Courses

2023 Winter Courses

BTI 504O Tell Me the Stories of Jesus: A New Testament Survey

3 credits
This course is a survey of selected books of the New Testament considering them as narrative witnesses to the identity of Jesus and the formation of the Church. The Gospels, the Acts of the Apostles, selected Pauline and general epistles, and the Apocalypse of John are studied, attending to both their content and their literary form.

BTI 515R Engaging the Bible: Genre, History, and Context

This course provides an overview of biblical literature and interpretive methods to help students cultivate attuned and faithful practices for engaging scripture. By exploring the genres, literary form, cultural contexts, and history of reception of both Testaments, learners will examine “Why” scripture matters. Engaging the Bible: Genre, History, and Context prepares people to listen well and wisely to the Biblical text and how it functions dynamically and authoritatively within communities of faith.

This course is associated with the Winter term residency.

Draft course description pending faculty approval

BTI 571O Integrative Project Continuation

1 credit
Prerequisite: Taken in last year of MDIV degree program
An individualized learning experience that creates space for students to draw from their entire Seattle School experience as they look to their post-graduation ministry and their unique embodiment of text, soul and culture. Blending research methodology with the personal supervision of their advisor (at The Seattle School), students complete the writing of their final integrative project for the MDIV during their final year. This course is taught consecutively over two trimesters, with two credits earned in the fall and one credit earned in the spring term. M. Div students also add another credit in Spring term.

BTI 580B Individualized Research: Greek/Gospel of Mark

CSL 509R Social & Cultural Diversities

3 credits
Prerequisites: IDS 501, IDS 521
In this course, students will be introduced to theories and models of multicultural counseling, cultural identity development, and social justice and advocacy. By gaining a deeper understanding of power, privilege, and oppression, students will examine their own experiences and develop strategies for identifying and eliminating barriers, prejudices, and processes of intentional and unintentional oppression and discrimination in mental health counseling. Through deeply engaging a central theme related to counseling in diverse contexts, the course provides a framework for thinking about the effects of power and privilege for counselors and clients in ways that can be applied to topics such as aging, culture disability, ethnicity, race, religion/spirituality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status/partnership, language preference, and socioeconomic status.

On-campus students: If you register for either section of CSL 509R you will be required to come to campus for this course from 9am-12pm on January 12 and 13 during the Winter term residency. For questions, email academics@theseattleschool.edu.

Please note: Both sections of CSL 509R will meet at the Winter residency. These sections will NOT meet the week of 1/16 and will resume meeting the week of 1/23.

CSL 509S Social & Cultural Diversities

3 credits
Prerequisites: IDS 501, IDS 521
In this course, students will be introduced to theories and models of multicultural counseling, cultural identity development, and social justice and advocacy. By gaining a deeper understanding of power, privilege, and oppression, students will examine their own experiences and develop strategies for identifying and eliminating barriers, prejudices, and processes of intentional and unintentional oppression and discrimination in mental health counseling. Through deeply engaging a central theme related to counseling in diverse contexts, the course provides a framework for thinking about the effects of power and privilege for counselors and clients in ways that can be applied to topics such as aging, culture disability, ethnicity, race, religion/spirituality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status/partnership, language preference, and socioeconomic status.

Low-residency students: if you choose to register for the on-campus section of this course (CSL 509S), please email academics@theseattleschool.edu for information about how this will impact your Winter residency.

CSL 510R Human Growth and Development

3 credits
Recommended Prerequisite: CSL 502
This course provides an overview of major developmental theories that include cognitive, moral/spiritual, psychological, interpersonal, and social perspectives across the lifespan from conception to death. It is understood that development does not take place in isolation. Human development is deeply embedded within and is inseparable from the context of family, social networks/traditions, race/ethnicity, and culture. Particular emphasis is placed upon the integrative and interactive functions of the self-in-relation. Formation of the self is dynamic as it is being formed, informed, and transformed within the complexities of personal and systemic influences.

This course is associated with the Winter term residency.

