Certificate in Church History

Overview

Requirement

REL 330	History of Christian Thought	3
HIST 316	Religion in American History	3
REL 262	Christian Scriptures and Beliefs	3
	or
REL 224	Life and Teachings of Jesus	3
Total Credit Hours:		12

One of the following

HIST 222	History of the Middle East	3
HIST 291	Western Civilization I	3
HIST 292	Western Civilization II	3
HIST 305	Ancient Near East	3
HIST 306	Renaissance and Reformation	3
HIST 307	Ancient Greece	3
HIST 308	Ancient Rome	3
HIST 310	Indigenous History from Time Immemorial to 1787	3

Outcomes

Students will:

1. Students will learn the basics of the Christian story
2. Students will develop a beginning appreciation for how this story is carried forward, debated, constructed, challenged, and recontextualized throughout Church History
3. Students will begin to develop some of the basic disciplinary tools of the historian
4. Students will appreciate how religious traditions have impacted American history and its telling