Courses

2020 Spring Courses

BTI 503 Old Testament Genre

3 credits
This course is an introduction to Old Testament scripture from the perspective of its literary genres. Students examine six major genres: theological history, law, poetry, wisdom, prophecy, and apocalyptic writing. The characteristics of these genres are discussed and students are exposed to extra-biblical examples of each type. Application of the insights from this approach to the study of the Old Testament, to contemporary life, ministry and mission will be included.

BTI 521 Love in Public: Using the Bible in Social Justice & Transformation

2 credits
This course will explore the use of the Bible in relation to contemporary social issues. Participants will examine issues such as racism, poverty, sexism, gender violence, sexual orientation in light of a Christocentric Theological Anthropology. Students will identify how a Biblical story of Abundance, embodiment and peacemaking, can do justice in the world.

BTI 530 Textual Synthesis I: Examination of the Book of Ruth

2 credits
Prerequisites: BTI 502, BTI 511
An introduction to exegetical methods and tools commonly used in the study of the Hebrew scriptures. An eclectic selection of biblical texts will be used to illustrate the various approaches. Students will prepare brief reports on texts and produce a final project that synthesizes the history of a text’s reception with their own contemporary location and commitments.

BTI 580B Individualized Research

CSL 503 Professional Ethics: Honoring the Other

3 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 528, CSL 551, CSL 552 and CSL 542
The student receives an overview of professional ethics and Washington State law as applied to counseling. Students are encouraged to examine their ethical decision-making processes in light of the difficult decisions facing the professional counselor. The course provides instruction regarding widely accepted ethical norms as well as common legal regulations. Additional topics will include professionalism, licensure, moral responsibility and issues of power. ENDS JUNE 8th.

CSL 511C IS Vocational & Occupational Direction IS

CSL 512B Substance Abuse: The Nature of Addictions

Prerequisites: CSL 544, CSL 551
This course is designed to provide foundational concepts to understand addictive processes and provide appropriate therapy. The course explores existential, theological, and biological foundations and provides instruction in assessment and treatment of those who are drug or alcohol addicted. Individual, family, and community issues surrounding addictions and abuse are covered.

CSL 512C Substance Abuse: The Nature of Addictions

Prerequisites: CSL 544, CSL 551
This course is designed to provide foundational concepts to understand addictive processes and provide appropriate therapy. The course explores existential, theological, and biological foundations and provides instruction in assessment and treatment of those who are drug or alcohol addicted. Individual, family, and community issues surrounding addictions and abuse are covered.

CSL 516B Research: the Dialogical Context of Knowledge

This course is an introduction to psychological research. The student is introduced to quantitative and qualitative research designs and statistical methodologies. Research is studied in its dialogical context: researcher to subject, researcher to interpretation, and researcher to the community within which the research is relevant. Students will also receive guidance and practice in the use of research to inform their therapeutic work. *Required research conference attendance on Friday, June 12, 2020; 9:00am-4:00pm.*

CSL 516C Research: the Dialogical Context of Knowledge

This course is an introduction to psychological research. The student is introduced to quantitative and qualitative research designs and statistical methodologies. Research is studied in its dialogical context: researcher to subject, researcher to interpretation, and researcher to the community within which the research is relevant. Students will also receive guidance and practice in the use of research to inform their therapeutic work. *Required research conference attendance on Friday, June 12, 2020; 9:00am-4:00pm.*

CSL 524IS Introduction to Counseling Children & Adolescents: Independent Study

CSL 532A Internship III

This class will ONLY meet April 20th, May 4th, May 18th and June 1st from 3:00pm - 4:00pm

CSL 543 Therapy II: Psychotherapy in Clinical Practice

2 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 542, CSL 544, CSL 551, CSL 552, and CSL 553; concurrent with CSL 530
This advanced course follows Therapy I and continues to explore the use of the self in the interpersonal aspect of therapeutic work. Focus is given to the clinical process by learning to develop treatment strategies and interventions.

CSL 564 Assessment and Treatment of Trauma and Abuse

CSL 565 Human Sexuality

Human Sexuality is designed to ask questions about the nature of biological sexuality, sexual preference, sexual identity, and desire. The course will seek to explore multiple perspectives to attempt to understand such questions from scientific research, developmental theory, cultural influences, and relational experience. Contemporary scholarship from psychoanalytic literature will be assigned to formulate the bases for class discussion. Students will consider several ways of understanding and working with sexuality in their personal lives and in clinical settings, equipping them to think critically and work effectively in various cultures and systems.

