AH521 THEMES ON ANCIENT DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE

Course Objectives

Providing students an in-depth knowledge and necessary methodological and theoretical background of research and  literature to undertake studies on ancient Greek and Roman domestic architecture and daily life, and to develop their skills of critical reading, discussion, writing and interdisciplinary research.

Course Content

This seminar course is a critical survey of domestic architecture and daily life in ancient Greek and Roman periods in an interdisciplinary framework through thematic readings. Weekly readings and discussions focus on themes and concepts like house, home, space, privacy, luxury, leisure, gender, art and consumption to highlight how private space was designed, decorated, populated and used in antiquity.

Course Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, the student will be able to:

Knowledge

- demonstrate knowledge of relevant literature, theories and methodologies in the historiography of ancient domestic achitecture 

- demonstrate knowledge of interdisciplinary approaches on studying ancient domestic architecture

-  apply in-depth knowledge and skills acquired in the course in their individual research projects

Skills

- develop an advanced level of critical thinking and writing on architectural history topics

-  develop archival research skills for a critical understanding and evaluation of sources 

- develop critical skills that allow for an increasing degree of autonomy in individual research 

- display advanced skills in discursive communication and academic writing.

Attitudes

- develop awareness of the multi-disciplinary/multi-cultural nature of architectural history studies