REQUIRED COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES:

 1.  Reference secondary and tertiary sources to construct knowledge and to develop context.

 2.  De-construct complex and multiple sources of information into basic historical concepts.

 3.  Recognize the impact of continuity and change of historical perspective in context of time and space in the History of Christianity in the World.

 4.  Develop narrative structures and arguments based on evidence.

 5.  Compare and contrast how peoples, groups, cultures, and institutions change over time in the survey History of Christianity in the World.

 6.  Analyze events in the History of Christianity in the World in historical context to illustrate how social, cultural, gender, race, religion, nationality, and other identities affect historical perspectives.

 7.  Use diverse resources for historical research, including libraries, databases, bibliographies, and archives.

 8.  Identify perspectives in historical interpretation using secondary sources.

 9.  Identify types of primary sources, their perspective, and purpose of their author.

 10. Create substantive writing samples that employ critical analysis of primary and secondary sources with appropriate citations.

 11. Construct knowledge by developing historical narratives from primary and secondary sources, maps, and/or artifacts.

 12. Identify historiography and evaluate many points of view to build historical arguments with the History of Christianity in the World.

 REQUIRED TOPICAL OUTLINE:

 I.    The historiography of Christian history

 II.   Early Christianity (1st – 6th c.)

        A. Jewish origins

        B. Hellenism and Paganism

        C. From persecution to state support in the Roman Empire

        D. The development of doctrine – councils and theologians

 III.  The Middle Ages (7th – 15th c.)

        A. The conversion of Europe

        B. Orthodox, Roman, and Coptic churches in the Middle Ages

        C. Christians, Jews and Muslims

        D. New movements – monasticism and scholasticism

 IV.   Reformation and origins of Protestantism (16th c.)

        A. Martin Luther and late medieval reformers

        B. The spread of reform

        C. Denominationalism: theology and politics

 V.    Christianity in the early modern world (17th-18th c.)

        A. Scientific revolution

        B. New worlds and Missionaries: Americas, Asia and Africa

        C. The Enlightenment: Christianity and rationalism

        D. Absolutism, revolution and Christian thought

 VI.   Christianity and “Modernity” (19th-20st c.)

        A. New ideologies: secularism, atheism, nationalism, and communism.

        B. Missions and Imperialism

        C. Many and one: New denominations and Ecumenism

        D. The social gospel: Christianity and economic change

        E. Christianity confronts its past: anti-Semitism and racism

 VII.  Contemporary Christianity (21st c.)

        A. Christianity in a globalized society

        B. New ideas and movements: evangelicalism, multiculturalism, environmentalism