Unit Principles of Ancient History
- Course
- Primary teacher education
- Study-unit Code
- A001981
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Rita Lizzi
- Teachers
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- Rita Lizzi
- Giulia Marconi
- Hours
- 30 ore - Rita Lizzi
- 18 ore - Giulia Marconi
- CFU
- 8
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2021
- Offered
- 2021/22
- Learning activities
- Caratterizzante
- Area
- Discipline storiche
- Academic discipline
- L-ANT/03
- Type of study-unit
- Obbligatorio (Required)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Italian
- Contents
- How to teach ancient history, starting with the local history and addressing issues of interest for the civic education of the student. Institutions, culture and religion of the great civilisations of the ancient Mediterranean and of Rome from the eighth century BC to the sixth century AD.
- Reference texts
- – A manual:
G. Geraci-A.Marcone, Storia Romana, Le Monnier 2006
Not attending students will have to add a volume to be chosen from:
A. Giardina, L’uomo romano, Laterza 2000
A. Marcone, Augusto, Salerno Editrice 2017
A. Marcone, Giuliano, Salerno Editrice 2019
L. Fezzi, Pompeo, Salerno Editrice 2019 - Educational objectives
- The main knowledges and competences that students will acquire:
- The major events in the history of Pre-Roman and Roman Italy, of Rome in the Republican age, during the Principatus and the Roman Empire, with attention to the diachronic development of events in reference to a geographical framework, constantly compared to modern Europe
- Ancient political institutions (city state, polis, colonies, federal organizations and confederations, provinciae, Empire) and their functioning (popular assemblies with legislative, electoral and judicial rights, republican magistrates, the princeps, the dominus and his officials in the Court and in the provinces of Late Antiquity)
- economic and social issues of Antiquity
- Religious evolution from polytheism to Christianity - Prerequisites
- To follow the lessons of this course, students must have the basic knowledge of Roman history and ancient civilization, which generally is acquired in a good high school.
- Teaching methods
- The course is organized as follows:
- Lectures that will cover all the issues and problems related to Roman History
-Relations held by students with didactic finalities - Other information
- The course will be held in the first semester and is expected to start at the beginning of October 2021.
Lessons will be given at: Palazzo Florenzi, piazza Ermini - Learning verification modality
- The exam consists of two written tests, held at the end of the course (in December and January) on the program indicated, and a final oral exam (the dates laid down by calendar) which consists of the discussion of a teaching unit, or of an educational path, to be presented in written form at the time of the oral exam. In special conditions, the two written tests may be replaced by a written report with footnotes and a final bibliography. The oral test is used to ascertain the level of knowledge attained by the student, his ability to summarize the main historical issues addressed during the course and to present them in a well-defined classroom. The duration of the test varies depending on the performance of the student.
- Extended program
- The course will be organized in the institutional way, so that it will examine the events and major issues of the History of the great civilisations of the ancient Mediterranean with particular reference to the institutional and political development of ancient Rome, looking at how such a small town was able to conquer an empire as big as the present Europe and to govern it effectively, administering it for many centuries. Specific attention will also be devoted to the teaching of ancient history, to actuality of its teaching and how to connecting local present history with its Roman traditions