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Oriental Studies

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Bachelor Oriental Studies (600 [3] - Version 2017)
Introductory and Orientation Phase (16 ECTS)
OR-1 Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies (2 ECTS)
OR-1 STEOP-Introduction Middle Eastern Studies
141001 VO (OVSTEOP) STEOP: Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies
OR-2a/AO-1 Elective Module Introduction to Akkadian I (7 ECTS)
OR2/AO1 Introduction to Akkadian I
141108 VO (STEOP) STEOP: Introduction to Akkadian I
OR-2b/AR-1 Elective Module Introduction to Arabic I (7 ECTS)
OR2/AR1 Introduction to Arabic I
141270 VO (STEOP) STEOP: Arabic Language I
OR-2c/TU-1 Elective Module Introduction to Turkish I (7 ECTS)
OR2/TU1 Introduction to Turkish I
141304 VO (STEOP) STEOP: Turkish Grammar I
Middle Eastern Studies (45 ECTS)
PM OR-3 Cultural and Economic History of the Middle East (5 ECTS)
PM OR-4 Religious History of the Middle East (6 ECTS)
141047 VO Religious history of the Middle East prior to the advent of Islam
141172 VO Introduction to the History of Islam
PM OR-5 Ancient Near Eastern History (8 ECTS)
141088 VO Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture II: From Mitanni to the Sassanides
PM OR-6 History of the Middle East and North Africa after the Rise of Islam (8 ECTS)
141005 VO Arabic Philosophy and Kalam
PM OR-7 History of the Ottoman Empire and Modern Turkey (8 ECTS)
PM OR-8 Cultural and Historical Continuities (6 ECTS)
PM OR-9 Middle Eastern Philology: Basics and Methods (4 ECTS)
141044 VO Languages and scripts of the Middle East and North Africa
Alternative groups of compulsory modules: Ancient Near Eastern Philology and Archaeology (89 ECTS)
AO-2 Akkadian II (8 ECTS)
141097 VO Introduction to Akkadian II
141117 UE Exercises to Introduction to Akkadian II
AO-3 Akkadian III (10 ECTS)
AO-4 Sumerian I (8 ECTS)
141048 UE Introduction to Sumerian
141136 VO Introduction to Sumerian
AO-5 Sumerian II (5 ECTS)
AO-6 Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology I (5 ECTS)
AO-7 Ancient Near Eastern Archaeology II (4 ECTS)
060083 VO Architecture in the Ancient Near East
AO-8 Ancient Near Eastern Cultural History (8 ECTS)
141192 VO History of Mesopotamian Literature
AO-9 Ancient Near Eastern Literature: Reading of Literary Texts (5 ECTS)
141002 PS [en] Mesopotamian Literature: Akkadian Literary Texts - The mesopotamian Myth of Etana
141003 PS Sumerian Literary Texts - Bilingual Texts
AO-10-1 Alternative compulsory module: Languages of Mesopotamia’s Neighbouring Regions (10 ECTS)
AO-10-2 Alternative compulsory module: Ancient Near Eastern Material Culture (10 ECTS)
060067 SE Commemorative culture and monuments in the Ancient Near East
141363 SE Archaeological Seminar - The Achaemenid Empire
AO-11-1 Alternative compulsory module: Philology Seminars (10 ECTS)
141032 SE [en] Philological Seminar Akkadian - The Great Akkadian Hymns to the Gods
141125 SE Sumerian Seminar - The Myth of "Enki and the World Order"
AO-11-2 Alternative compulsory module: Seminars on History, Material Culture and Cultural History (10 ECTS)
060067 SE Commemorative culture and monuments in the Ancient Near East
141032 SE [en] Philological Seminar Akkadian - The Great Akkadian Hymns to the Gods
141125 SE Sumerian Seminar - The Myth of "Enki and the World Order"
141363 SE Archaeological Seminar - The Achaemenid Empire
AO-12-1 Group of elective modules: Seminar on Akkadian (including BA Thesis) (8 ECTS)