CSL 510S Human Growth and Development

3 credits
Recommended Prerequisite: CSL 502
This course provides an overview of major developmental theories that include cognitive, moral/spiritual, psychological, interpersonal, and social perspectives across the lifespan from conception to death. It is understood that development does not take place in isolation. Human development is deeply embedded within and is inseparable from the context of family, social networks/traditions, race/ethnicity, and culture. Particular emphasis is placed upon the integrative and interactive functions of the self-in-relation. Formation of the self is dynamic as it is being formed, informed, and transformed within the complexities of personal and systemic influences.

CSL 531O Internship II

Prerequisites: CSL 530

The purpose of the counseling Internship is to provide a professional setting for interns to gather experience and to receive supervision regarding their clinical work. This setting will provide the intern with supervised experiences in preparation for professional practice as a counselor. The Intern will have an opportunity to develop and practice these skills in a variety of clinical settings under the guidance of an on-site supervisor.

Concurrent with a student’s Internship experience, the Internship I & II courses provides a setting for students to observe, explore and learn from their clinical experiences, specifically, what arises within the clinical hour, including pre-session and post-session. This setting allows each student the opportunity to discuss and learn from their Internship experiences.

CSL 538O MACP Practicum III

2 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 543, CSL 545, CSL 553
This practicum functions as a synthesis of the MACP. It provides an observed therapeutic experience with a senior therapist followed by class and faculty feedback and evaluation. The student interacts with issues of interviewing, assessment, diagnosing and treatment, as well as the use of therapeutic relationship to address client concerns. The course draws on the theoretical categories presented throughout the degree as well as the training experiences in practicum and internships.

CSL 542O Helping Relationships I

3 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 502, CSL 544, CSL 553
This course is the first in a two-part series that builds on the competencies, deep listening skills and self-reflection practices introduced in the common curriculum and Pre-Internship CSL 553. The course continues to cultivate students’ grasp of therapeutic processes, skills and techniques crucial for effective psychotherapy treatments across the lifespan from a relational posture. The course helps students apply their clinical knowledge and theory as they begin to inhabit the role of therapist. Students will engage course content through a combination of supervised role-play experiences, reflections, and didactic teaching methods as they prepare for their internship experience.

CSL 542S Helping Relationships I

3 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 502, CSL 544, CSL 553
This course is the first in a two-part series that builds on the competencies, deep listening skills and self-reflection practices introduced in the common curriculum and Pre-Internship CSL 553. The course continues to cultivate students’ grasp of therapeutic processes, skills and techniques crucial for effective psychotherapy treatments across the lifespan from a relational posture. The course helps students apply their clinical knowledge and theory as they begin to inhabit the role of therapist. Students will engage course content through a combination of supervised role-play experiences, reflections, and didactic teaching methods as they prepare for their internship experience.

CSL 545H Psychopathology

3 Credits
Prerequisite: CSL 544
This second course in Psychopathology builds upon the nosology and theoretical foundation in Psychopathology I. A multidisciplinary approach, specifically the bio-psycho-social model of disease are presented. This course covers the use of the current Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as related to assessment, evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment modalities of personality disorders. Developmental and intrapsychic perspectives are discussed with an emphasis on the treatment of the particular mental spaces and disorders of the self. The course addresses diagnostic categories of psychopathology of personality through mental status examinations and assessment instruments, as well as objective, achievement, neuropsychological, and projective instruments. An overview of the purposes and functions of testing, assessment, screening, problem-solving, counseling, rehabilitation and progress evaluation is covered.

CSL 553IS Pre-Internship: Counseling Practicum - Ind. Study

CSL 556 CTA Practicum B: Engaging Trauma From a Narrative Lens

2 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 544, CSL 553, CSL 566
This course provides advanced counseling training with the emphasis on engaging trauma and abuse. It builds upon the training experiences gained in Listening Lab I and II, and Practicum II. It utilizes narrative engagement as a method to address explicit and implicit content within a trauma memory/story while honoring that the trauma experience is embodied, re-enacted and survived through various styles of relating. This course involves supervised practice counseling with fellow students, and personal understanding as it relates to the impacts of trauma and abuse.

CSL 558 CTA Practicum C Part II: Narrative Focused Trauma Care Level II training

2 credits
Prerequisite: CSL 557
Course is limited to students enrolled in the Concentration in Trauma & Abuse.

