Courses

2022 Fall Courses

BTI 503O 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 522O Feminist Biblical Hermeneutics

Course Description

2 credits
The semi-seminar course studies feminist and womanist theories and their application to biblical interpretation. We will examine feminist theoretical works with special attention to complex relationship between sexism and other binary modes of "isms" such as racism, heterosexism, and (neo)colonialism and then explore various strategies for applying theoretical insights to ethical biblical interpretation.

BTI 570R Integrative Project: Exploring the Future

Course Description

2 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. MDIV students also add another credit in Spring term.

BTI 580A Individualized Research

Course Description

CSL 502R History & Systems

Course Description

3 credits
This course offers students a survey of the historical counseling theories and practices. Each theoretical model is evaluated through the lens of psychodynamic methodology and its efficacy in working with diverse populations and settings. Students will increase their awareness of the lineage that precedes the “birth” of Western psychology, and examine emerging spiritual, relational, and community practices that offer an alternative to Western psychology.

This course is associated with the Fall term residency.

CSL 502S History & Systems

Course Description

3 credits
This course offers students a survey of the historical counseling theories and practices. Each theoretical model is evaluated through the lens of psychodynamic methodology and its efficacy in working with diverse populations and settings. Students will increase their awareness of the lineage that precedes the “birth” of Western psychology, and examine emerging spiritual, relational, and community practices that offer an alternative to Western psychology.

CSL 511O Vocational & Occupational Direction

Course Description

3 credits
The course will examine theories of career selection and development. The course is also a consideration of the necessary tension between vocation and occupation and introduces several assessment tools as it explores lifestyle and career decision-making issues. Career counseling models and techniques will also be examined as the student considers their career choice as a vocational call.

CSL 524O Introduction to Counseling Children & Adolescents

Course Description

2 credits
Prerequisite: CSL 510

This course utilizes a didactic and experiential format in which to explore therapeutic work with children and adolescents. Through reading, class-time, and role-play, this course provides a foundation to facilitate the growth and development of the student's clinical work with children and adolescents. Clinical work with children and adolescents will be considered from a bio-psychosocial perspective with special emphasis on developmental, attachment, and systemic issues as relevant to today's children and adolescent culture.

CSL 530O Internship I

Course Description

Prerequisites: CSL 502, CSL 503, CSL 510, IDS 521, CSL 553, CSL 543, CSL 545 (Recommended: CSL 509)

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 544H Assessment, Appraisal, and Diagnosis

Course Description

3 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 510, IDS 520, IDS 521
Corequisite: CSL 553

This course has required webinars on the following dates (see syllabus for details): Sept. 24; Oct. 7, 22, 29; Nov. 5, 19; Dec. 3.

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.

This course is part of a two-course sequence that covers Assessment, Appraisal, and Diagnosis and Psychopathology. The CSL 544 course focuses on an introductory overview of the process of assessment, appraisal, diagnosis, and treatment, while the CSL 545 course focuses on the application of assessment, appraisal, diagnosis, and treatment of personality disorders/disorders of self and co-occurring disorders. Both courses include the following, with different respective emphases.

PART A: Assessment, Appraisal: This part focuses on the principles of assessment, appraisal, and diagnosis in a multicultural society as related to diagnosis and current DSM, various assessment instruments: achievement, aptitude, intelligence, interest, and personality will be addressed as well as supervision in administering, scoring, and interpreting assessment tools. Here students examine the principles of educational, psychological, and vocational assessment in a counseling context, including concepts necessary for the selection, administration, scoring and interpretation of individual and group tests.

Part B: Diagnosis: This part focuses on the major mental disorders as defined by the current DSM including an introduction to the etiology, diagnosis, treatment, appropriate psychopharmacological interventions, biological bases of behavior, and spiritual dimensions of these disorders. Here students explore the impact of culture and emerging technologies on the treatment of individuals and groups.

