Christianity in the Early Modern World

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Course ID:	3104-M3K1-BK-OG
Erasmus code / ISCED:	08.3 Kod klasyfikacyjny przedmiotu składa się z trzech do pięciu cyfr, przy czym trzy pierwsze oznaczają klasyfikację dziedziny wg. Listy kodów dziedzin obowiązującej w programie Socrates/Erasmus, czwarta (dotąd na ogół 0) – ewentualne uszczegółowienie informacji o dyscyplinie, piąta – stopień zaawansowania przedmiotu ustalony na podstawie roku studiów, dla którego przedmiot jest przeznaczony. / (0222) History and archaeology The ISCED (International Standard Classification of Education) code has been designed by UNESCO.
Course title:	Christianity in the Early Modern World
Name in Polish:	Christianity in the Early Modern World
Organizational unit:	Faculty of History
Course groups:	(in Polish) Przedmioty Historii II stopnia, Doskonalenie kompetencji badacza epok i dziedzin historycznych General university courses General university courses in the humanities
ECTS credit allocation (and other scores):	(not available) Basic information on ECTS credits allocation principles: the annual hourly workload of the student’s work required to achieve the expected learning outcomes for a given stage is 1500-1800h, corresponding to 60 ECTS; the student’s weekly hourly workload is 45 h; 1 ECTS point corresponds to 25-30 hours of student work needed to achieve the assumed learning outcomes; weekly student workload necessary to achieve the assumed learning outcomes allows to obtain 1.5 ECTS; work required to pass the course, which has been assigned 3 ECTS, constitutes 10% of the semester student load. view allocation of credits
Language:	English
Type of course:	elective courses general courses
Prerequisites (description):	Reading, speaking, and writing competency in English
Short description:	This course focuses on the intellectual, practical, and social history of the spread of Christianity throughout the world during the early modern period, ca. 1400 – ca. 1800. Students will engage primary and secondary sources concerning Christian belief, practice, and cultural influence in Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia.
Full description:	Classes will explore the foremost materials, themes, and problems in the study of the history of early modern Christianity. Students will become acquainted with historical contexts, conflicts, resolutions, and debates in the literature, both among Christians and between Christians and non-Christians. They will use lectures and secondary readings to create literary contexts, and within those contexts they will analyze relevant primary sources in order to practice drawing their own conclusions about the global spread and diversification of Christianity during the early modern period. The first section of the course will focus on the Reformation period in Europe. Subsequent sections will trace the spread of Latin Christianity around the world, first to Africa, then to the Americas, then to Asia. Another section will examine the growth of Orthodox and Eastern Christian societies during the same period. The course will conclude with a section on Christian thought and practice in the context of the Enlightenment. Both primary and secondary sources will present an array of perspectives with which students will analyze these topics. Texts concerning Europeans, Africans, Asians, Native Americans, men, women, and slaves will enable students to perceive the heterogeneity of Christian experiences in the early modern world. Through discussion and written assignments, students will learn to analyze diverse texts in context and draw informed, well-supported, and well-argued conclusions about the material.
Bibliography:	• Kempis, Thomas à. Trans. William C. Creasy. The Imitation of Christ. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2007. (link to Google Books provided) • Bruening, Michael, ed. Reformation Sourcebook: Documents from an Age of Debate. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. (link to Google Books provided) • Modern History Sourcebook (link provided) • all other readings are provided as PDF files on the Google Classroom course page
Learning outcomes:	After completing this course, the student will: - be familiar with the main terminology, concepts, and debates in early modern Christianity, both in its historical heartlands (Europe, Russia, Eastern Mediterranean) and in its more recent settings (Central Africa, Americas, Asia) - have observed and performed different intellectual, social, and cultural approaches to studying religious history - be able to engage wide-ranging secondary literature and analyze diverse primary source texts concerning various themes and contexts within the history of early modern Christianity - be able to compare early modern Christian experiences in widely-disparate contexts from around the world
Assessment methods and assessment criteria:	• attendance/participation (Google Meet group discussion) 30% • semi-weekly essays (5) 40% • semi-weekly short responses (5) 10% • individual consultation 10% • final essay 10%

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