Courses
Winter 2024 Courses
BTI 511IS Introduction to Biblical Languages I: Hebrew
Course DescriptionBTI 571O Integrative Project Continuation
Course Description1 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.
Thursday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
BTI 580A Individualized Research
Course DescriptionBTI 580B Individualized Research
Course DescriptionCSL 509R Social & Cultural Diversities
Course Description3 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.
Tuesday, 8:30am – 11:30am
Tuesday, 8:30am – 11:30am
CSL 509S Social & Cultural Diversities
Course Description3 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.
Monday, 3:30pm – 6:30pm
CSL 510R Human Growth and Development
Course Description3 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.
Wednesday, 12:00pm – 3:00pm
Tuesday, 8:30am – 11:30am
CSL 510S Human Growth and Development
Course Description3 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.
Monday, 12:00pm – 3:00pm
CSL 511O Vocational & Occupational Direction
Course Description3 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.
Monday, 8:30am – 11:30am
CSL 518O Group Therapy: The Healing Context of Community
Course Description3 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.
Wednesday, 3:30pm – 6:30pm
CSL 518S Group Therapy: The Healing Context of Community
Course Description3 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.
Monday, 3:30pm – 6:30pm
CSL 531O Internship II
Course DescriptionPrerequisites: 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.
Wednesday, 8:00am – 10:00am
Wednesday, 10:00am – 12:00pm
Tuesday, 8:30am – 10:30am
Wednesday, 8:00am – 10:00am
Tuesday, 9:00am – 11:00am
Tuesday, 12:00pm – 2:00pm
CSL 542O Helping Relationships I
Course Description3 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 502, CSL 544, CSL 553, IDS 520/521
This course is the first in a two-part series that builds on the competencies, deep listening skills, and self-reflection practices introduced in the common curriculum and Pre-Internship CSL 553. The course continues to cultivate students’ grasp of therapeutic processes, skills, and techniques crucial for effective psychotherapy treatments across the lifespan from a relational posture. The course helps students apply their clinical knowledge and theory as they begin to inhabit the role of therapist. Students will engage course content through a combination of supervised role-play experiences, reflections, and didactic teaching methods as they prepare for their internship experience.
Wednesday, 8:30am – 11:30am
CSL 542S Helping Relationships I
Course Description3 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 502, CSL 544, CSL 553, IDS 520/521
This course is the first in a two-part series that builds on the competencies, deep listening skills, and self-reflection practices introduced in the common curriculum and Pre-Internship CSL 553. The course continues to cultivate students’ grasp of therapeutic processes, skills, and techniques crucial for effective psychotherapy treatments across the lifespan from a relational posture. The course helps students apply their clinical knowledge and theory as they begin to inhabit the role of therapist. Students will engage course content through a combination of supervised role-play experiences, reflections, and didactic teaching methods as they prepare for their internship experience.
Monday, 12:00pm – 3:00pm
CSL 545O Psychopathology
Course Description3 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.
Wednesday, 12:00pm – 3:00pm
CSL 545S Psychopathology
Course Description3 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.
Tuesday, 12:00pm – 3:00pm
CSL 558 CTA Practicum C Part II: Narrative Focused Trauma Care Level II training
Course Description2 credits
Prerequisite: CSL 557
Course is limited to students enrolled in the Concentration in Trauma & Abuse.
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.
The Winter term NFTC Level II weekends are: February 11-18; April 25-28.
CSL 561S Interpersonal Neurobiology
Course Description2 Credits
Prerequisite: IDS 521 (previously CSL 552)
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.
This class will meet as an intensive on the following dates: Jan 19-20; March 1-2.
Friday, Saturday, 9:00am – 5:00pm
CSL 563O The Battle of Shame
Course Description2 Credits
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.
Tuesday, 4:00pm – 6:30pm
CSL 571S Infant Observation II
Course Description1 credit
This course introduces the experience of early formation, development in the infant, and the infant in relationship to their mothering figure, other primary caretakers, as well as ultimately to the birthing of the infant’s mind. Infant observation focuses on the primary relationships, primitive anxieties, defenses, which later inform clinical work with children, adolescents, and adult patients in psychotherapy. This in vivo learning experience takes place through a weekly observation of the infant with their mothering figure, primary caregiver in their home environment.
CSL 574S Elements of British Object Relations II
Course DescriptionTBD
Thursday, 7:15pm – 8:45pm
CSL 580A Individualized Research: Human Growth and Development from IPNB Lens
Course DescriptionIDS 502O Intersections: Biblical Traditions & Theological Formations
Course Description2 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.
Thursday, 12:00pm – 3:00pm
IDS 505O Contextual Learning Lab
Course Description1 credit
Prerequisite: IDS 501, IDS 504
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.
