HISTORY 4370 001                                                   GREAT CITIES--ROME                                                                                 (CRN: 62696)                                                            Spring 2021                                                         Holden Hall 006 on W at 7:00-9:50 pm   TEACHER  John Howe epartment of History, Texas Tech University (TTU), Lubbock, Texas 79409-l0l3 Office in Holden Hall 143    Office Hours: MW 11-12:15am; W 2:00-3:30 (Online); W 9:45-10:15pm; and by appointment Telephone:; 806 742-3744 (History Dept.); or 806 834-7544 (office) E-Mail: john.howe@ttu.edu; fax: 806-742-1060; web:  http://myweb.ttu.edu/jhowe

PURPOSES OF THE COURSE

To survey the development of the City of Rome, ab urbe condita until today.  To examine a world capital's physical structures, cermonial features, and cultural identity. To examine vignettes of life in such a place. To investigate how historians and archaeologists have acquired knowledge of Rome.  To gain contemporary self-knowledge by examining a community culturally ancestral to but yet significantly different from our own.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Required Texts:

Fanelli, Giovanni. Rome: Portrait of a City. Cologne: Taschen, 2018.

Kneale, Matthew. Rome: A History in Seven Sackings. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.

Marciari, John. Art of Renaissance Rome: Artists and Patrons in the Eternal City. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2017.

Maier, Jessica. The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020.

Taylor, Rabun, Katherine W, Rinne, and Spiro Kostof, Rome: An Urban History from Antiquity to the Present. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016.

Additional texts to be accessed through

Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (IAHS)
Internet Medieval Sourcebook (IMS)

Internet Modern History Sourcebook (IMHS)

Required Reading

Specific reading assignments for each class are listed in the Reading and Lecture Schedule, just ahead and to the right of the lecture date by which they should be completed. Each assignment is the subject of the following lecture or discussion. Read so that you arrive in class prepared to explain, praise, criticize, and question. If read for their assigned classes, the readings are manageable, but if neglected they quickly become overwhelming.

Class Attendance

Successful completion of this course requires regular attendance. In the classroom very difficult reading assignments are interpreted and contextualized, additional subject matter is introduced, and visual materials are displayed (which are difficult to comprehend from a friend’s notes). Part of the course grade is based on class participation, and you cannot participate if you are not present. In a class that meets weekly, you should not be enrolled unless you can attend 80% of the time (that is, miss no more than three classes).

Examinations

Midterm tests are scheduled for February 17 and March 24. Each will include multiple-choice questions, identification questions, a single essay (to be selected from two or more choices), and perhaps map work. If, for good reason, a test is missed, a make-up test may be taken at 2:00 pm on Monday, May 3. Students receiving a grade below “C” on a midterm should meet with the teacher to discuss it (this will be part of the class participation grade).

The final examination will feature multiple-choice questions and identification questions, on the material covered since the second midterm, as well as several essay questions (to be chosen out of six or more alternative questions) covering the material of the entire course. Thefinal examination will be online and synchronous on Saturday, May 11, at 7:30 pm.

Term Paper

Students will write a research paper of 20-25 pages related to some aspect of the history of the City of Rome.  The topic must be approved by the instructor, approval contingent on some significant relationship to the City of Rome and on access to the requisite primary and secondary sources. Subject areas, topics, bibliographies, demonstrations of research methods, and a preliminary draft will be sequentially required: a subject area and one or more preliminary topics are due W Feb 17 (your choices will be asked on Miodterm #1); a working topic and a preliminary bibliography that includes some major primary and seconmdary sources is due on W March 3; and a show-and-tell demonstration of a data gathering system on W March 24.   Assignments submitted one class late will be penalized one letter grade; later assignments will not be accepted.  Some version of a preliminary draft of the paper MUST be submitted on or before Wednesday, April 14.  These will be returned on Wednesday April 21 and students may choose either to keep the grade earned or to rewrite the paper for a new grade. Re-written papers must be submitted by 4:00 pm on Tuesday May 11.

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NECESSARY ACCOMMODATIONS
             Any student who, because of a disabling condition, may require some special arrangements in order to meet course requirements should contact the instructor as soon as possible so that the necessary accommodations can be made. 
 

Observance of a religious Holy Day
            Texas House Bill 256 requires institutions of higher education to excuse a student from attending classes or other required activities, including examinations, for the observance of a religious holy day. The student shall also be excused for time necessary to travel. An institution may not penalize the student for the absence and allows for the student to take an exam or complete an assignment from which the student is excused. No prior notification of the instructor is required.

ACADEMIC INTEGRITY: TTU Statement of Academic Integrity (OP 34.12):

            Academic integrity is taking responsibility for one’s own work, being individually accountable, and demonstrating intellectual honesty and ethical behavior. Academic integrity is a personal choice to abide by the standards of intellectual honesty and responsibility. Because education is a shared effort to achieve learning through the exchange of ideas, students, faculty, and staff have the collective responsibility to build mutual trust and respect.  Ethical behavior and independent thought are essential for the highest level of academic achievement, which then must be measured. Academic achievement includes scholarship, teaching and learning, all of which are shared endeavors. Grades are a device used to quantify the successful accumulation of knowledge through learning. Adhering to the standards of academic integrity ensures that grades are earned honestly and gives added value to the entire educational process. Academic integrity is the foundation upon which students, faculty, and staff build their educational and professional careers.