This course meets as an online intensive on the following dates: March 2-5 and April 20-23.

This course is the final training in advanced trauma-informed counseling. It builds upon the previous material and experiences gained in CTA Practicum A. It utilizes narrative engagement as the primary avenue to bring integration and healing to trauma and abuse memory/story. In this course students will hone their ability to use previously demonstrated methods to engage sexual harm/abuse. In this course students will progress in their ability to interact with issues of race, sexual and gender identity and other aspects of underrepresentation/marginalization/oppression. The course involves supervised practice counseling with fellow students, and personal understanding as it relates to the impacts of trauma and abuse.

CSL 561O Interpersonal Neurobiology

2 Credits
Prerequisite: IDS 521 (previously CSL 552)

This course meets as an online intensive on the following dates: Feb. 17-18; March 10, and March 17.

This course allows the student to further integrate theory and practice. The course will introduce and explore the expanding data from Neuroscience and Interpersonal Neurobiology and address how this information can be used to enhance the practice of psychotherapy and the movement toward wholeness and integration that can only take place within the context of relationship. The course will also provide experiential learning and practice opportunities in a pro-seminar format.

CSL 563S The Battle of Shame

2 Credits

This course meets as an on-campus intensive on the following dates: Jan. 27-28 AND Feb. 24-25.

This course utilizes a didactic and experiential format in which to further explore the topic of shame. Shame is often kept hidden and leads us to experience the core human fear of being left and abandoned. This class attempts to discern the origins of shame, examine how shame permeates human relationships and provide insight into how shame can be addressed within a therapeutic context.

CSL 571S Infant Observation II

1 credit

This course meets off-site at Tom Saunders' office:
16030 Bothell Everett Highway Ste. 295
Mill Creek, WA

This course introduces the experience of early formation, development in the infant, and the infant in relationship to their mothering figure, other primary caretakers, as well as ultimately to the birthing of the infant’s mind. Infant observation focuses on the primary relationships, primitive anxieties, defenses, which later inform clinical work with children, adolescents, and adult patients in psychotherapy. This in vivo learning experience takes place through a weekly observation of the infant with their mothering figure, primary caregiver in their home environment.

CSL 574S Elements of British Object Relations II

This course meets on the following dates:
January 10, 17, 24, 31
February 7, 14, 28 (Note: no meeting on February 21)
March 7, 14, 21

This course meets at Kris Wheeler's home office:
5809 43rd Ave NE, Seattle, WA 98105. Parking on the street is available.

CSL 575BO Special Topics: Domestic Violence from the Perspective of a Victim

This course is designed to provide an overview of the dynamics of domestic violence. The focus is on the impact of violence on adult and child victims and strategies to provide safety and support to them.

CSL 580B Individualized Research: Real World Applications of Lacanian Theory

This course will address Lacanian psychoanalytic theory and its clinical application. Utilizing a literature review and clinical case study, the class will act as a basis for future clinical work and the development of a robust theory of mind. This course will aid in the future therapeutic work of the student by providing a broader understanding of how to approach therapy with individuals from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective, utilizing case studies and research papers.

IDS 502O Intersections: Biblical Traditions & Theological Formations

2 credits
Prerequisites: IDS 501
Corequisite: IDS 505
This course will explore interdisciplinary perspectives on complex problems that affect biblical interpretive traditions and theological formations. Real-world implications of the doctrine of God, the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit will be engaged from an interdisciplinary framework of theology, psychology, and biblical studies.

IDS 505O Contextual Learning Lab

1 credit
Corequisite: IDS 502
This course grounds interdisciplinary inquiry within the reality of students’ everyday lives. It equips students to listen as storied, located, and bodied creatures, providing skills for ways of loving God and neighbor within their place’s ecosystem unto the common good.

IDS 505S Contextual Learning Lab

1 credit
Corequisite: IDS 502
This course grounds interdisciplinary inquiry within the reality of students’ everyday lives. It equips students to listen as storied, located, and bodied creatures, providing skills for ways of loving God and neighbor within their place’s ecosystem unto the common good.

