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Licence en langues et littératures orientales (philologie et histoire orientales) (Diploma of the Second Cycle (Licence) in Oriental Languages and Literature (Oriental Philology and History)) [HORI2]
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Programme management

ORI Unité d'orientalisme - Institut orientaliste

Responsable académique : N.

Contact : Marie-Antoinette Jacquemin

Tél. 010474958
jacquemin@glor.ucl.ac.be

Contact : Christophe Vielle

Tél. 010474954
vielle@ori.ucl.ac.be

Study objectives

The second study cycle ("licence") in Oriental Languages and Literature : Oriental Philology and History, provides a basic programme in the field of Oriental Studies and focuses on languages, literature, art history, history of thought and analysis of the corresponding societies.

These studies can lead to either a subsequent specialisation (DEA or PhD), or to the application of another basic degree programme to an oriental domain.

Admission conditions

The "licence" programme in Oriental Languages and Literature is accessible to students who have passed their first cycle of university studies ("candidature", ) from the Arts Faculty of UCL (two years of studies) or who hold any diploma judged as being equivalent. If this is not the case, complements in Linguistics, History Criticism and Literary theory, may be added to the programme. The programme must be approved by the academic supervisor.

Interpreter/translator candidates for the languages concerned are entitled access to this degree programme, subject to having passed the first cycle of studies ("candidature") in one year at the Arts Faculty of UCL. Interpreter/translator university graduates for the languages concerned are entitled direct access to the programme, subject to an additional 150 hours, maximum, of complementary subjects to the normal cursus.

Admission procedure

The conditions and regular admission procedures are detailed in the "General Information" section on the Web page :
http://www.ucl.ac.be/etudes/libres.acces.html
.

General structure of the programme

Second cycle of university studies in two years, 95 credits worth of study activities and a thesis (25 credits) which is the object of one single final deliberation.

Depending on their centres of interest, each student will follow a coherent programme responding to the requirements formulated below. He may be inspired by the models of the programme proposed, for example for the following sections : The Bible and ancient Egypt; Indo-European comparison; Pharaonic Egypt, Copts and Arabs; India and Central/Oriental Asia; the Biblical World ; the Byzantine and Slavic world ; the Aegean-Anatolian World; the Syro-Anatolian World; the Christian Orient ; the ancient Near-Orient and Egypt.

The programme is composed of five parts :

a) Languages (48 credits). The second cycle of the degree programme includes the study of at least three languages. During the two years of this programme, the students will twice follow the higher courses in the two languages, and once the higher course of at least one third language. As a consequence, the students must have at least followed the elementary course of the two languages for at least one year before embarking on this programme. The students may likewise choose a language not taught at UCL, but offered in another Belgian University.

b) General courses (32 credits)

c) Options (12 credits)

d) Modern Language (3 credits). A compulsory course of interactive communication at intermediate or advanced level must be chosen from among the following languages : German, English, Arabic, modern Chinese, Spanish, modern Greek, Italian, Japanese, Dutch or Russian.

e) A thesis (25 credits). This thesis must be in relation with the subject matter of a programme chosen by the student and be approved by the Council of the Orientalistic Institute.

Programme content

HORI21 et 22 First and second years

A. Languages (48 credits)

Elementary courses

GLOR1661

Classical Arabic I[30h] (6 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Godefroid De Callatay

GLOR1662

Classical Arabic I[30h] (6 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Godefroid De Callatay

ARAB1100

Modern Arabic Basic Level[30h] (6 credits)

Pierre Hanjoul

(Prerequisites for the GLOR 1661 and GLOR 1662 courses)

GLOR1271

Greek Language I[30h+15h] (6 credits) (in French)

André Cheyns

GLOR1641

Aramaic Languages I (Aramaic, Syriac)[30h] (6 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Jean-Claude Haelewyck, Andrea Barbara Schmidt, Andrea Barbara Schmidt

GLOR1642

Aramaic Languages I (Aramaic, Syriac)[30h] (6 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Andrea Barbara Schmidt

GLOR1651

Caucasian Languages I (Armenian, Georgian)[30h] (6 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Bernard Coulie, Giusto Traina (supplée Bernard Coulie)

GLOR1652

Caucasian Languages I (Armenian, Georgian)[30h] (6 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Bernard Coulie

GLOR1811

Coptic (elementary level)[30h] (6 credits) (in French)

Jean-Marie Sevrin

GLOR1611

Languages in Cuneiform Writing I (Akkadian, Hittite)[30h] (6 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

