GRADING POLICY
-ASSESSMENT METHODS:
Assignment | Guidelines | Weight |
Academic participation | Discussion and exchange of ideas based on reading of material covered and of new material under investigation. | 10% |
Class presentation | Research presentation to class (10 mins) | 15% |
Short analytical paper | Research paper (4-5 pages) | 20% |
Mid-term exam | identifications, multiple choices, true-false, and short essays. | 25% |
Final exam | Like the midtmern | 30% |
-ASSESSMENT CRITERIA:
ASuperior work directly addresses the question or problem raised; provides a coherent argument displaying an extensive knowledge of relevant information; demonstrates the ability to critically evaluate concepts and theory; and has an element of originality. There is clear evidence of a significant amount of reading. BGood work is highly competent; directly addresses the question or problem raised; demonstrates some ability to critically evaluate theory and concepts and relate them to practice; and discussions reflect the student’s own arguments and are not simply a repetition of standard lecture and reference material. The work provides evidence of reading beyond the required assignments. CSatisfactory work provides answers that are clear but limited, reflecting the information offered in the lectures and reference readings only; it may have some significant structural flaw, absence of information or research background, or too casual and imprecise a treatment, or contain only a minimum of interpretation. DPoor work lacks a coherent grasp of the material; fails to support its argument with sufficient evidence; indicates a hasty or unconsidered preparation, and/or fails to fulfill the assignment in some way; omits important information and includes irrelevant points. FFailure work fails to show any knowledge or understanding of the issues raised in the question; most of the material in the answer is irrelevant.
-ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS:
Attendance will be taken at every
class.
More than 4 absences
regardless of the reason (that is missing more than 20% of the course) will
have you fail the class.
Absences due to lack of registration into the class at the beginning of
the semester count against the 4 absences as the student is still missing parts
of the course.
Every student who has accumulated
ONE or less absences (regardless of the reason – in this case late registration
is not counted) by the day of the midterm will be allowed to answer to the
extra credit questions on the midterm. Every student who has accumulated TWO or
less absences (regardless of the reasons) by the day of the final exam will be
allowed to answer to the extra credit questions on the final exam.
As from the university catalog:
“Attendance Policy"
Specific requirements for
attendance in any given course, except as described below, are the prerogative
of the instructor and will be stated in the course syllabus distributed by the
instructor at the beginning of the term.
The Dean’s Office may grant
exemptions from specific attendance policies in the case of a chronic medical
condition or other serious problem. Students seeking such an exemption must ask
a Dean as soon as they are aware of a situation impeding their required
attendance. Students who cannot meet the attendance requirements for a
particular class may be advised to withdraw from it.
Absences from major examinations
require a Dean’s Office excuse, insofar as the student may seek to take a
make-up exam. The Dean’s Office will only excuse such absences when they are
caused by serious impediments, such as a student’s own illness, hospitalization
or death in the immediate family (in which the student is attending the
funeral) or other situations of similar gravity. Absences due to other
meaningful conflicts, such as job interviews, family celebrations, travel
difficulties, student misunderstandings or personal convenience, will not be
excused. Students seeking such an excuse must notify their instructor, or
the Dean’s Office, as soon as possible, and no later than the beginning of the
exam.
Absences from class due to the
observance of a religious holiday will normally be excused. Individual
students who will have to miss class to observe a religious holiday must notify
their instructors by the end of the Add/Drop period (during the first week of
classes). Students missing a class for this reason also must make prior
arrangements with their instructor to make up any work.
Exams -
Absences and Makeups
Instructors may, at their
discretion, give makeups on quizzes or other less important graded work to
students absent without an official excuse. However, because make-up exams
require new exams to be prepared, written and proctored at times outside the
regular class period, major examinations (midterms, finals) may only be
re-administered with approval from the Dean’s Office.
A student absent from a class
meeting in which a major examination has been scheduled, who wishes to
make-up that exam, must ask the Dean’s Office for an official excuse. Such
absence will be excused only if the student:
- has notified the Dean’s Office or his or her
instructor of his or her inability to attend before the beginning of
the class meeting in which the examination was scheduled;
- subsequently presents to the Dean’s Office with
documented evidence of a serious difficulty preventing
attendance.
Serious difficulties
entitling a student to make-up a missed exam include a student’s own illness,
hospitalization or death in the immediate family (in which the student is
attending the funeral) or other situations of similar gravity. Missed
exams owing to other meaningful conflicts, such as job interviews, family
celebrations, travel plans or difficulties, student misunderstandings, alarm
clock failure, or personal convenience, will not be excused.”
