HUMN 105 Projecting the Past: Ancient Rome, Cinema, and History

This course will explore the history and cultural development of ancient Rome through the medium of film. This course will introduce the most popular narrative tendencies and film genres typical of films focusing on this period of history, including the implications of the political, social, and cultural contexts depicted in film. Major films and significant directors from this period will be viewed and discussed.

Credits

3

Hours Weekly

3 hours weekly

Course Objectives

1. 1. Engage in a cinematic exploration of various worldviews.
2. 2. Describe history, cultures, values, and aesthetics in ancient Rome as depicted through
   cinema.
   
3. 3. Identify and explain multiple perspectives when exploring, cinematically, subjects within and
   across the cultures of ancient Rome.
4. 4. Analyze global events and issues and their interconnectedness from economic, political,
   environmental, aesthetic, or social perspectives in ancient Rome as depicted through
   cinema.
5. 5. Identify and apply critical theories and concepts related to enduring and contemporary
   issues of aesthetics, creativity, humanism, meaning, and/or invention in ancient Rome
   through cinema.
6. 6. Incorporate innovation, risk-taking, and creativity into analysis and problem-solving
   methods, considering the culture of ancient Rome through the eyes of cinema.
7. 7. Pose and address questions related to the confluence of creative and humanistic expression
   with social and cultural contexts of ancient Rome as depicted in cinema.
8. 8. Assess, reflect on, and critically analyze the role of creative and aesthetic activities and
   products of humanistic expression, in illuminating the human condition and search for
   historical meaning in ancient Rome as depicted in cinema.
   
9. 9. Identify ethical issues arising from cross-cultural study.
10. 10. Develop tools for analysis that will help critique films depicting ancient Rome, including
    recognizing and explaining film techniques and period styles.
11. 11. Interpret famous films about ancient Rome and discuss their significance to the directors
    who produced them, both within their historical context and how they are regarded today.

Course Objectives

1. 1. Engage in a cinematic exploration of various worldviews.
2. 2. Describe history, cultures, values, and aesthetics in ancient Rome as depicted through
   cinema.
   
3. 3. Identify and explain multiple perspectives when exploring, cinematically, subjects within and
   across the cultures of ancient Rome.
4. 4. Analyze global events and issues and their interconnectedness from economic, political,
   environmental, aesthetic, or social perspectives in ancient Rome as depicted through
   cinema.
5. 5. Identify and apply critical theories and concepts related to enduring and contemporary
   issues of aesthetics, creativity, humanism, meaning, and/or invention in ancient Rome
   through cinema.
6. 6. Incorporate innovation, risk-taking, and creativity into analysis and problem-solving
   methods, considering the culture of ancient Rome through the eyes of cinema.
7. 7. Pose and address questions related to the confluence of creative and humanistic expression
   with social and cultural contexts of ancient Rome as depicted in cinema.
8. 8. Assess, reflect on, and critically analyze the role of creative and aesthetic activities and
   products of humanistic expression, in illuminating the human condition and search for
   historical meaning in ancient Rome as depicted in cinema.
   
9. 9. Identify ethical issues arising from cross-cultural study.
10. 10. Develop tools for analysis that will help critique films depicting ancient Rome, including
    recognizing and explaining film techniques and period styles.
11. 11. Interpret famous films about ancient Rome and discuss their significance to the directors
    who produced them, both within their historical context and how they are regarded today.