Courses
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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
Advanced Studies Seminar: Understanding Postmodernity
This seminar explores an array of interrelated questions about the contemporary, largely secular, “post-modern” West. It begins with a deep analysis, rooted in discussion of Brad S. Gregory’s The Unintended Reformation, of the character and histor...
Course · January 23, 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
Church and World in the Modern Age
This course covers the late seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. It addresses the distinctive political, intellectual, and religious developments of the modern era. The particular focus of the course is on the steady secularization of West...
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
Ancient Foundations of Western Culture
As the foundation of our core curriculum in history, this course introduces students to the study of history from the calling of the chosen people to the fall of the Western Roman Empire in AD 476. The first part of the class is dedicated to the H...
Course · January 23, 2026