First Century Rome


Quick Info

  • Currently offered by Alphacrucis: Yes
  • Course code: HIS303
  • Credit points: 10
  • Subject coordinator: Garrick Everett

Awards offering First Century Rome

This unit is offered as a part of the following awards:

Unit Content

Outcomes

  1. Evaluate ancient texts as sources for the ancient world through analysis of their authorship, context, structure, and rhetoric; 
  2. Develop, explain, and justify interpretations of the ancient social and political world; 
  3. Organise and synthesise different forms of evidence, and scholarship relating to that evidence, needed for understanding aspects of the ancient world; 
  4. Examine cultural/social conventions, concepts, and practices in the ancient world and how they differ from the modern world

This course may be offered in the following formats

  • Face to Face (onsite)
  • Distance/E-learning (online)
  • Intensive (5 days of classes/7 hours per day followed by 85 hours reading, writing and assignments)

Please consult your course prospectus or enquire about how and when this course will be offered next at Alphacrucis University College.

Assessment Methods

  1. Critical Source Reflection (30%)
  2. In-Class Presentation and Write Up (30%)
  3. Major Essay (40%)

Prescribed Text

  • Primary readings provided