This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
This module enhances the student's ability to undertake research on the sites and in the museums focusing on ancient Rome using research libraries, on-line resources and on-site visits. Students will select monuments to research each week and discus their findings in seminars, alongside their experience of locating information on which they will reflect. This is done to ensure students identify and develop a series of research methods identified as 'good practice’. In addition, they will work on their critique of modern scholars and evaluate the intersection between textual evidence and the standing remains of ancient Rome. Finally, research in libraries will also necessitate the checking and identification of key features on-site in Rome.
Total contact hours: 20
This module is compulsory for students studying on the MA in Ancient History with a term in Rome and the MA in Roman History and Archaeology with a term in Rome.
Fortnightly diary (3000 words) - 20%;
Literature review (2000 words) - 35%;
Interpretive essay (2500 words) - 45%
DeRose Evans, J. (2013.) A Companion to the Archaeology of the Roman Republic, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell;
Dyson, S.L. (2010) Rome: Portrait of a Living City, Baltimore: John Hopkins;
Erdkamp, P. (2013) The Cambridge Companion to the City of Rome, Cambridge: CUP;
Laurence, R. and Newsome D. (2011) Rome, Ostia, Pompeii: Movement and Space, Oxford: OUP;
Östenberg, I.; Malmberg, S. & Bjørnebye, J. (2015) The Moving City: Processions, Passages and Promenades in Ancient Rome, London: Bloomsbury;
Zanker, P. (1988) The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
See the library reading list for this module (Canterbury)
On successfully completing the module, students will be able to:
Demonstrate the effective utilisation of the research libraries based in Rome;
Demonstrate the application of library research to the interpretation of standing remains surviving from antiquity;
Demonstrate critical, analytical problem-based learning skills in relation to the sites of the city of Rome, as well as modern scholarship on the subject matter;
Command a range of techniques and methodologies, such as bibliographical and library research skills, a range of skills in reading and textual analysis, the varieties of historical method, the visual skills characteristic of art criticism, use of statistics (e.g. in archaeology or the study of ancient demography), academic argumentation and analysis;
Communicate effectively with a wide range of individuals using a variety of means in seminars;
Evaluate their own academic performance;
Manage change effectively and respond to changing demands including access to sites in Rome;
Take responsibility for personal and professional learning and development (Personal Development Planning);
Manage time, prioritise workload, recognise and manage personal emotions and stress;
Demonstrate information management skills, e.g. IT skills.
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