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01 class.
Mon. May 21
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Introduction to the course.
Content: Course requirements, logistics, etc. Course-work:
academic and study resources[MB1] .
Meeting point: JCU, Guarini Campus, GK11
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02 class.
Tues. May 22
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Mythological and topographical origins
Content: Early Rome between Etruria and Magna Grecia; building
materials and orders. Tiber Island; Forum Boarium; Circus Maximus; Palatine
and Capitoline Hills
Meeting point: JCU, Guarini Campus, GK11.
Assigned reading: Claridge
2010: 4-9 (history), 39-44 (stones), 52-54 (orders), 124 (Palatine), 257-8
(Tiber island), 259-61 (Capitoline) 285-8 (Forum Boarium), 299-300 (Circus
Maximus). Tuck: Chapter 1.
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03 class.
Wed. May 23
Capitoline Museums
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Regal and early Republican Rome: memory and
politics
Content: Forum Romanum: arena for civic identity and the survival
of Regal period monuments; Forum Romanum (Temple of Vesta; Temple of Saturn);
Palatine (Romulus); Capitoline (Temple of Jupiter Capitolinus).
Meeting point: statue of M. Aurelius in Piazza Campidoglio 1.
(Claridge 2010: fig 109).
Assigned reading: Claridge
2010: 5-10 (history), 63-66 (Forum), 71-77 (Senate + Black Stone), 83-84
(Saturn), 94-95 (Castor), 105-10 (Vesta), 125-6, 131-4 (Palatine), 259-61,
268-70 (Capitoline); Tuck:
Chapter 2: 29-36.
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04 class.
Thur. May 24
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Republican Rome: honor and politics
Content: Republican period expansion; the military triumph; Forum
Boarium (Round temple; Temple of Portunus), Circus Flaminius area (victory
temples, Portico of Metellus).
Meeting point: round temple of the forum boarium (tempio di Ercole Vincitore) Piazza
della Bocca della Verita’.
Assigned reading: CLARIDGE
2010: 5-10 (history), 250-1, 253-6, 275-82 (Circus Flaminius area); TUCK: Chapter 3: 63-64 (Fabii tomb),
65 (feature box), 69-70 (Brutus), 80-83 (Temple of Portunus, Round Temple).
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05 class.
Mon. May 28
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Late Republican Rome: competition and
influence
Content: Late Republican Rome and the Hellenistic world: victory
temples at Largo Argentina; Theatre of Pompey. Museo Barraco. Piazza Navona.
Meeting point: Largo
Argentina, in front of the shop “Azienda tessile Romana”, where the cat
sanctuary is located.
Assigned reading: Claridge
2010: 9-12 (history), 55-60 (building types),; 197-204 (Fields of Mars), 239-46
(Theatre of Pompey, victory temples); AICHER: ch. 86 (theater Pompey). Tuck: Chapter 4:78-83, 85 (featured
box), 92-93 (theater complex of Pompey).
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06 class.
Tues. May 29
The Roman Forum
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Late Republican Rome: monumentalizing the
city
Content: Late Republican Rome and the Hellenistic world:
triumphal displays; Rome as a world city? Forum Romanum and Forum of Caesar.
Meeting point: biglietteria
Foro Romano, Largo della Salara Vecchia, 5/6. located between Piazza Venezia
and the Colosseum (Claridge
2010: figs 1, 60).
Assigned reading: Claridge
2010: 9-12 (history), 63-71 (Roman Forum), 71-75 (Senate), 75-78 (black
stone), 85-86 (Rostra), 92-93 (Basilica Giulia), 100-3 (Temple of Deified
Caesar), 161-9 (Forum of Caesar); AICHER ch. 43 (temple of deified Caesar)
ch. 73 (Forum of Caesar); Tuck:
93-94 (Forum of Caesar).
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07 class.
Wed. May 30
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Augustus: a celebration of power and
benefaction.
Themes/works: Forum of
Augustus; Pantheon and building works of Agrippa; Temple of Apollo Sosianus; Augustan
painted interiors; Houses of Augustus and Livia; Temple of Apollo Palatinus
Actiacus; Statue of Augustus of Prima Porta.
Meeting point: JCU, Guarini, GK11
Assigned reading: Claridge
2010: 12-15 (history), 51-52 (interior decoration) 177-80 (Forum of Augustus),
277-279 (Apollo Sosianus); 135-142 (House of Augustus and Livia), 142-145 (Temple
of Apollo Palatinus); AICHER ch. 62 (House of Augustus), ch. 74 (Forum of
Augustus); Tuck, Chapter 5:
124-127 (Forum of Augustus); 128-130 (t. of Apollo Palatinus), 130-132 (house
of Augustus).
