AMEL at University of Pennsylvania

A suggested order for the 21 courses on the map, built from prerequisite chains and how often each course has run in fall and spring across the last 12 regular terms. It is not the department’s plan, and it is not a promise a course will run. Confirm against the department’s own advising material.

Gateway courses

Each of these unlocks the largest share of downstream work on this map. Courses from other departments can appear here when they genuinely gate AMEL coursework.

• AMEL 6100First Year Akkadian IIopens 8 courses (8 directly)
• AMEL 4100First Year Akkadian IIopens 2 courses (2 directly)

The map

Intro tiers at the top, advanced work below; arrows point from a prerequisite to the course it unlocks. Courses from other departments appear where they gate AMEL work. Click any course to see what it requires and unlocks without leaving this page; hovering lights up its neighbors. The lists on this page carry the same courses in text form.

Showing the 21 AMEL and feeder courses that have prerequisite links. 8 more AMEL courses have no recorded prerequisites. They are listed under Tracks below, not drawn as loose dots here.

Tracks

Upper-level clusters, grouped by the gateway that opens them.

The longest ladders

The deepest prerequisite chains in AMEL. These are the routes that take the most semesters to climb.

• 3 courses deep, ending at AMEL 4250

  1. AMEL 4000First Year Akkadian I
  2. AMEL 4100First Year Akkadian II
  3. AMEL 4250Akkadian Literary Texts

• 3 courses deep, ending at AMEL 6250

  1. AMEL 4000First Year Akkadian I
  2. AMEL 6100First Year Akkadian II
  3. AMEL 6250Akkadian Literary Texts

• 2 courses deep, ending at AMEL 4600

  1. AMEL 4500Middle Egyptian
  2. AMEL 4600Middle Egyptian Texts

• 2 courses deep, ending at AMEL 7700

  1. AMEL 7200Sumerian Religious and Magical Texts
  2. AMEL 7700Readings in Sumerian Texts

Grade medians

Professors

No section schedule with instructor names for AMEL yet.

Clubs & organizations

No clubs or organizations on record under AMEL yet.

Clubs students here join

Department events

AMEL does not run a page here yet. When it does, its events show up here and on the Penn campus feed.