COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ROMAN CIVIC ARCHITECTURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ARK 6072 ROMAN CIVIC ARCHITECTURE 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

Course looks at the civic architecture during the roman period.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   about the city planning
2   about the roman household
3   about the public buildings
4   about infastructure

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 introduction
2 The Roman city
3 Domus and the houses of the Roman Elite
4 Roman villa
5 Regional approaches to Roman House, Houses in Anatolia
6 Tombs in Roman Period
7 Water management and infastructure
8 midterm exam
9 Public space and monumentality
10 Public space and monumentality
11 Roman civil basilica
12 Roman stoa-basilica
13 Roman baths
14 regional approaches to Roman baths
15 midterm paper and discussion
16 final exam

Recomended or Required Reading


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

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)

Laurence, R.-­ Wallace-­ Hadrill, A. (1997) (eds.) Domestic Space in the Roman World: Pompeii and
Beyond, Journal of Roman Archaeology (Supplementary Series 22)

Helen Parkins, Christopher Smith - Trade, Traders and the Ancient City-Routledge (1998)

Arjan Zuiderhoek - The Ancient City-Cambridge University Press (2017)

Favro, D.C. (1996) The Urban Image of Augustan Rome, New York: Cambridge University Press

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.

Zanker,  P.  (1998)  Pompeii:  Public  and  Private  Life,  Cambridge,  MA:  Harvard  University  Press

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

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

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

presentation, 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 1-4 will be graded in midterm and final exams and a term paper.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

%70 attandance is mandatory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

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

Office Hours

thursday 14:00

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
Reading 10 2 20
Preparing presentations 11 3 33
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

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