Students have the opportunity to apply knowledge and skills acquired through the detailed examination and criticism of specific sources. Specific themes for the module include but are not limited to:
Use of primary evidence: documents, literature, and also archaeology, pictures;
Deir el Medina as a model village community, farming communities;
Social structures: kings, hierarchies, meritocracy and hereditary official classes, class structures, patronage and individuality, slavery;
Women, family and kinship;
Childhood and old age;
Markets, money, wealth and inheritance;
Education, in practice and as acculturation of the scribal class in function and morality;
Law, conflict resolution, interpersonal problems.