IDS 511O Critical Analysis & Interdisciplinary Application (Cross Listed: TCE 513A Advanced Seminar)

1 credit
Prerequisite: IDS 510
Required course for all MATC students in the Interdisciplinary Track.

This course is cross-listed with TCE 513A. Students in this section are ONLY taking IDS 511 for a total of 1 credit.

MATC (IS) students will take IDS 511BO for 2 credits (IDS 510O - 1 cr.; TCE 513AO - 1 cr.)

MATC (TIA or SGP) students will take TCE 513AO for 1 credit, unless they wish to take both portions (IDS 511O and TCE 513AO for a total of 2 credits, 1 of which will count as general elective).

Critique differs greatly from criticism and yet, the two are often conflated. While one opens paths for dialogue and engagement, the other shuts down conversation and forecloses connection. Critical analysis does not involve finding fault but rather, helps us understand the motivations, intentions, and possibilities for discourse of a particular piece of work. In this way critical analysis opens us to the why’s and how’s of an argument’s power and effectiveness. This seminar builds off of the work done in IDS 510: Constructive Critique for Change: Interdisciplinary Methods, as such, students will be applying varying critical discourses and research methodologies related to a topic/theme of their choosing in order to engage more deeply those methods and applications as they relate to interdisciplinary critical analysis. Students by way of these explorations become clearer presenters of their thoughts and positions, become better critical thinkers in today’s complex and ever-changing world, and learn to be deep explorers of text, soul, and culture in ways that foster engagement and connection.

IDS 511O Critical Analysis & Interdisciplinary Application (Cross Listed: TCE 513A Advanced Seminar)

1 credit
Prerequisite: IDS 510
Required course for all MATC students in the Interdisciplinary Track.

This course is cross-listed with TCE 513A. Students in this section are ONLY taking IDS 511 for a total of 1 credit.

MATC (IS) students will take IDS 511BO for 2 credits (IDS 510O - 1 cr.; TCE 513AO - 1 cr.)

MATC (TIA or SGP) students will take TCE 513AO for 1 credit, unless they wish to take both portions (IDS 511O and TCE 513AO for a total of 2 credits, 1 of which will count as general elective).

Critique differs greatly from criticism and yet, the two are often conflated. While one opens paths for dialogue and engagement, the other shuts down conversation and forecloses connection. Critical analysis does not involve finding fault but rather, helps us understand the motivations, intentions, and possibilities for discourse of a particular piece of work. In this way critical analysis opens us to the why’s and how’s of an argument’s power and effectiveness. This seminar builds off of the work done in IDS 510: Constructive Critique for Change: Interdisciplinary Methods, as such, students will be applying varying critical discourses and research methodologies related to a topic/theme of their choosing in order to engage more deeply those methods and applications as they relate to interdisciplinary critical analysis. Students by way of these explorations become clearer presenters of their thoughts and positions, become better critical thinkers in today’s complex and ever-changing world, and learn to be deep explorers of text, soul, and culture in ways that foster engagement and connection.

IDS 521R Listening Lab: Part II

2 credits total ; taught over 2 terms
This lab provides opportunities for students to engage with interdisciplinary theory and praxis related to deep listening. By tending to the data of experience at three levels (intrapsychic, interpersonal, and group as a whole), students will cultivate a relational stance marked by observation, openness, and curiosity. The frame of Listening Lab is designed to foster a getting-to-know posture rather than a knowing posture, working within the frame of the lab to explore and express one’s own realities, internal and external, past and present, personal and collective.

Please note: All sections of IDS 521R will meet at the Winter residency. These sections will NOT meet the week of 1/16 and will resume meeting the week of 1/23.

IDS 521S Listening Lab: Part II

2 credits total ; taught over 2 terms
This lab provides opportunities for students to engage with interdisciplinary theory and praxis related to deep listening. By tending to the data of experience at three levels (intrapsychic, interpersonal, and group as a whole), students will cultivate a relational stance marked by observation, openness, and curiosity. The frame of Listening Lab is designed to foster a getting-to-know posture rather than a knowing posture, working within the frame of the lab to explore and express one’s own realities, internal and external, past and present, personal and collective.

