Handbook 1996 : Faculty of Arts (Volume 3 page 100)
History subject : Next:131-234 | Prev:131-232 | Search | Help
131-233/333 "Roman History: 500 Years of Oligarchy" appears differently in several places - choose the one you want:
1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p100) : Next:131-234 | Prev:131-232
Credit points: 16.7 2nd and 3rd years
Coordinator: Associate Professor R T Ridley.
Prerequisite: Normally, 25 points of first year History.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial a week.
Timetable: First semester
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to: confront the reconstruction of crucial events in history remote from the present; practise the unravelling of history which has been swamped with political or religious controversy and propaganda; provide a sound acquaintance with the culture of the golden ages of Rome; build on first year subjects, to refine methods of source criticism and essay writing; and continue the investigation of the theory and method of history.
Content:
From the Monarchy to the beginning of the Principate. There are few systems of government as long-lived as the 500 years of old Roman oligarchy which governed the Republic. What were the secrets of its power? How and why did it conquer the Mediterranean world? Why did it fall to autocracy?
Assessment:
Tutorial participation (10%), one essay of 3,000 words (50%), either a 3-hour paper or a research essay (40%).
1. History, Faculty of Arts (v3, p100) : Next:131-234 | Prev:131-232
2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p126) : Next:131-234 | Prev:131-232
Credit points: 16.7
Coordinator: Associate Professor R T Ridley.
Contact: Two 1-hour lectures and a 1-hour tutorial each week.
Timetable: First semester.
Objectives:
On completion of this subject students should be able to: confront the reconstruction of crucial events in history remote from the present; practise the unravelling of history which has been swamped with political or religious controversy and propaganda; provide a sound acquaintance with the culture of the golden ages of Rome; build on first year subjects, to refine methods of source criticism and essay writing; and continue the investigation of the theory and method of history.
Content:
From the Monarchy to the beginning of the Principate. There are few systems of government as long-lived as the 500 years of old Roman oligarchy which governed the Republic. What were the secrets of its power? How and why did it conquer the Mediterranean world? Why did it fall to autocracy?
Assessment:
Tutorial participation (10 per cent); one essay of 3,000 words (50 per cent); either a 3-hour paper or a research essay (40 per cent).
* Note that ASSESSMENT, CONTACT, POINTS differs from the maintainer's version above. A log of variations is available.
2. History, Faculty of Educ(Parkville) (v5, p126) : Next:131-234 | Prev:131-232
Status: Official 1996 Date created: Oct 9 1995 Last modified: Oct 9 1995 Authorised by: Academic Registrar Email enquiries: Course_Information@registrar.unimelb.edu.au
Maintained by: Dept. of History, Faculty of Arts.
Copyright © University of Melbourne 1995,1996.