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DR554W: SIGNIFICANT MOVEMENTS IN CHURCH HISTORY (2022-2023)

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Course Overview

This course offers students the opportunity to explore in depth a period of church history from the patristic to the reformation period. It will critically analyse the contexts, causes, key figures and sources, and the resultant trajectories of particular historical ecclesiastical phenomena. Of note, alongside this will be the theological concerns at stake and the influence of given movements on wider Christian thought and practice.

Course Details

Study Type Postgraduate Level 5
Term Second Term Credit Points 30 credits (15 ECTS credits)
Campus Aberdeen Sustained Study No
Co-ordinators
  • Professor John Behr

What courses & programmes must have been taken before this course?

  • Any Postgraduate Programme

What other courses must be taken with this course?

None.

What courses cannot be taken with this course?

Are there a limited number of places available?

No

Course Description

This course offers students the opportunity to explore in depth a period of church history from the patristic to the reformation period. It will critically analyse the contexts, causes, key figures and sources, and the resultant trajectories of particular historical ecclesiastical phenomena. In doing so, it will explore the developments of the period in question from a range of dimensions, including sociological, political, and economic. Of note alongside this will be the theological concerns at stake and the influence of given movements on wider Christian thought and practice. This course will provide students with advanced methodological skills required for further study in this discipline.


Contact Teaching Time

Information on contact teaching time is available from the course guide.

Teaching Breakdown

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Details, including assessments, may be subject to change until 30 August 2024 for 1st term courses and 20 December 2024 for 2nd term courses.

Summative Assessments

Oral Presentation: Individual

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 20
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseDemonstrate an ability to analyse various scholarly positions on and historiographical approaches toward periods in church history and their capacity to explain the relevant data.
ConceptualCreateDesign and deliver to the class a 10-15 minutes presentation related to one of the weekly topics.
ConceptualEvaluateReflect critically upon the relationship between historical ecclesiastical phenomena and their connection with Christian theological developments of thought and/or practice.
FactualUnderstandDemonstrate an advanced knowledge of the principal factors that gave rise to particular developments in church history and resultant later trajectories.

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 30
Assessment Weeks 29 Feedback Weeks 31

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Word Count 1500
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseDemonstrate an ability to analyse various scholarly positions on and historiographical approaches toward periods in church history and their capacity to explain the relevant data.
ConceptualEvaluateReflect critically upon the relationship between historical ecclesiastical phenomena and their connection with Christian theological developments of thought and/or practice.
ProceduralApplyExercise and enhance the ability to apply appropriate methodological tools to answer historical questions with depth and reliability.

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 50
Assessment Weeks 35 Feedback Weeks

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Word Count 3500
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
ConceptualAnalyseDemonstrate an ability to analyse various scholarly positions on and historiographical approaches toward periods in church history and their capacity to explain the relevant data.
ConceptualCreateEngage in designing an essay topic, locating relevant primary and secondary literature, and writing an original essay.
ConceptualEvaluateReflect critically upon the relationship between historical ecclesiastical phenomena and their connection with Christian theological developments of thought and/or practice.
FactualUnderstandDemonstrate an advanced knowledge of the principal factors that gave rise to particular developments in church history and resultant later trajectories.
ProceduralApplyExercise and enhance the ability to apply appropriate methodological tools to answer historical questions with depth and reliability.

Formative Assessment

There are no assessments for this course.

Resit Assessments

Essay

Assessment Type Summative Weighting 100
Assessment Weeks Feedback Weeks

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Feedback Word Count 5000
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
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Course Learning Outcomes

Knowledge LevelThinking SkillOutcome
FactualUnderstandDemonstrate an advanced knowledge of the principal factors that gave rise to particular developments in church history and resultant later trajectories.
ConceptualCreateEngage in designing an essay topic, locating relevant primary and secondary literature, and writing an original essay.
ConceptualCreateDesign and deliver to the class a 10-15 minutes presentation related to one of the weekly topics.
ConceptualAnalyseDemonstrate an ability to analyse various scholarly positions on and historiographical approaches toward periods in church history and their capacity to explain the relevant data.
ConceptualEvaluateReflect critically upon the relationship between historical ecclesiastical phenomena and their connection with Christian theological developments of thought and/or practice.
ProceduralApplyExercise and enhance the ability to apply appropriate methodological tools to answer historical questions with depth and reliability.

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