141032 SE [en] Philological Seminar Akkadian - The Great Akkadian Hymns to the Gods
AO-12-2 Group of elective modules: Seminar on Sumerology (including BA Thesis) (8 ECTS)
141125 SE Sumerian Seminar - The Myth of "Enki and the World Order"
AO-12-3 Group of elective modules: Seminar on Archaeology (including BA Thesis) (8 ECTS)
060067 SE Commemorative culture and monuments in the Ancient Near East
141363 SE Archaeological Seminar - The Achaemenid Empire
Alternative group of compulsory modules: Arabic and Islamic Studies (89 ECTS)
AR-2 Arabic II (12 ECTS)
141074 UE Arabic Language C
141116 UE Arabic Language C
141426 VO+UE Arabic Language B
AR-3 Arabic III (12 ECTS)
AR-4 Arabic IV (12 ECTS)
141008 UE Arabic Language G
141066 VO+UE Arabic Language F
AR-5 Arabic V (6 ECTS)
AR-6 Arabic VI (6 ECTS)
141019 UE Arabic L - Readings in Arabic Literature - Moderne ägyptische Prosaliteratur
141106 UE Arabic Language M - Media 2
AR-7 Arabic Dialect (Basic Level) (6 ECTS)
141009 VO Arabic Dialect - Course A: Iraqi Arabic
141014 UE Arabic Dialect - Course B: Iraqi Arabic
141020 UE Arabic Dialect - Course B: Syrian Arabic
141067 VO Arabic Dialect A: Syrian Arabic
141068 UE Arabic Dialect B: Syrian Arabic
AR-8 Arabic Dialect (Intermediate Level) (6 ECTS)
141028 VO Arabic Dialect - Course C: Tunisian Arabic
141029 UE Arabic Dialect: Tunisian Arabic D
AR-9 Arabic Dialect (Advanced Level) (4 ECTS)
141010 UE Arabic Dialect - Course F: Moroccan Arabic
141168 UE Arabic Dialect E: Conversations/Texts 1: Egyptian Arabic
AR-10 Introduction to Selected Fields of Arabic and Islamic Studies (3 ECTS)
141037 PS Introductory Seminar: Islamic Studies
141429 PS Introductory Seminar: Arabic Studies
AR-11 Selected Fields of Modern Middle Eastern Studies (6 ECTS)
AR-12 Seminar on Philology (including BA Thesis) (8 ECTS)
AR-13 Seminar on Islamic Studies (including BA Thesis) (8 ECTS)
141078 SE Seminar on Modern Islam
Alternative group of compulsory modules: Turkish Studies (89 ECTS)
TU-2 Turkish, Basic Level II (8 ECTS)
141156 VO Turkish Grammar II
141263 UE Turkish Conversation Class II
TU-3 Turkish, Intermediate Level I (6 ECTS)
TU-4 Turkish, Intermediate Level II (10 ECTS)
141036 VO Turkish Grammar IV
141171 UE Translating Turkish Texts
141221 UE Turkish Conversation Class IV
TU-5 Turkish, Advanced Level I (7 ECTS)
TU-6 Turkish, Advanced Level II (7 ECTS)
141051 UE Conversations, Advanced Level II
141055 UE Reading Subject-Specific Texts II
TU-7 Persian, Basic Level (8 ECTS)
141053 UE Persian Grammar II
TU-8 Persian, Intermediate Level (6 ECTS)
141084 UE Reading and Discussing Persian Texts II
TU-9 Ottoman Studies (12 ECTS)
141030 UE Ottoman II
141073 PS Ottoman Introductory Seminar
TU-10 Seminar on Linguistics or Literature (including BA Thesis) (8 ECTS)
TU-11 Seminar on Turkish History and Cultural History (including BA Thesis) (8 ECTS)
141034 SE Historical-Cultural Seminar (and Bachelor's Paper)
TU-12 Society and Culture of Modern Turkey (9 ECTS)
141035 VO History of Literature of Modern Turkey
141163 VO Lecture on Selected Aspects of Modern Turkey - Ottoman-Turkish Literatures
Ancient Oriental Philology and Oriental Archaeology (672)
Compulsory Modules (56 ECTS)
Akkadian Seminars incl. Seminar Paper (16 ECTS)
141032 SE [en] Philological Seminar Akkadian - The Great Akkadian Hymns to the Gods
Archaeological Seminar I incl. Seminar Paper (8 ECTS)
060067 SE Commemorative culture and monuments in the Ancient Near East