Students are responsible for understanding the principles and policies regarding academic integrity at Texas Tech University, and abide by them in all class and/or course work at the University. Academic misconduct violations are outlined in the Code of Student Conduct. The University policies and procedures regarding academic integrity can be found in the Student Handbook.  The Student Handbook and the Code of Student Conduct can be found online at www.ttu.edu/studenthandbook.

It is the aim of the faculty of Texas Tech University to foster a spirit of complete honesty and high standard of integrity. The attempt of students to present as their own any work not honestly performed is regarded by the faculty and administration as a most serious offence and renders the offenders liable to serious consequences, possibly suspension.

GRADING

The course grade will be computed as follows: 30% from the two midterm tests (that is, 15% from each); 30% from the term paper; 10% from class participation; and 30% from the final examination.

READING AND LECTURE SCHEDULE

W Jan 20         Introductions / Geography / An "Eternal City" with 2500 Years of History

                                 Taylor 1-18, Kneale 10-27; Maier 1-23; Rome Map ; Latium Map ; Romulus and Remus; Rape of Lucretia : Rape of the Sabine Women ; Roman "Constitution"; The Law of the Twelve Tables

[M Jan 25       Last day for student-initiated Drop/Add]

W  Jan 27         The Creation of a Civitas

                                 Taylor 19-31 ;  Livy: The Roman Way of Declaring War; Polybius: The Battle of Cannae; Polybius: Legion vs. Phalanx ;  Plutarch: "Marcus Cato"; Letters on Running for Office 64 and 54 BC             

W   Feb 3       The Conquest of Italy and Beyond

                                Taylor 32-159; Maier 24-43; Tacitus on the End of the Republic; The Deeds of the Divine Augustus; Augustan Encomiums; Strabo: The Grandeur of Rome;   Juvenal: Satire III; Seneca: On Gladiatorial Games;

Th  Feb 4         Last Day to Drop a Course  without academic penalty

 W Feb 10         The Roman Empire and Its Capital / The Christian Empire

                                 Study. Be prepared to list the proposed subject area of your paper and one or more tentative topics.on the exam.   Kneale 29-80; Leo I and Attila the Hun ;  Fall of Rome

W Feb 17       Midterm No. 1 / The "Fall of Rome"

                                 Maier 44-49; Gregory the Great: On the Papal Estates; Gregory I: Manumission; Map  

W Feb 24        An Imperial Outpost Becomes the "Republic of St. Peter"

                                 Kneale 113-54; Maier 49; Donation of Constantine; Map ; Map;  Study and prepare a sheet of paper headed by your working research topic,

                                 followed by a preliminary bibliography that includes some of the major relevant primary and secondary sources

W Mar 3         Popes and Emperors

                                 Taylor 196-231; Marciani 6-131, Maier 62-79; Marvels of Rome ; Chiesa S. Maria sopra Minerva;

W Mar 10       Commune to Renaissance

                                 Marciani 132-213; Maier 79-86; Kneale 155-217 ;   Palazzo Madama; Palazzo Quirinale; Bernini's Colonade; Teresa in Ecstasy.

W Mar 17        Renaissance to Counter-Reformation Baroque

[F Mar 19         "Spring Break"]

                                 Study.  Prepare to discusss your system for gathering and organizing research data. 

W Mar 24       Midterm #2 (one identification question is "What system am I using to organize research data?")  / Early Modern Rome

                                Taytlor 232-270, Maier 87-103

W Mar 31             Rome Faces an "Enlightened" World

[W  Mar 31     Last day to declare pass/fail intentions]

[M  Apr 5        Easter Holiday]

                                 Taylor 271-302;  Kneale 221-76 ;  Maier 104-40 ; Fanelli 5-51

W Apr 7          Napoleanic and Restoration Rome

                                 Taylor 303-35; Maier 141-56; Fanelli 52-146 ;  Victor Emmanuel: Address to Parliament 1871; Preliminary draft of the term paper must be submitted no later than April 14.

W Apr  14        Rome as the Capital of the Kingdom of Italy

                                 Fanelli 146-285; Maier 157-77;   Benito Mussolini: What Is Fascism? ; Stazione Termini ; Kneale 277-353

W Apr 21         Fascist Rome / Rome Post-World War II

                                 Fanelli 286-450; Taylor 336-47; Maier 178-86; Kneale 355-59.  Rome's Centro as Seen from the Janiculo;

                                Use a search engine for "Rome Apartments" or "Rome Homes" and locate and print out a single page advertisement for a contemporary residence (we will make as real estate notice board)

W Apr 28         Rome Today

[M May 3         Make-Up Opportunity for midterms missed for good reasons at 2:00 pm

[W May 5         Individual Study Day]

                                 Study

Sat  May 8 at 7:30  pm     FINAL EXAM

Tu May 11 at 4:00pm         Last opportunity to submit re-written papers.