Students who begin a Bachelor of Arts program in September 2024 or later must take a set of breadth credits from multiple “Ways of Knowing” categories.
Courses from the Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies (AMNE) are categorized as follows:
- Place and Power: AMNE_V 384
- Humanities and Creative Arts: AMNE_V
- Language as Meaning: ARBC_V, GREK_V, HEBR_V, LATN_V
Since your major will automatically fulfill one of these categories (e.g. the Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies major automatically fulfills the “Humanities and Creative Arts” category), you are required to take 21 credits from additional categories, to be distributed accordingly:
- 9 credits (in one course code) from a 2nd breadth area
- 6 credits (in one course code) from a 3rd breadth area
- 3 credits (in one course code) from a 4th breadth area
- 3 credits for Place and Power (which may also fall in one of the above or your major)
AMNE majors and Honours students are strongly encouraged to meet with the AMNE Undergraduate Advisor to discuss how best to configure their breadth requirements to match their personal interests and post-graduate goals.
AMNE + Breadth Requirements Guide
Below is a breakdown of each breadth requirement category and our department’s corresponding courses.
We recommend using the ‘Ways of Knowing’ Course Planning Tool with this list to help you plan.
Place and Power
AMNE_V 384 (3) Reading the Bible on Indigenous Lands
Humanities and Creative Arts
All AMNE coded courses fulfil the Humanities and Creative Arts Breadth requirement. Most AMNE courses do not have prerequisites; exceptions are noted in the following list. If you are interested in taking one of these courses but have not completed the prerequisite course, please contact the AMNE Undergraduate Advisor for further guidance.
AMNE_V 101 (3) Greek and Latin Roots of English
AMNE_V 151 (3) Greek and Roman Mythology
AMNE_V 160 (3) Introduction to Religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam
AMNE_V 170 (3) Temples, Tombs, and Tyrants: The Archaeology of the Middle East, Greece, and Rome
AMNE_V 200 (3) Approaching the Ancient Mediterranean & Near East
AMNE_V 215 (3) Ancient Greece
AMNE_V 216 (3) Ancient Rome
AMNE_V 225 (3) Gladiators, Games, and Spectacle in the Greek and Roman World
AMNE_V 235 (3) Greek Philosophy I
AMNE_V 236 (3) Greek Philosophy II
AMNE_V 251 (3) Near Eastern and Biblical Mythology
AMNE_V 260 (3) Scriptures of the Near East
AMNE_V 265 (3) History of Christianity to 800 CE
AMNE_V 279 (3) Byzantium: Arts of an Empire
AMNE_V 300 (3) Uses and Abuses of Antiquity
AMNE_V 301 (3) The Technical Terms of Medicine and Biological Science
AMNE_V 306 (3) Ancient Technology: Greece and Rome
AMNE_V 318 (3) The Roman Republic
AMNE_V 323 (3) Slavery in the Ancient Greek and Roman World
AMNE_V 324 (3) Women in the Bronze Age, Classical Greek and Hellenistic Cultures
AMNE_V 327 (3) The Roman Army
AMNE_V 328 (3) UnRoman Romans
AMNE_V 340A (3) The Ancient World in Fiction
AMNE_V 341 (3) Sex, Lies, and Violence in the Hebrew Bible
AMNE_V 348 (3) Classical Tragedy
AMNE_V 361 (3) The Origins of Judaism
AMNE_V 363 (3) Talmud, Midrash and the Rabbinic Imagination
AMNE_V 364 (3) Magic, Prophecy, and Divination in the Biblical World
AMNE_V 371 (3) Ancient Egypt: The Archaeology of the Land of the Pharaohs
AMNE_V 372 (3) The Archaeology of Ancient Iraq and Syria: Babylon and Beyond
AMNE_V 376 (3) Greek Art and Architecture
AMNE_V 377 (3) Roman Art and Architecture
AMNE_V 379 (3) Art and the Religious Transformation of the Late Roman Empire
AMNE_V 384 (3) Reading the Bible on Indigenous Lands
AMNE_V 392 (3) Introduction to Akkadian
AMNE_V 420A (3) Medea's Kitchen: Cooking, Curing, and Killing with Plants
AMNE_V 440B (3) The Origins of God
AMNE_V 461A (3) Jesus: Between History and Literature
AMNE_V 470A (3) Defining the Classical: Art and Experience in Greece, 480-323 BCE
AMNE_V 499 (6) Honours Essay
Language as Meaning
All ARBC_V, GREK_V, HEBR_V, and LATN_V courses fulfill the Language as Meaning Breadth Requirement.
ARBC_V 101 (3) Beginning Classical and Quranic Arabic I
ARBC_V 205 (3) Beginning Classical and Quranic Arabic II
ARBC_V 301 (3) Intermediate Classical and Quranic Arabic I
ARBC_V 302 (3) Intermediate Classical and Quranic Arabic II
GREK_V 101 (3) Beginning Ancient Greek I
GREK_V 102 (3) Beginning Ancient Greek II
GREK_V 201 (3) Intermediate Ancient Greek I
GREK_V 202 (3) Intermediate Ancient Greek II
GREK_V 351B (3) Reading Ancient Greek: Prose
GREK_V 401B (3) Greek Prose
GREK_V 402c (3) Greeek Verse
HEBR_V 101 (3) Beginning Biblical Hebrew I
HEBR_V 205 (3) Beginning Biblical Hebrew II
LATN_V 101 (3) Beginning Latin I
LATN_V 102 (3) Beginning Latin II
LATN_V 201 (3) Intermediate Latin I
LATN_V 301 (3) Intermediate Latin II
LATN_V 350 (3) Advanced Latin: Readings
LATN_V 403C (3) Studies in Latin Prose and Verse
LATN_V 403D (3) Studies in Latin Prose and Verse
See here for more information on our department’s language course offerings.
Additional resources
The “Ways of Knowing” breadth requirements are only applicable to new students beginning their degree in September 2024. Continuing students are not affected by this change and will keep navigating their degrees according to their original breadth requirements.