UCL - Introduction to Oriental Languages and Literature

[GLOR1413]

[60h] 7 credits

This course is taught in the 2d semester.

Teacher(s): Godefroid De Callatay, Johannes den Heijer, Jean-Claude Haelewyck, Claude Obsomer, Andrea Barbara Schmidt, Christophe Vielle(coord.)

Language: French

Level: First

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

By the end of the course, students will have acquired a detailed overview of the full range of Oriental studies, enabling them to decide what to specialize in later on in their bachelor program.

Main themes

Oriental studies are here primarily regarded as a discipline with its own historiography as well as with its peculiar epistemological and methodological approach. Next, they are considered in relation with the main areas of studies (linguistic, philological, literary) as they are investigated and specifically taught at the Oriental Institute.

Content and teaching methods

The course provides an introduction to the following fields: epistemology and methodology of Oriental studies; Indo-European comparativism; Semitic comparativism; Egyptology; Assyriology, Anatolian studies; Christian Oriental studies (Armenian, Georgian, Aramaean/Syriac, Coptic, Aethiopian, and Arabic); Byzantine studies; Slavistics; Arab-Muslim studies; Indology and Asian studies. Depending on the field concerned, emphasis is put on linguistics, philology or literature.

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Course entry requirements: None
Assessment: evaluation and certification by way of a written (multiple choice) exam, along with a short essay based on bibliographical investigation and readings in relation with one part of the course.