RES Residency

This course will house materials related to the residency for the current term.

The Winter Residency meets January 11-14, 2022.

RLM 504O Life Together II: Relational Ethics for Church and Leadership

2 Credits
Prerequisites: RLM 503, concurrent with RLM 531
As the second of a two-part course combining praxis-focused field experience, classroom instruction and intentional community, this course considers applied relationality for church and leadership with a focus on pastoral ethics and intentional, creative care for the faith community. Students will be expected to develop a personal philosophy of ministry.

RLM 520O Being the Word on the Street: Developing Intercultural Competency

2 credits
This course prepares the student to engage and embrace culturally diverse contexts. Through the development of an anthropological understanding of culture this course considers new ways to navigate differences between the self and the "other". Students will examine unique interpersonal (social bias) and sociological (power) dynamics in diverse settings. This exploration will assist students in serving the church and community in culturally responsive ways.

RLM 531O MDiv Practicum III: Embodying Christ

1 Credit
Prerequisite: RLM 530
Corequisite: RLM 504
Students will be expected to demonstrate their understanding of relational ethics, pastoral care and their own philosophy of ministry. Students will present, in oral and written form, their theory of pastoral engagement in praxis.

SFD 518O Pilgrimage as Way of Life

1 credit
Pilgrimage has historically been understood as sacred travel that integrates body, mind, soul and spirit. How might pilgrimage also provide a formative model for our everyday lives and the lives of those whom we serve? The practice of pilgrimage invites us as seekers to become agents of change on our journeys of transformation. In this course, students will learn about pilgrimage through study, reflection, local practice, and shared experience and develop an understanding of how the archetypes of pilgrimage - whether to distant lands or right outside the student's door - can be also applied in everyday life.

SFD 580A Individualized Research: The Soulful Practice of Ritual

This course is an exploration into the creation and performance of ritual. Across time, religion, and culture, ritual practices have been used as tools to bridge the physical and spiritual worlds, negotiating meaning-making, embodiment, and connection to a greater whole. In the modern western world, collective traumas such as white supremacy, capitalism, and individualism have left many people living lives divorced from the soulful power of embodied and communal practices. This course is an exploration of the elements, formation, and practice of ritual, with an open question as to how rediscovering, reclaiming, or crafting meaningful rituals may become a means of connecting with sacred or mythical time, symbolizing and expressing themes such as memory, celebration, grief, seasonal connection, myth, the death-life-death cycle, growth and release, boundaries and belonging, individual and collective, calling, choice, and more.

IDS 511O Critical Analysis & Interdisciplinary Application (Cross Listed: TCE 513A Advanced Seminar)

1 credit
Prerequisite: IDS 510
Required course for all MATC students in the Interdisciplinary Track.

This course is cross-listed with TCE 513A. Students in this section are ONLY taking IDS 511 for a total of 1 credit.

MATC (IS) students will take IDS 511BO for 2 credits (IDS 510O - 1 cr.; TCE 513AO - 1 cr.)

MATC (TIA or SGP) students will take TCE 513AO for 1 credit, unless they wish to take both portions (IDS 511O and TCE 513AO for a total of 2 credits, 1 of which will count as general elective).

Critique differs greatly from criticism and yet, the two are often conflated. While one opens paths for dialogue and engagement, the other shuts down conversation and forecloses connection. Critical analysis does not involve finding fault but rather, helps us understand the motivations, intentions, and possibilities for discourse of a particular piece of work. In this way critical analysis opens us to the why’s and how’s of an argument’s power and effectiveness. This seminar builds off of the work done in IDS 510: Constructive Critique for Change: Interdisciplinary Methods, as such, students will be applying varying critical discourses and research methodologies related to a topic/theme of their choosing in order to engage more deeply those methods and applications as they relate to interdisciplinary critical analysis. Students by way of these explorations become clearer presenters of their thoughts and positions, become better critical thinkers in today’s complex and ever-changing world, and learn to be deep explorers of text, soul, and culture in ways that foster engagement and connection.