CSL 553R Pre-Internship: Counseling Practicum

Course Description

3 credits
Prerequisites: IDS 520, IDS 521, CSL 510
Corequisite: CSL 544

The purpose of the course is to introduce students to clinical training and prepare them for their upcoming internship experience. This lab course combines field experience and observation with competency-based instruction and small group learning. Students will complete a total of 25 hours of observation of mental health services. Students will deepen and apply the stance and skills developed in IDS 520 and IDS 521 in order to gain familiarity with mental health systems and the counseling profession.

CSL 553S Pre-Internship: Counseling Practicum

Course Description

3 credits
Prerequisites: IDS 520, IDS 521, CSL 510
Corequisite: CSL 544

The purpose of the course is to introduce students to clinical training and prepare them for their upcoming internship experience. This lab course combines field experience and observation with competency-based instruction and small group learning. Students will complete a total of 25 hours of observation of mental health services. Students will deepen and apply the stance and skills developed in IDS 520 and IDS 521 in order to gain familiarity with mental health systems and the counseling profession.

CSL 557 CTA Practicum C Part I: Narrative Focused Trauma Care Level II training

Course Description

1 credit
Prerequisites: CSL 503, CSL 543, CSL 556
Course is limited to students enrolled in the Concentration in Trauma & Abuse.

This course will meet as an intensive on the following dates: Oct. 27-30; Dec. 1-4

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 565O Human Sexuality

Course Description

2 credits
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.

CSL 566 CTA Practicum A: Story Workshop

Course Description

1 credit

This course is open to students in the Concentration in Trauma & Abuse ONLY. It will meet online August 18-21, 2022.

This course provides an introduction to trauma-informed narrative engagement. It introduces the student toward understanding how their own experience within their family of origin helped shape how they interact with themselves and others and how it informed their tragedy/harm experiences. It gives the student the opportunity to interact with their peers to both read aspects of their own “story” and to do the same for others in their group.

*Please read the syllabus carefully for additional details*

CSL 570S Infant Observation I

Course Description

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 573S Elements of British Object Relations I

Course Description

This course meets at the Center for Object Relations.

COR's address is:
2915 East Madison St
Suite 300
Seattle, WA 98112

To access the building there is a key code which would be given to you by the administrator, course instructor, or moderator prior to the class, or there will be someone at the door to let you in. Our office is located on the 3rd Floor in Suite 300. There is an elevator as well as stairs. Once in suite 300, you will walk into a waiting room, where you can proceed up the stairs into the COR meeting room.

This course introduces British Object Relations theory and fundamental concepts of British Object Relations. This course builds from the experiences in Infant Observation; i.e. 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.

CSL 580B Individualized Research

Course Description

Investigating and Applying Lacanian Theory

FI Frameworks and Intersections

Course Description

This course is intended to provide incoming students with context for learning methods employed at The Seattle School, academic resources and other information to help them be successful in the classroom.

IDS 501O Intersections: Interdisciplinary Inquiry & Psychological Frameworks

Course Description

2 credits
Corequisite: IDS 504
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 504O Critical Reading Lab

Course Description

1 credit
Corequisite: IDS 501
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 504S Critical Reading Lab

Course Description

1 credit
Corequisite: IDS 501
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 510O Constructive Critique for Change: Interdisciplinary Methods

Course Description

2 credits
Corequisite: BTI 570
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 510 for a total of 2 credits.

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 interdisciplinary approaches to examine theological and socio-cultural issues. Together we will engage said theories and methods, grounding these practices in concrete, contemporary explorations.

IDS 510O Constructive Critique for Change: Interdisciplinary Methods

Course Description

2 credits
Corequisite: BTI 570
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 510 for a total of 2 credits.

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 interdisciplinary approaches to examine theological and socio-cultural issues. Together we will engage said theories and methods, grounding these practices in concrete, contemporary explorations.

IDS 520 Listening Lab - Registration

Course Description

2 credits total ; taught over 2 terms

**Upon registering for this course, you MUST fill out the Preference Form located in the lessons tab.**

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.

IDS 520R Listening Lab: Part I

Course Description

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.

IDS 520S Listening Lab: Part I

Course Description

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.

