Rough Syllabus for Ancient Geography

THIS IS MEANT TO LET YOU KNOW ROUGHLY WHAT THE SYLLABUS WILL LOOK LIKE: I WANT TO LISTEN TO YOU ALL FOR A COUPLE OF CLASS SESSIONS BEFORE FINALIZING A SYLLABUS

• First 2-4 weeks
• Small tasks and readings aimed at familiarizing you with ancient Greece as a "landscape," some places in it, some places within those places.
• Small tasks aimed at practicing things like researching using primary and secondary sources, locating things in ancient space and time.
• Small tasks aimed at whetting our appetite for ways to think about geography in the ancient world.
• A large chunk in the middle of the semester
• Reading and presenting articles/book chapters to each other.
  
• Goals of this include:
• Learning about aspects of ancient geography.
  
• Building up our toolkits and familiarity with possibilities for end of semester projects.
• Several weeks at the end of the semester:
• A large project involving:
• Application of ideas learned earlier in course.
• Exploration of one defined aspect of ancient geography.
• Creation of writing, tables, maps, posters, etc. as a finished project.
  
• Presentation of results to the class.
• This can be done individually or in pairs or in larger groups.
• While I very much encourage you to work together, I do not want to force it, and I think both I and each of you need to know exactly what project or part of the project each of you did.
• You will propose a project to me, including what the finished project will look like (e.g. a map of X, a timeline of X, and a short skit OR a 12-page research paper on X OR a tourist itinerary for a history-oriented through X including readings for each site visited, both to be read aloud on site and as background OR something else)
• I can also provide projects for those who don't want to come up with their own.