This course combined archaeology with social and cultural history to help students better understand the history and people of the Mediterranean basin from prehistory to c. AD 323. I taught this class twice, in the summers of 2016 and 2017, to an average of forth-three students, most of whom were non-majors. For this class, I wrote seventeen lectures and made an equal number of PowerPoint presentations, which I combined and uploaded using Mediasite. As usual, these were supplemented with daily primary source readings. This was the most interesting course which I have taught so far. I only found out that I was teaching it about a month before the semester began, and so I had to work quickly to get it prepared. Despite the hasty assembly, my students really engaged with the material and each other, and gave me more positive feedback on this course than on any of my previous ones.
The Ancient Mediterranean City Syllabus (Summer I 2016)
Lecture 10: Athens and Sparta