Courses

2019 Fall Courses

BTI 502 Reading Practices: Engaging the Biblical Text

Course Description

2 credits
This course is an introduction to practices of theological interpretation. Different critical approaches and their historical development, contributions and limitations are discussed. Students gain experience using the biblical story as a norm to reflect on culture and life. The Sermon on the Mount (Matthew 5-7) is studied.

BTI 512 Introduction to Biblical Languages II: Opening the Greek Text

Course Description

2 credits
In this course, the student learns the Greek alphabet, basic Greek vocabulary and morphemes, and is introduced to Greek syntax in order to make intelligent use of available Bible software. Scholarly Greek language study tools are used.

BTI 570 Integrative Project: Exploring the Future

Course Description

2 or 3 credits
Prerequisite: Taken in last year of MDIV or MATC 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 & MATC during their final year. This course is taught consecutively over two trimesters, with one credit earned in each of those terms. M. Div students also add another credit in Spring term.

CSL 502 History and Therapeutic Perspectives: Contextualizing the Interpersonal

Course Description

3 credits
This course is designed to give students a historical and theoretical grounding in the major counseling theories and theorists. Current interpersonal theory is placed both historically and theoretically. The student will explore relational dynamic theory from both a psychological and theological vantage point.

CSL 510 Human Growth:The Interpersonal & Narrative Journey

Course Description

2 credits
The course covers human development from a biopsychosocial perspective, which includes neurological, psychological, and interpersonal perspectives from conception to death. Particular emphasis will be placed upon the integrative functions of the mind as a key to meaningful growth across the human life-span.

CSL 513 Sexual Disorders

Course Description

2 credits
Prerequisite: CSL 517, CSL 527, CSL 551, CSL 552
This class addresses the physical, relational, ethical and theological issues most often encountered in out-patient private practice and the local church that relate to clients struggling with their sexuality and addictive issues in general. The focus will be on understanding the symptoms in light of gender theory, addiction, and idolatry. The student will be better equipped to understand and treat a number of paraphilias, gender identity disorders, and normal sexual dysfunctions.
*This class will meet 3 Mondays in September and also 1 intensive weekend November 7 & 8 from 9:00-6:00 each day.

CSL 514 Issues of Abuse: Sexual Harm and Its Consequences

Course Description

2 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 513, CSL 544
This course provides a dynamic and interpersonal overview of the consequences of sexual abuse as well as instruction in working therapeutically with an abuse victim. The course will aid the student in recognition and assessment of various abuse contexts, reporting procedures, and prevention programs. CONFIRMED DATES November 21-23, 9:00am-6:00pm each day.

CSL 530 Internship I

Course Description

2 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 502, CSL 503, CSL 528, CSL 551, CSL 552, CSL 553, CSL 542, CSL 544, CSL 545, concurrent with CSL 543 (Recommended: CSL 510, CSL 524)
The purpose of the Counseling Internship is to provide a clinical setting for the intern to gather clinical experience and to receive clinical supervision. During the gatherin of clinical experience, the intern has the opportunity to learn and to grow their "clinical mind." The clinical setting will provide the intern with supervised experiences in preparation for professional practice as a counselor. Supervision will include but not limited to administrative skills (fees, billing, etc.), case management skills (evaluation of lethality, level of care, etc.) and clinical skills (frame/perimeter, setting, transference, countertransference, documentation, assessment, case formulation, etc.). 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. In addition, the student will participate in a supervised Case Conference seminar at The Seattle School.
Please also see the Internship Handbook on the website.

CSL 543 Therapy II: Psychotherapy in Clinical Practice

Course Description

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.
ATTENDANCE at the Relational Perspectives Series conference September 20 7pm-9pm and September 21 9am-3:30pm at The Seattle School is required. The class will also meet 2:00pm-8:00pm on Thursdays Sept. 12, Oct. 3 & Oct. 10.

CSL 544 Psychopathology I

Course Description

3 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 527, CSL 528, and CSL 551
This course provides a theoretical foundation in understanding clinical psychopathology. The class addresses developmental and biological categories of mental disorders as well as theological underpinnings of development. The student will explore theoretical material regarding clinical disorders and disorders of the self. The class addresses diagnostic categories of psychopathology, assessment, treatment, understanding, and the use of current Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-V.

CSL 551 Listening Lab: Part I

Course Description

2 credits over 2 terms
This introductory practicum provides the foundation for counseling training by means of group interaction with a faculty supervisor. The practicum provides training in listening and feedback skills. It also presents the opportunity for each student to consider personal matters that may impede or enhance their work as a counselor, pastor or ministry leader.