TCE 541O Spirit & Trauma

2 credits
This course explores the intersection of theology trauma studies/traumatology. In this class, we will read and compare theologies of the cross and theologies of the Holy Spirit to investigate how different theological approaches impact one's view on trauma, suffering, healing, redemption, witness, resilience, community, etc. This class is primarily focused on theological questions, but will purposefully seek out ways to bring together and find various modes of integrating theology and psychology (i.e., traumatology) throughout the class. Though the disciplines of theology and psychology utilize different vocabularies and methodologies, both seek out the wholeness and well-being of the human person, particularly in the wake of suffering, abuse, and trauma. Theology in this frame, should lead persons toward liberation and shalom, especially when life and death are closely experienced and related.

TCE 570S Book of Job

2 credits

This course will meet as a hybrid intensive on the following dates: Feb. 9-11. On Thursday, Feb. 9 the class will meet 12-5pm PT. On Friday & Saturday it will meet 9am-5pm.

THIS CLASS IS A TEST PILOT OF A HYBRID MODALITY. All students will register for this same course. On-campus modality students will be meeting in the Large Classroom. Low-residency students will be online via zoom.

Wisdom is seldom viewed in the Scripture as the mere acquisition of knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge applied to the vexing and complex situations of life far more as art than science. Nevertheless, wisdom is not solely subjective or a matter of random, self-referential choice. It is often said, "Beauty is in they of the beholder" to imply there is no universal or essential consistency to the aesthetic impulse. The same is often assumed regarding wisdom. It is individual, subjective, and not essentially related to something greater than itself. Wisdom as found in the book of Job requires us to see the limits of wisdom, the necessity of relational dialogue, and an openness simultaneously to wrestle and submit to the work of our redeemer God. Therefore, this course will consider the role of wisdom in the contexts of therapy, pastoral service and social advocacy. Specifically, this class will look at how one develops wisdom and we may use it for critiquing various approaches to conflict, therapy and community.

TCE 575C Special Topics in Church History

TCE 580A Individualized Research: Moral Injury & Religious Trauma

Moral injury (MI) occurs when a person denies their own moral compass to perpetuate or fail to prevent harm to another person. MI is a traumatic experience, with long lasting effects, that fractures a person’s ability to trust themselves and others. Research on this topic has been mainly focused on war veterans, however it has recently been expanded to consider other forms of MI, particularly during the Covid-19 pandemic. This course will begin with a brief overview of the theology of trauma. Then we will study the intersection between religious trauma and moral injury, through a brief overview of both. Students will explore the unique challenges of moral injury in faith contexts. Finally, students will look at communal impacts of religious trauma/moral injury and how impairing communal memory can be a form of healing for traumatic ruptures.

TCE 580B Individualized Research: Potential Ecological Implications from Native American Spiritualities and Third World “Women’s Theology

This course seeks to build a theological understanding of ecological care through the lens of Native American Religious Traditions and Global and Third World Women’s voices. Indigenous epistemologies are explored in the Transpacific American context.

2023 Spring Courses

BTI 507O Biblical Survey

3 credits
MACP students only.

This course is a survey of biblical literature that focuses on its genres, literary forms, cultural contexts, and history of reception. Students will confront the risks and rewards of reading ancient texts, the role the reader’s social location plays in the act of reading, and wrestle with how these texts can remain in living conversation with contemporary questions and crises. Special attention will be paid throughout to the voices and experiences of marginal figures in the text.

CSL 503O Professional Ethics & Law

3 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 544; CSL 553
Corequisite: CSL 543

This course provides an overview of professional ethics and Washington State law in the practice of counseling. Students will become familiar with professional ethical norms as well as common legal regulations. Additional topics include professionalism, licensure, moral responsibility in responding to the violation of human dignity, and issues of power and privilege. Students examine the impact of their cultural locatedness on the ethical decision-making processes in light of the difficult decisions facing the professional counselor.

CSL 503S Professional Ethics & Law

3 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 544; CSL 553
Corequisite: CSL 543

This course provides an overview of professional ethics and Washington State law in the practice of counseling. Students will become familiar with professional ethical norms as well as common legal regulations. Additional topics include professionalism, licensure, moral responsibility in responding to the violation of human dignity, and issues of power and privilege. Students examine the impact of their cultural locatedness on the ethical decision-making processes in light of the difficult decisions facing the professional counselor.

