Augustine College is providing a new opportunity to experience some of our curriculum online by offering two courses at Teachable.com!

Discover the ideas, people, and events that shaped the West from fire and hieroglyphics to Plato, Rome and Christianity, and from the Middle Ages to the Industrial Revolution, modernity and postmodernity. Explore meaning and purpose with John Robson PhD, lecturer, writer and film maker.

The History of Western Civilization: The Ancient World

“Most of all we need intimate knowledge of the past.” C.S. Lewis

This course covers the development of the uniquely self-aware culture known as ‘Western civilization’ from its origins in the geography and ecology of the early Holocene through the emergence of Greece and Rome, the rise of Christianity, and the coming of self-government in Britain in the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.

The History of Western Civilization: The Modern World

“We can be almost certain of being wrong about the future, if we are wrong about the past.” G.K. Chesterton

This course covers the further development of the uniquely self-aware culture known as ‘Western civilization’ from the Enlightenment and the spread of European influence to the Industrial Revolution, challenges to the West from within and without in the 19th and 20th centuries and the coming of postmodernism.