141363 SE Archaeological Seminar - The Achaemenid Empire
History and Cultural History of Mesopotamia (8 ECTS)
141032 SE [en] Philological Seminar Akkadian - The Great Akkadian Hymns to the Gods
141363 SE Archaeological Seminar - The Achaemenid Empire
Advanced Module on Philology I (8 ECTS)
141032 SE [en] Philological Seminar Akkadian - The Great Akkadian Hymns to the Gods
Sumerological Seminars incl. Seminar Paper (16 ECTS)
141125 SE Sumerian Seminar - The Myth of "Enki and the World Order"
Alternative Copulsory Modules (8 ECTS)
APM Semitisitcs (8 ECTS)
141141 VO [en] Ge'ez II
141175 VO [en] Syriac I
141308 VO [en] Introduction to Ancient South Arabian II
APM Archaeology (8 ECTS)
060083 VO Architecture in the Ancient Near East
Group of Elective Modules(16 ECTS)
WM Archaeological Seminar II incl. Seminar Paper (8 ECTS)
060067 SE Commemorative culture and monuments in the Ancient Near East
141363 SE Archaeological Seminar - The Achaemenid Empire
WM Advanced Module on Philology II (8 ECTS)
141125 SE Sumerian Seminar - The Myth of "Enki and the World Order"
WM South Arabia, Past and Present (8 ECTS)
WM Sabean Studies (8 ECTS)
Master-Module (8 ECTS)
Master-Seminar (8 ECTS)
Master Turkish Studies (675 [2] - Version 2020)
Groups of compulsory modules I-II (62 ECTS)
GCM I: History, Culture and Politics of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey (52 ECTS)
M1 CM: Archives, Sources and Research Approaches in Ottoman Studies (10 ECTS)
M2 CM: Transformation in the Ottoman Empire: From Empire to Nation (16 ECTS)
141063 SE Ottoman Cultural History
M3 CM: Archives, Sources and Research Approaches in Turkish Studies (10 ECTS)
141012 UE Turkish Sources and Media (reading texts included)
141015 VU Contemporary Research and Methods in Studies on Modern Turkey
M4 CM: Turkey in a Global World: The Republic of Turkey in Transition (16 ECTS)
GCM II: Language, Literature, Society (10 ECTS)
M5a Alternative CM: Ottoman Literature (10 ECTS)
M5b Alternative CM: Modern Turkish Literature and Society (10 ECTS)
141018 SE M5b - SE Modern Turkish Literature (reading texts included)
Groups of elective modules I-III (30 ECTS)
GEM I: Regional and Thematic Focus
M5.1a Ottoman Literature (10 ECTS)
M5.1b Modern Turkish Literature and Society (10 ECTS)
M6 Advanced Turkish: Languages for Specific Purposes and Everyday Use (10 ECTS)
141007 UE Proficiency in Writing Texts
M7 Reading Primary Sources: Ottoman / Turkish (10 ECTS)
141058 UE Reading Modern Turkish Texts
M8 Individual Specialisation (10 ECTS)
M9 Central Asia (10 ECTS)
M10 Digital Humanities for Orientalist Scholars (10 ECTS)
M11 International Contextualisation (30 ECTS)
GEM II: Interdisciplinarity Transottomanica
M12 History of South-Eastern Europe, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Alevi Theological Studies, Islamic Art History (10 ECTS)
GEM III: Interdisciplinarity History, DH, Comparative Literature
M13 Digital Humanities, Comparative Literature, Contemporary History, History of Science, Global History, History of South-Eastern Europe, Gender History, Media History, Public History (10 ECTS)
CM: Master’s Module
M14 CM Master’s Thesis Coaching (4 ECTS)
Master Turkish Studies (675 [1] - Version 2008) - discontinued
Ottoman Literature I (8 ECTS)
Ottoman Literature II (14 ECTS)
141018 SE M5b - SE Modern Turkish Literature (reading texts included)
Ottoman Palaeography and Diplomatics (16 ECTS)
141058 UE Reading Modern Turkish Texts
Ottoman-Historical Module I (10 ECTS)
Ottoman-Historical Module II (10 ECTS)
