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Preventing Bullying in Academic Libraries
The Preventing Bullying in Academic Libraries online training blends information sharing and cognitive rehearsal as a first step toward workplace bullying reduction for academic library workers. The training provides shared language to talk about ...
Course · January 24, 2026
The Formation of Christendom
Developments in Late Antiquity gradually produced the three great “worlds” of the Middle Ages: where the Roman Empire once stood, we find the medieval West, Byzantium, and Islamic
civilization. Although the principal focus of this course will be o...
Course · January 23, 2026
St. John Henry Newman Seminar
This course explores the life and writings of St. John Henry Newman, one of the giants of modern western history. His life touched some of the most important happenings of his day, and he continues to speak to many of the most important questions ...
Course · January 23, 2026
The Catholic Reformation Seminar
This course explores the chief developments in Catholicism during the early modern era (approx. 1450-1700), with a special focus on the notion of “reform” as it was used within Catholic contexts, distinct from (but sometimes related to) the rise o...
Course · January 23, 2026
History and Theology of Vocation
This course examines the concept of “vocation,” in both theory and practice. We will seek to understand what Christians through the ages thought about “being called” to a state of life (especially marriage, religious life, and Holy Orders); and ho...
Course · January 23, 2026
The Division of Christendom
In this course, we will explore the dynamics of western history in the later Middle Ages and the early modern era, which witnessed a profound centralization of power in individual European kingdoms, a corresponding decline in the political authori...
Course · January 23, 2026
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