History and Politics Department

Department Faculty

History
Richard Follett
Jay Green
Alicia Jackson
Paul Morton

Political Science
Peter Hill, Visiting Professor
Cale Horne
Anna Rannou, Lecturer

Department Goals

The Department of History and Politics believes that historical thinking is an essential feature of faithful living. In our history classes, we aim to help cultivate in students the skills, knowledge, and virtues necessary for thinking historically. To think historically is to read all dimensions of the creation with a keen and subtle awareness of how they were shaped by processes rooted in the remote and the recent past. It also involves understanding past events, ideas, institutions, and civilizations within their thick and varied contexts. The department offers both a major and minor in history, and a concentration in art history, to achieve these goals. We also believe in the importance of civic thinking for a vibrant society. Our political science classes develop civic thinking by providing students with the theories, analytical skills, empirical methods, and research opportunities to understand the patterns of conflict and cooperation that characterize relations within and between states and peoples. The department offers a major and minor in political science to achieve these goals.

For General Education

The department will help students taking history or political science courses within the core curriculum to understand the shape, political dynamics, and historical roots of the modern world and to ask questions within their own major fields informed by the realities of historical development.

For the History Major

Majors are further assisted in developing a deeper understanding of certain aspects of the past and in thinking critically about the issues and problems of teaching and writing history as Christians. To that end, Introduction to History, Historiography, Senior Seminar in History, and the Capstone Project are required for all history majors. Majors in history at Covenant have led to vocations in teaching, journalism, law, government service, pastoral ministry, academic scholarship, and a host of other fields that benefit from a strong foundation in research skills, writing aptitude, and general training in the liberal arts. For further information, the student is urged to consult with anyone within the Department of History and Politics.

For the Political Science Major

Majors study the actors and institutions that generate cooperation and conflict in society and among states. The starting point for this study is an acknowledgment of human beings as fallen image-bearers and government as an ordained institution, and requires that students be taught the discipline’s scientific basis, values, constraints, theoretical foundations and debates, ethical considerations, content across disciplinary fields, methods of inquiry, and analytical skills.

Watch as Dr. Cale Horne, Dr. Peter Hill, and Dr. Anna Rannou describe the Political Science major in this video playlist:

Teacher Certification

History Pre-MAT

Students interested in teaching history for grades 6-12 should complete a BA degree with a major in history and then enroll in the one-year Master of Arts in Teaching at Covenant College. It is recommended that the Education Minor be completed. Three of the courses in the minor, EDU 121 Introduction to Teaching , EDU 222 Educational Psychology and EDU 361 Education of Exceptional Children , are required for admission to the MAT. For information about certification, see Teacher Certification under the Education section of the catalog.

Additionally, pre-MAT history majors are encouraged to take the following specific courses as part of their history major:

Must take HIS 205 Georgia History or transfer in to Covenant College an equivalent course.
HIS 213 Formation of Europe
At least two of the following courses:

HIS 218 Studies in U.S. Constitutional History , or
HIS 305 History of Political Theory , or
HIS 340 20th Century U.S. Foreign Relations , or
HIS 217 Presidential Politics and Elections

For more information, contact:

mat@covenant.edu or lindsey.fain@covenant.edu
706.419.1406
www.mat.covenant.edu

Political Science Pre-MAT

Students who are interested in teaching political science for grades 6-12 should complete the political science major or the history major and then enroll in the one-year Master of Arts in Teaching at Covenant College. It is recommended that the Education Minor be completed. Three of the courses in the minor, EDU 121 Introduction to Teaching , EDU 222 Educational Psychology and EDU 361 Education of Exceptional Children , are required for admission to the MAT. For information about certification, see Teacher Certification under the Education section of the catalog.

In addition, they are encouraged to take the following History and Political Science courses:

HIS 218 Studies in U.S. Constitutional History
HIS 305 History of Political Theory
POL 200 Comparative Politics
POL 202 American Government
POL 210 International Relations
POL 217 Presidential Politics and Elections

For more information, contact:

mat@covenant.edu or lindsey.fain@covenant.edu
706.419.1406
www.mat.covenant.edu

Programs

Major

Minor

Pre-Professional

Pre-Law Studies

Courses

History Courses

Political Science Courses