Telling History: Introduction to Church History (CH1001Z)

Content

To read history is to meet people from the past through the stories they left us, the objects they lived with, and the art they created. Telling History engages with a variety of primary and secondary sources across the last two millenniums to allow students to understand and re-tell the stories that have helped to shape how we understand the church, faith, and community. This unit also includes integrated academic skill development in giving oral presentations, writing essays, and actively participating in tutorial or seminar discussions – including discussion leadership.

Learning outcomes

Unit sequence

This unit is a prerequisite for second and third-year units in Church History.

Pedagogy

Direct instruction and self-directed learning approach (flipped learning) to learning discipline-specific skills (demonstrating an understanding of concepts in history, reading primary and secondary historical documents, writing an argumentative essay, preparing, and delivering an oral presentation, and classroom dialogues) through lectures, tutorials with targeted learning activities, and formative and summative assessment tasks.

Indicative Bibliography

• Arnold, John. 2000. History: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 9780192853523

• Fea, John, Jay Green, and Eric Miller. Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. ISBN: 0268029032

• Hoffer, Peter Charles. 2014. Clio among the Muses: Essays on History and the Humanities. New York: New York University Press. ISBN: 1479832839

Assessment