Overview
Lecturer
Cristian Ioan Popa
Seminar tutor
Ovidiu Ghenescu
Type of course
Compulsory
Language of instruction
Romanian
Erasmus language
English
Domain
History
Field of study
History
Form of education
Full-time
Form of instruction
Class
Credit awarded by
Grade
Teaching methods
Lecture, conversation, exemplification, presentation of papers, discussions.
Entry requirements
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Aims
Developing skills of analysis and interpretation of historical data.
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Course contents
The emergence agricultural civilizations in Mesopotamia (10000-3000 BC.).
Ancient Egypt.
The Hittites.
Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations.
Greece in VII-VI century BC.
Greece Classical Age.
Rise Kingdom Macedonia.
The beginnings of Roman civilization.
Rome during Republic.
Reorganization of the central power of Augustus.
Roman Empire (Part I).
Roman Empire (Part II).
Roman Empire (Part III).
Roman Empire (Part IV).
Learning outcomes
retrieval of written sources on the historical past;
establishing historical facts on the basis of historical sources and outside of these;
oral and written presentation in English of the specific discipline knowledge;
the concrete production of new historical knowledge on the basis of deeper insights within the study of an epoch and/or of a medium complexity historical subject.
Assessment
Participation, oral examination.
Recommended reading
Aries, Philippe, Georges Duby (general editors), A History of private life. Volume I: from pagan Rome to Bizantium, Cambridge, 1987.
Boardman, John, Jasper Griffin, Oswyn Murray, The Oxford History of Greece & the Hellenistic World, Oxford University Press, 2002.
Borrelli, Federica, Maria Cristina Targia, Stefano Peccatori, Stefano Zuffi, The Etruscans: art, architecture, and history, J. Paul Getty Museum, 2004.
Camp, John, Elizabeth Fisher, The World of the Ancient Greeks, Thames & Hudson, 2010.
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