CE1033: BARBARIANS, ROMANS, GODS AND WARRIORS (2022-2023)

Last modified: 31 Jul 2023 11:19

Course Overview

This course gives you an exciting introduction to the Celtic and Germanic worlds. In lectures and small-group tutorials, we will explore the peoples who inhabited western and central Europe in Antiquity. We will discuss their cultures and their interactions with Greece and Rome. The course also covers the fates of these cultures in the post-Roman world. Change over time will provide a major driver of the course: for instance, empire and its effect; the history and impact of the "barbarian"; the successive impacts of Roman religion and of Christianity, and how they were represented in mediaeval "heroic" literature.

Course Details

Study Type	Undergraduate	Level	1
Session	First Sub Session	Credit Points	15 credits (7.5 ECTS credits)
Campus	Aberdeen	Sustained Study	No
Co-ordinators	Dr Daniel Cutts

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

Programme Level 1
Any Undergraduate Programme

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

CE1031 Romans, Celts, Druids and Warriors (Studied)

Are there a limited number of places available?

Course Description

This course provides an introduction to the cultures of the Celtic and Germanic peoples who inhabited western and central Europe in the period of Classical Antiquity, their interactions with Graeco-Roman civilisation, 500BC-AD500, and their fates in the post-Roman world of the European early Middle Ages. Change over time will provide a major driver of the course: empire and its effect; the history and impact of the "barbarian"; the successive impacts of Roman religion and of Christianity, and the ways in which they were represented in the "heroic" literature of the Middle Ages.

Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

More Information about Week Numbers

Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 31 August 2023 for 1st half-session courses and 22 December 2023 for 2nd half-session courses.

Summative Assessments

Pre-recorded 10 minutes long presentation (20%)

1500-2000 words essay (30%)

Final Test (3 short essays, around 800 words each) (40%)

Tutorial Participation (10%)

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge Level	Thinking Skill	Outcome
Factual	Remember	ILO’s for this course are available in the course guide.