Towns and Cities of the Ancient World (ANCH528)

Learning outcomes

Upon completion of this unit, students will be able to:

1. conduct a postgraduate 500 level of independent research into the important features of the social, political, cultural, and architectural features of ancient towns and cities, thereby demonstrating pedagogical autonomy, well-developed judgement, and responsibility as a learner;
2. demonstrate a sophisticated and analytical understanding, and detailed conceptual knowledge, of the key themes concerning ancient towns and cities;
3. present a properly and meticulously documented argument addressing an historical problem or issue relating to an ancient town or city, demonstrating a detailed knowledge of the ancient evidence, and a careful, analytical, and critical approach towards it;
4. investigate, select, synthesise, critique and evaluate in detail complex ideas and arguments from modern sources, demonstrating a high level of critical awareness of modern scholarship on ancient towns and cities; and
5. demonstrate an ability to articulate and communicate in written form the main themes and intellectual problems involved in understanding ancient towns and cities by writing structured prose and framing arguments in the accepted manner of the discipline at a postgraduate level.