INTERNFORMS Internship Start Forms

Course Description

RES Residency

Course Description

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

The Fall Residency will be held Sept. 14-17, 2022.

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

Course Description

2 credits
Corequisite: 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 530O MDiv Practicum II: Embodying Christ

Course Description

1 credit
Prerequisites: IDS 520, IDS 521
Corequisite: RLM 503

This class will start meeting 9/26

This course provides advanced ministry practice building upon the experiences of Counseling Listening Lab I with a focus on vocational Christian ministry. MDiv Practicum II explores incarnational and relational ministry affording students the opportunity to further discern their unique calls to ministry.

RLM 583O Theology and Culture Apprenticeship II

Course Description

1 credit

The MATC Apprenticeship is a faculty supervised community-based learning opportunity that forms the foundation of the capstone Integrative Project. Students will self-select a community development, ministry, or artistic organization that can help them fine tune their creative, entrepreneurial, and service skills. Based on the mission of the selected community service organizations, students will establish an applicable learning contract with an on-site supervisor.

SFD 517R Service & Sustainability: Action, Reflection, and Resilience

Course Description

3 credits

This course invites students to integrate spiritual care, sustainability, theology, in their work for service and change in God's world. Care of the Soul means illuminating how action and contemplation work together to inform the health and sustainability of one’s vocational call in order to imagine a lifelong commitment to beauty and justice in community. The question explored in this course is how the Christ call of self-denial does not become a self-deprecating denial of self in this sacred service in the world.

*Draft course description pending faculty approval*

SFD 518O Way of Life

Course Description

TBD

SFD 519O Evil, Abuse, & Spiritual Warfare

Course Description

2 credits

This course will be taught as an online intensive. It will meet 8:30-11:30 am PT on the following dates: 10/3, 10/31, 11/7, 11/21, 12/5.

This course addresses egregious intentional psychological and physical harm of another (evil) and the resultant effects on personality, relationships, and encounter with God. The class will consider interventions that engage the trauma of evil through spiritual warfare.

SFD 523O Spirituality and the Arts: The Wizarding World of Harry Potter

Course Description

2 Credits

This course provides experiential engagement with the role arts can play in spiritual formation. Participants will be encouraged to examine the way imagination, creative expression, and artistic engagement influence and are reflective of spiritual practice and meaning-making.

SFD 526IS Celtic Spirituality - Independent Study

Course Description

2 Credit
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 The Isle of Man continues to have an 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 of today.

SFD 580A Individualized Research

Course Description

Being and Becoming - An Existential Exploration of Being a Spiritual Director
and Becoming a Relational Psychodynamic Therapist

TCE 501O Critical Social Theory: Bridging Church & Community

Course Description

2 credits
Prerequisites: IDS 520, IDS 521
The class is designed for mid-year to advanced students who are in need of a solid and deeper background in the theoretical understandings of professional critical social theorists. We will examine critical theory, postmodern philosophies, feminist theory, multiculturalism, queer theory, masculinity studies, cultural studies, critical race social theories, and religion. We will compare critical theories, critical social theories, and their responses in the context of the current religious nationalism occurring in the United States. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the discussed approaches in respect to textual interpretation, social analysis, and the development of social movements? What are (or should be) the community church's response to questions raised in these conversations?

IDS 510O Constructive Critique for Change: Interdisciplinary Methods

Course Description

2 credits
Corequisite: BTI 570
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 510 for a total of 2 credits.

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 interdisciplinary approaches to examine theological and socio-cultural issues. Together we will engage said theories and methods, grounding these practices in concrete, contemporary explorations.

TCE 543S God, Gender, & Sexuality

Course Description

2 credits
This course explores the interaction between the theological concepts of God, Gender, and Sexuality. The goal of this class is to survey, compare and contrast, and evaluate various perspectives on God, gender, and sexuality from the depth and breadth of the Christian tradition, with special reference to critical social theory around gender and sexual identity. This class will examine the doctrine of God and Theological Anthropology, while engaging with how to critically examine doctrine through such lenses as feminist theology, queer theology, and liberation theology. This is a contextually oriented class that seeks to articulate and re-contextualize the various loci of theology such as prolegomena, the Triune God, sin, human persons, sexuality, and gender.

