CLAS318-10S2 (C) Semester Two 2010

Imperial Rome

28 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 12 July 2010
End Date: Sunday, 14 November 2010
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 25 July 2010
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 10 October 2010

Description

Rome under the early Roman emperors. Note: course requirements in this combined 200 and 300-level course will be apprpriate to the level at which the student is enrolled.

This course offers a study of Imperial Rome in the first two centuries of the Common Era. We begin with the principate of Augustus (27 BC – AD 14) and then study in some detail the Emperors of the first century AD, investigating significant events that occurred in the respective reign of each. We will also explore social, political and economic issues such as the lives/roles of some Imperial women and marginalized groups (i.e. slaves, foreigners), the constitution, and trade and the infrastructure of the city of Rome itself. The course will then move to the second century AD and the height of Roman territorial expansion under Trajan (AD 98 – 117). We will examine the emperors through the ‘golden age’ of Roman Imperial history to the death of Marcus Aurelius in AD 180 and conclude with a glimpse of Rome’s future in the troubled reign of Commodus and the accession of Septimius Severus.

Prerequisites

Either 22 points of CLAS at 200 level with a B pass; or 44 points of CLAS at 200 level; or any 66 points at 200 level from the Arts Schedule.

Restrictions

Lecturer

Gary Morrison

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Essay 30%
Final Exam 50%
Test 20%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,045.00

International fee $4,409.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Humanities .

All CLAS318 Occurrences

  • CLAS318-10S2 (C) Semester Two 2010