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08 class.
Thurs May 31
Museum of the Ara Pacis
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Augustus: a celebration of peace
Content: The creation of the principate: the princeps as role
model; senators as stakeholders in a new order. Mausoleum of Augustus; Ara
Pacis Augustae; Horologium Augusti;
Meeting point: entrance
to the “Museo dell’Ara Pacis Augustae”, Piazza Augusto Imperatore (Claridge 2010: fig 77).
Assigned reading: Claridge
2010: 12-15 (history), 44-51 (concrete and exterior finishing), 204-207
(Mausoleum of Augustus), 207-214 (Ara Pacis), 214-217 (Augustan obelisk). AICHER
ch. 95 (altar of Augustan peace), ch. 96 (Mausoleum of Augustus). Tuck: Chapter 5:118-124 (Augustus
mausoleum and ara).
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09 class.
Mon. June 4
Palatine Hill
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Nero and the Flavians: the imperial palace
Content: The emperor and Rome: articulating imperial status;
positive and negative role models: Nero, Vespasian, Domitian. Domus Aurea,
Arch of Titus; Palace of Domitian (and Severan extensions)
Meeting point: ticket office for the Palatine Hill,
Via di San Gregorio, 30. (Claridge
2010: figs 36 [labeled exit]).
Assigned reading: Claridge
2010: 16-18 (history), 121-123 (Arch of Titus); 125-126 (Palatine hill);
145-56 (Domitian’s Palace); 301-6 (Domus Aurea), 306 (Colossus). AICHER ch.
65 (Palace of Domitian); 68 (Domus Aurea). Tuck,
Chapter 6:167-170 (Domus Aurea), Chapter 7:201-202 (arch of Titus), 205-209
(Palace of Diocletian).
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10 class.
Tue. June 5
Museum of Palazzo Massimo
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Late Republic and early Imperial Rome:
portraits of power
Content: Roman portrait traditions: late Republic to Flavians;
impact of Greek and freedmen traditions;. Republican veristic and Augustan
and Flavian and Hadrianic portraiture; Statue of general from Tivoli; statue
of Augustus from Via Labicana; freedmen relief.
Meeting point: entrance
of the Museum “Palazzo Massimo”, Largo di Villa Perpetti (near Termini
station ) (Claridge 2010: fig
180).
Assigned reading: Claridge
2010: 12-18 (History). Tuck:
108-12 (Late republican portraits), 114-117 (portraits of Augustus), 147(Tiberius
and Caligula portraits), 157-158 (portraits of Claudius), 164 (portraits of
Nero), 181 (Flavian portraiture), 197-199 (Domitian portraiture).
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11 class.
Wed. June 6
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Flavian rebuilding of Rome
Content: The emperor and Rome: Vespasian, Domitian; Hadrian.
Templum Pacis, Flavian amphitheater, Forum Transitorium; San Clemente
Meeting point: statue
of M. Aurelius in Piazza Campidoglio 1.
Assigned reading: Claridge
2010: 17-21 (history), 82-83 (Temple of Vespasian and Titus); 170-4 (Temple
of Peace), 174-76 (Forum of Nerva); 312-9 (Colosseum); 319-232 (San Clemente).
AICHER ch 70 (Colosseum). Tuck,
Chapter 7: 182-186 (Colosseum, Bath of Titus).
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12 class.
Thur. June 7.
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Trajan: the emperor and the Empire
Content: Depictions of war and peace in the 2nd cent. AD;
depicting non-Romans, depicting empire. Forum and Column of Trajan; Markets
of Trajan
Meeting point: column of Trajan, Via dei Fori
Imperiali (Claridge 2010:
fig 60).
Assigned reading: Claridge
2010: 18-21 (history), 180-186 (Forum of Trajan) 186-192 (Column of Trajan)
193-196 (markets of Trajan). AICHER ch. 78 (f. Traian), 79 (c. of Traian), 80
(t. of Traian). Tuck, Chapter
8:213-219 (Adopted portraiture and Forum of Traian), 225-228 (column of
Traian).
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13 class.
Mon. June 11.
Pantheon visit.
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Hadrianic period: imperial benefaction
Content: Depicting Rome as a world city: Hadrian; Hadrianeum;
Pantheon; Mausoleum of Hadrian, Temple of Venus and Rome.
Meeting point: the
street behind the Pantheon, Via della Palombella 19-30.
