AH5165 The Classical Tradition

Academic year

2024 to 2025 Semester 2

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 11

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Planned timetable

TBC

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Module coordinator

Dr G Kouneni

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Module Staff

Team-taught

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Module description

The module examines the role of ancient civilisation in shaping the arts and ideas of later culture. The topics expand from the Middle Ages to the present day, effectively spanning the main period divisions of art history. A variety of selective studies presents ways in which classical culture was understood and exploited in different cultural environments. Broadly oriented geographically and chronologically, the module considers definitions of the classical, permutations and appropriations of classical forms and ideals, as well as changing attitudes to the classical past.

Assessment pattern

Coursework = 100%

Re-assessment

An essay of 3,000 words

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1.5-hour seminar (x 11 weeks) and occasional fieldwork

Scheduled learning hours

17

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

282

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • understand ways in which ancient texts, ideas and material culture have been interpreted, used and reworked by subsequent writers, thinkers, artists and societies
  • identify and analyse the use of classical types and themes in later art
  • gain knowledge of the main theoretical debates in the field of reception studies
  • read critically and discriminate between scholarly differences of opinion
  • converse in a group about a given subject
  • present independent ideas orally or in writing