Year 1: Broad survey of civilisations of Egypt and the Ancient Near East; language teaching in Egyptian or Akkadian. Year 2: Addition of 2nd language, or archaeology and anthropology; options: Akkadian; Arabic; Aramaic and Syriac; archaeology; classical Greek; Coptic; Hebrew (Biblical and Mishnaic), Old Iraniain, Sumerian or Hittite; literary and historical topics through study of texts and essay writing; intensive class work. Year 3: Essay writing and dissertation work; artefact classes; field of concentration.