Latin MA
ROMAN ART CLASSIC4007
- Academic Session: 2026-27
- School: School of Humanities
- Credits: 20
- Level: Level 4 (SCQF level 10)
- Typically Offered: Semester 2
- Available to Visiting Students: Yes
- Collaborative Online International Learning: No
- Curriculum For Life: No
Short Description
This course introduces students to the art and architecture of late-republican and early-imperial Rome, and to current and earlier approaches to understanding it in its historical and social context.
Timetable
2 hours per week includes 16 lectures, 4 seminars
Excluded Courses
None
Co-requisites
None
Assessment
The standard assessments for this course are:
■ 2,000-word essay (40%)
■ 1.5-hour examination (60%)
If required, for instance where a disability prevents a student from undertaking a specific method of assessment, the following alternatives are available:
■ There are no alternatives to the assessments, but flexible deadlines/ extra time can be offered as reasonable adjustment (Students should follow the usual process for extensions).
Further reasonable adjustments may be provided where necessary. Students are encouraged to consult with the course convenor. 
Main Assessment In: April/May
Are reassessment opportunities available for all summative assessments? Not applicable
It is the default expectation that all courses will offer opportunities for reassessment or deferred assessment. Where it is not possible to offer this in some assessment components, the grade achieved at the first attempt will be counted towards the final course grade, and any exceptions for this course are described below.
[No exceptions]
Course Aims
This course will provide the opportunity to:
■ Introduce students to some of the major surviving art and architecture of the late Roman Republic and early Imperial period, and to some of the main problems of methodology and interpretation which attach to them
■ Introduce students of Classics to other approaches to understanding the society whose history and literature they study elsewhere
Intended Learning Outcomes of Course
By the end of the course students will be able to:
■ Apply detailed knowledge of primary material in all forms of assessment
■ Show in all forms of assessment an understanding of modern interpretative assessment
■ Compare, contrast, and evaluate competing interpretations
■ Apply at a level appropriate to the assignment, knowledge of modern secondary literature to the interpretation of primary material
■ Evaluate research, interpretative and argumentative skills in coursework essays
■ Present the results of investigation in seminars and to contribute effectively to discussion
■ Apply such essay skills as the Department has stipulated in the Honours Handbook