Navigating History Online Study Series to Launch December 1

Posted on 15 November, 2010

How can modern American students begin to understand the complexities of the 21st Century challenges awaiting them? Western Conservatory will answer that question in December with a fascinating online video series that delivers fast-paced cultural analysis — live from Egypt.

“We’re dropping a team of filmmakers into the oldest country in the world,” announced team leader Isaac Botkin. “From the moment they hit the ground, students who travel with them by Internet will discover why ideas have consequences and why culture is never neutral. Even after 4000 years, certain theological ideas are still a problem in Egypt and beyond. Why?”

Subscribers who join the two-week journey will have access to web site resources and updates, and six interactive special reports with the filmmakers from key Egyptian locations. The tight deadlines for each of the episodes will also serve as an element of drama for the viewers anticipating the next installment of the adventure. With live timers and GPS tracking, subscribers can monitor the team as they move between destinations and race against deadlines.

“Each lesson which students learn about Egypt,” said Isaac Botkin, “will help them face the challenges of the questions facing young Americans today — in America. We want students to be sharp analysts of America’s political issues, church issues, and family culture issues. Egyptian culture illustrates the consequences of modern challenges with alarming clarity.”

Subscribers can enroll at NavigatingHistory.com. Later productions may drop teams into Japan, Spain, the Horn of Africa, India, Peru, and former Soviet Bloc nations. Each episode will be designed to teach history, geography, current affairs, and worldview analysis to young and old alike.

Disciplines addressed in the Egypt expedition: archeology, Biblical chronology, political theory, engineering, art, geochemistry, architecture, and military science.

“What we want to do,” explains team member David Noor, “is show students how to use unchanging theological truth to assess every aspect of culture and history . . . past, present, and future.”

Learn more at Navigating History: Egypt.