CSL 553 Second Year Practicum

Course Description

2 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 551 & 552
Concurrently taken with: CSL 542 and CSL 544
This course provides advanced counseling training and builds upon the training experiences of First Year Practicum. It provides a supervised training experience with a practicum supervisor as well as peer feedback. Practicum II emphasizes therapeutic conversations, supervised practice counseling with fellow students, and personal exploration as it related to the practice of counseling.
Registered students must fill out the Practicum Preference Form to indicate term & times.

CSL 575A Special Topics

Course Description

1 credit
The topic of this course is The Mourning Position: Grieving, Mourning, and Shame. Every day holds many losses. This course will focus on the developmental trajectory of the “Mourning Position” (O.Day, 2018), grieving, and the relationship with shame. Differential diagnostic categories will be of clinical focus as well as differences between grief and mourning.

CTA TRN Intro to Trauma-Informed Narrative Therapy

Course Description

Non-credit training weekend for those enrolled in the MACP Concentration in Trauma & Abuse

FI Frameworks and Intersections

Course Description

IDS 501 Intersections: Interdisciplinary Inquiry & Psychological Frameworks

Course Description

This course will explore interdisciplinary perspectives on complex problems that affect and reveal the human condition, as well as contexts that impact learning, including epistemological frameworks, personal worldviews and hermeneutics, and one’s internal world and development of the mind. Issues pertaining to diversities of one’s locatedness, experience, oppressive systems and institutionalized marginalization, and social fragmentation will all be engaged from an interdisciplinary framework of theology, psychology, and biblical studies.

IDS 504 Critical Reading Lab

Course Description

Critical Reading Lab is a companion class to the first term Common Curriculum classes. In this course, students explore what it means to know and to learn within the graduate curriculum, particularly as it relates to interdisciplinary and integrative work. Students will explore various ways of knowing as part of a journey of discovery in a smaller group format with other students.

IDS 510 Constructive Critique for Change: Interdisciplinary Methods

Course Description

Note: This course is cross-listed with TCE 501: Critical Social Theory & is an Interdisciplinary MATC requirement. This course is NOT the same as IDS 501: Intersections: Interdisciplinary Inquiry & Psychological Frameworks

Interdisciplinary studies involves integration of insights and theories in order to answer questions or solve problems in a comprehensive way. But what does that mean exactly and how does one do it well? In this course students will explore critical social theories and interdisciplinary approaches to examine theological and socio-cultural issues. Together we will engage said theories and methods, grounding these practices in concrete, contemporary explorations. The course features guest speakers, a service learning component, and active learning strategies that will culminate in a final paper that is developed throughout the duration of the course. Through this work students will discover how issues of gender, class, and race can be addressed through interdisciplinary studies and critical social theory in the service of our post-modern context.

RLM 503 Life Together I: Ancient-Future Focus for Church and Worship

Course Description

2 credits
Prerequisites: Concurrent with RLM 530
This course considers missional leadership for church and worship by surveying the Church's past and continuing story through lenses of both struggle and strength. The interanimation of text, church, and culture in the ongoing process of God's people incarnating Christ is highlighted. Praxis-focused field experience (i.e. preaching, pastoral care, worship, chaplaincy, etc.), and classroom instruction are integrated with an intentional community setting. Students
will develop a practical ecclesiology.

RLM 530 MDiv Practicum II: Embodying Christ

Course Description

1 credit
Prerequisites: CSL 551, CSL 552, concurrent with RLM 503
This course provides advanced ministry practice building upon the experiences of Counseling Practicum I with a focus on vocational Christian ministry. MDiv Practicum II explores the incarnational and relational ministry affording students the opportunity to further discern their unique calls to ministry.

SFD 501 Prayer I

Course Description

To provide a solid foundation for spiritual enrichment, this course examines the theological and practical dynamics of prayer.
This 1 credit SFD course will be taught as an intensive Oct 3 2-9pm & Oct 4 9a-5p.

SFD 513B Care of the Soul and Call to Sacred Activism

Course Description

The question in this course is how the Christ call of self-denial does not become a self-deprecating denial of self. Care of the soul has to do with continually cultivating a richly expressive, imaginative and meaningful life that concerns itself with attending to God's presence in the world. This course invites the student to organize and shape one's soul and life in a way that is inseparable from the world's soul; calling us to work for change in God's world in a manner that allows for sustainability, to "burn and not be consumed (Exodus 3.2)."

