Use this page to view Summer 2021 course offerings until the catalog is published. This webpage serves as a temporary/alternate method to view course information and is replaced each semester.
Courses are separated by field and subject. Select each course below to view details; select faculty name to view their bio.
Visit this webpage to view course schedules.
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Summer 2021 Courses
Biblical Field
Old Testament
OT 111Q – Elementary Biblical Hebrew I
3 credits
Amy Meverden
An introduction to the basic grammar and vocabulary of biblical Hebrew. This course focuses on skills in reading and writing Hebrew. OT 111Q and OT 204Q should be taken sequentially in one academic year.
Notes: Language courses may not be taken for audit or reading credit except by permission of the instructor. May be repeated, but taken only once for credit. Students are expected to bring both the required textbook: Duane Garrett, A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew, 2009, and accompanying workbook: Duane Garrett, A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew Workbook, 2009 to the first session.
OT 204Q – Elementary Biblical Hebrew II
3 credits
Amy Meverden
A continuation of the introduction to the basic grammar and vocabulary of biblical Hebrew. This course focuses on the translation of selected portions of biblical texts. OT 111Q and OT 204Q should be taken sequentially in one academic year.
Prerequisite: OT 111Q.
Notes: Language courses may not be taken for audit or reading credit except by permission of the instructor. May be repeated, but taken only once for credit. Students are expected to bring both the required textbook: Duane Garrett, A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew, 2009, and accompanying workbook: Duane Garrett, A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew Workbook, 2009 to the first session.
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Practical Theology Field
Integrative & Field-Based Education
FE 206Q – Summer Ministries
2 credits
Su Yon Pak
Independent study in connection with a supervised field placement of at least eight weeks in length. Required meetings with field education staff are arranged. Proposals must be submitted to the senior director of integrative and field-based education prior to registration.
Prerequisites: FE 103 and FE 104. Permission of the instructor.
FE 366Q – Clinical Pastoral Education
6 credits
Su Yon Pak
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is graduate-level theological and professional education for ministry that takes place in a clinical setting. CPE students learn the art and skills of pastoral and spiritual care by providing pastoral and spiritual care to patients, families and staff, and then reflect on their ministry experiences with a certified CPE supervisor and a small group of peers. Students may request to receive academic credits for up to one unit of CPE to fulfill the field education requirement. The senior director of integrative and field-based education will consider an application to substitute a unit of CPE taken on an extended basis through the academic year in order to fulfill the field education requirement.
Prerequisites: PS 110 is required. PS 101 is recommended. Permission of the instructor.
Note: Pass/fail. Identical to PS 366Q.
Psychology & Religion
PS 210Q – Pastoral Practice in a World of Displaced Persons
3 credits
Eunil David Cho
Whether immigrants, refugees, exiles, or asylum seekers, displaced persons and communities are a fact of national and global movement, an issue of human security, and a part of the mission and ministry of church and faith communities. How can pastors, chaplains, and other faith leaders address the pastoral concerns of those who have been displaced? This course offers students an opportunity to examine the stories of displaced persons, construct theologies based on their lived realities, and pursue pastoral practices necessary for the ministries of care, hospitality, and social justice.
Prerequisite: PS 101 recommended.
PS 366Q – Clinical Pastoral Education
6 credits
Su Yon Pak
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is graduate-level theological and professional education for ministry that takes place in a clinical setting. CPE students learn the art and skills of pastoral and spiritual care by providing pastoral and spiritual care to patients, families and staff, and then reflect on their ministry experiences with a certified CPE supervisor and a small group of peers. Students may request to receive academic credits for up to one unit of CPE to fulfill the field education requirement. The senior director of integrative and field-based education will consider an application to substitute a unit of CPE taken on an extended basis through the academic year in order to fulfill the field education requirement.
Prerequisites: PS 110 is required. PS 101 is recommended. Permission of the instructor.
Notes: Pass/fail. PS 366Q, or PS 363 and PS 364, required for students with a concentration in Psychology and Religion. Identical to FE 366Q.