René Lebrun

GLOR1612

Languages in Cuneiform Writing I (Akkadian, Hittite)[30h] (6 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

René Lebrun

GLOR1621

Ancient Egyptian I[30h] (6 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Claude Obsomer

GLOR1622

Ancient Egyptian I[30h] (6 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Claude Obsomer

GLOR1814

Ethiopian (elementary level)[30h] (6 credits)EN Cours non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Johanna Brankaer

GLOR1631

Biblical Hebrew I[45h] (6 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

André Wénin

GLOR1632

Biblical Hebrew I[45h] (6 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

André Wénin

GLOR1671

Indian languages I (Sanskrit)[30h] (6 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Christophe Vielle

GLOR1672

Indian languages I (Sanskrit)[30h] (6 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Christophe Vielle

GLOR1818

Old Church Slavonic (elementary level)[30h] (6 credits) (in French)

Lambert Isebaert

Higher courses

Arabic

GLOR2857

Arabe classique (2e partie)[30h] (6 credits)EN Cours non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Godefroid De Callatay

and one of the twoi following courses

GLOR1806

Koran Texts[30h] (6 credits) (in French)

Johannes den Heijer

GLOR1807

Middle Arabic (elementary level)[30h] (6 credits) (in French)

Johannes den Heijer

GLOR2823

Classical Arabic (advanced level)[45h] (9 credits) (in French)

Johannes den Heijer

GLOR2824

Middle Arabic (advanced level)[30h] (6 credits) (in French)

Johannes den Heijer

Greek

GLOR2120

Greek language[30h+7.5h] (6 credits)EN Cours non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Yves Duhoux

GLOR2210

Greek Language[22.5h] (6 credits) (in French)

Yves Duhoux

FLTR2504

Byzantine texts[45h] (9 credits) (in French)

Anne Tihon

GLOR2838

Biblical Greek[45h] (9 credits) (in French)

Jean-Marie Auwers, Bernard Coulie

GREC1300

Grec - niveau intermédiaire[90h] (6 credits)EN Cours non dispensé cette année académique

N.

GLOR2822

Akkadian (advanced level)[45h] (9 credits) (in French)

René Lebrun

GLOR2821

Hittite (advanced level)[45h] (9 credits) (in French)

René Lebrun

GLOR2835

Anatolian philology (Sumerian, Hurrian, Luwian)[30h] (6 credits) (in French)

René Lebrun

GLOR2820

Ugaritic language[30h] (6 credits) (in French)

René Lebrun

GLOR2825

Aramaic (advanced level)[45h] (9 credits) (in French)

Jean-Marie Van Cangh

GLOR2826

Armenian (advanced level)[45h] (9 credits) (in French)

Bernard Coulie

GLOR2828

Coptic (advanced level)[45h] (9 credits) (in French)

Jean-Marie Sevrin

GLOR2829

Ancient Egyptian (advanced level)[45h] (9 credits) (in French)

Claude Obsomer

GLOR2830

Ethiopian (advanced level)[45h] (9 credits)EN Cours non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

N.

GLOR2831

Georgian (advanced level)[45h] (9 credits) (in French)

Bernard Coulie

GLOR2837

Hebraic language and literature[45h] (9 credits) (in French)

Jean-Claude Haelewyck, André Wénin

GLOR2833

Sanskrit (advanced level)[45h] (9 credits) (in French)

Christophe Vielle, Christophe Vielle

GLOR2832

Buddhistic languages[22.5h] (6 credits) (in French)

Lambert Isebaert

GLOR2836

Syriac (advanced level)[45h] (9 credits) (in French)

Andrea Barbara Schmidt

B. General courses (32 credits)

In order to obtain the "licence" degree, the students must at leat follow the timetable volume indicated in italics in each

discipline ; these courses will be spread over the two years of the programme, depending on availability.

Linguistics (4 credits)

GLOR2801

Comparative grammar of Semitic languages[30h] (4 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Jean-Claude Haelewyck

GLOR2802

Comparative Indo-European linguistics[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Lambert Isebaert

History and Oriental Institutions (8 credits)

GLOR2856

History and geography of the Ancient East[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Jean-Marie Van Cangh

GLOR2850

History of India[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Robert Deliège

GLOR2851

History of China[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Paul Servais

GLOR2853

History of Japan[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Michèle Lauwers

FLTR2540

Byzantine history[45h] (4 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Anne Tihon

GLOR2809

Byzantine Institutions[30h] (4 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Anne Tihon

GLOR2812

History of Islamic religion[30h] (4 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Godefroid De Callatay

GLOR2813

Institutions of Islam[30h] (4 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Godefroid De Callatay

GLOR2840

Histoire des peuples musulmans[30h] (4 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Godefroid De Callatay

Literature and History of Thought (4 credits)

(Courses in History of Literature, not necessitating knowledge of the languages concerned.)

