Amazing detail and very interesting. Would have scored 5 stars if maps were included, cannot read them on screen.

Great Course to understand the founding and aspects of the roman empire. Pretty good.

Interesting course with profound knowledge about Roman archaeology

Very, very interesting. I wish to have more handouts

It is a great course to know ancient Rome

Very interesting and detailed class.

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I enjoyed the course overall, but do think that it could benefit from some slight tweaks to make it more accessible to those without an understanding of Latin and/or Italian or for anyone who has not previously studied the Classics or Ancient History. The assignments should also be reviewed as they contained a number of questions that were not covered during the lessons. A list of optional reading would go a great way to familiarising participants with a basic understanding of ancient Rome without having to extend the length of the lessons.

The content is great, but the teaching (language, material, quizzes) are CHAOTIC. Maps are important for this course, but they are NOWHERE to be found. Quizzes are problematic, often pointing to either wrong answers (contradicting to the videos) or minute details that weren't mentioned at all. The language is confusing as well, as the lecturer did not provide description of the slides and maps, therefore the transcripts are no help at all.

Graphics were interesting but did not focus on what the professor was saying. The professor was sincere and seemed knowledgeable though his speech impediment became distracting very quickly. Overall, having visited the Palatine several times over the years, I found the course very helpful in giving me a feel for physical aspects of so much of what I have read about ancient Rome in history and literature. Thank you for the opportunity.

I was excited to take this course, eager to hear Prof. Carafa. However all of his knowledge, all of the work that went into creating this valuable course, was degraded by the very bad English text and subtitles. So many mistakes! 100+. Some are significant, some are comical, none are excusable. So five stars for the professor, no star for the transcriber.

I've taken several course dealing with this subject and definitely found this class informative, but the professor was difficult for me to understand and particularly towards the end I questioned whether the quizzes had any relationship to the lectures. Perhaps I didn't hear correctly. Speaking of hearing, the translations were not the best either.

I think the structure could have been "tighter". Also, the questions in the quizzes were sometimes based on information that was only available in the presentation diagrams, but those images were often a bit fuzzy and hard to read. It would be helpful if we could download decent copies of all those images.

Great content, especially for serious archaeologists. While understandable for the most part, the presentations in second-language English at times lagged.

Found a lot of translating errors which made the course a little frustrating. Overall learnt a lot about Ancient Rome.

Lost interest, couldn't finish. Probably could have read a book on the subject and saved myself the time.

Hard to follow the flow of the class.

Curso interesante y entretenido

very good

some of the quiz questions have nothing to do with the course! I know I was about archaeology but it seemed more conducive to Roman architecture than anything else. This course was misleading.

Questions on quiz are completely different than things talked about. Ridiculous! Took many hours of watching videos to decipher what he was specifically hinting on.

Maps are terrible. Close Captioning non existent at times. English pronounciation is bad. The subject is interesting though

Topic of interest but hard to follow poor English of professor. Better use subtitles and Italian

The quizzes don't always relate to, or are answered by the videos in the right section