- Take notes on all the main points and important people.
- Review the recordings before taking quizzes.
- Give yourself enough time to do the readings slowly and without rushing yourself (they are not very long).
- And most of all, have fun!
Total classes: 12
Prerequisite: None
Suggested high school credit: 1 full semester
Suggested grade level: 9th to 12th
Instructor: Phillip Campbell
Course description: This class will look at the development of twelve of the world's most revolutionary inventions, focusing not only on their mechanical development but on how they changed culture and altered the way man views his place in the cosmos. Man's capacity to invent is a result of his being made in the image of God, the original Creator. This class explores the creative capacity of mankind and how man has shaped and reshaped his own self-understanding through his inventions, beginning with the alphabet and going all the way up to the Internet.
Course outline:
Week One: The Origins of the Alphabet
Week Two: Cartography (Mapmaking)
Week Three: Time-Keeping
Week Four: Firearms
Week Five: The Printing Press
Week Six: The Telescope
Week Seven: Money
Week Eight: Antibiotics
Week Nine: Photography
Week Ten: Automobiles
Week Eleven: Electricity
Week Twelve: The Internet
Course materials: Online sources will be provided as needed by the instructor. No textbook is required.
Homework: Homework will consist of a semester long research project/paper with different components due at various intervals throughout the semester, as well as weekly readings provided by the instructor, and weekly quizzes which are graded automatically inside Moodle.
- Teacher: Phillip Campbell