GLOR2310

History of Greek literature : special questions[15h] (2 credits) (in French)

Monique Dopchie

GLOR2816

History of Indian philosophy[15h] (2 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Jacques Scheuer

GLOR2839

Chaire Satsuma[15h] (3 credits) (in French)

N.

GLOR2841

Christian Arabic literature[15h] (3 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

N.

GLOR2842

Armenian and Georgian literature[15h] (2 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Andrea Barbara Schmidt

GLOR2843

Byzantine literature[15h] (2 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Bernard Coulie

GLOR2844

Coptic and Ethiopian literature[15h] (2 credits)EN Cours non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Johanna Brankaer

GLOR2845

Littérature arabo-musulmane[30h] (4 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Godefroid De Callatay

GLOR2846

Near Eastern and Egyptian literature[30h] (4 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Claude Obsomer

GLOR2847

Syriac literature[15h] (2 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Andrea Barbara Schmidt

FILO1282

History of philosophy 3: History of arabic Philosophy[30h] (4 credits)EN Cours non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

N.

THEO3320

pATRISTICS[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Jean-Marie Auwers

Theology and History of Religions (4 credits)

THEO1110

Introduction to the Bible[105h] (4 credits) (in French)

Elena Di Pede (supplée André Wénin), Camille Focant, André Wénin, André Wénin (supplée Camille Focant)

THEO3170

Comparative Religions[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Jacques Scheuer

GLOR2817

History of Asian philosophies and religions (China, Korea, Japan)[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Jacques Scheuer

THEO3331

Theology of the Eastern Churches[30h] (4 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Joseph Famerée

RELI2540

Christian Theology of Religions[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Jacques Scheuer

SREL2001

Seminar : Hinduism and Christianity[30h] (4 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Jacques Scheuer

SREL2002

Seminar: Buddhism and Christianity[30h] (4 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Jacques Scheuer

SREL2011

Seminar: Judaism and Christianity[30h] (4 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

N.

SREL2022

Seminar : Islam and Christianity[30h] (4 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Emilio Platti

Auxiliary Sciences (8 credits)

GLOR2804

History of oriental writings[30h] (4 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Yves Duhoux

GLOR2805

Semitic epigraphy[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

René Lebrun

GLOR2800

Encyclopaedia (Byzantium and the Christian East)[30h] (4 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Andrea Barbara Schmidt

FLTR2170

Greek palaeography[15h] (2 credits) (in French)

Anne Tihon

FLTR2180

Greek epigraphy[30h] (4 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Yves Duhoux

FLTR2560

Textual criticism and methods of editing[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Anne Tihon

ARKE2380

Iconology : Middle Ages and Modern Times[30h] (4 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Pauline Voute

ARKE2560

Historical geography and topography of Ancient Civilizations : A) Eastern Mediterranean; B) Greek and Roman World[30h] (4 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

N.

ARKE2570

Iconology : Antiquity[30h] (4 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Eric De Waele, Jan Driessen (coord.)

Art and Archaeology (4 credits)

GLOR2806

Arts and Civilisation : Ancient India[15h] (2 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Christophe Vielle

ARKE1443

Art and Civilisation : Ancient Egypt and Near East[30h] (5 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Nadine Cherpion

ARKE2150

Art History and Archaeology of Pharaonic Egypt[30h+15h] (4 credits) (in French)

Nadine Cherpion

ARKE2160

History of Art and Archaeology of the Levant : A) Ancient Orient; B) Hellenised Orient[30h+15h] (4 credits) (in French)

Pauline Voute

(prerequisites : ARKE 1300)

ARKE2360

History of Early Christian Art[30h] (4 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Pauline Voute

ARKE2370

History of Byzantine and Eastern Christian Art[30h] (4 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

N.

ARKE2530

History of Islamic Art[30h] (4 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Pauline Voute

RELI2470

History and Archaeology of Palestine[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Jean-Marie Van Cangh

C. Options (12 credits)

All the courses of the sections A. (Languages) and B. (General courses), as well as the courses listed below, may be chosen as options.

