{"id":141758,"date":"2021-05-18T12:51:28","date_gmt":"2021-05-18T22:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=141758"},"modified":"2021-07-20T16:45:16","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T02:45:16","slug":"creative-final-roman-history-class","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2021\/05\/18\/creative-final-roman-history-class\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor develops creative final for Roman history class"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_141788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-141788\" style=\"width: 676px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-history-roman-painting.jpg\" alt=\"Roman painting\" width=\"676\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-141788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-history-roman-painting.jpg 676w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-history-roman-painting-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/manoa-history-roman-painting-130x73.jpg 130w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-141788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Painting depicting the killing of Roman ambassador by King Illyria. (Image courtesy: RocelliAld)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After months of virtual classes, <strong>Saundra Schwartz<\/strong>, an associate professor of <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/history\/\">history at the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> at M\u0101noa<\/a>, wanted to ensure her students were retaining information conveyed through Zoom about the ancient Roman republic. As finals arrived in fall 2020, she decided against traditional test-taking and instead asked her class to come up with innovative presentations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=oRGCQvGuIsY&#038;ab_channel=UniversityofHawai%E2%80%98iNews\">Watch the video on YouTube<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Schwartz\u2019 20 students in the <abbr>HIST<\/abbr> 333 course came up with a wide range of  projects, from reproducing ancient Roman recipes to developing a toga-wearing tutorial. One team created a short film that blends Ancient Roman politics and modern investigative reporting.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It allows the students to come up with a creative way to process what they learned over the semester,&rdquo; Schwartz said. &ldquo;It supports students who want to drill down into a topic that somehow intrigued them&#8230;Given the challenges of the pandemic, all bets were off. I thought, &lsquo;Why not see what they could do?&rsquo;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kali Konopko<\/strong>, a classics major, was up for the challenge. &ldquo;I had a quick moment of relief, followed by a bout of panic that quickly turned to excitement,&rdquo; Konopko explained. &ldquo;Being able to apply my understanding of the ancient Roman republic took an abstract idea and made it knowable.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Although Schwartz is impressed by how students have adjusted to virtual learning, she misses teaching in class and seeing them face-to-face.<\/p>\n<p>This work is an example of UH M\u0101noa\u2019s goals of <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf#page=20\">Enhancing Student Success<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf#page=25\">Excellence in Research: Advancing the Research and Creative Work Enterprise<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), two of four goals identified in the <a href=\"https:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/manoa-2025-strategic-plan.pdf\">2015&#8211;25 Strategic Plan<\/a> (<span class=\"small-text\"><abbr title=\"Portable Document Format\">PDF<\/abbr><\/span>), updated in December 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students reproduced Roman recipes and a toga-wearing tutorial to wrap up their Roman history course. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[225,1480,1466,1363,9],"class_list":["post-141758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-history","tag-manoa-academic-innovation-engaged-learning","tag-manoa-enhancing-student-success","tag-manoa-research","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141758"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":141797,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141758\/revisions\/141797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}