141063 SE Ottoman Cultural History
Turkish and Turkic Languages, Past and Present (6 ECTS)
Modern Turkish, Literature and Languag (12 ECTS)
Theoretical and Methodological Advanced Studies (10 ECTS)
Mastercoaching-Module (10 ECTS)
Master The Arab World: Language and Society (676)
Group of Compulsory Modules Basics (16 ECTS)
GK-1 Methods of Cultural and Linguistic Research (8 ECTS)
GK-2 Politics & Society in the modern Arab World (8 ECTS)
141092 SE The Arab World in Modern Times: Political and Social Issues
Alternative Group of Compulsory Modules - Religion and Politics (32 ECTS)
RP-1 Islam in the Arab World and beyond (8 ECTS)
RP-2 Arabic-Islamic Tradition (8 ECTS)
RP-3 Islamic and other Political and Social Movements in the Arab World (8 ECTS)
141212 SE Political and Social Movements in the Arab World
RP-4 The Arab World Online (8 ECTS)
Alternative Group of Compulsory Modules - Arabic Language (32 ECTS)
AS-1 Arabic Dialectology (8 ECTS)
141213 VU Arabic Dialects in North Africa
AS-2 Modern Arabic as a written Language (8 ECTS)
141174 SE [ar en] Selected topics of Modern Standard Arabic - Arabic in the city
AS-3 Arabic Philology in a diachronic perspective (8 ECTS)
AS-4 The Arab World Online (8 ECTS)
Alternative Group of Compulsory Modules - Language and Culture of Southern Arabia (32 ECTS)
KS-1 Ancient South Arabic (8 ECTS)
141308 VO [en] Introduction to Ancient South Arabian II
KS-2 Sabean Studies (8 ECTS)
KS-3 History and Present Age of South Arabia (8 ECTS)
141042 SE [en] History and Archaeology of South Arabia
KS-4 Modern South Arabia (8 ECTS)
Group of Elective Modules (32 ECTS)
WM-1 Arabian Popular Culture (8 ECTS)
141222 SE [en] Popular literature and Folk Art in Palestine and Yemen
WM-2 Media and Language of Media in the Arab World (8 ECTS)
WM-3 Cultural History of the Arab World (8 ECTS)
141388 SE Oriental musical traditions
WM-4 The Arab World and other Regional Powers (8 ECTS)
141006 VU The Arab World and Other Regional Powers I - India under the Moghuls
WM-5 The Arab World: Security and Political Perspectives (8 ECTS)
141276 SE The Arab World: Security and Political Perspectives
WM-6 The Arab World Transnationally (8 ECTS)
WM-7 The Arab World from an Economic Perspective (8 ECTS)
WM-8 Conversation and Translation (8 ECTS)
141111 UE Arabic Conversation
WM-9 Listening Comprehension and Analysis of Media (8 ECTS)
WM-10 Epigraphy, Palaeography and Calligraphy (8 ECTS)
WM-11 Classical Arabian Language (8 ECTS)
141011 UE Reading Classical Literature - Arabische Geographen
WM-12 Afroasiatic Languages (Amharic, Aramaic, Sabaean...) (8 ECTS)
141109 VO Amharic I
141141 VO [en] Ge'ez II
141175 VO [en] Syriac I
141266 VO Introduction to a Cushitic Language II: Somali
WM-13 Regional or thematic Focus: Workshop or Exkursion (16 ECTS)
WM-14 Minorities in the Arab World (8 ECTS)
WM-15 Arts and Architecture in the Arab World (8 ECTS)
WM-16 Recent Discourses in the Arab World (8 ECTS)
WM-17 Arabic Dialect (16 ECTS)
141009 VO Arabic Dialect - Course A: Iraqi Arabic
141014 UE Arabic Dialect - Course B: Iraqi Arabic
141020 UE Arabic Dialect - Course B: Syrian Arabic
141028 VO Arabic Dialect - Course C: Tunisian Arabic
141029 UE Arabic Dialect: Tunisian Arabic D
141067 VO Arabic Dialect A: Syrian Arabic
141068 UE Arabic Dialect B: Syrian Arabic
WM-18 Islam in the Arab World and beyond (8 ECTS)
WM-19 Arabic-Islamic Tradition (8 ECTS)
WM-20 Islamic and other Political and Social Movements in the Arab World (8 ECTS)