Assigned reading: Claridge
2010: 18-21 (history), 118-123 (temple of Venus and Rome); 197-204 (Campus
Martius), 223-226 (Hadrianeum); 226-232 (Pantheon + basilica Neptuni),
410-415 (Mausoleum of Hadrian). AICHER ch. 90 (Pantheon), 97 (mausoleum of
Hadrian). Tuck, Chapter 8: 219-221
(Pantheon).
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14 class.
Tues. June 12
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MIDTERM
Meeting point: JCU, Guarini, GK11.
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15 class.
Wed. June 13
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Marcus Aurelius: the emperor and the Empire
Content: Depictions of ideal leadership in the 2nd cent. AD.
Column of Antoninus Pius, Temple of Antoninus and Faustina, Column of Marcus
Aurelius; Equestrian statue of M. Aurelius.
Meeting point: column
of Marcus Aurelius[MB2] , Piazza Colonna
(Claridge 2010: fig 77:9).
Assigned reading: Claridge
2010: 18-21 (history); 111-113 (Temple of Antoninus and Faustina ); 197-204
(Campus Martius); 216-217 (Column of A. Pius), 218-221 (Column of M.
Aurelius), 266-267 (statue of M. Aurelius). TUCK: 247-249 (Antonine
Portraiture), 253-257 (columns of MA and AP).
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16 class.
Thur. June 14
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The Severans: making a new Rome
Content: Depicting dynasty and history; restoring a new Rome.
Arch of Septimius Severus, Temple of Vesta, Arch of the Argentarii. Forma
Urbis.
Meeting point: statue
of M. Aurelius in Piazza Campidoglio 1. (Claridge 2010: fig 109).
Assigned reading: Claridge
2010: 21-24 (history), 78-79 (Arch of S. Severus), 105-106 (temple of Vesta);
173 (Marble plan); 292-3 (Arch of the Argentarii); 294 (S. Giorgio al
Velabro). AICHER ch. 45 (arch of S.S.), 114 (arch of Argentarii). TUCK:
284-287 (arches of Septimius and of Argentarii); 292-295 (Forma Urbis).
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17 class.
Mon. June 18
Capitoline Museums (2nd visit)
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2nd-4th century AD: The imperial image
Content: Portraiture and imperial leadership: tradition and
innovation; Portraiture: Commodus, Septimius Severus, Caracalla, Constantine;
Meeting point: the
statue of M. Aurelius in Piazza Campidoglio 1. (Claridge 2010: fig 109)
Assigned reading: Claridge
2010: 18-29 (history), 461-468 (Capitoline Museums); Kleiner 1992: 273-277
(Portraits of Commodus). TUCK: 251 (Commodus portraiture); 275-269 (Severan
portraiture); 336-337 (Constantine portraiture).
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18 class.
Tue. June 19
Baths of Caracalla[MB3] , Museum of the City-walls [MB4]
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The Severans: water, bathing and popular
luxury
Content: Baths of Caracalla, Septizodium; Aurelian Walls.
Meeting point: Ticket
office of the Baths of Caracalla, Largo Cavalieri di Colombo.
Assigned reading: Claridge
2010: 21-24 (history), 61(fortifications); 356 (Septizodium); 357-365 (Baths
of Caracalla); 369-371 (Appia Gate and museum of the walls). AICHER ch. 5
(Aurelian walls), 130 (baths of Caracalla).
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19 class.
Wed. June 20
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Tetrarchs to Constantine: a Roman Rome
Content: Imperial rule and Roman history; art quoting history;
triumph and tradition; a new role for the emperor in Rome? Arch of Constantine;
Basilica of Maxentius; the Lateran Basilica.
Meeting point: Arch
of Constantine on Via di San Gregorio, .
Assigned reading: Claridge
2010: 25-29 (history), 78-79, 85-87, 115-7 (monuments in the Forum), 308-12
(Arch of Constantine), 373-377 (Lateran Basilica). AICHER: ch. 71 (arch of
Constantine), 55 (Basilica of Constantine). TUCK: 341-356 (arch of
Constantine)
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20 class.
Thur. June 21
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Visualizing the city / Review class
Content: Review of themes, monuments and artworks discussed in
class
Meeting point: JCU,
Guarini, GK11
Assigned reading: Course reader: page 9 – identify all monuments
discussed in this course. Pose 3-5 questions, based on your revision study,
for which you would like clarification and further detail.
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21 class.
Fri. June 22
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Final exam
Meeting point: JCU, Guarini, GK11
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