http://edwardwimberley.com/courses/10580/celt.htm

A Virtual Short Course

Edward T. Wimberley, Ph.D.

etwimber@yahoo.com

This course is designed to provider the learner with an opportunity to understand and appreciate the evolution and spread of Celtic culture across Europe and beyond. It is presented in four sessions relying upon video resources from BBC and textual sources that can be accesed online. The course can be taken purely online or can be accessed online and via weekly Zoom meetings.

This course has been developed around two BBC documentaries on Celtic history: The Celts: Blood, Iron, and Sacrifice (2015) and The Celts (2001). The Celts: Blood, Iron, and Sacrifice is narrated by Alice Roberts and Neil Oliver. This is a three part series aired on BBC in and around 2015. Comparatively, The Celts narrated by John Morgan, was released around 2001.

These two films take the studen through the course of Celtic history which reveals that the Celts were not so much a people bound by bloodlines but rather were bound by shared culture and beliefs.

The text for this series is free and online: Ellis, Peter B. (2003) A Brief History of the Celts. London, UK: Constable & Robinson, LTD.

Those taking this course purely online are free to watch and read at their leisure and reflect upon the study questions associated with each chapter. Students desiring to discuss each class session will be given the opportunity to do so on a weekly basis throughout the course via a 90 minute zoom meeting. Students enrolled in this course will provide email addresses to the instructor to allow for them to be notified of the Zoom meeting web address and admission password.

This class is being taught by Edward T. "Terry" Wimberley.

Terry is a retired professor, policy analyst, social worker, gerontologist, though still an active clergyman. Terry holds a B.A. in psychology from Stetson University, a M.Div. from Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, an M.S.W. from the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Social Work and a Ph.D. in Public Affairs from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He has worked as a mental health and social service adminsitrator in Arizona and Texas where he admdinistered mental health centers for Samaritan Health Service in Mesa, Chandler and Apache Junction, Arizona. Thereafter, he administered the Department of Social Work at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

Terry has also served as a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow (1989-90) and worked on Capitol Hill in Washington in both the House and the Senate working on a variety of policy issues. He has also worked as a psychotherapist and social worker for 10 years at the University of Pittsburgh's School of Medicine, served eigfht years on the faculty of Preventive Medicine and Community Health at the University of Texas Medical Branch, five years as Director of the Gerontology Center and Chair of Mental Health and Human Services at Georgia State University in Atlanta and twenty-five years on the faculty of public affairs, social work and ecological studies (serially) at Florida Gulf Coast University (FGCU) in Fort Myers, Florida where he aslo served as the founding Dean of the Colleges of Education and Public and Social Services as well as being the first faculty person hired at the university. Terry retired from FGCU in May of 2020 as Professor Emeritus. His complete academic resume can be found herein.

Dr. Wimberley is the author of 4 books - Handbook Of International Health Care Systems (2001) with Khi Thai Khi and Susan McManus, Nested Ecology (2009), Ecopragmatics (2014) with Scott Pellegrino and Homegrown Ecopragmatics (2019) - and more than 40 professional journal articles.

Beyond his academic work, Terry has served as pastor of two rural churches in Pennsylvania (Pine Creek Presbyterian Church and Hanover Presbyterian Church),and one in South Carolina (Barnwell Presbyterian Church). He also served as assistant minister at Bower Hill Community Church in Pittsburgh and Riverside Church in New York. For nineteen years Terry served as Chaplain at Moorings Park (a retirement community) in Naples, Florida. Terry now serves on the staff of First Presbyterian Church of Aiken, SC as a parish associate

Terry can be reached by email at etwimber@yahoo.com or by phone at 239.405.4164.

Students enrolled in this class will need to email Dr. Wimberley to insure that he has their email address so that he mail email you the web link and password for each class session.

Class sessions and topics are as follows. Just click on each session number and you will be taken to the session page where you will find video, readings and study questions. Clicking on the course logo at the top of any web page returns the student to this the home page.

Session 1: Early Origins

Session 2: A Golden Age

Session 3: Sacred Groves & Last Stands

Session 4: Camelot to Christ - Legend and Reality

Session 5: Celtic Music