Welcome to the Department of Semitic Studies

Semitic Studies is the scholarly field that is concerned with the Semitic language family, for example Arabic, Hebrew or Aramaic. The Department of Semitic Studies contributes to the BA programme Oriental Studies, the BA programme Historical Linguistics and Cultural Studies (HSTK) and the Master programme Semitic Studies. It may also be chosen in other modularised BA and MA programmes. The Department of Semitic Studies is a part of the Center for Near and Middle Eastern Studies of the Philipps-University and also belongs to the Institute for Oriental Studies at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and Cultures.