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DRPS : Course Catalogue : School of History, Classics and Archaeology : Postgraduate (History, Classics and Archaeology)

Postgraduate Course: Running the Roman Empire (online) (PGHC11501)

Course Outline
SchoolSchool of History, Classics and Archaeology CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate)
Course typeOnline Distance Learning AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryIt is one of the oldest questions in the study of ancient history: How could the Romans run an empire that encompassed all of modern Europe and much of the modern Near East, with the institutional apparatus of a city-state? The course will approach the question from different perspectives. Its focus will be on the interplay between administrative and ideological aspects.
Course description It is one of the oldest questions in the study of ancient history: How could the Romans run an empire that encompassed all of modern Europe and much of the modern Near East, with the institutional apparatus of a city-state? The course will approach the question from different perspectives. Its focus will be on the interplay between administrative and ideological aspects in the time between Augustus and the reforms of Diocletian (27 BCE - 284 CE). We will discuss the institutions that made Roman rule possible, approaching each of them from the perspective of a) the central government that invented them, and b) the provincials that filled them with meaning.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Through screencasts, and self-study, gain a broad understanding of the history of the Roman Empire.
  2. Demonstrate, by way of coursework, an ability to read, analyse and reflect critically upon relevant scholarship and popular debates about the rise, fall and management of the Roman Empire.
  3. Demonstrate, by way of coursework, an ability to understand, evaluate and utilise a variety of primary source material and theoretical approaches.
  4. Demonstrate, by way of coursework, the ability to develop and sustain scholarly arguments in oral and written form, by formulating appropriate questions and utilising relevant evidence.
  5. Transfer the knowledge gained in this course to other imperial formations in world history, and evaluate general debates about the nature of "empire" and "imperialism" throughout the ages.
Reading List
C. Ando, Imperial Rome AD 193 to 284, Edinburgh 2012.

M. Goodman, The Roman World 44 BC-AD 180, London 1997.

O. Hekster, Rome and its Empire, AD 193-284, Edinburgh 2008.

B. Levick, The Government of the Roman Empire. A Sourcebook, 2nd ed. New York 2000
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserDr Kimberley Czajkowski
Tel: (0131 6)50 9110
Email: k.czajkowski@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Lindsay Scott
Tel: (0131 6)50 9948
Email: Lindsay.Scott@ed.ac.uk
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