ATS2893 · The Renaissance in Florence

Overview

In this unit you will explores the political, social, and cultural history of Renaissance Florence through examination of the city’s urban, artistic, and political spaces. You will be invited to understand the city’s evolution from the late thirteenth to the early sixteenth centuries through written, visual, and material sources with a particular focus on its Renaissance golden age.

Areas of study: History

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. explain architectural and urban aspects of the city of Florence itself - including its churches, palaces, museums, piazzas, monuments and streets - as artefacts of its complex history;
2. interpret the Renaissance aspects elements of Florentine urban space within an historical framework;
3. critically engage with a variety of texts written, visual and material sources to analyse changes and continuities in Renaissance Florence in the context of Italian history;
4. collaborate in groups to conduct historical research on the urban environment of Florence;
5. communicate research findings convincingly in written form.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement. + Additional requirements + This unit is taught intensively at Prato.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.