A Closer Look at Humanities
Two sample syllabi from 2011-2012 are downloadable. From these, you can get a sense of how teachers at Olney Friends School rely on primary texts as much as possible when teaching history: Students read paired fiction and non-fiction created during the same time period to gain a richer sense of the era.
Some sample classes:
Humanities 9:
- World History & Literature I (Prehistory to 1100 CE)
- Origins: The First Civilizations
- Classicism: The Greek Legacy
- Empire: The Power and Glory of Rome
- Revelation: The Flowering of World Religions
- Synthesis: The Rise of the West
Humanities 10:
- World History & Literature II (1100-1800 CE)
- Christendom: Europe in the Age of Faith
- Rebirth: The Age of the Renaissance
- Reform: The Northern Renaissance and the Reformation
- Encounter: European Outreach and Expansion
- Baroque: Piety and Extravagance
- Enlightenment: Science and the New Learning
Humanities 11:
- American History & Literature
Humanities 12:
- World History & Literature III (1800-Present)
- Romanticism: Nature, Passion, and the Sublime
- Materialism: The Industrial Era and the Urban Scene
- Modernism: The Assault on Tradition
- Globalism: The Information Age
