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UNIVERSITY OF LONDONM.A. Courses in:
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The list of courses given below is as accurate as is possible, but provision of courses is subject to demand, and courses may have to be withdrawn or added if necessary. Updates to the courses on offer will be posted on the website at the earliest opportunity.
'Dedicated M.A. course' means 100% M.A. teaching.
'B.A./M.A. course' normally means a 50/50 package.
'B.A./M.A. course, subject to numbers' normally means a 50/50 package unless the numbers of M.A. takers make it appropriate to arrange a separate M.A. group.
* indicates a dedicated M.A. course.
+ indicates a language-testing or language-acquisition course for M.A. Classics.
All courses are coded K - if taught exclusively at King's College London; M or CLASM - if following a common syllabus shared between colleges; CL or HS - if taught exclusively at Royal Holloway, University of London; CLASU, CLASG or HISTG - if taught exclusively at University College London; or MB - if they are taken from the M.A. in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies.
The aim of the course is to acquaint students of archaeology with the wide
range of research tools available to them, and to encourage their regular
use in research work. Students will be encouraged to develop a critical approach
to the primary literature in their fields of study, and to be aware of the
range of analytical approaches adopted at various points in the history of
the discipline. Attention will be paid to the development of the writing skills
necessary for advanced research work.
Dedicated M.A. course.
Not formally assessed; no coursework requirements. Attendance is required of candidates registered for Classical Art and Archaeology.
Teachers: Various contributors, and a designated coordinator - to be confirmed.
Teaching: one two-hour class weekly for ten weeks (first term), taken by one or two academic staff expert in the field from one of the Colleges of the University, or from the British Museum, and chaired by the coordinator. Supplementary bibliography will be provided.
Meetings will take place in Senate House, Thursdays 11.00-13.00, in room NG 14; the first class will be on 2/10/08; the class on 11/12/08 will be in ST 273 from 10.00-12.00.
[Pre-approved course from M.A. in Archaeology]
This course explores the societies of the Aegean c.3000-1100 BC within the framework of the wider Mediterranean and Near Eastern world. Particular emphasis is placed on the emergence and attributes of Minoan and Mycenaean palatial cultures and economies.
Dedicated M.A. course.
Assessment by three essays totalling 10,000 words.
Teacher: Dr Cyprian Broodbank (Institute of Archaeology, UCL).
Meetings on Thursdays from 2-4 pm in room B13 (Institute of Archaeology) in Term 1, and on Thursdays from 9-11 in Term 2; Masters students doing this course may also be able to sit in on the undergraduate lecture series which runs in the same room on Thursdays, 9-11am, in Term 1.
A topographical and archaeological study of the second century A.D. writer Pausanias'
Periegesis tes Ellados with particular reference to Attica, Olympia and Delphi.
As well as the life and work of Pausanias, the course will cover the literary, political, and social
background to the relations between Greece, Asia Minor and Rome, including the Second Sophistic and
the Panhellenion.
The course enables students to bring together two different areas of Classical studies, by developing
an understanding of ancient sites and their associated art and architecture by close study of a
contemporary literary source. Although the text is read in English, problems of translation are
discussed with reference to the Greek, enabling those familiar with the language to use their skills.
Dedicated M.A. course.
Set text: the text prescribed for study is Pausanias, Guide to Greece, trans. Peter Levi (Penguin, 1971). Students must provide themselves with this text. The whole work will be read in translation, and detailed study will concentrate on: Attica, Book I. 1-38; Olympia, Books V and VI. 1-21.3; Delphi, Book X. 5-32.1.
Assessment: three essays of 4,000 words each.
Teachers: Dr K. W. Arafat (KCL)
Meetings: Two-hours weekly throughout the year at time to be arranged. Preparation of a section of text will be expected for all classes, and all students will be required to give presentations.
Dedicated M.A. course.
Assessment: three essays of 4,000 words each.
Teacher: Dr Ellen Adams (KCL)
Meetings: a weekly two-hour lectures for all students on Mondays from 14.00-16.00 in room B6 of the Classics Department, and a weekly one-hour seminar for M.A. students only, times to be arranged.
This course covers a broad area of production of Greek pottery between c.850 and 300 BC, and deals with many aspects of its study, from technical to archaeological and artistic; the topic of Greek painting is also included in the field. The basic series of lectures is supplemented by a weekly seminar session, often at the British Museum
B.A./M.A. course.
Assessment: three essays of 4,000 words each.
Teachers: Dr K W Arafat (KCL)
Two-hours a week lectures for all students, times to be arranged, and a weekly one-hour seminar for M.A. students only, times to be arranged.
[Pre-approved course from M.A. in Archaeology]
This course aims to introduce students to major theoretical perspectives in the history, sociology and anthropology of art and to questions of theoretical logic in art history writing in the context of a course dedicated to the consideration of problems in Greco-Roman art and the historiography of classical art. Topics to be considered will range from the social origins of classical art history as a discipline to the place of the classical tradition in a post-modern world. Theoretical traditions considered will include: German idealism, structuralism, Marxism, reception theory, psychoanalysis.
Dedicated M.A. course.
Assessment by three essays totalling 10,000 words.
Teacher: Dr Jeremy Tanner (Institute of Archaeology, UCL).
Meetings: provisonally Tuesday from 4-6 pm - Institute of Archaeology. Please contact Dr Tanner for full details.
The course will offer a study of the topography of the city of Rome and its
value as evidence for Roman political, social and cultural history.
Schedule of weekly topics
1. Roman topography: the shape of the ancient city (AC)
2. The city in Roman history: (NBR)
3. Palatine & Capitoline Hills (AC)
4. Palatine and Capitoline in Roman history (NBR)
5. Mausolea, Columbaria and the Via Appia (AC)
6. Field trip to Rome: Forum, Imperial forums, Palatine, Capitoline, Campus
Martius, Colosseum Valley, Domus Aurea, Walls, Tomb of Scipios, Via Appia,
Ostia
7. The Hellenization of Rome (NBR)
8. Forums of Rome (AC)
9. campus Martius (AC)
10. domus and insulae (AC)
11. Walls, camps and triumphs (NBR)
B.A./M.A. course.
Course textbooks:
Aicher P. Rome Alive: a Source-Guide to the Ancient City volume I
(Bochalzy-Carducci 2004)
Claridge A. Rome. An Oxford archaeological guide (Oxford University
Press 1998)
Edwards C. Writing Rome. Textual approaches to the city (Cambridge
University Press 1996)
Assessment: 1 formative gobbet exercise and three essays of 4,000 words each.
Teachers: Dr Amanda Claridge and Prof. Boris Rankov (RHUL).
Meeting: First Term only:
30 hours in class: a lecture (1 hour), on Wednesdays 12.00 noon - 1.00 p.m.,
beginning on 1/10/08, and a seminar, time to be arranged, each week + intensive
5-day study visit to Rome (Reading Week 1st Term).
STUDY VISIT TO ROME
Everyone pays for their own return flight, accommodation (which will be arranged,
with a hotel in the centre of the city, as cheaply as possible), food and
local transport (buses/metro). Entry to sites and museums will be free. Total
cost (depending on cheapness of flights) around £350-400.