ECTS credits ECTS credits: 4.5
ECTS Hours Rules/Memories Student's work ECTS: 74.25 Hours of tutorials: 2.25 Expository Class: 18 Interactive Classroom: 18 Total: 112.5
Use languages Spanish, Galician
Type: Ordinary Degree Subject RD 1393/2007 - 822/2021
Center Faculty of Humanities
Call: Second Semester
Teaching: Sin Docencia (En Extinción)
Enrolment: No Matriculable (Sólo Planes en Extinción)
The aim of this subject is that the student acquires some basic knowledge on the city as historical and complex phenomenon throughout the Antiquity. Means this a domination of the basic facts about his evolution, his temporary and space location, the differences in each of the civilizations (Near East, Greece and Rome), the institutional aspects, his social and economic structures, as well as his physical elements. Equally the acquisition of a basic vocabulary, not only of historical terms that can be own in general of this matter, but also of those specific ones whose handling is essential.For everything that is essential an adequate knowledge and handling of the basic sources that us provide with our knowledge, especially the epigraphical and literary ones, but without forgetting the archeological ones, numismatics and papirological, as well as the problems that present. This will mean that the student must dominate the methods and techniques of analysis of the historical testimonies of the Antiquity, on which many of the theoretical classes will be based, and of course all the practices, the works that will have to carry out included.
1. THE BEGINNINGS OF THE CITY IN THE NEAR EAST.
2. THE GREEK POLIS: ORIGIN, CONCEPT, STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS.
3. THE TRANSFORMATIONS AND EXPANSSION OF THE POLIS IN THE GREEK WORLD: THE COLONIZATION.
4. THE CITY IN HELLENISTIC PERIOD.
5. ROME: FROM URBS TO CAPUT URBIS.
6. THE ROMAN PLANNING: CITY AND TERRITORY.
7. POMPEIS AS MODEL: URBANISM, THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAME, SOCIETY.
8. LUCUS AUGUSTI
AA.VV., Aspectos de la colonización y municipalización de Hispania, Mérida 1989
ABASCAL, J.M., ESPINOSA, U., La ciudad hispano-romana. Privilegio y poder, Logroño 1989
BOARDMAN, J., Los griegos en ultramar: comercio y expansión colonial antes de la era clásica, Madrid 1975.
CLAVEL-LEVEQUE, M., LEVEQUE, P., Villes et structures urbaines dans l’Occident Roman, París 1984.
T.J. Cornell, Los orígenes de Roma, Madrid, 1999,
DE POLIGNAC, F., La nascita della cittá greca. Milán 1991
HANSEN, M.H., (ed.) “The polis as Urban centre and as a Political Community”, Acts of the Conpehnaguen polis Centre 4, Conpehnaguen 1997
LIVERANI, M., Antiguo Oriente. Historia, sociedad, economía, Barcelona 2001.
LÓPEZ PAZ, P., : La ciudad romana ideal: el territorio, Santiago 1995
MARGUERON, J.C., Les Mesopotamiens, 2 vol., París 1991
ROUX, G., Mesopotamia. Barcelona 1998.
TORELLI, M., Los Etruscos, Barcelona 1998.
VV.AA., Lucus Augusti. Urbs romana. Los orígenes de la ciudad de Lugo, Lugo 1995
VV.AA, La muralla romana. Patrimonio de la Humanidad.; Lugo 2004.
WELWEI, K.W.: La polis greca, Bolonia 1988
Generals: the students must know how to apply his knowledge to his work or vocation in a professional way and to have the competences that tend to be proved by the elaboration and defense of arguments and the resolution of problems in the areas of the Humanities and of the Culture
Transversal: Adequate writing of texts, with the corresponding adjusted formal presentation to the ruling parameters today in the computer processors.
Specific: Elaboration of reasoned and critical comments of works and texts related to any area of the humanistic area; Skill in the elaboration, writing and presentation of a work written of elemental introduction to the research.