141212 SE Political and Social Movements in the Arab World
WM-21 Arabic Dialectology (8 ECTS)
141213 VU Arabic Dialects in North Africa
WM-22 Modern Arabic as a written Language (8 ECTS)
141174 SE [ar en] Selected topics of Modern Standard Arabic - Arabic in the city
WM-23 Arabic Philology in a diachronic perspective (8 ECTS)
WM-24 Ancient South Arabic (8 ECTS)
141308 VO [en] Introduction to Ancient South Arabian II
WM-25 Sabean Studies (8 ECTS)
WM-26 History and Present Age of South Arabia (8 ECTS)
141042 SE [en] History and Archaeology of South Arabia
WM-27 Modern South Arabia (8 ECTS)
Master-Degree Phase (10 ECTS)
MM-1 MA-Coaching (10 ECTS)
141499 SE Master Coaching Seminar
Extension Curriculum Turkish History, Literature and Cultural History (640 [2] - Version 2017)
Compulsory modules TU (15 ECTS)
EC-TU-1 Turkish cultural history within the framework of Middle Eastern cultures (5 ECTS)
141001 VO (OVSTEOP) STEOP: Introduction to Middle Eastern Studies
141035 VO History of Literature of Modern Turkey
141044 VO Languages and scripts of the Middle East and North Africa
EC-TU-2 Aspects of Turkish culture, history and literature in past and present (11 ECTS)
141163 VO Lecture on Selected Aspects of Modern Turkey - Ottoman-Turkish Literatures
Extension Curriculum Religion and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa (642)
Compulsory modules RPAR (15 ECTS)
RPAR-1 Selected Topics of Modern Oriental Studies (6 ECTS)
RPAR-2 Study of Religions
141172 VO Introduction to the History of Islam
RPAR-3-1 Politics and History: Iran (5 ECTS)
141277 VO History of Iran from the Safavids to the present time
RPAR-3-2 Politics and History: Turkey (6 ECTS)
141163 VO Lecture on Selected Aspects of Modern Turkey - Ottoman-Turkish Literatures
Extension Curriculum Language and Culture of the Arab World (643)
Compulsory modules SKAR (15 ECTS)
SKAR-1
SKAR-2
141005 VO Arabic Philosophy and Kalam
SKAR-3
141038 VO Basic Course in Arabic 2
Extension Curriculum Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture (644)
Compulsory modules AOGK (15 ECTS)
AOGK-1 Ancient Near Eastern History (8 ECTS)
141088 VO Ancient Near Eastern History and Culture II: From Mitanni to the Sassanides
AOGK-2 Ancient Near Eastern Cultural History and Archaeology (7 ECTS)
141047 VO Religious history of the Middle East prior to the advent of Islam
Extension Curriculum Ancient Near Eastern Philology (645)
Compulsory modules AOP (15 ECTS)
AOP-1 Introduction to Ancient Near Eastern philology (7 ECTS)
141108 VO (STEOP) STEOP: Introduction to Akkadian I
AOP-2 Ancient Near Eastern philology: Advanced Module (8 ECTS)
141097 VO Introduction to Akkadian II
141136 VO Introduction to Sumerian
Extension Curriculum Iranian History and Culture (646)
Compulsory modules IRGK (15 ECTS)
IRGK-1 History of Iran (7 ECTS)
141277 VO History of Iran from the Safavids to the present time
IRGK-2 Cultural History of Iran (8 ECTS)
141089 VO Intellectual and cultural history of Iran from the 16th to the 20th centuries
Extension curriculum Society and Law in the Islamic World (648)
Compulsory modules GRIW (15 ECTS)
GRIW-1 Introduction to Islamic Jurisprudence (7 ECTS)
141172 VO Introduction to the History of Islam
GRIW-2 Specialisation (8 ECTS)
030194 KU Islam in Europe - (Issues from) Legal history and contemporory legal developments
030629 KU The legal position of Islam in Austria
030676 KU Modern islamic civil law and its application in Austria and Germany

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