COURSE UNIT TITLE

: URBANISM AND THE CITY IN ANTIQUITY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ARK 6139 URBANISM AND THE CITY IN ANTIQUITY ELECTIVE 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Archaeology

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR BURAK YOLAÇAN

Offered to

Archaeology

Course Objective

Investigating ancient cities in a comperative study.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   about emergence of cities
2   about city planning
3   about the fabric and the social constructs in cities
4   about the infastructure
5   about the economy and the hinterland

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 introduction
2 what is the city
3 city planning
4 the ideal city
5 the ideal city
6 city and identity
7 infastructure
8 midterm exam
9 public spaces of the city
10 public spaces of the city
11 administrative space of the city
12 religious space in the city
13 religious space in the city
14 city, economy and the hinterland
15 midterm paper and discussion
16 final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Harmanşah, Ö. (2013) Cities and the Shaping of Memory in the Ancient Near East, Cambridge University Press

Rice, T T.Everyday life in Byzantium. 1987 New York

Morley, N. (1996) Metropolis and Hinterland: The City of Rome and the Italian Economy 200 B.C. A.D. 200, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press

Ersoy, Akın. Büyük Iskender Sonrasında Antik Smyrna (Izmir), Izmir Büyükşehir Belediyesi Kent Kitaplığı 106, Izmir, 2015

Kafesçioğlu, Ç. Constantinopolis/Istanbul, 2009, Pennslyvania State University

Alcock, S. E. (1993) Graecia Capta: the landscapes of Roman Greece, Cambridge

Barker, G. and Lloyd, J., eds. (1991) Roman Landscapes: archaeological survey in the Mediterranean region, London (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome 2)

Erdkamp, P.Agriculture, Underemployment, and the Cost of Rural Labour in the Roman World. The Classical Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 2 (1999), pp. 556-572

Bradley, K. R. (1984) Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire: a study in social control, Brussels.

Urban Sociology Critical Essays, Edited By C.G. Pickvance,1976

Chisholm, M. (1968) Rural Settlement and Land Use: an essay in location, London

Pergamon Anadolu da Hellenistik Bir Başkent, Eds. Pirson, F. Schell, A. 2023

Hellenistik ve Roma Dönemlerinde Anadolu. Ed. Tekin, O. 2021

Thomas, Edmund, Monumentality and The Roman Empire: Architecture in the Antonine Age Oxford, 2007

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

presentations, discussion and term paper

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 PRS PRESENTATION
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + PRS * 0.30 + FIN * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + PRS * 0.30 + RST* 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

LO 1-5 will be graded in mid term, final exams and term paper.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

%70 attandence is mandatory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

burak.yolacan@deu.edu.tr
0 232 3018731

Office Hours

Thursday 13:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 11 3 33
Case study 3 3 9
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 2 2
Preparation for final exam 1 2 2
Preparing presentations 11 3 33
Reading 10 2 20
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 145

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6
LO.1555555
LO.2555555
LO.3555555
LO.4555555
LO.5555555

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