In each year of your degree you will take a number of individual courses, normally valued at 0.5 or 1.0 credits, adding up to a total of 4.0 credits for the year. Courses are assessed in the academic year in which they are taken. The balance of compulsory and optional courses varies from programme to programme and year to year. A 1.0 credit is considered equivalent to 15 credits in the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). Year One Compulsory courses Introduction to Egyptian and Near Eastern Archaeology Texts in Archaeology Middle Egyptian Language and Texts Intermediate Middle Egyptian Texts Writing History Concepts, Categories and the Practice of History Optional courses Either: The Near East to 1200 BC: The Earliest States or The Near East, 1200-336 BC Year Two Compulsory courses Archaeology of Ancient Egypt Late Egyptian Language and Texts Research Seminar (5,000-word Research Project) Optional courses Either: The Near East to 1200 BC: The Earliest States or The Near East, 1200-336 BC. Plus a further 1.0 credit from a wide range of optional courses in Ancient History, Ancient Languages, Egyptology, History or from another approved interdepartmental programme. You must have taken courses to a minimum of 4.0 credits in Egyptology and 4.0 credits in Ancient History (or an approved related discipline) by the end of your degree programme. Final Year Compulsory courses Dissertation Coptic Language and Culture Optional courses You will select 2.5 credits from a wide range of optional courses in Ancient History, Ancient Languages, Archaeology, Egyptology, History or from another approved interdepartmental programme. You must have taken courses to a minimum of 4.0 credits in Egyptology and 4.0 credits in Ancient History (or an approved related discipline) by the end of your degree programme.

The programme is designed to teach many transferable skills: how to gather and organise evidence; how to analyse it and present a structured argument; how to express yourself clearly both in writing and orally. UCL's history graduates have excelled in a wide range of occupations, as lawyers, financial advisers, stockbrokers, television producers, diplomats, journalists, bankers, teachers, museum curators, and in the health service, the police and overseas development programmes, as well as in progressing to further study.