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On successful completion of this course, students should be able to:

1. identify broad characteristics of Late Antique material culture in Italy with a focus upon architecture, sculpture and the minor arts;
2. demonstrate familiarity with the impact of the changing role of imperial capitals and of Christianity upon Late Antique cities in Italy;
3. demonstrate familiarity with the methodological issues surrounding the documentation and historical interpretation of Late Antique material culture in Italy;
4. present material evidence in a scholarly argument;
5. show enhanced critical thinking and analytical skills;
6. demonstrate confidence in a foreign environment and a well-developed sense of  intercultural awareness

There are no textbooks to purchase for this course. All readings will be available on MyUni for this course.

This is an in-country study tour. There will be two pre-tour seminars (ca 2 hrs) in Weeks 7 and 13 of second semester.In
Italy, with the exception of a few half-free days and one full free day in Rome, you will be part of a supervised group, usually starting at 9 am and finishing in the late afternoon back at our designated hotel. This will involve a carefully-curated walking tour of cities (such as Milan, Rome) to visit specific sites within them as well as their museums and church collections. These tours are specifically designed to focus on the Late Roman period in each city visited (with the exception of the Bay of Naples sites at the end of the course). Throughout, guidance and information sessions will be provided by the course co-ordinator. At times, there may be introductory talks before visiting a site (such as Aquileia, Ostia, Herculaneum or Oplontis).  The focus will be upon site-based learning, but for each week of the course, you will be expected to read and take notes from the weekly online material. Your first assignment - due at the end of the first week of travel - will blend your onsite-learning with course readings, as a way of encouraging this practice. You will also be expected to discuss as a group your understanding of the nature of Late Roman material culture
(architecture, art) as we travel. Given the relatively small numbers of this course (max. around 15), you will beneift from being able to
develop your final research paper topic throughout your trip in conjunction with your course co-ordinator, and also within the
small-group discussions which we will make on-site.

STRUCTURED LEARNING
2 x 2 hr seminars at Adelaide University  before departure
(in-country) up to 12 hrs of information sessions in total


SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING
Preparatory reading 16 hrs in total
Assessment preparation 16 hrs in total
Research - reading, note-taking  24 hrs
Sites and museum visits (incorporating some assignment note-taking on-site) over 3 weeks @ 4 hrs average per day, 84 hrs

= 140 hours per semester

Total = 156 hrs per semester

As the precise itinerary and its dates will vary from year to year, the full details will be available once students have enrolled for the
Summer School via Global Engagment.In sum, the course will last for 3 weeks (21 days). Students organise their own travel to and from Italy, starting in Milan (usually, on the evening of a Saturday in November) and finishing in Rome.
Week 1:
Milan - 2 full days of visits to churches, museums and archaeological sites in this early fourth century imperial capital, then transfer by train to Ravenna.A day and a half in Ravenna - a late fourth and fifth century imperial capital - visiting museums, churches in and nearby (including the Mausoleum of Theoderic the Great and, if possible, the newly opened museum at Classe). Then transfer by train to overnight in Venice, a freemorning in the city then on by private coach to the the archaeological site (and yet another former imperial capital), Aquileia.
Week 2:
Aquileia is about as far east as you can go in Italy before reaching the Slovenian border. It had a strategic military importance for any Roman force wanting to stop an army coming overland from the east/north-east. Like Ravenna, it is a World Heritage site, but unlike Ravenna, it is today a very small country town squatting on quite extensive archaeological ruins, plus a very well-preserved 4th century basilica with floor mosaics. You saw the wall mosaics at Ravenna, now see one of the best-preserved church floors from late Antiquity. Under the 4th century floor of this still-working cathedral, archaeologists have found earlier remains, and we can go downstairs to see them, too. The following day, we go back to Venice and take the fast train to Rome, arriving mid-late afternoon. We spend a bit over a week here, visiting the great museums, some of the catacombs, many of the Late Roman churches and the
delightful Crypta Balba site, as well as a full day at Ostia. You even have a free day to visit those museums we cannot quite fit in! Week 3:
We take the fast train down to Naples, which is our last base for travels. We will visit the great museum of Naples, two of the early Christian catacombs here and a late Roman mosaic-covered chapel. But you will also be able to contrast the style and form of Late Roman art and architecture with that preserved at Herculaneum, Oplontis and Pompeii, which we shall visit over two day trips (Herculaneum and Oplontis, then a full day at Pompeii). Then another free day in Naples and the train back to Rome in the afternoon of day 21. 
NB: Within each section, the order in which sites may vary, depending on what is open, and upon what is best given the weather forecast. Some museums may be closed unexpectedly, but there are always other options.

1) Ca 1200 word seminar paper   30%

2) Ca 3000-3500 word long research essay  60%

3) Seminar participation 10%

 

ASSESSMENT TASK	TASK TYPE	WEIGHTING	COURSE LEARNING OUTCOME(S)
Seminar paper ca 1200 words	Summative	30%	1, 2, 4
Research essay ca 3000 words	Summative	60%	1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Participation in group discussions throughout tour	Formative and Summative	10%	5-6

Submission is online via MyUni. Advice about late penalties within the School of Humanities, and concerning applications for an extension to submission date without penalty are all on MyUni.