The Salvation Army Booth College

The past has the ability to inform and shape our future. In this unit, you will explore the history of Christianity, paying particular attention to the role that women have played, while discovering how events and people have been remembered, represented, and sometimes forgotten.

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24 February 2025 - 30 May 2025

Weekly hour-long Zoom sessions.

Students can explore the resources in the Ark unit and undertake some pre-reading in preparation for the commencement of this unit.

We recommend that you allocate 12 hours a week for all study activities.

This is a foundational unit that functions as a prerequisite for any future postgraduate study in history.

Please note:  This is a new EBC unit which contains similar content to the Introduction to Church History unit.

Online synchronous and asynchronous, activity-based learning supplemented by weekly Zoom tutorials.

Students are expected to attend weekly one-hour Zoom tutorials, engage in reading sources and watching videos, give an oral presentation on one of the tutorials, write a primary source analysis, and write an essay.

*This unit is offered at Undergraduate and Postgraduate level. Students may engage with people across both levels when this unit is delivered.

1 x 1,500 word Source Analysis - 25%

1 x 1,750 word Seminar or Tutorial - 25%

1 x 3,500 word Essay - 50%

Upon successful completion of this unit, it is expected that students will be able to:

1. Critically assess key themes and events in the history of Christianity and their relative value for Christian identity and mission.

2. Describe the function of memory in the history of Christianity and the power structures at work in the telling of stories.

3. Skillfully apply the foundational tools of historical study showing knowledge of a range of historical methods.

4. Utilise primary and secondary sources to construct a persuasive historical narrative.

5. Convincingly demonstrate the relevance of historical study to present circumstances.

Required text for this unit is:

Elizabeth Gillan Muir, A Women's History of the Christian Church: Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2019.

An eBook is available and will be hyperlinked in Ark, but you may purchase a copy if you wish.