Religion & Education
RE 230Q – Theology & Theatre of the Oppressed
1 credit
John Falcone
Combines training in “theatre of the oppressed” and other techniques of kinesthetic reflection/social analysis, with theological and theoretical reflection on the meaning of “performance,” “education,” “oppression/sin” and “liberation/salvation.” Students articulate their own theology of education and their own theological anthropology. They also generate a portfolio of annotated pedagogical techniques keyed to their present or future ministry/teaching environments.
RE 312Q – Theory & Practice of Teaching
1 credit
John Falcone
Prepares clinical pastoral education (CPE) and spiritual leaders to develop and deliver curriculum in
effective, engaging, and contextually sensitive ways. Students learn about and practice a variety of teaching
techniques (facilitated inquiry, analytic remembering, creative exploration, discernment, lecture,
embodied reflection, etc.). The course is framed by critical pedagogy, empirically grounded learning
theory, and models of situated learning/professional expertise.
Notes: Identical to DM 412Q.
Worship, Preaching & Arts
CW 335Q – Natural Theology: Perspectivism & Performance Theory
3 credits
Claudio Carvalhaes
The ongoing ecological collapse demands us to find new language, new thinking, new gestures, and new ways of understanding relations and subjectivities. This course challenges the forms of theology that focus only on humans and dismisses the animal, vegetable and mineral worlds. This course engages theology, anthropology, philosophy, and performance theory in a two-fold exploration: first, by looking at natural theology and its relations with perspectivism/animism/pantheism and engage with other forms of life and subjects; second, by studying performance theory and how ritual structures shift when we consider other forms of life and subjects. While starting from a Christian Perspective, this course will offer tools for students of different religious traditions to engage their understandings and practices of the sacred and its relation with the earth.
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Doctor of Ministry
Doctor of Ministry
DM 411Q – Research Integration Seminar
2 credits
Kelsey White
This final residency is a capstone course in which students work with the director and their learning cohort to integrate their academic learning, their personal understanding of their ministry and their practice of supervision. The seminar also provides advisement and oversight on the development of their Doctor of Ministry demonstration project. Students present their thesis/project proposal for discussion, revision, and approval.
Prerequisite: Restricted to DMin students planning to graduate in May 2022.
Notes: Meets from August 16-21. Additional fees not charged for identity verification in distance education programs.
DM 412Q – Theory & Practice of Teaching
1 credit
John Falcone
Prepares clinical pastoral education (CPE) and spiritual leaders to develop and deliver curriculum in effective, engaging, and contextually sensitive ways. Students learn about and practice a variety of teaching techniques (facilitated inquiry, analytic remembering, creative exploration, discernment, lecture, embodied reflection, etc.). The course is framed by critical pedagogy, empirically grounded learning theory, and models of situated learning/professional expertise.
Prerequisite: Restricted to DMin students with Summer 2019 entrance year.
Notes: Meets from August 16-27. Additional fees not charged for identity verification in distance education programs. Identical to RE 312Q.
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Biblical Field
Old Testament
OT 111Q – Elementary Biblical Hebrew I
3 credits
Amy Meverden
An introduction to the basic grammar and vocabulary of biblical Hebrew. This course focuses on skills in reading and writing Hebrew. OT 111Q and OT 204Q should be taken sequentially in one academic year.
Notes: Language courses may not be taken for audit or reading credit except by permission of the instructor. May be repeated, but taken only once for credit. Students are expected to bring both the required textbook: Duane Garrett, A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew, 2009, and accompanying workbook: Duane Garrett, A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew Workbook, 2009 to the first session.
OT 204Q – Elementary Biblical Hebrew II
3 credits
Amy Meverden
A continuation of the introduction to the basic grammar and vocabulary of biblical Hebrew. This course focuses on the translation of selected portions of biblical texts. OT 111Q and OT 204Q should be taken sequentially in one academic year.
Prerequisite: OT 111Q.
Notes: Language courses may not be taken for audit or reading credit except by permission of the instructor. May be repeated, but taken only once for credit. Students are expected to bring both the required textbook: Duane Garrett, A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew, 2009, and accompanying workbook: Duane Garrett, A Modern Grammar for Biblical Hebrew Workbook, 2009 to the first session.
