Undergraduate - UnitATS2612 - The Renaissance in Florence

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2012 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Monash Passport category	International Short Field Experience (Explore Program)
Offered	Overseas Summer semester A 2012 (Off-campus Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Peter Howard

Notes

Previously coded HSY2860

Synopsis

This intensive course of 4-week's duration departs from Melbourne in mid-November. It involves interdisciplinary study, conducted in the city itself, of the political, social and cultural history of Florence, from the late thirteenth to the early sixteenth centuries, with particular reference to the Renaissance period. Students who have not passed ATS1316 and ATS1317 should do the preliminary reading with great care.

Outcomes

Students successfully completing this unit will be expected to demonstrate:

A knowledge of the city of Florence itself - including its churches, palaces, museums, piazzas, monuments and streets - as an artefact of its complex history.
The development of the requisite skills to interpret the Renaissance aspects of that artefact within an historical framework.
Enhanced skills in the critical and analytical reading of a variety of texts, including contemporary documents, religious and polemical literature, historical scholarship, physical monuments and visual representations.
An acquaintance with the considerable body of knowledge that has been built up about late medieval and Renaissance Florence (in the context of Italian history in general).
A critical understanding of this fascinating society and its historiography.
The ability to use this knowledge (1, 3, 4, 5) and these skills (2) as a capital source for contributing to an understanding of the Renaissance city, its society and culture.