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Undergraduate Course: Greek Art and Archaeology of the Hellenistic period (LLLA07059)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) Credits10
Home subject areaLifelong Learning (ECA) Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionTHIS IS A FOR-CREDIT ONLY COURSE OFFERED BY THE OFFICE OF LIFELONG LEARNING (OLL); ONLY STUDENTS REGISTERED WITH OLL SHOULD BE ENROLLED.

This course will focus on the major sites in the Hellenistic (4th - 1st centuries BC) world, examining both the archaeology and the art of the Athenian Agora, Sparta, Rhodes, Pergamon, Delos and the Macedonian sites of Pella and Vergina. This illustrated course will utilise the cast collection at the Edinburgh College of Art.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Summary of Intended Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course students will have the ability to:
Describe the key developments, both chronologically and stylistically, of the art and architecture of Hellenistic Greece
Understand and be able to discuss the archaeological contexts for the material culture interpreted as 'art'
Have a coherent understanding of social and political functions of the material
Participate constructively and effectively in group discussion
Have the ability to develop and articulate critical interpretations of material culture based on source material while utilising secondary sources.
Assessment Information
Open Studies 10 credit courses have one assessment. Normally, the assessment is a 2000 word essay, worth 100% of the total mark, submitted by week 12. To pass, students must achieve a minimum of 40%. There are a small number of exceptions to this model which are identified in the Studying for Credit Guide.
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Visual analysis of art and material culture
Comparative analysis
Critical analysis of material culture in archaeological and socio-political contexts
Communication of critical interpretations in a concise, lucid and coherent form
Reading list Boardman, J., 1996. Greek Art. London: Thames and Hudson.
Mee, C. and Spawforth, A., 2001. Greece (Oxford Archaeological Guides). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Whitley, J., 2001. The Archaeology of Ancient Greece. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMiss Loura Brooks
Tel: (0131 6)51 3200
Email: l.brooks@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Diane Mcmillan
Tel: (0131 6)50 6912
Email: D.McMillan@ed.ac.uk
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