University Subjects
ATS1248: Ancient Civilisations II
ATS1248: Ancient Civilisations II
- University
- Monash University
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Dallas45
11 years ago
- Assessment
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- 5% - Referencing test. A simple online exercise where you answer 5 or so questions. You go through it in the tutorial before it is due and can get heaps of help if you aren't so sure about referencing. As it's only worth 5% its easy to forget or just skip but it can in the end be the difference between you passing if you don't do well or a D and HD as it was for me
- Roughly 40% - 1 hour examination during the exam period. This semester they changed the layout of the exam. Basically you had to answer 20 of 30 given questions with each question on a particular topic (For example - late period egypt) and comprising 4 basic questions. As my tutor said you basically have to know the course material, you can't just wing it necessarily. Having said that it was, for me at least, a very simple and easy exam. All answers were simple such as the name of a person, place, what dynasties were encompassed by a certain period etc - Basically only 2-4 words max for each answer
- Roughly 40% - 2000 word essay with a choice of two topics, one based around ancient history and the other on archaeology. The essay topics aren't meant to trick you, they're pretty straightforward and the difficulty will depend on how well you can write yourself. Either way you will go through it enough in tutorials to get an idea of how to go about it. You have about 5-6 weeks to write it.
- 10% - Basic note taking exercise. A simple exercise which serves to see how you go with simplifying and condensing information
- Comments
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- Very interesting unit covering wide range of stuff and you need it to progress to second year archaeology if that's what you plan to do. Civilisations studied include Rome, Greece, Egypt (in brief), Assyria, Babylon, and Etruscans
- The tutorials were quite helpful and the tutor (well mine at least) was really good, knowledgeable and happy to help,
- The workload is neither light nor extremely high. The only time consuming thing was the readings and research for the essay.
- All lecturers were really good and knew their stuff. All were easy to understand and follow. There were a a lot of readings to do and the essays required a lot of research. I found this subject very interesting, and yes at times it could get a little stressful with all the readings, but that's the same for any subject, arts subjects in particular. Overall, I'd highly recommend the subject.
- Lecturer(s)
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- Gillian Bowen - lectured on Greece and Rome as well as a couple of other lectures.
- Colin Hope - The Near East, Egypt, Rome
- Angelo di Castro - The Etruscans and Rome
- Past Exams Available
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With the new layout, if they put up the 2012 exam there will only be one past exam but they do give a brief sample of the layout. This isn't a full practice exam though, just an A4 page that shows the structure to give you an idea of the layout and what sort of questions to expect.
- Rating
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5 Out of 5
- Recorded Lectures
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Yes, with screen capture
- Textbook Recommendation
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- 'Ancient Civilizations 3ed' by Christopher Scarre and Brian M. Fagan. This is great for background and is used in both Ancient Civilisations 1 and 2 and is highly recommended by the lecturers. It's quite expensive at approx. $100 but I'm sure you could rifle one up on the internet somewhere like bookdepository or abebooks.
- You do have to buy the unit reader which I'm pretty sure is about $20.00 or so. It contains the unit outline and all the readings for each week.
- Workload
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2 x 1 hour lectures + 1 x 1 hour tutorial per week
- Year & Semester Of Completion
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Semester 2, 2012
- Your Mark / Grade
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79 D
- State
- VIC
- Type
- University
- Courses
- 167
- Campuses
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Caulfield Churchill City Clayton Parkville Peninsula
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