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Practical Theology Field
Integrative & Field-Based Education
FE 206Q – Summer Ministries
2 credits
Su Yon Pak
Independent study in connection with a supervised field placement of at least eight weeks in length. Required meetings with field education staff are arranged. Proposals must be submitted to the senior director of integrative and field-based education prior to registration.
Prerequisites: FE 103 and FE 104. Permission of the instructor.
FE 366Q – Clinical Pastoral Education
6 credits
Su Yon Pak
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is graduate-level theological and professional education for ministry that takes place in a clinical setting. CPE students learn the art and skills of pastoral and spiritual care by providing pastoral and spiritual care to patients, families and staff, and then reflect on their ministry experiences with a certified CPE supervisor and a small group of peers. Students may request to receive academic credits for up to one unit of CPE to fulfill the field education requirement. The senior director of integrative and field-based education will consider an application to substitute a unit of CPE taken on an extended basis through the academic year in order to fulfill the field education requirement.
Prerequisites: PS 110 is required. PS 101 is recommended. Permission of the instructor.
Note: Pass/fail. Identical to PS 366Q.
Psychology & Religion
PS 210Q – Pastoral Practice in a World of Displaced Persons
3 credits
Eunil David Cho
Whether immigrants, refugees, exiles, or asylum seekers, displaced persons and communities are a fact of national and global movement, an issue of human security, and a part of the mission and ministry of church and faith communities. How can pastors, chaplains, and other faith leaders address the pastoral concerns of those who have been displaced? This course offers students an opportunity to examine the stories of displaced persons, construct theologies based on their lived realities, and pursue pastoral practices necessary for the ministries of care, hospitality, and social justice.
Prerequisite: PS 101 recommended.
PS 366Q – Clinical Pastoral Education
6 credits
Su Yon Pak
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is graduate-level theological and professional education for ministry that takes place in a clinical setting. CPE students learn the art and skills of pastoral and spiritual care by providing pastoral and spiritual care to patients, families and staff, and then reflect on their ministry experiences with a certified CPE supervisor and a small group of peers. Students may request to receive academic credits for up to one unit of CPE to fulfill the field education requirement. The senior director of integrative and field-based education will consider an application to substitute a unit of CPE taken on an extended basis through the academic year in order to fulfill the field education requirement.
Prerequisites: PS 110 is required. PS 101 is recommended. Permission of the instructor.
Notes: Pass/fail. PS 366Q, or PS 363 and PS 364, required for students with a concentration in Psychology and Religion. Identical to FE 366Q.
Religion & Education
RE 230Q – Theology & Theatre of the Oppressed
1 credit
John Falcone
Combines training in “theatre of the oppressed” and other techniques of kinesthetic reflection/social analysis, with theological and theoretical reflection on the meaning of “performance,” “education,” “oppression/sin” and “liberation/salvation.” Students articulate their own theology of education and their own theological anthropology. They also generate a portfolio of annotated pedagogical techniques keyed to their present or future ministry/teaching environments.
RE 312Q – Theory & Practice of Teaching
1 credit
John Falcone
Prepares clinical pastoral education (CPE) and spiritual leaders to develop and deliver curriculum in
effective, engaging, and contextually sensitive ways. Students learn about and practice a variety of teaching
techniques (facilitated inquiry, analytic remembering, creative exploration, discernment, lecture,
embodied reflection, etc.). The course is framed by critical pedagogy, empirically grounded learning
theory, and models of situated learning/professional expertise.
Notes: Identical to DM 412Q.
Worship, Preaching & Arts
CW 335Q – Natural Theology: Perspectivism & Performance Theory
3 credits
Claudio Carvalhaes
The ongoing ecological collapse demands us to find new language, new thinking, new gestures, and new ways of understanding relations and subjectivities. This course challenges the forms of theology that focus only on humans and dismisses the animal, vegetable and mineral worlds. This course engages theology, anthropology, philosophy, and performance theory in a two-fold exploration: first, by looking at natural theology and its relations with perspectivism/animism/pantheism and engage with other forms of life and subjects; second, by studying performance theory and how ritual structures shift when we consider other forms of life and subjects. While starting from a Christian Perspective, this course will offer tools for students of different religious traditions to engage their understandings and practices of the sacred and its relation with the earth.