Part of the program will be exhibited in the theoretical classes in which audiovisual resources will be used (Power Point presentations with physical and political maps, plans, graphics and texts, as the topic requires). Documentary dossiers will also be used which, previously given to students, will allow them to better follow the explanation based on literary, epigraphic or archaeological sources.
Equally important will be interactive classes, in which students will have to analyse documentation provided in good time, or discussions will be held on a given topic. They seek to foster debate and interpersonal communication and to encourage critical reflection.
Extra-classroom visits will also be scheduled, especially to the city’s museums or archaeological sites, to explain the last theme. Finally, in the tutorials the student will receive a personalized attention, not only of doubts of certain aspects, but of complement of the information that has received. The tutorials will guide you in carrying out your work, will tell you how to access the bibliography and which is advisable, as well as the problems that will arise as you progress in them.
In the event that it was not possible to be present because of the health emergency, teaching would be provided through the virtual classroom. The necessary material would be made available to students to prepare the theoretical topics (Outline and theoretical contents of each lesson with its specific bibliography, electronic and web resources, PowerPoint presentations) completed with the Tutorials. The practical classes would be developed through the tasks of the Classroom, indicating, in due time, the dates and conditions of delivery of the works. The hours of the extra-classroom exits, in the case of not being able to develop, would be destined to expand the seminars and practices already designed.
A continuous evaluation strategy will be developed:
Most of the note (80%) will be obtained with the realization of four different works: reviews, commentaries on texts (literary, epigraphic and plans), bibliographic works on an aspect of the ancient world. At the beginning of the course, the rules of each one, its conditions of performance and the deadline by which they must be delivered or displayed, as well as the score of each work, will be announced. The personal work and the original preparation of the student will be evaluated and those works that are a simple plagiarism of other works will not be valued. It will be essential to demonstrate the ability to analyse, criticize and value old sources. It will also evaluate the structure of the work, the suitability of the content to the topic, the correct use of quotations and notes, the bibliography, its careful presentation, the correction in oral and written expression, as well as the spelling. For the realization of the same throughout the semester, the student will always be able to go to the teacher in the corresponding hours of tutoring, so that he/she can solve his/her problems about its elaboration and the doubts about specific aspects. The rest of the qualification (20%) will be obtained by active participation in practical classes. The student will have the texts in good time, as well as the corresponding questionnaire, and will evaluate both the information he has obtained about them, and his ability to analyze them, relate them to other aspects seen in class, as well as its critical capacity. On the second opportunity in July, students will have to take the same type of tests that have been carried out throughout the course for continuous evaluation. Students who have been granted a dispensation from attending classes by the Dean will be examined on the same basis as those applied to face-to-face teaching. SUBSEQUENT CALLS: For students who fail the subject, the same criteria will be applied in the calls of successive years as in the first opportunity. In the case of fraudulent exercises or tests, the provisions of Art. 16 of the Regulations on the Assessment of Students' Academic Performance and on the Review of Marks (DOG 21 July 2011).
In the event of the suspension of classroom teaching due to the health emergency, all the work would be presented through the virtual classroom tasks, with the student having, at all times, the necessary material for its realization, that would be provided by the teacher either directly, or through electronic/web resources.
Study and preparation of the activities programmed in the class: 32 hours.
Readings and reviews: 8 hours
Preparation of examinations: 10 hours.
Accomplishment of works: 12.5.
Other activities: 5 hours
Total: 67.5 hours
The extension of the matter it recommends a day study at day, in which the explanations that it receives in the theoretical classes are complemented with the bibliographic indications.
Maria Dolores Dopico Cainzos
- Department
- History
- Area
- Ancient History
- Phone
- 881824730
- mdolores.dopico [at] usc.es
- Category
- Professor: University Lecturer
| 06.03.2025 10:00-12:30 | Grupo de examen | Classroom 12 |
| 07.09.2025 10:00-12:00 | Grupo de examen | Classroom 12 |