Online History Course for Catholic Homeschoolers

Ancient and Classical Times, semester 2

Description: Beginning where semester one left things, this course covers the Hellenistic period in the Mediterranean and the story of Rome up to the Incarnation. The course will include readings, lectures, study questions, essays, field assignments, quizzes, and tests. Readings will be drawn from various sources. Lectures will cover both specific themes and the overarching narrative of history.

(This is a Cultural History and Dialectical Enrichment course.)

Instructor: Kenneth Rolling, M.A.

Age Range: 7th-9th grades

Live Class Time: 12:00 pm ET Wednesdays

Course Information Packet: Ancient and Classical Times, Semester Two

Pre-requisite: None.

Online Logic Course for Catholic Homeschoolers

Logic, semester 2

Description: Continuing with the Traditional Logic texts by Martin Cothran, this class will cover book II. Great emphasis will be placed on games, drill, and discussion during class times, which helps fix the concepts in the students' memories and habituate them to their use. The content covered begins with simple apprehension of things and moves through the study of simple syllogisms to complex syllogisms and then to the application of this new knowledge to various case studies. The texts will be supplemented with materials provided by the instructor. The class includes weekly assignments from the text, quizzes, tests, argument analysis, and other activities.

(This is a Language Mastery course.)

Instructor: Kenneth Rolling, M.A.

Age Range: 7th-12th grades

Live Class Time: 1:30 pm ET Wednesdays

Course Information Packet: Traditional Logic, Semester Two

Pre-requisite: Traditional Logic, Book 1 or the equivalent.

Online Introduction to Philosophy Class for Catholic Homeschoolers Spring 2012

Introduction to Philosophy

Description: Using Daniel J. Sullivan's An Introduction to Philosophy: The Perennial Principles of the Classical Realist Tradition as a backbone, this class first traces the origins of philosophy from the Pre-Socratic philosophers up to Aristotle. It then gives a systematic presentation of the natures of things, moving from this to the more specific topic of the nature of the human person. Approximately one half of the text will be covered, leaving for a future course the consideration of the right action of man as well as the consideration of being. Other readings will be supplied by the instructor. This class includes lectures, readings, study questions, essays, quizzes, and tests.

Instructor: Kenneth Rolling, M.A.

Age Range: 9th-12th grades

Live Class Time: 12:00 pm ET Thursdays

Course Information Packet: Introduction to Philosophy

Pre-requisite(s): Logic or work in argumentative writing are recommended, but not required.