ASI2301

Chair Chiang Ching-Kuo[15h] (3 credits) (in French)

Robert Deliège, Paul Servais

(conferences)

GLOR2390

Typology and permanence of mythical imagineries[30h] (4 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

N.

ARKE2401

A préciser (in French)

ARKE2610

Numismatics : Antiquity[30h] (4 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Patrick Marchetti

SOC2445

The socio-anthropology of present-day Islam[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Felice Dassetto

DVLP3160

Socio-political analysis of the Arab world[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Bichara Khader

DVLP3161

Socio-economic analysis of the Arab world[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Bichara Khader

ASI2302

Analysis of contemporary Chinese society[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Paul Servais

ASI2303

Analysis of contemporary Japanese society[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Michèle Lauwers

ASI2304

Analysis of contemporary Indian society[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Robert Deliège

ASI2305

A préciser (in French)

FILO2300

Interpretation of Arabic Philosophical Texts[30h] (4 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Jean-Michel Counet

FLTR1560

General linguistics[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Bart Defrancq

FLTR2550

Histoire des sciences de l'antiquité et du moyen âge[22.5h] (3 credits) (in French)

Anne Tihon

ARAB1300

Arabic Intermediate level[90h] (9 credits)

Ahmed Adrioueche, Johannes den Heijer

CHIN1300

Chinese intermediate level[120h] (9 credits)

Françoise Paron

GREC1300

Grec - niveau intermédiaire[90h] (6 credits)EN Cours non dispensé cette année académique

N.

JAPO1300

Japanese - Intermediate level[60h] (6 credits)

Marc Heremans

RUSS1300

Intermediate level[90h] (6 credits)

Andréi Zakharkevitch

THEO3210

Old Testament Exegesis[45h] (4 credits) (in French)

André Wénin

THEO3320

pATRISTICS[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Jean-Marie Auwers

THEO3342

Church History: Antiquity[30h] (4 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Jean-Marie Auwers

RELI2462

The New Testament Milieu[30h] (4 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Jean-Marie Sevrin

RELI2482

Judaism[30h] (4 credits)ENCours cyclique dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Jean-Marie Auwers

THEO3970

Seminar on Patristics[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Jean-Marie Auwers

IDRI2207

Economic and strategic analysis of the Pacific Basin[30h] (4 credits)EN Cours cyclique non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

Michèle Lauwers

DVLP3120

Development policies[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Frédéric Lapeyre

DVLP3194

Inter-disciplinary seminar on development policies: Asia[30h] (4 credits) (in French)

Jean-Philippe Peemans, Jean-Philippe Peemans

D. Modern Language (3 credits)

Intermediate or advanced level, 30 hours according to choice :

ALLE2410

German - Interactive communication[30h] (3 credits)

N.

ANGL2410

Interactive Communication[30h] (3 credits)

Philippe Denis

ARAB2410

Arabic interactive communication[30h] (3 credits)

Pierre Hanjoul

CHIN1300

Chinese intermediate level[120h] (9 credits)

Françoise Paron

or

CHIN1500

Chinese advanced level[120h] (9 credits)

Françoise Paron

ESPA2410

Spanish - Interactive communication[30h] (3 credits)

Victor Manuel Mendez Villegas

GREC1300

Grec - niveau intermédiaire[90h] (6 credits)EN Cours non dispensé cette année académique

N.

ITAL1300

Italian - Intermediate level[90h] (6 credits)

Laura Scarpa

or

ITAL1500

Italian - Advanced level[90h] (6 credits)

Laura Scarpa

(depending on the level of knowledge)

JAPO1300

Japanese - Intermediate level[60h] (6 credits)

Marc Heremans

NEER2410

Dutch communication skills for students in Classical studies, Philosophy, Oriental Studies, Biblical Studies.[30h] (3 credits)

Mariken Smit (coord.)

RUSS1300

Intermediate level[90h] (6 credits)

Andréi Zakharkevitch

E. Thesis (25 credits)

The conferment of the graduate diploma requires the presentation and defence of a thesis written in a language approved by the Council of the Orientalist Institute, focusing on the subject areas proper to the degree programme.

Positioning of the degree within the University cursus

The graduate degree in Oriental Languages and Literatures : Oriental Philology and History, entitles access to the in-depth study degree in the Arts and in the PhD programme in the Arts (Oriental Philology and History).



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