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AHCE W

1 courses with the subject AHCE W, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.

AHCE W4149The Roman Art of Engineering: Traditions of Planning, Construction, and Innovation3.00

Interdisciplinary study of ancient Roman engineering and architecture in a course co-created between Arts ＆ Sciences and Engineering. Construction principles, techniques, and materials: walls, columns, arches, vaults, domes. Iconic Roman buildings (Colosseum, Pantheon, Trajan’s Column) and infrastructure (roads, bridges, aqueducts, baths, harbors, city walls). Project organization. Roman engineering and society: machines and human labor; engineers, architects, and the army; environmental impact. Comparisons with current practice as well as cross-cultural comparisons with other pre-modern societies across the globe. A Columbia Cross-Disciplinary Course

Subject: AHCE W
Credits (min): 3
Credits (max): 3
Credit unit: points
Type: course
Edition: 2026-2027
Catalog: 2026-2027 Bulletin
Source: bulletin.columbia.edu

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