Your tutor will look for evidence that you are sufficiently well-informed to contribute to discussions on topics presented and that you are able to express the concepts from this data in verbal form.

In the first lecture you will be assigned one of the planned tutorial topics to present to the class in a specific session and submit in an essay format. We aim to have one student presentation per session that will last for 40-50 minutes and allow for 20 minutes of discussion and question time. Each presenter is asked to submit in the class copies of a one page written summary with a list of references used to your tutor and to each student one week before your presentation. You must submit your essay in the week following the presentation.

Length of essay: 2500 words

The tutorial presentations will start in week 4. Data should be collected then analysed with the purpose of studying the life and importance of officials and royals, and the administrative and social roles they played during the Old Kingdom period, as well as the art depicted in their tombs. The tutorial presentation topics are:

1. Royal children and their role in Dynasty 4 (Week 4)
2. Administrative reforms at the end of Dynasty 5 (Week 5)
3. The viziers of King Wenis (Week 6)
4. The viziers of King Teti (Week 7)
5. Governing Akhmim at the end of Dynasty 5 and the beginning of Dynasty 6 (Week 8)
6. The royal in-laws at Abydos in Dynasty 6 (Week 9)
7. The artistic themes in the tombs of Deir el-Gebrawi in Dynasty 6 (Week 10)
8. The relationship between the capital and the governors of Nome 14 in Dynasty 6 (Week 11)
9. The provincial movement and the fall of the Old Kingdom (Week 12)

Your essay will essentially follow a similar structure and methods as your presentation, simply in a written format with introduction, body and conclusion and references to support your statements.

Final checks to be made before submitting your essay:

• that the pages are numbered and in the correct order;

• that you have written the actual word-length in your essay on the coversheet;

• that you have a copy of your assessment tasks;

• that you have attached a signed copy of the Faculty of Arts essay coversheet after having read the information on the reverse side. Copies of the cover sheet may be found on the ground floor of W6A or online at http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/teaching.html.

• Your signature is essential to verify that it is entirely your own work. The University defines plagiarism in its rules: 'Plagiarism involves using the work of another person and presenting it as one's own' and it carries significant penalties. Information about plagiarism can be found in the Handbook of Undergraduate Studies and at: http//www.student.mq.edu.au/plagiarism.

Dates: 04.04.2017 (Week 6) and 16.05.2017 (Week 10)

The hieroglyphic texts to be translated in each class are included at the back of this unit outline. You will be asked to transliterate and translate a short passage from these texts and show knowledge of the grammar of Egyptian hieroglyphs.

Students opting to study the texts in translation will submit a 1000 words essay on the historical analysis of each of the studied texts. 

Date: 23.05.2017 (Week 11)

The questions will relate to the presentations and discussions on Old Kingdom history and culture. You will be asked to write one essay within 50 minutes.

Date: 30.05.2017 (Week 12)

Either a final test on an unseen text in which you will be asked to transliterate and translate a short passage using a dictionary and grammar book and show knowledge of the grammar of Egyptian hieroglyphs, or be required to make a presentation on the historical interpretation of the texts you examined, followed by class discussion.