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Undergraduate module (Level 2 students), Department of History, University of Bristol
This module explored people's relationship with alcohol from prehistory to the modern day. Due to the wide chronological range, several teachers collaborated to deliver this module. I was responsible for designing and delivering the content concerning the ancient Greco-Roman world; this centred upon several hours of interactive lectures. For more information on the module itself, follow this link.
HEA-accredited training programme for postgraduate students and academic staff, Academic Development, University of Exeter
Collaboratively planning, teaching and facilitating all stages of this programme (up to 22.5 contact hours per participant, up to 400 participants per year). Similarly, planning and administering all levels of assessment on this programme, including the AFHEA accreditation and Advanced Certificate in LTHE (30 Masters-level credits). For more information on the programme itself, follow this link.
HEA-accredited training session for postgraduate students and academic staff, Academic Development, University of Exeter
I was invited as a subject expert (for Classics and Ancient History) to speak at an LTHE Stage 2 session regarding assessment practices in my discipline.
Undergraduate module (Level 1 and 2 students), Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter
I was part of the teaching staff for the second term of this two-term module. This module focused upon Roman History from 753BC to AD476, with a particular focus upon 168BC-AD193. The second term focuses upon the period from the reign of Augustus onwards. For more information on the module itself, follow this link.
Undergraduate module (Level 3 students) and Masters module respectively, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Exeter
I prepared and delivered a lecture comprising part of an academic module for Level 3 students and taught masters. For more information on the modules themselves, follow this link, and this link.
I was part of the teaching staff for the second term of this two-term module. This module provided an introduction for the period of Greek History in the Classical and Hellenistic periods; the second term focused on the period from the reign of Alexander the Great until 146BC. Through a close study of the ancient sources, students gained an understanding of the limitations of textual evidence, of the major issues, themes and problems of this period. For more information on the module itself, follow this link.
This module considered the development of the Greek prose historical tradition in the fifth and fourth centuries. It provided an in-depth study of the three major historians of this period: Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon. Students learnt how to analyse, evaluate and use texts, and how to relate their style and development to the wider context of literary developments in the fifth century, and to analyse and evaluate these texts within the Greek historiographical tradition. For more information on the module itself, follow this link.
A ‘taster class’ for school/college pupils (Years 10 and 12; usually aged 14-15 and 17-18), Student Recruitment and Widening Participation, University of Exeter
I am responsible for the planning and delivery of a Classics and Ancient History taster-class given to multiple groups of school children as part of the ‘Year 10 Discover Humanities Days’ (previously: ‘Humanities Taster Days’) and ‘Year 12 Explore Humanities Days’; these provide school and college students with an opportunity to sample university subjects. My session introduces pupils to the study of Roman food and drink, and the history of food more generally. I also organised an entirely Classics and Ancient History themed Year 12 day (4 July 2013), scheduling three coordinated taster-sessions delivered by three different teachers. For more information on the Taster Day itself, follow this link.
Undergraduate employability workshop, Employability and Graduate Development, University of Exeter
I am responsible for regularly delivering an employability skills workshop to small groups of undergraduate students (up to 25). For more information on the workshop itself, follow this link.
This module addressed key issues of the Greek symposium. It was concerned with social organisation, politics and literary production. Students learnt how to analyse, evaluate and use literary and historical sources, along with images on vases, as sources for understanding Greek society. For more information on the module itself, follow this link.
Undergraduate module (Level 1 and 2 students), Department of Classics and Ancient History (University of Exeter)
This module explored Greek culture by using ideas of nature and culture that have been applied in many disciplines and would include modern concerns over the environment, animals, and global warming. For more information on the module itself, follow this link.