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Doctor of Ministry
Doctor of Ministry
DM 411Q – Research Integration Seminar
2 credits
Kelsey White
This final residency is a capstone course in which students work with the director and their learning cohort to integrate their academic learning, their personal understanding of their ministry and their practice of supervision. The seminar also provides advisement and oversight on the development of their Doctor of Ministry demonstration project. Students present their thesis/project proposal for discussion, revision, and approval.
Prerequisite: Restricted to DMin students planning to graduate in May 2022.
Notes: Meets from August 16-21. Additional fees not charged for identity verification in distance education programs.
DM 412Q – Theory & Practice of Teaching
1 credit
John Falcone
Prepares clinical pastoral education (CPE) and spiritual leaders to develop and deliver curriculum in effective, engaging, and contextually sensitive ways. Students learn about and practice a variety of teaching techniques (facilitated inquiry, analytic remembering, creative exploration, discernment, lecture, embodied reflection, etc.). The course is framed by critical pedagogy, empirically grounded learning theory, and models of situated learning/professional expertise.
Prerequisite: Restricted to DMin students with Summer 2019 entrance year.
Notes: Meets from August 16-27. Additional fees not charged for identity verification in distance education programs. Identical to RE 312Q.
Integrative & Field-Based Education
FE 206Q – Summer Ministries
2 credits
Su Yon Pak
Independent study in connection with a supervised field placement of at least eight weeks in length. Required meetings with field education staff are arranged. Proposals must be submitted to the senior director of integrative and field-based education prior to registration.
Prerequisites: FE 103 and FE 104. Permission of the instructor.
FE 366Q – Clinical Pastoral Education
6 credits
Su Yon Pak
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is graduate-level theological and professional education for ministry that takes place in a clinical setting. CPE students learn the art and skills of pastoral and spiritual care by providing pastoral and spiritual care to patients, families and staff, and then reflect on their ministry experiences with a certified CPE supervisor and a small group of peers. Students may request to receive academic credits for up to one unit of CPE to fulfill the field education requirement. The senior director of integrative and field-based education will consider an application to substitute a unit of CPE taken on an extended basis through the academic year in order to fulfill the field education requirement.
Prerequisites: PS 110 is required. PS 101 is recommended. Permission of the instructor.
Note: Pass/fail. Identical to PS 366Q.
Psychology & Religion
PS 210Q – Pastoral Practice in a World of Displaced Persons
3 credits
Eunil David Cho
Whether immigrants, refugees, exiles, or asylum seekers, displaced persons and communities are a fact of national and global movement, an issue of human security, and a part of the mission and ministry of church and faith communities. How can pastors, chaplains, and other faith leaders address the pastoral concerns of those who have been displaced? This course offers students an opportunity to examine the stories of displaced persons, construct theologies based on their lived realities, and pursue pastoral practices necessary for the ministries of care, hospitality, and social justice.
Prerequisite: PS 101 recommended.
PS 366Q – Clinical Pastoral Education
6 credits
Su Yon Pak
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) is graduate-level theological and professional education for ministry that takes place in a clinical setting. CPE students learn the art and skills of pastoral and spiritual care by providing pastoral and spiritual care to patients, families and staff, and then reflect on their ministry experiences with a certified CPE supervisor and a small group of peers. Students may request to receive academic credits for up to one unit of CPE to fulfill the field education requirement. The senior director of integrative and field-based education will consider an application to substitute a unit of CPE taken on an extended basis through the academic year in order to fulfill the field education requirement.
Prerequisites: PS 110 is required. PS 101 is recommended. Permission of the instructor.
Notes: Pass/fail. PS 366Q, or PS 363 and PS 364, required for students with a concentration in Psychology and Religion. Identical to FE 366Q.
