Unit name | Approaches to Roman History |
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Unit code | CLAS20040 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Hannah-Marie Chidwick |
Open unit status | Not open |
Pre-requisites |
None |
Co-requisites |
None |
School/department | Department of Classics & Ancient History |
Faculty | Faculty of Arts |
This unit will simultaneously introduce students to the study of a specific named period of Roman History covering a period of approx. 80-120 years (Late Antiquity or Rome Republic to Empire) and will introduce them to some of the main theoretical approaches for understanding that period. Examples of theoretical approaches that could be covered include: economic models; gender; meta-narratives/narrativity; counter-factuals; post-colonial theory/modelling empires. The unit will be taught with either the period Rome: Republic to Principate or the period Late Antiquity.
On successful completion of this unit, students will:
lectures + break-out seminars
1. Review of a book with a theoretical approach to Roman history, 1,500 words 30% [assessing ILOs 3 & 4]
2. 2 hour exam. 70% [assessing ILOs 1-5]
Morley, Neville (2004), Theories Models and Concepts in Ancient History, (Routledge: London)
Fulbrook, Mary (2002), Historical Theory, (Routledge: London)