Bachelor of Arts in Early Cultures

The Program in Early Cultures provides opportunities for rich collaboration, critical exploration, and lively interdisciplinary scholarship by sponsoring and supporting a wide array of programming. Chronologically, the Program defines ancient as roughly pre-medieval or simply early. Geographically, the ancient world represented at Brown comprises early China and India, West Asia (Mesopotamia, Iran, Anatolia, and Israel), Egypt, the Mediterranean (especially Greece and Italy), the early Islamic and Byzantine worlds as well as the Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations.
The faculty involved in Early Cultures number more than forty, and the academic units involved include the departments of Anthropology, Classics, Comparative Literature, Egyptology and Assyriology, History, History of Art and Architecture, Philosophy, and Religious Studies, the Program in Judaic Studies, and the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World. Graduate students in the relevant units number more than sixty. We have a vibrant, dynamic, and productive community, well supported by Brown's excellent libraries and collections.

International applicants, like all applicants to Brown, are expected to complete secondary school. Brown's first-year students will have completed 12 to 13 years of primary and secondary schooling. Similar to applications from students within the United States, we evaluate applications from students outside the United States with their context and opportunities in mind.
English language proficiency must be achieved before you are admitted. Brown does not offer courses in English as a Second Language for its undergraduates and does not offer provisional acceptances to students who are deficient in English.
A minimum score of 105 on the TOEFL internet-based exam, a minimum score of 8.0 on the IELTS
minimum score of 130 on the Duolingo