ADC 224 
Birth & Maturation of Western Culture
Option Course

Note With Regards to Course Manual & Assignments: unlike your other P.A.C.E. courses, there will be no assignments due prior to the start of the course or due for Module #1.  Also unlike your other P.A.C.E. courses, you will obtain the course manual from Houghton's Course Management System (Synapse) once available.  You will receive an email from your instructor or academic advisor once available.

This online course will be arranged in five learning modules.  Each module will be two weeks in length.  Each module will consist of reading, online dialoguing, and additional assignments to enhance your learning.

Course Description
This course surveys the birth and maturation of western culture.  While highlighting key people, place and events, we will examine such issues as church and state, public versus private interest, human identity, and worldview construction.  We will examine each period weaving literature and philosophy into the fabric of history.  Using these elements, we will examine the worldviews that characterized the past and equip participants to evaluate critically the worldview options available as we enter the next millennium. 

COURSE AUTHOR AND INSTRUCTOR
	Dr. A. Cameron Airhart Professor of History BA, Northwest Nazarene College, 1976  MA, PhD, University of California (Santa Barbara), 1979, 1985 At Houghton since 1987 cameron.airhart@houghton.edu
COLLABORATING FACULTY
	Dr. Chris Stewart Associate Dean of Religion and Philosophy Chair, Department of Philosophy Professor of Philosophy   BA, Wheaton College, 1982 MA, Western Kentucky University, 1988 MA, PhD, University of Notre Dame, 1989, 1992 At Houghton since 1993 chris.stewart@houghton.edu

Course Delivery Method
This course will be entirely online.  However, online learning is not alone learning.  The course will be extremely interactive to include a good measure of asynchronous dialogue.  This is a type of written dialogue where you post comments that other students and the instructor will respond to and a threaded conversations will be started and continued. There will be various threaded conversations throughout the course.

Online Learning Information: outline of online courses and strategies for being successful in an online course.

The course will be delivered through Synapse, Houghton's (CRM) Course Management System.

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Note: you will need your Houghton College Username & Password to access Synapse.  If you have misplaced your credentials, please contact the P.A.C.E. Office at: pace@houghton.edu

Dates of Class Modules: TBA