TCE 580B Individualized Research

Course Description

WWO Writing Workshop

Course Description

There are two sections of this course available:

This section, Section 1: Pre-Fall Workshop will meet on the following days/times: August 22, 24, 29, 31 from 10am-1pm PDT.

The other section, Section 2: Fall Weekly Workshop will meet weekly during the term on Wednesdays from 3:30-5:00pm PDT.

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.

2023 Winter Courses

BTI 504R 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.

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

Course Description

TBD

BTI 571O Integrative Project Continuation

Course Description

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.

CSL 509R Social & Cultural Diversities

Course Description

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.

CSL 509S Social & Cultural Diversities

Course Description

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.

CSL 510R Human Growth and Development

Course Description

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 510S Human Growth and Development

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

Course Description

3 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 502, CSL 544, CSL 553
This course offers an intensive opportunity to study relational psychotherapy and has been developed in the proseminar method. The goal of this course is to gain understanding into the students’ motivation for becoming a psychotherapist, their conflict style and its impact on the therapeutic relationship. Students will be required to create frameworks in setting up positive therapeutic practices (i.e., theoretical orientation, therapeutic outcomes and a therapeutic frame) and apply therapeutic skills from a relational perspective.

CSL 542S Helping Relationships I

Course Description

3 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 502, CSL 544, CSL 553
This course offers an intensive opportunity to study relational psychotherapy and has been developed in the proseminar method. The goal of this course is to gain understanding into the students’ motivation for becoming a psychotherapist, their conflict style and its impact on the therapeutic relationship. Students will be required to create frameworks in setting up positive therapeutic practices (i.e., theoretical orientation, therapeutic outcomes and a therapeutic frame) and apply therapeutic skills from a relational perspective.

CSL 545O Psychopathology

Course Description

3 Credits
Prerequisite: CSL 544

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.

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 556 CTA Practicum B: Engaging Trauma From a Narrative Lens

Course Description

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

Course Description

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 3-5 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

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

Course Description

TBD

IDS 502O Intersections: Biblical Traditions & Theological Formations

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

Course Description

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)

Course Description

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

This course is cross listed with TCE 513A Advanced Seminar. Students who need to take Advanced Seminar should register for this course. Credits will be assigned depending on your degree and specialization.

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

MATC (TIA or SGP) students will take this course for 1 credit (TCE 513AO), 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

Course Description

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.

IDS 521S Listening Lab: Part II

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

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 520R 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 531O MDiv Practicum III: Embodying Christ

Course Description

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 Way of Life

Course Description

TBD

TCE 541O Spirit & Trauma

Course Description

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

Course Description

2 credits

This course will meet as a hybrid intensive on the following dates: Feb. 9-11.

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.

2023 Spring Courses

BTI 507O Biblical Survey

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

Course Description

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.

CSL 543R Helping Relationships II

Course Description

3 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 542

This advanced course continues to develop students’ understanding of therapeutic processes, skills and techniques crucial for effective psychotherapy treatments, with particular emphasis on adult psychotherapy.

CSL 543S Helping Relationships II

Course Description

3 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 542
This advanced course continues to develop students’ understanding of therapeutic processes, skills and techniques crucial for effective psychotherapy treatments, with particular emphasis on adult psychotherapy.

CSL 564O Assessment & Treatment of Trauma & Abuse

Course Description

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

Course Description

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.

IDS 503O Intersections: Textual Integrations

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

Course Description

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

Course Description

2 credits

This course is a Travel Intensive. Dates TBD.

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

Course Description

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.

TCE 528O Biblical Theology, Narrative, and Social Ethics

Course Description

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

Course Description

TBD

TCE 538O Mission & Faithful Presence

Course Description

TBD

TCE 544O The Triune God & Creation

Course Description

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

Course Description

TBD

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