Course Catalog

HIS230E American Religious History (3 credits) 9389

COURSE DESCRIPTION
A study of the historical development in the United States of such movements as Puritanism, revivalism, the social gospel, Judaism, Catholicism and variant forms of Protestantism.

LEARNING RESULTS
• The student who takes this course will demonstrate a knowledge of the major historical movements, denominations, ideas, and people that have contributed to our North American Christian heritage.
• The student will synthesize the acquired knowledge of the past, developing it into his/her own belief and value system.
• The student, because of his/her enhanced knowledge of the past, should become a person of enlarged understanding, compassion, and discernment (i.e., a person who thinks more nearly like God thinks and sees more nearly like God sees).

REQUIRED TEXTS AND MATERIALS
Noll, Mark, History of Christianity in the United States and Canada, William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., Grand Rapids, MI; 1992
This course emphases will heavily reflect the emphases of the text. These include the significance of Catholics as well as Protestants, Blacks as well as Whites, women as well as men, and the Canadian record as well as that of the United States. The text has twenty chapters, and the course will proceed systematically through the Noll volume with two chapters for each of the ten regular lessons

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INTEGRATION OF FAITH AND LEARNING
The integration of faith and learning occurs in this course through a study of the religious history of the United States. A study of the historical record of American Christianity will reveal how the Christian faith influenced and was influenced by society.

LEARNING DOCUMENTATION
To determine if the course learning results have been attained, students document their learning by submitting the following items:

Assignment #1 European Religious Expansion
Assignment #2 Colonial Religions
Assignment #3 The Churches in the Revolution
Assignment #4 Evangelical Mobilization
Assignment #5 Evangelical Churches
Assignment #6 Protestant America and Canada
Assignment #7 Protestantism
Assignment #8 Essay on “My Theology”
Assignment #9 Middle 20th Century
Assignment #10 Denominations
Assignment #11 20th Century Influential Persons
Assignment #12 Book Review
Exam 1
Exam 2

There are 12 lessons and 2 examinations for this course.

LEARNING EVALUATION
Evaluation is on a point system:
Assignment s 1-12 18 points each
Exam 1 54 points
Exam 2 54 points
Total points 324