Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Institute of Historical Studies
- Code
- MA-ERA-IHS-S-o2
- Title
- Ancient material culture
- Usual semester
- Autumn
- ECTS
- 8
- Language
- Description
- Learning outcomes
- The aim of the course is to introduce tools and contexts of everyday life to students.
- Course content
- They gain an overview of technologies available in different time periods and of tools (sometimes artistically) designed to assist people in various means of production, travelling, trade, etc. A part of the classes is held in museums to help students acquire practical knowledge on material culture.
- Assessment method
- Requirements and grades: attending, active participation, short presentation of a topic of your choice
- Bibliography
- Clarke, John. The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250. Berkeley, 1991. Richardson, L. Pompeii: An Architectural History. Baltimore, 1988. Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew. Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Princeton, 1994. Zanker, Paul. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Ann Arbor, 1990.
- Recommended bibliography
- Clarke, John. The Houses of Roman Italy, 100 B.C.-A.D. 250. Berkeley, 1991. Richardson, L. Pompeii: An Architectural History. Baltimore, 1988. Wallace-Hadrill, Andrew. Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Princeton, 1994. Zanker, Paul. The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus. Ann Arbor, 1990.