SFD 526 Celtic Spirituality

Course Description

This is an introduction to a period of history in which Christianity developed somewhat differently in the British Isles and somewhat independently from the Church on the Continent. The "Golden Age of Saints and Scholars" which characterized the 5th-8th centuries in Ireland, Wales, Scotland, Brittany, Cornwall and Isle of Man continues to have impact on the Church today. We will examine the ethos, worldview, and values of the Christian culture of that era, and how it speaks across the centuries to the Christian communities today.
This 1 credit SFD course will be offered in an intensive format on October 19th & November 9th, from 9-5 both days.

TCE 501 Critical Social Theory: Bridging Church & Community

Course Description

Interdisciplinary studies involves integration of insights and theories in order to answer questions or solve problems in a comprehensive way. But what does that mean exactly and how does one do it well? In this course students will explore critical social theories and interdisciplinary approaches to examine theological and socio-cultural issues. Together we will engage said theories and methods, grounding these practices in concrete, contemporary explorations. The course features guest speakers, a service learning component, and active learning strategies that will culminate in a final paper that is developed throughout the duration of the course. Through this work students will discover how issues of gender, class, and race can be addressed through interdisciplinary studies and critical social theory in the service of our post-modern context.

TCE 506 Church History I: From Jesus to the Reinassance

Course Description

This course examines the unfolding narrative of Christianity from its beginnings through the Renaissance, along with the history of Christian mission and the part Christians and Christianity played in the larger social history of each era. It seeks to integrate doctrinal, intellectual, liturgical, and ecclesiastic history with an understanding of how Christians lived their daily lives.

TCE 513A Advanced Seminar

Course Description

An individualized learning experience, which creates spaces 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 a Seattle School advisor, students complete the writing of their final integrative project for their MDiv & MATC during their final year. MDiv & MATC students must complete an Integrative Project in order to graduate.

Through active participation in this guided self-study, students are expected to synthesize their cumulative Seattle School coursework, readings, and research as they missionally articulate their understanding and integration of text, soul, and culture as relating to their future ministries. Each student will produce either a major paper or report of a major project as the articulation of his or her synthesis.

TCE 513B Advanced Seminar

Course Description

This Advanced Seminar builds upon the introductory contextual theology work of courses such as TCE 543 God, Gender & Sexuality, TCE 544 Triune God & Creation, TCE 501 Critical Social Theory and BTI 522 Feminist/Womanist Hermeneutics in order to more deeply engage the methodologies, findings, and contextual starting points of Queer Theology as a discipline within Christian Theology. In the fifty-plus years since theologians began to directly address the questions and concerns of Christian Theology in light of queer identities and experiences, and vice versa, the theological discourses of this discipline have expanded and diversified in compelling and complex ways. This seminar is an opportunity for students already familiar with some of the frameworks of queer theology to identify a particular theological topic, cultural issue or queer theologian to explore in-depth. Students will work in self-directed study plans and share their findings with the seminar as a whole, creating a small laboratory of theological curiosity and collaboration, with the ultimate aim of becoming better equipped to interrogate and attend to the questions and responses most intimately related to our embodied identities and lived faith.

TCE 540 God & Persons

Course Description

This course explores the theological concept of persons, both divine and human. The goal of this class is to survey, compare and contrast, and evaluate various perspectives on personhood from the depth and breadth of the Christian tradition. This class will start with the doctrine of God, engage with the doctrine of creation (and eco theology), and end with theological anthropology (including the imago Dei and the imago Christi). This is a more doctrinally oriented class, but with an eye to the reality that all theology is contextual.

WW Writing Workshop

Course Description

Note: This is the pre-term Workshop. The Writing Workshop provides a foundational understanding of the writing process and of The Seattle School of Theology & Psychology’s academic writing standards. This seminar-style class is an opportunity to become familiar with different types of writing required at The Seattle School, learn the appropriate use of academic sources, and receive feedback about your writing. In addition, you’ll review the basics of thesis statements, evidence, paper organization, revision, library research, citation style, and sentence style and grammar. Peer review and small- and large-group discussion will be used extensively in this workshop; thus, the Writing Workshop is appropriate both for the novice academic writer as well as the experienced one.

2020 Winter Courses

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

Course Description

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. THIS CLASS WILL MEET VIA ZOOM EXCEPT MARCH 24, 2020. STUDENTS WILL ZOOM IN FROM THEIR HOME COMPUTERS. ON MARCH 24, 2020, CLASS WILL MEET IN PERSON FROM 1-5PM.

