

1. Who were the ancient Egyptians? A brief outline.
2. Discovering the land on the Nile and its resources.
3. Ancient Egyptian History I: Pre-dynastic Period and Archaic Period
4. Ancient Egyptian History II: Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period
5. Ancient Egyptian History III: Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period
6. Ancient Egyptian History IV: New Kingdom
7. Ancient Egyptian History V: Afterglow of Egyptian Empire - Qhat was next?
8. Ancient Egyptian architecture
9. Ancient Egyptian art and material culture
10. Religion in ancient Egypt
11. Egyptian Hieroglyphs: An introduction to the writing system and Egyptian grammar

Course syllabus

Materials required

No additional materials required.

Price

course fee: 599,- EUR / 14 250,- Kč

Student’s Experience

By taking the course I wanted to improve my knowledge about Ancient Egypt and learn to applicate it. Thanks to the many exercises, I had an opportunity to not only passively learn the information, but even actively applicate it. After completing one of the eleven modules the discussion with instructor helped me to enhance my understanding of the content. Even though, I studied the course mostly at my pace, I was always supported by my instructor not only when I needed technical help or only the explanation. Furthermore, I appreciate, that the course was in English. As Egyptology is international field, it is good to know technical words in foreign language.

The course introduced me to the history, to basic geography and to everyday life of Ancient Egypt. Thanks to this course, I acknowledge political and economical processes, which are important for understanding the development of this ancient state. As part of the course, I also had an opportunity to study interesting academic works of well-known archeologists.

I enjoyed this course and I recommend this course to my peers, who are also interested about Ancient Egypt.  

Kristýna M., 2024

Kurz egyptologie na CTM mě velice baví. Je skvělé, že témata probíráme chronologicky a v kontextu, takže se nejen dozvídáme nové informace, ale také si je zařazujeme do souvislostí. Také se mi moc líbí, že pracujeme se spoustou různých materiálů (velice zajímavá byla například práce se stratigrafickou tabulkou z města Avaris), díky čemuž se neučíme pouze fakta, ale také využívat ke své práci rozličné druhy zdrojů. V neposlední řadě chci také ocenit Daniela Honeše, který celý kurz vede. Všechny materiály i zdroje má velice dobře připravené a je ochotný pomoci, kdykoli potřebuji nebo si s něčím nejsem jistá. Celkově kurz považuji za velice přínosný, velmi mě baví a jsem ráda, že jsem jej absolvovala.

Klaudie, 2024