"You have to be willing to live your loneliness, your incompleteness, your lack of total incarnation fearlessly, and trust that God will give you the people to keep showing you the truth of who you are."

-Henri Nouwen

The Inner Voice of Love

MACS Global & Social Partnership Track Details

The Seattle School’s MATC in Global & Social Advocacy invites you to develop a mutual relationship with the world based on humility, curiosity and context while advocating on behalf of God, humanity and creation. This concentration trains students to become responsible global citizens marked by the Gospel of Jesus Christ, while engaging the shift toward a postcolonial context. Students will become aware of their narrative, learn to engage their local community and join the larger global perspective.

MATC Global & Social Partnership Track Curriculum (48 credit hours)

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Spiritual Formation Studies: 2 credit hours
Choose 2 credit hours from the following

Prayer I (1)
Theology of Spiritual Formation (2)
Celtic Spirituality (1)
Spiritual Formation: Prayer, Presence and Practice (2)

Bible and Textual Interpretation: 8 credit hours

Introduction to the Hermeneutical Task (2)
Old Testament Genre (3)
New Testament Genre (3)

Theology and Cultural Engagement: 8 credit hours
Choose 8 credit hours from the following:

Theology I: God, Humanity, Christ (2/3)
Theology II: Spirit, Church, Last Things (2/3)
Philosophy I: Plato to Kant (2)
Philosophy II: Hegel and Beyond (2)

Counseling Studies: 10 credit hours

Multicultural Issues (2)
Faith, Hope and Love (2)
Interpersonal Foundations (2)
First-Year Practicum Part I (1)
First-Year Practicum Part II (1)

Choose 2 credits from the following:

Human Growth & Development (2)
Marriage & Family (2)

Vocational Development: 4 credit hours

Selected Readings: Seminar in Creative Arts & Theology (2)
Integrative Project (2)

Global & Social Partnership Track Electives:
Choose 10 credit hours from the following

Using the Bible in Social Injustice and Transformation (2)
Advocacy for Victims of Domestic Violence (2)
Leadership I (2)
Leadership II (2)
Leadership III (2)
Developing Intercultural Competency (2)
Care of the Soul and Call to Sacred Activism (1)
Theories of Culture and the Engagement of Postmodernity (2)
Mission in a Global Context (2)
Our Religious Impulse: Encountering Religious Otherness in a Multi-faith Context (2)
Essential Community (2)

General Electives: 6 credit hours