| Credit |
6 points |
| Availability |
not available in 2010 |
| Old unit code |
030.292 |
| Content |
This unit gives a survey of Roman art, covering sculpture from the late Republic to the Arch of Constantine and the Column of Arcadius, wall painting and mosaics, particularly those of Pompeii and Herculaneum, from the first century BC to the time of the Ravenna churches, the architecture of the Roman Empire and Roman Republican and Imperial coinage. |
| Assessment |
This comprises tutorial performance (10 per cent), a test on technical terms (15 per cent), a 2000- to 2500-word essay (25 per cent) and a two-hour examination (50 per cent).
Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course. |
| Unit Co-ordinator(s) |
Winthrop Professor John Melville-Jones |
| Location |
UWA (Crawley) |
| Mode |
on-campus |
| Unit Rules |
| Prerequisites: 24 points of Level 1 units in any Arts discipline |
Contact hours—lectures: 20 hrs; tutorials: 8 hrs
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- The availability of units in Semester 1, 2, etc. was correct at the time of going to press but may be subject to change.
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- Books and other materials wherever listed may be subject to change. Book lists relating to 'Preliminary Reading', 'Recommended Reading' and 'Textbooks' are, in most cases, available at the University Co-operative Bookshop (from early January) and appropriate administrative offices for students to consult. For first-year units the Bookshop will endeavour to make available photocopies of book lists for individual units. Books marked with an asterisk (*) are available in paperback.
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