Undergraduate - UnitATS2349 - The golden age of Athens

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 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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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	Archaeology and Ancient History
Offered	Clayton Second semester 2015 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Dr Gillian Bowen

Synopsis

The unit focuses upon Athens during the 5th century BCE, the period when, in a burst of creativity, her citizens attained their greatest achievements. The unit offers an historical framework within which to explore aspects of Greek culture: literature, drama, art and architecture, religion and philosophy, and the Athenians system of government. The subject incorporates a wide selection of primary source material. Students will be encouraged to identify ways in which Athenian culture has impacted upon the western world.

Outcomes

On successful completion of the unit students will have acquired:

a knowledge of the historical context within which 5th century Athens flourished
An understanding of the process by which Athens established an empire which, in turn, facilitated her innovative artistic and cultural achievements
An understanding of the principles of Greek art, architecture, and rhetoric, the underlying concepts of philosophy and religion, the nature of Greek historiography, the Athenian concept of radical democracy and its variance in western ideals
Critical and analytical skills, which enable the application of textual, epigraphic, archaeological, and numismatic methodologies
Communication skills through debates and a mock ekklesia meeting.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Gillian Bowen

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Ancient cultures
History

Prerequisites

Twelve credit points of first-year Arts units.

Prohibitions

ATS3349