BTI 511 Introduction to Biblical Languages I: Opening the Hebrew Text

Course Description

3 credits
This course (with BTI 512) introduces students to the Greek and Hebrew languages so that they are prepared to use the wealth of computer-based resources available for study of the biblical text. The student is introduced to the linguistic structures used to describe languages (phonology, grammar, morphology and syntax, and semantics). In BTI 511 the student learns the Hebrew alphabet, basic Hebrew vocabulary and morphemes, and is introduced to Hebrew syntax in order to make intelligent use of available Bible software. The use of scholarly Hebrew language study tools is introduced.

BTI 533 Genesis

Course Description

BTI 540 Textual Synthesis II - Book of Galatians

Course Description

2 Credits
Prerequisites: BTI 501, BTI 502, BTI 511, BTI 512
An exegetical and interpretive study of the book of Galatians based on the Greek text and computer-based resources for study of the Biblical text. Various textual and hermeneutical strategies are used to understand the meanings of the Epistle to the Galatians. The history of the interpretation of the Epistle to the Galatians is considered. Students prepare a final project that synthesizes both the church's historic engagement and their own personal engagement with the biblical text.

BTI 571 Integrative Project Continuation

Course Description

2 or 3 credits
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. DATES TBD

CSL 517 Marriage and Family

Course Description

2 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 551
Students study the imprint of the primary relational contexts of marriage and family. The course provides discussion of the impact of these formative relationships and it covers a range of marital and familial issues that bear upon the work of counseling. INTENSIVE DATES January 17-18 and February 21-22 from 9:00-6:00 each day.

CSL 530 Internship I

Course Description

2 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 502, CSL 503, CSL 528, CSL 551, CSL 552, CSL 553, CSL 542, CSL 544, CSL 545, concurrent with CSL 543 (Recommended: CSL 510, CSL 524)
The purpose of the Counseling Internship is to provide a clinical setting for the intern to gather clinical experience and to receive clinical supervision. During the gatherin of clinical experience, the intern has the opportunity to learn and to grow their "clinical mind." The clinical setting will provide the intern with supervised experiences in preparation for professional practice as a counselor. Supervision will include but not limited to administrative skills (fees, billing, etc.), case management skills (evaluation of lethality, level of care, etc.) and clinical skills (frame/perimeter, setting, transference, countertransference, documentation, assessment, case formulation, etc.). 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. In addition, the student will participate in a supervised Case Conference seminar at The Seattle School.
Please also see the Internship Handbook on the website.

CSL 531 Internship II

Course Description

Prerequisites: CSL 530
The course is a continuation of the internship experience.

CSL 538 MACP Practicum III

Course Description

2 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 542, CSL 544, CSL 545, CSL 551,CSL 552, CSL 553 (can be taken concurrent with CSL 530)
This practicum functions as a synthesis of the Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology. 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 542 Therapy I:Interpersonal Theory & Practice of Ther.

Course Description

2 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 502, CSL 517, CSL 527, CSL 528, CSL 551, CSL 552, CSL 544
Students are provided an introduction to theological, philosophical, and psychological categories as they inform the practice of counseling as an essentially interpersonal pursuit. There is an emphasis on anthropology (human design), etiology (the development of problems), and treatment strategy. The course explores fundamental therapeutic categories such as transference and counter-transference and the use of such categories in the therapeutic process.

CSL 545 Psychopathology II

Course Description

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. Extra fees of $230 will be applied for required conference and webinar trainings. Please see course syllabus for full details.

CSL 552 Listening Lab Part II

Course Description

2 credits
This introductory practicum provides the foundation for counseling training by means of group interaction with a faculty supervisor. The practicum provides training in listening and feedback skills. It also presents the opportunity for each student to consider personal matters that may impede or enhance their work as a counselor, pastor or ministry leader. In addition, the student meets six times per trimester with a practicum facilitator.

CSL 553 Second Year Practicum

Course Description

2 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 551 & 552
Concurrently taken with: CSL 542 and CSL 544
This course provides advanced counseling training and builds upon the training experiences of First Year Practicum. It provides a supervised training experience with a practicum supervisor as well as peer feedback. Practicum II emphasizes therapeutic conversations, supervised practice counseling with fellow students, and personal exploration as it related to the practice of counseling.

