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This course introduces high school students to some of the important historical texts of the 20th century and into the 21st. While studying these texts, students explore ideas, controversies, events, and the cast of characters that molded the past century and are shaping the first decades of our own century.
While the course focuses on history, it also integrates some study of 20th Century Literature, helping students to see the integration of both history and literature. In this upper-school course, students will examine and discuss events, trends, ideas, achievements, and failures found over the past century.
Required Materials: Books and supplies are not included in the purchase of the course. These resources are listed to help inform your decision-making as you make course selections and build your course schedule. Please reach out to the instructor if you have any questions about materials.
Sections with Mr. Andy Newman
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Andy Newman calls western Nebraska home, that borderland where Midwest and West shake hands. There he has taught literature, composition, history, journalism, and the humanities for more than twenty years at the high school and college levels. This is his fifth year at Scholé. Before teaching, he worked in daily print journalism.
His education is varied, having earned master’s degrees in history and English from the University of Wyoming and the University of Nebraska at Omaha, respectively. Most recently, he earned a MTh in Applied Orthodox Theology from the Antiochian House of Studies and a MA in Biblical Theology from John Paul the Great Catholic University. He will defend his dissertation early in 2027 for the PhD in Humanities from Faulkner University.
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Sarah von Helfenstein has served as a business professional for the past 30 years, witnessing and participating first hand in many of the century’s rapid changes. She has created, launched, managed, and specialized in financial valuation while also participating in several tech startups. She has performed seminal research for the U.S. Department of Defense and has published and presented extensively in the U.S. and internationally on topics in finance and complex systems.
Believing that each person bears the image of God and that teaching is one of the greatest privileges in any culture throughout history, she has also actively engaged with academia in various ways, including teaching, training, and mentoring both young people and colleagues across a range of disciplines.
Sarah received her MBA from DePaul University’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business and her B.A. from Randolph-Macon Women’s College. She has been a designated member of the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts since 2005, of which she was named Outstanding Member in June 2018. She is a prodigious reader, an engaging lecturer, an advocate of subject mastery through lively and curious discussions, and she is a lover of pets, her children, grandchildren, and classical education.
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