Module overview
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- utilise and develop your time-management skills
- research historical questions and communicate your findings in written essays
- locate and effectively synthesize textual, visual and material culture sources to develop cogent arguments
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- Leadership under Alexander and his immediate successors
- Modes of political leadership in the last century of the Roman Republic
- The political changes brought about by Augustus as the first Roman emperor
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- recognize and assess different leadership styles in the ancient world
- critically analyse the effectiveness of these leaders
- identify and understand how these leaders changed the world in which they lived
Syllabus
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
Type | Hours |
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Preparation for scheduled sessions | 88 |
Completion of assessment task | 88 |
Lecture | 12 |
Wider reading or practice | 88 |
Workshops | 12 |
Seminar | 12 |
Total study time | 300 |
Resources & Reading list
Textbooks
Nathan Rosenstein and Robert Morstein-Marx (eds.) (2006). A Companion to the Roman Republic. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Steel, Catherine (2013). The end of the Roman Republic, 146-44BC: conquest and crisis. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Errington, M. (2008). A History of the Hellenistic World, 323-30 BC.. London: Blackwell Publishing.
Bosworth, A.B., (1988). Conquest and Empire: The Reign of Alexander the Great. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Carney, E. and D. Ogden, eds., (2010). Philip II and Alexander the Great. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Shipley, G. (2000). The Greek World after Alexander 323-30 BC.. London - New York: Routledge.
K. Galinsky (ed.). Cambridge Companion to the Age of Augustus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Anson, E.M., (2013). Alexander the Great: Themes and Issues. London: Bloomsbury.
Assessment
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 50% |
Essay | 50% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Resubmit assessments | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
Method | Percentage contribution |
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Written assignment | 50% |
Essay | 50% |
Repeat Information
Repeat type: Internal & External