This extensive course will encourage you to engage in critical thinking as we consider the inventions, events, and people that have shaped and influenced American journalism from colonial times to the internet. The impact of technical, economic, political, and cultural developments will be considered as we examine what “freedom of the press” and “the truth” have meant in American society from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of President Trump.

Become the person God is calling you to be while meeting the spiritual, emotional, physical, and economic challenges of the harvest season of your life. This season puts you at a crossroad of decisions that will impact you for the rest of your life. You will be given examples of how to meet and how not to meet each of these unavoidable transitions.

Perry County Bicentennial – the nuts and bolts of celebrating one of Central Pennsylvania’s iconic county’s 200th anniversary of independence from Cumberland County, and how its history is representative of the growth, development, and challenges of our Commonwealth.

This will be an entertaining and compelling collection of stories by four established masters and two living writers: Leo Tolstoy’s “After the Ball”; Anton Chekhov’s “A Trifle From Real Life”; William Faulkner’s “Pantaloon in Black”; Ernest Hemingway’s “The Killers”; Ron Rash’s “Back of Beyond”; and Lionel Shriver’s “Exchange Rates.”

This course will trace the history of immigration in the United States and its interaction with race as the growing population of the country became less Protestant and more diverse. Beginning with the Know- Nothing Party of the mid-19th century, the advent of Nativism, fostered by 19th century racial theory, the lecture will detail how these ideas continue to impact on current American politics.