CA Missions

SOC-906 California Missions: 1769 - Secularization

SOC 906, California Missions: 1769 - Secularization is a 100% online course.

California Mission Period: 1769 - Secularization is designed to help teachers become more knowledgeable about California's Mission Period, that period of time from 1769 to the 1830s when secularization took place. The purpose of this course is to help teachers become more familiar with important aspects of the Mission Period, including reasons why Spain founded the missions, methods used to encourage the natives to live at the missions, mission music, economics, architecture, religion, trades taught at the mission, treatment of natives living at the missions, and those persons associated with the founding of the missions.

Teachers will listen to oral interviews from experts, about the different aspects of Mission life, be introduced to many different technological applications to assist in teaching about the Mission Period, read the course text, explore websites related to the missions, and watch videos related to Mission history. Teachers will be able to take away the skills learned in this course directly back to their classrooms for practical use.

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I learned so much…loved all the angles that were chosen; architectural, Indians, economics, music, spiritual, restoration, and archeological emphasis. Invaluable to anyone who had not taught grade 4. --Terence S.
Great value. Will definitely use information from the course. --Tony R.

San Fernando Mission - Date founded: Sept. 8, 1797

San Fernando Mission: Begun in 1810 and completed twelve years later, the "long building" is unlike any of its contemporary structures except the mission-house at La Purisima Concepcion. Measuring 243 feet in length by fifty in width, the apex of the two-story structure is forty-five feet high with exterior walls three feet thick. The sloping tiled roof is supported on the front side by twenty-one Roman arches.

This San Fernando Mission Indian woman is using a pounding stone to crush acorn kernels. She will pound the kernels until they are crushed into a flour-like meal. Pounding day after day has formed a hole in the boulder. The brush, made of soap root husks, is used to sweep broken kernels back into the hole, to be pounded again.

This San Fernando Mission man is fastening an arrowhead to a short shaft. He is winding deer sinew to hold the arrowhead tightly into the shaft. He has chewed the sinew to make it soft. Sinew is the strong cord that holds the muscle to the bone. Sinew was also used as thread to sew the Indian's clothing.

San Fernando Mission Native Americans

San Fernando Mission Garden

San Fernando Mission Director, Msgr. Francis J. Weber

Carmel Mission - Date founded: June 3, 1770

Sir Harry Downie and the previous instructor, Bob Kirchner, are shown taping a tour of the Carmel Mission (top photo) and seated in Curator Downie's office discussing the discovery and settlement of Alta California.