Bethel University - Spire Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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24 HISTORY AND POLITICAL SCIENCE History records and interprets men’s interaction with other men in the complexity of living. Acknowledging man’s capacities and limitations, history students compare the inter-relation and inter dependence of civilizations. Man’s intellectual, social and technological contributions are traced in Dr. James E. Johnson records ancient and modern. Courses in ancient history transport the student back to 5000 B.C. to the civilizations of Mesopotamia and Egypt. He explores man’s involvements in the Graeco-Roman world; follows him through the Middle Ages, Renaissance, Reformation, French Rev- Mr. James R. Jordan olution and focuses his attention on individuals, such as Constantine, Luther, Napoleon, and Hitler, who have significantly altered the course of history. Political scientists concentrate on what men like Plato, Machiavelli, and Marx have thought and written about political relationships. They look at the

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23 beta’s and theta’s of Koine or Classical Greek. Beyond providing a background in grammar for later exegesis, courses are designed to develop some appreciation for the historical development of this language and some understanding of the cultural complex in which New Testament Greek is grounded. Because modern trends in language teaching theory strongly emphasize hearing and speaking the foreign language, a language laboratory is equipped for students to listen to tapes and respond orally. This year saw more recorders and a time clock for accurate analysis of use of the language lab augmenting the present thirty-booth building. Alta Jacobson and James Jordon continued their graduate studies at the University of Minnesota.

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25 vast continuum of government theories and weigh the implications for citizens under them. Although history and political science are primarily teaching fields, they are also relevant to related vocations as law, journalism and the ministry.