NORTH AMERICA CHRISTIANITY
- Academic year
- 2020/2021 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- NORTH AMERICA CHRISTIANITY SP
- Course code
- FM0480 (AF:334520 AR:181244)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
- Educational sector code
- M-STO/07
- Period
- 2nd Semester
- Where
- VENEZIA
- Moodle
- Go to Moodle page
Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
- to study and discuss the historical phenomena related to North American Christianity in the late modern and contemporary era in a multidisciplinary context;
- to apply historical methodology to the analysis of modern and contemporary Christianity in North America;
- to develop learning skills that are necessary to teaching history, with particular regard to Christianity in North America.
Expected learning outcomes
The course aims at the following learning objectives:
- to analyze and interpret primary sources, including written texts, film, photographs, or material culture and to read secondary sources critically and effectively;
- to develop oral and literary competencies as well as research skills through independent and corporate analysis of primary and secondary sources;
- to place contemporary North American Christianity in its historical and cultural context;
- to identify significant people, places, and events in North American Christianity;
- to think critically about the relationship between contemporary Christianity and American identity;
- to carry out innovative research in the history of North American Christianity;
- to communicate and debate developments and problems of the history of Christianity in North America in the late modern and contemporary era.
Pre-requirements
Contents
Class plan is similar to this:
1. Introduction. Colonialism and Slavery
2. Catholicism and Americanism (heresy)
3. The Temperance Movement and Prohibition
4. Cold War and New Evangelicalism
5. Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights Movement
6. Jesus People Movement. The Charismatic Movement
7. Vietnam War and Christian pacifism
8. Birth Control and Anti-abortion Movement. The New Christian Right
9. Women and LGBT Liberation. Catholic Sex abuse crisis
10. New trends: Vineyard Movement and Toronto Blessing
Referral texts
Assessment methods
The following activities will be assessed:
- active participation in class discussions;
- a research paper (5-10 pages; 12-font size, 1,5-spaced; the topic is the student’s choice but will be worked out with and approved by the professor. It could preferably be an in-depth analysis of a primary source but a more general historical essay on a specific topic is possible);
- class presentation of the research paper (if the number of students allows it)
- oral exam on the reading list.
The highest grade obtainable is 30/30 with honors.
Grade Breakdown:
Class participation + class presentation 30%
Research Paper 30%
Final Exam 40%
Teaching methods
Teaching language
Further information
Non-attending students should contact the professor to arrange a suitable list of readings in order to prepare the exam.
*The main job for a response paper is to make connections between the weekly assigned documents and the more general list of readings, trying to answer to these following questions: what historical insight do they provide? What is the main lesson? How do the sources define American Christianity? What questions do they collectively raise? What debates do they produce? What was the author attempting to convey? When we bring the sources together, what do they tell us as historians? Response papers will be graded on clarity, insight, organization, and how deeply the student analyzes the documents. If an attending student will miss a few classes, he/she should submit a response paper to catch up.
Type of exam
2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals
This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Human capital, health, education" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development