Student Nicholas Birk examines World-War II aerial photographs for evidence of historic roadways, © 2004 Tom Elliott
Special Topics in History: Roman Roads, Itineraries and Land Travel
Course number: HIST 99
Instructor: Tom Elliott
Last taught: Spring 2004 (9 students)
Next
scheduled: TBD
This undergraduate research seminar, first taught by AWMC Director Tom Elliott in Spring 2004, inaugerated the UNC-CH History Department’s new Undergraduate Special Topics course.
The goal for students participating in this seminar was three-fold:
- to acquire an in-depth understanding of the political, economic, military, social and ideological functions of roads and written itineraries in the Roman empire;
- to develop skills and experience in collaborative research, historical inquiry and geographic analysis (including applied Geographic Information Systems); and
- to jointly develop and publish a fully-documented geographic dataset to facilitate future research on these topics.
Interested and motivated undergraduates in history, classics, anthropology/archaeology, geography and information/computer science were especially encouraged to enroll.
