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Jun 5, 2020
A very comprehensive, cohesive and resourceful overview of all the crucial events, main characters and key ecclesiastical developments that consolidated the Catholic Church in Europe and the Americas.
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Mar 22, 2018
A great journey! Lots of information and bonus material! I'm very thankful for the course. It might be that the professor's speech is sometimes a bit difficult to follow, but it's a minor drawback
By MARIA F S J C
•Apr 2, 2021
Very good course
By Luz M
•Oct 23, 2017
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By Konrad L
•Apr 17, 2022
Amazing course.
By Alice T
•Oct 15, 2017
very insightful
By Ferdinando C
•Oct 29, 2023
Very very good
By Paulo S L B
•Dec 26, 2019
Curso incrivel
By Ralph N
•Jun 22, 2017
Great Course
By Elizabeth
•Apr 10, 2021
Very good!!
By José E L P
•Aug 1, 2023
Excellent.
By Daisey C
•Apr 6, 2021
Excellent!
By Tania K
•Jan 25, 2021
Amazing !
By valeria j b b
•Jan 3, 2021
excelente
By Miurel M
•Aug 11, 2020
Excelente
By Miguel D
•Jul 4, 2020
thank you
By Charles E M
•Apr 30, 2018
Everthing
By Abdulqader A
•Jul 8, 2019
amazing
By Eleonora D C
•Jun 1, 2021
great
By Sweet S
•Jun 21, 2020
Good!!
By Loke Y K
•May 2, 2022
Good
By Iván S
•Nov 14, 2022
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•Nov 19, 2017
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By Kenneth O
•Oct 4, 2017
This is an excellent course. Prof. Gordon offers a very intimate and compelling narrative through the fifteen hundred years of history presented. Hi is a very good storyteller! He brings this complex topic to life through his focus on the individual people who impacted and were impacted by their times as our context for understanding the broader social and theological events that were occurring. I not only learned much, but enjoyed doing so. Therefore the course certainly fulfilled my expectations. I rated it four stars rather than five however because I missed interactivity. The discussion area was not really utilized and many posts were not only old, apparently from an earlier presentation of the course, but went unanswered or with no dialogue by other participants. My suggested would be to make this aspect of the course as compelling as Dr. Gordon's presentations by enhancing interactivity through stimulation of topics and active engagement.
By Bach-Mai V
•Mar 15, 2018
Fascinating survey course that touches on the major figures and trends that led the early Christian church from a persecuted minority to a global movement. Good representation of the economic, political, and cultural context of this evolution. I learned a lot, fleshing out the things I'd previously picked up in grade school world history and art history courses. Excellent choice for anybody interested in European history and religion. My only complaint is the lead professor's lecture style, which seemed off-the-cuff and halting and stream-of-consciousness, even though his content was very much on point. I often read the transcripts of his videos rather than listen to his voice. Also, it would have been nice to have more dynamic videos like I've seen in other courses from Yale via Coursera. Each video is the professor standing or pacing in front of 3 images projected or mounted behind him.
By Shima S
•Apr 28, 2020
I loved the material in this course, and found that 11 weeks went by really quickly. The course was strengthened by the mix of lecturers and the discussion videos. Assessments help synthesize the material. In terms of constructive feedback, I think it would be even better if readings included summaries/overviews of topics. The narrative quickly moves through different characters in different historical and socio-political times, so some sort of big picture overview would be really helpful. Overall highly recommend, and I hope there's a 2nd course that continues where this one left off.
By Russell B
•May 2, 2020
I took this essentially as a refresher course, but I learned a great deal above and beyond that, and it exceeded my expectations. The teachers are all engaging and the coverage is thorough. My only caveats: I did think that there was a bit of a gap in coverage of the early centuries of Christianity as the official religion of the Empire, and I thought there was some downplaying here and there of the darker sides of Catholic and Protestant versions of Western Christianity. Overall, though, this course is very good and delivers what it claims.