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This course satisfies a high school level current events credit. It meets once a week throughout the school year and serves as a meaningful supplement to American Government, History, or Informal Logic (The Art of Argument) but with a moderate workload. The course will focus on reading and understanding major news events from the present and recent past. Along with considering political and global events, we will also look at news in science, art, technology, and even sports. As a Great Hall course, the content will be taught from a Christian worldview but also under the assumption that each student will bring their own tradition and culture with them to the conversation. Focusing on ways to interpret and discuss the news, we will learn how bias is present within news sources as well as within ourselves. This will not be a debate class, but instead a class where we cover important events occurring in our world, how to discuss them respectfully, and how we are to respond to these events as followers of Jesus.
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.
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Andrew Lindsey has been an educator since 2005, with an M.Ed. from Georgia State University, and an M.Div. and Th.M. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He joined as a tutor for Scholé Academy in 2022. Andrew’s greatest passion in life is making the good news of the Lord Jesus known to those who have never heard it before and making this gospel message more clearly known to those who are already following Christ.
Introduction to the News
Understanding New Sources and Bias
Fake News and Investigative Journalism
Putting it into Practice and Other News Forms
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