College Bulletin 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ARTH 018. Digital Rome
Working in small groups, students will create digital reconstructions (primarily in SketchUp) of select Roman cities in Africa Proconsularis, and try to answer a deceptively simple question, what determines the urban fabric of these ancient cities? By using Roman Africa as a test case, this course will examine the ‘individuality within regularity’ of Roman cities. Temporally we will commence with the end of the Roman Republic and conclude with the Late Empire. Geographically, we will primarily limit our analysis to the province of Africa Proconsularis (modern day Tunisia and parts of Algeria and Libya) and look at famous cities such as Carthage and Lepcis Magna and little known cities such as Meninx (Jerba, Tunisia).
1 credit.
Fall 2014. Morton.
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