CSL 516O Research & Statistics

3 credits
This course provides a conceptual framework for understanding common psychological research methodologies, including various types of both quantitative and qualitative methods. Students will be equipped to formulate research questions and interpret and apply psychological research to their counseling practice.

CSL 516S Research & Statistics

This course provides a conceptual framework for understanding common psychological research methodologies, including various types of both quantitative and qualitative methods. Students will be equipped to formulate research questions and interpret and apply psychological research to their counseling practice.

CSL 517R Family Systems

3 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 502; IDS 501

This course utilizes a didactic and experiential format in which to explore therapeutic work with family and other systems. Theoretical foundations and developments of systems theory will be explored to introduce the student to the field of couples and family therapy. Clinical work with couples and families will be considered from an ecological/systemic perspective with specific emphasis on the following family factors and dynamics: life cycle, development, attachment, and systemic issues as relevant to contemporary family cultures.

CSL 517S Family Systems

3 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 502; IDS 501

This course utilizes a didactic and experiential format in which to explore therapeutic work with family and other systems. Theoretical foundations and developments of systems theory will be explored to introduce the student to the field of couples and family therapy. Clinical work with couples and families will be considered from an ecological/systemic perspective with specific emphasis on the following family factors and dynamics: life cycle, development, attachment, and systemic issues as relevant to contemporary family cultures.

CSL 518O Group Therapy: The Healing Context of Community

3 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 544; CSL 553
This course considers group psychotherapy from relationally based theoretical and theological perspectives and is informed by theological paradigms. The course covers group development and common group dynamics as well as techniques of intervention and leadership principles appropriate to various group stages.

CSL 518S Group Therapy: The Healing Context of Community

3 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 544; CSL 553
This course considers group psychotherapy from relationally based theoretical and theological perspectives and is informed by theological paradigms. The course covers group development and common group dynamics as well as techniques of intervention and leadership principles appropriate to various group stages.

CSL 532A Internship III

1 credit
Prerequisites: CSL 530, CSL 531
Students who have not completed their required hours of internship may register for internship until the hours are completed. Note that internship credits beyond the required Internship I and II do not count toward the total credits required within the degree.

THIS COURSE MEETS April 25, May 9, May 30 and June 13

CSL 543R Helping Relationships II

3 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 542

This course is the second in a two-part series that builds on the competencies, deep listening skills and self-reflection practices introduced in the common curriculum and Pre-Internship CSL 553. The course continues to cultivate students’ grasp of therapeutic processes, skills and techniques crucial for effective psychotherapy treatments across the lifespan from a relational posture. The course helps students apply their clinical knowledge and theory as they begin to inhabit the role of therapist. Students will engage course content through a combination of supervised role-play experiences, reflections, and didactic teaching methods as they prepare for their internship experience.

CSL 543S Helping Relationships II

3 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 542
This course is the second in a two-part series that builds on the competencies, deep listening skills and self-reflection practices introduced in the common curriculum and Pre-Internship CSL 553. The course continues to cultivate students’ grasp of therapeutic processes, skills and techniques crucial for effective psychotherapy treatments across the lifespan from a relational posture. The course helps students apply their clinical knowledge and theory as they begin to inhabit the role of therapist. Students will engage course content through a combination of supervised role-play experiences, reflections, and didactic teaching methods as they prepare for their internship experience.

CSL 564O Assessment & Treatment of Trauma & Abuse

2 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 544

The purpose of this class is to discuss topics related to the treatment of victims/survivors of interpersonal violence (e.g., childhood sexual abuse, sexual assault, intimate partner/domestic violence). This class provides a foundation for understanding complex trauma, and trauma recovery, with a focus on trauma-informed treatment with various populations. Also included in this class, is the exploration of the professional’s response to trauma, vicarious traumatization, grief, and crisis intervention. Finally, students have the chance to review evidence-based practices in the trauma field.