Religion & Education
RE 230Q – Theology & Theatre of the Oppressed
1 credit
John Falcone
Combines training in “theatre of the oppressed” and other techniques of kinesthetic reflection/social analysis, with theological and theoretical reflection on the meaning of “performance,” “education,” “oppression/sin” and “liberation/salvation.” Students articulate their own theology of education and their own theological anthropology. They also generate a portfolio of annotated pedagogical techniques keyed to their present or future ministry/teaching environments.
RE 312Q – Theory & Practice of Teaching
1 credit
John Falcone
Prepares clinical pastoral education (CPE) and spiritual leaders to develop and deliver curriculum in
effective, engaging, and contextually sensitive ways. Students learn about and practice a variety of teaching
techniques (facilitated inquiry, analytic remembering, creative exploration, discernment, lecture,
embodied reflection, etc.). The course is framed by critical pedagogy, empirically grounded learning
theory, and models of situated learning/professional expertise.
Notes: Identical to DM 412Q.
Worship, Preaching & Arts
CW 335Q – Natural Theology: Perspectivism & Performance Theory
3 credits
Claudio Carvalhaes
The ongoing ecological collapse demands us to find new language, new thinking, new gestures, and new ways of understanding relations and subjectivities. This course challenges the forms of theology that focus only on humans and dismisses the animal, vegetable and mineral worlds. This course engages theology, anthropology, philosophy, and performance theory in a two-fold exploration: first, by looking at natural theology and its relations with perspectivism/animism/pantheism and engage with other forms of life and subjects; second, by studying performance theory and how ritual structures shift when we consider other forms of life and subjects. While starting from a Christian Perspective, this course will offer tools for students of different religious traditions to engage their understandings and practices of the sacred and its relation with the earth.
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Doctor of Ministry
Doctor of Ministry
DM 411Q – Research Integration Seminar
2 credits
Kelsey White
This final residency is a capstone course in which students work with the director and their learning cohort to integrate their academic learning, their personal understanding of their ministry and their practice of supervision. The seminar also provides advisement and oversight on the development of their Doctor of Ministry demonstration project. Students present their thesis/project proposal for discussion, revision, and approval.
Prerequisite: Restricted to DMin students planning to graduate in May 2022.
Notes: Meets from August 16-21. Additional fees not charged for identity verification in distance education programs.
DM 412Q – Theory & Practice of Teaching
1 credit
John Falcone
Prepares clinical pastoral education (CPE) and spiritual leaders to develop and deliver curriculum in effective, engaging, and contextually sensitive ways. Students learn about and practice a variety of teaching techniques (facilitated inquiry, analytic remembering, creative exploration, discernment, lecture, embodied reflection, etc.). The course is framed by critical pedagogy, empirically grounded learning theory, and models of situated learning/professional expertise.
Prerequisite: Restricted to DMin students with Summer 2019 entrance year.
Notes: Meets from August 16-27. Additional fees not charged for identity verification in distance education programs. Identical to RE 312Q.
Doctor of Ministry
DM 411Q – Research Integration Seminar
2 credits
Kelsey White
This final residency is a capstone course in which students work with the director and their learning cohort to integrate their academic learning, their personal understanding of their ministry and their practice of supervision. The seminar also provides advisement and oversight on the development of their Doctor of Ministry demonstration project. Students present their thesis/project proposal for discussion, revision, and approval.
Prerequisite: Restricted to DMin students planning to graduate in May 2022.
Notes: Meets from August 16-21. Additional fees not charged for identity verification in distance education programs.
DM 412Q – Theory & Practice of Teaching
1 credit
John Falcone
Prepares clinical pastoral education (CPE) and spiritual leaders to develop and deliver curriculum in effective, engaging, and contextually sensitive ways. Students learn about and practice a variety of teaching techniques (facilitated inquiry, analytic remembering, creative exploration, discernment, lecture, embodied reflection, etc.). The course is framed by critical pedagogy, empirically grounded learning theory, and models of situated learning/professional expertise.
Prerequisite: Restricted to DMin students with Summer 2019 entrance year.
Notes: Meets from August 16-27. Additional fees not charged for identity verification in distance education programs. Identical to RE 312Q.