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131-101 Great Civilizations From Egypt To Ancient Rome, 3000 BC - Ad 100

Year 1 History.

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 25.0 1st year

Coordinator: Associate Professor R T Ridley.

Contact: Two lectures and a tutorial a week.

Timetable: Double semester

Objectives:

To allow students to place each of the great civilisations of the Mediterranean from Egypt to Rome (3000 BC - A. D 100) in context and perspective; to provide basic training in source criticism and essay writing; to raise some of the fundamental questions in the philosophy of history.

Content:

The Ancient Near East and Greece and Rome: politics, religion, society, law, economics, literature and art.

Assessment:

Tutorial participation (10%), two essays (each of 3,000 words) (40%), two 3-hour examination papers (50%), totalling no more than 8,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Gardiner A H Egypt of the Pharaohs Oxford, 1969
• Kramer S N The Sumerians Chicago, 1963
• Saggs H Greatness that was Babylon London, 1988
• Bury J History of Greece Macmillan, 1975
• Lewis N and Reinhold M Roman Civilisation (2 Vols) New York, 1966

1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p96) : Next:131-103

2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p122) : Next:131-103

131-101 Great Civilizations From Egypt To Ancient Rome, 3000 B. C. - A. D.100

Availability: Not offered in 1996.

Credit points: 25.0

Coordinator: Associate Professor R T Ridley.

Contact: Two lectures and a tutorial each week.

Timetable: Double semester.

Objectives:

To allow students to place each of the great civilisations of the Mediterranean from Egypt to Rome (3000 BC - A. D. 100) in context and perspective; to provide basic training in source criticism and essay writing; to raise some of the fundamental questions in the philosophy of history.

Content:

The Ancient Near East and Greece and Rome: politics, religion, society, law, economics, literature and art.

Assessment:

Tutorial participation (10 per cent); two essays (each of 3,000 words) (40 per cent); two 3-hour examination papers (50 per cent). Totalling no more than 8,000 words.

Prescribed texts:

• Gardiner A H Egypt of the Pharaohs Oxford, 1969
• Kramer S N The Sumerians Chicago, 1963
• Saggs H Greatness that was Babylon London, 1988
• Bury J History of Greece Macmillan, 1975
• Lewis N and Reinhold M Roman Civilisation (2 Vols) New York, 1966

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