CSL 572S Infant Observation III

1 credit

This course introduces the experience of early formation, development in the infant, and the infant in relationship to their mothering figure, other primary caretakers, as well as ultimately to the birthing of the infant’s mind. Infant observation focuses on the primary relationships, primitive anxieties, defenses, which later inform clinical work with children, adolescents, and adult patients in psychotherapy. This in vivo learning experience takes place through a weekly observation of the infant with their mothering figure, primary caregiver in their home environment.

IDS 503O Intersections: Textual Integrations

1 credit
Prerequisites: IDS 501, IDS 502
This third Intersections course guides students in the synthesis of the first two Intersections courses. With faculty advising, students will develop a working draft of a theological and psychological anthropology (spanning issues such as economics, politics, culture, etc.) that will serve as an important contribution to the portfolio particular to the student’s program of study and as a basis for their vocation.

IDS 503S Intersections: Textual Integrations

1 credit
Prerequisites: IDS 501, IDS 502
This third Intersections course guides students in the synthesis of the first two Intersections courses. With faculty advising, students will develop a working draft of a theological and psychological anthropology (spanning issues such as economics, politics, culture, etc.) that will serve as an important contribution to the portfolio particular to the student’s program of study and as a basis for their vocation.

RES Residency

This course will house materials related to the residency for the current term.

The Spring residency meets April 27-29.

SFD 520T Engaging Local Partnerships: Creating Conversations with Grassroots Leaders in their Context

2 credits

This course is a Travel Intensive that meets April 19-22.

This course is part of the Engaging Global Partnership series (Engaging Global Partnerships: Creating Conversations with Grassroots’ Leaders in their Context). It will focus on the spiritual formation and leadership development of Mending Wings, a Native American Youth Organization in Toppenish Washington. Students will participate in pre-trip readings focused on Native American, spirituality, theology, history and culture and a one weekend intensive hosted by Corey Greaves and the Mending Wings staff on the Yakama Reservation.

SFD 521T The Artist's Way

2 credits

This course is a Travel Intensive that will meet May 18-21. Students travel to the Grunewald Guild in Leavenworth, WA.

This course is about discovering and recovering your creative self. It is for anyone interested in practicing the art of creative living. It is about both being creative and putting that creativity into practice. We will explore what it means to BE an artist and a Christian and how the arts can inspire and transform humanity's relationship to God, community and scripture. We will also discover how creativity can enliven our understanding and communication of Counseling, Theology and Scripture.

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

2 credits
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.

TCE 528O Biblical Theology, Narrative, and Social Ethics

2 credits
Biblical theology is an integrative and unitive discipline that seeks to bridge the gap between biblical exegesis and interpretation and theological, practical and ethical application of the Bible in context of contemporary cultures. While remaining alive to the differences and discontinuities between both Testaments, Biblical Theology also endeavors to look for continuities and connections between them as these apply to the life of scholarship, the life of faith and discipleship and the mission of the church.

TCE 533O Theories of Change: Community Leadership

TBD

TCE 538O Mission & Faithful Presence

TBD

TCE 544O The Triune God & Creation

2 credits
This course will explore the work and being of the Triune Creator (with special reference to the work of the Holy Spirit) and how understanding the Triune Creator helps to shape a dynamic eco-theology. The goal in this class is to survey the growing theological literature around the care of the earth. The lens of eco-theology intersects with the Doctrine of God and creation, Pneumatology, feminist theory, creation care, theology of place, agrarian theology, food, liberation theology, poverty and justice issues, etc. This class will weave context and doctrine together, moving back and forth between the Missio Dei to love and perfect all persons and things in the world and attending to the call of the earth toward love, justice, mercy, and humility for all of the created order

TCE 546O Constructive Theology: Issues, Critiques, and Doctrine

Required course for MATC students. This course does NOT count as core theology for MACP students.

This course prepares students to think critically about the task of doing constructive theology. The goal of this course is to survey, compare and contrast, and evaluate various contextual, constructive, and interdisciplinary perspectives on the doctrines of God, Creation, Theological Anthropology, and Pneumatology from the depth and breadth of the Christian tradition. Students will be able to articulate an understanding of what God is doing in the world, with implications for how they think, listen, live, and lead.

Course description pending final approval

Fall 2023 Courses