CSL 556 Engaging Trauma From a Narrative Lens

Course Description

CSL 561 Interpersonal Neurobiology

Course Description

2 credits
This course allows the student to further integrate theory and practice. The course will introduce and explore the expanding date 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.
INTENSIVE DATES - 9:00-6:00 each day
February 1
February 7
March 13 & 14

CSL 575B Special Topics

Course Description

WILL MEET JAN. 31ST (2PM - 8PM), FEB 1 (9AM - 5PM), MARCH 6 - 7 (9A - 5PM)

IDS 502 Intersections: Biblical Traditions & Theological Formations

Course Description

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.

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

Course Description

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 505 Homiletics: Crafting Transformational Moments

Course Description

2 credits
Prerequisite: BTI 502
This course explores the nuances of preaching and public communication. By combining theory, preparation and practice, the course places emphasis on the art of listening well to the text, soul and culture to craft moments where transformation has space to occur. Students are given opportunity to develop consistent and excellent communication skills in a variety of settings.

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

Course Description

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 531 MDiv Practicum III: Embodying Christ

Course Description

1 credit
Prerequisites: CSL 551, CSL 552, RLM 530, concurrent with RLM 504
Students will be expected to demonstrate their understanding of 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 521 The Artist's Way

Course Description

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. INTENSIVE Dates - JAN. 16 - 19. See syllabus for full details. Extra fees of $380 will be applied for travel, lodging, and food etc..

SFD 575A Special Topics

Course Description

Course will entail travel to Yakima, WA and additional fees of $160 will be applied for travel, food, and lodging etc.. INTENSIVE Travel Dates are March 13-14. In addition, this class will meet Monday, March 2, 9, & 16 from 6:00-8:00pm.

SFD 601 Spiritual Formation: Prayer, Presence & Practice

Course Description

This course is intended to enable exploration of approaches to prayer, including various s (piritual practices for individuals and group practices. We will examine how Christians are formed as individuals and in community, and will see vvalues and practices from a range of sources, including the desert fathers and mothers, Benedictines, Franciscans, Celts, Eastern Orthodox and Jesuits. Our practices will provide an introduction to the soul feast available to feed and nourish the student for a lifelong relationship with the Trinity for the benefit of the world in which we live. (Designed for MDIV and MATC students)

TCE 511 Theology and Artistic Impulse

Course Description

This course will explore a theology of creativity as understood through our identity as persons made in the image of God. In the process, we will look at the vocational call of the artist as well as the more general call to create in and engage with the created order at large. This class will use a variety of 'tests' - e.g., literature, music and visual art - in order to search out the least inadequate 'language' in which to both describe and praise God.

TCE 513A Advanced Seminar

Course Description

An individualized learning experience, which creates spaces 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 a Seattle School advisor, students complete the writing of their final integrative project for their MDiv & MATC during their final year. MDiv & MATC students must complete an Integrative Project in order to graduate.

Through active participation in this guided self-study, students are expected to synthesize their cumulative Seattle School coursework, readings, and research as they missionally articulate their understanding and integration of text, soul, and culture as relating to their future ministries. Each student will produce either a major paper or report of a major project as the articulation of his or her synthesis.

TCE 522 Critical Analysis & Interdisciplinary Application

Course Description

TCE 541 Spirit & Trauma

Course Description

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 575B Special Topics

Course Description

2020 Spring Courses

BTI 503 Old Testament Genre

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

Course Description

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.

CSL 503 Professional Ethics: Honoring the Other

Course Description

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 512B Substance Abuse: The Nature of Addictions

Course Description

Prerequisites: CSL 527, CSL 528, CSL 544, and 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

Course Description

Prerequisites: CSL 527, CSL 528, CSL 544, and 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

Course Description

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.

CSL 516C Research: the Dialogical Context of Knowledge

Course Description

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.

CSL 532 Internship III

Course Description

2 credits
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.

CSL 543 Therapy II: Psychotherapy in Clinical Practice

Course Description

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

Course Description

CSL 565 Human Sexuality

Course Description

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

Course Description

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.

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

Course Description

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.

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

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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 510 Word & Sacrament: Theology of Spiritual Formation

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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

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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

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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 place 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 & Church

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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 550 Engaging Global Partnerships

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The cross cultural course will be hosted by Guatemalan leaders serving Guatemala City communities impacted by poverty, lack of education, homelessness, addiction and gang violence. Students will participate pre-trip readings and film study focused on Latin American theology, history and culture and a one week cross cultural dialogue in Guatemala. Students will meet with local leaders to discuss, Gang Chaplaincy, street kids and human trafficking, gender violence, and advocacy, education, trauma informed care and community development.

TCE 575B Special Topics

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