IDS 503 Intersections: Textual Integrations

In the context of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology, theological anthropology synthesizes and integrates theories and concepts from the various disciplines at the school so that the student might dig deep into the question of what it means to be a human person. With this in mind, every student in IDS 503 will write a theological anthropology paper based on their accumulated research, reading, and annotated bibliographies compiled in IDS 501 & 502. This writing is an opportunity to integrate various ideas about what it means to be a human person (e.g. hurting, struggling, working, thriving, etc.) in the daily realities of life (e.g. relationships, family, work, culture, politics, etc.). With faculty advising and peer to peer collaboration, students will develop their own articulation of a theological and psychological anthropology that will serve as an important contribution to the student’s vocation and ongoing integration of theology & psychology.

RLM 510 Leadership in Organizations I: Personal Influence in the Service of Transformation

3 credits
This course will examine the importance of Christian Leadership with regard to personal leadership in multiple contexts - primarily the church, parachurch and non-profit settings. It will explore the importance of character, discover different leadership styles, explore gender issues and give a theological framework for leadership. Recognizing that leadership while anchored in some principles exists in context, the student will learn to discern their place in leadership within specific environments. CLASS WILL MEET TUES & THURS 10AM - 3PM BEGINNING MAY 12TH. TUES. JUNE 2ND AND THURS. JUNE 4TH, IT WILL MEET FROM 10AM - 5PM

SFD 522 C.S. Lewis: Theological Perspectives for Spiritual Formation

This course will examine the literary legacy of one the twentieth century's foremost Christian authors. More specifically, it will explore the theological perspectives of C. S. Lewis, perspectives that speak of God, humanity, nature, love, heaven, hell, prayer, pain and suffering, and ethics. Students will critically reflect on how these insights might inform, nourish, challenge and support their own relationship with God and God's work in the world.

SFD 580B Individualized Research

TCE 506IS Church History I: From Jesus to the Reinassance: Ind. Study

TCE 510 Word & Sacrament: Theology of Spiritual Formation

This course provides the historical, theological and biblical foundation of Christian spiritual theology its form and function as it is practiced in pastoral care, individual, group, and institutional settings.

TCE 520 Philosophy & Theological Thought

This course builds philosophical foundations for graduate students in the interdisciplinary study of theology, philosophy, and culture. The course attends to relationships between philosophy and theology by looking at philosophers who have dealt with the theological tradition of the West and whose influence has affected the subsequent development of theology and of philosophy. While attending to western cultural and historical influences on philosophy that have in turn structured dominant Christian thinking, the course strives to remember that philosophy is a cultural product. Accordingly, this course seeks to understand western philosophy’s influence, its sources, its strengths, and its limitations even as students begin to think globally about Christian thought.

TCE 532 Theology of Eroticism

This class will address the development of a biblical theology of sexual eroticism from the vantage point of the book Song of Solomon. Special emphasis will be placed on addressing the sexual issues faced by students who live in a sexually casual and charged culture in order to develop strategies for exploring those issues in a therapeutic context. INTENSIVE DATES May 21-23, 9:00am-6:00pm.

TCE 542 Christ & Hospitality

This course looks at the relationship between the Christian Church (ecclesiology) and Jesus Christ (Christology). At stake in this conversation is how our doctrines about the person and the work of Christ impacts how persons are formed in the practice of the Church and its liturgy. Doctrine, in this context, is not just an abstract exploration of proper belief about sin, atonement, soteriology, or ecclesiology, but, instead, the location of questioning, and sometimes reforming, how theory (theoria) and practice (praxis) are related to one another in the daily life of the body of Christ. The aim of this class is to show that all study of theology should lead to doxology (worship) and all doxology should lead to the fullness of life in Jesus Christ.

TCE 550IS Engaging Global Partnerships: Independent Study

TCE 575A Special Topics: Spirituality of Contextual Listening Amidst COVID19

This elective course invites participants to develop a practical spirituality for following Christ by loving God through loving their neighbors amidst COVID19. Participants will engage in listening exercises, equipping them to understand how the relational ecosystem of their neighborhood is being transformed through the reality of the pandemic. Participants will listen to their respective context using forecasting skills to anticipate how their neighborhood may be impacted, they will reflect on God’s shalomic imagination for their place given the anticipated changes, and they will design way(s) of bringing neighbors together to experiment toward a more resilient community together.

TCE 575B Special Topics: Spirituality of Contextual Listening Amidst COVID19

This elective course invites students to develop a practical spirituality for following Christ by loving God through loving their neighbors amidst COVID19. Students will engage in listening exercises, equipping them to understand how the relational ecosystem of their neighborhood is being transformed through the reality of the pandemic. Students will listen to their respective context using forecasting skills to anticipate how their neighborhood may be impacted, they will reflect on God’s shalomic imagination for their place given the anticipated changes, and they will design way(s) of bringing neighbors together to experiment toward a more resilient community together.

CRS Yr Courses

CRS 1 Certificate in Resilient Service

RFPT Yr Courses

2020 Fall Courses