ATS4311 Text and community in Medieval and Renaissance Italy
Faculty of Arts
ATS4311 Text and community in Medieval and Renaissance Italy is a level 4, 12-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Arts. It isn't offered in 2023. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 12
- Offered in 2023
- Not offered
- Workload
- 288 hours
- per semester
This is the 2023 handbook entry. See the 2027 entry.
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Requisites
Before ATS4311
No prerequisites or corequisites besides the enrolment rules below.
After ATS4311
No unit lists ATS4311 as a prerequisite in the 2023 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Prohibition: ATS3311, APG4311, APG5311
Overview
This intensive field work course of one week's duration is taught out of the Monash Prato Centre in mid-December in the year of offering, and utilises the intellectual capital of the members of the Prato Consortium for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. The unit is centred on 'core skills' for Medieval and Renaissance Studies: archive, manuscript, palaeographical and interpretive skills. Students undertaking the course are introduced to archives and manuscripts, visual culture and urban landscapes. In particular, when possible this unit will draw on the resources of the Archivio di Stato of Prato, and the 'Archivio Datini Online' making maximal use of the digitized documents available through this portal. Texts will be read from a variety of historiographical perspectives, and considered within the appropriate historical contexts. Participants will generally have the opportunity to engage with some of the foremost scholars in this area of study. Students therefore will be expected to attend, and critique, workshops and lectures organized to coincide with their intensive week's study. There will be a compulsory seminar for all participating in the unit in advance of departure for Italy.
Offerings in 2023
The 2023 handbook lists no offerings for ATS4311.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Will have a thorough knowledge of the text(s) chosen for study.
- 2
Will have gained an understanding of different genres of text circulating in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (chronicle, letter, diary, tract, sermon, poem, play, dialogue, treatise, monument, visual representation).
- 3
Will have gained a grounding in core skills for Medieval and Renaissance Studies with respect to archives, manuscripts and palaeography.
- 4
Will have developed a capacity to analyse the processes which underpinned the construction of particular texts.
- 5
Will have developed the capacity to detect the resonances of language and code embedded in particular texts and their relationship to social context.
- 6
Will have developed the capacity to read 'against the grain' in relation to the Medieval and Renaissance Italian social, political and social contexts.
- 7
Will have had the opportunity to critique either an element of the historiography or a presentation by a scholar (or scholars) in the field.
- 8
Will be able to engage in critical discussion of texts in relation to the urban context of Italian Medieval and Renaissance Society.
Workload and teaching
Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 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 + International field trip - This unit is taught at prato
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Carolyn James
- Unit Coordinators
- Professor Carolyn James
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for ATS4311?
ATS4311 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is ATS4311 offered?
ATS4311 has no offerings listed in the 2023 handbook.
How much work is ATS4311?
The handbook expects about 288 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.