Monday, 10:00am – 11:30am
Monday, 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Tuesday, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Tuesday, 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Tuesday, 12:00pm – 1:30pm
IDS 505S Contextual Learning Lab
Course Description1 credit
Prerequisite: IDS 501, IDS 504
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.
Monday, 10:00am – 11:30am
Tuesday, 10:00am – 11:30am
IDS 521R Listening Lab: Part II
Course Description2 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.
Monday, 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Tuesday, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Wednesday, 10:00am – 11:30am
Wednesday, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Tuesday, 1:30pm – 3:00pm
Wednesday, 3:30pm – 5:00pm
Wednesday, 10:00am – 11:30am
Thursday, 10:00am – 11:30am
IDS 521S Listening Lab: Part II
Course Description2 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.
Monday, 10:00am – 11:30am
Tuesday, 10:00am – 11:30am
RES Residency
Course DescriptionThis course will house materials related to the residency for the current term.
SFD 518O Pilgrimage as Way of Life
Course DescriptionPilgrimage has historically been understood as sacred travel that integrates body, mind, soul and spirit. How might pilgrimage also provide a formative model for our everyday lives and the lives of those whom we serve? The practice of pilgrimage invites us as seekers to become agents of change on our journeys of transformation. In this course, students will learn about pilgrimage through study, reflection, local practice, and shared experience and develop an understanding of how the archetypes of pilgrimage - whether to distant lands or right outside the student's door - can be also applied in everyday life.
Tuesday, 5:00pm – 6:30pm
TCE 537O Christology in Historical Context
Course Description3 credits
This course will explore the implications of particular Christologies on the global church, mission, and culture, with special reference to Church history. This course will cover the early development of trinitarian theology, the debates about the identity of Jesus Christ, and creeds. This course will also include explorations of more contemporary critiques about how Christology is formed and practiced in the church and world, engaging diverse theological perspectives. The goal of this class is to understand the historical formations and critiques of Christology, Soteriology, and Ecclesiology, so that the student might be able to design and construct life-giving theologies within the context of their vocational call and the communities in which they will serve.
Wednesday, 12:00pm – 3:00pm
TCE 541S Spirit & Trauma
Course Description2 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.
Tuesday, 3:30pm – 5:30pm
TCE 551R Special Topics in Social Engagement & the Arts
Course DescriptionThis course explores the intersection of Christian theologies and artistic practice by asking how theological thinking informs acts of creation and the life of the artist. Students will explore the capacities of art as revelatory, transformational, and liberative. The course guides students in the articulation of their theological understanding of aesthetics in the practice of their vocation with art, while attending to the multifaceted ways art functions in the world.
Open to MATC students only.
Draft course description pending faculty approval
Thursday, 8:30am – 11:30am
TCE 553O Collaborative Community Development
Course DescriptionThis course prepares students to engage in the practices of community development, and helps them to define theological and ethical foundations for the promotion of well-being in the communities they are called to love. Through practices of deep listening, participants will gain the skills and character qualities necessary to work in partnership with community members to foster organic, contextualized community change.
Open to MATC students only.
Draft course description pending faculty approval
Thursday, 8:30am – 11:30am
TCE 555R Gathering & Becoming: Convening Communities of Faith & Practice
Course DescriptionWhat does it mean to gather? The history of the local church is a story of people convening in the Way of Jesus unto liberation, belonging, and service within particular contexts. The Greek word for church – ekklisia – means “gathering”; the reimagination of gathering is vital for communities of faith emerging in the wake of Christendom’s collusion of religion with political and economic powers. This course prepares leaders to convene groups as prophetic witness, formative community, and missional service unto becoming faithful communal expressions of love of God, neighbor, creation, and self. Students will be prepared as leaders to adaptively reimagine Christian gathering practices to serve the current and future needs of their particular place and all its inhabitants.
Open to MATC students only.
Thursday, 8:30am – 11:30am
TCE 575BO Special Topics: Narrative, Identity & Asian American Experiences
Course Description2 credits
This interdisciplinary course, designed for both Asian Americans and non-Asian Americans, will explore and utilize the Asian American Quadrilateral—the intersection of 4 themes salient to understanding, identifying and organizing Asian American-ness (Asian heritage, migration experiences, American culture, and racialization). From this contextual framework, students will explore the ways in which these themes impact any person’s individual story, identity, theology and spirituality (Asian American or non-Asian American). This course will equip students to have a broader understanding of major historical, political, religious, and socio-cultural movements which have—and continue to—impact race, faith, and identity in America, with particular attention to Asian American experiences. This course will also help students employ new language and tools in embodying their own stories/nuanced identities (the particularities of who they are) in relating to God, as well as relating to individuals with different lived experiences so that greater depths of empathy, trust, and connection are made possible, especially in their future healing and helping professions.
Thursday, 9:30am – 11:30am
Spring 2024 Courses
CSL 503O Professional Ethics & Law
Course Description3 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.
Wednesday, 8:30am – 12:30pm
CSL 503S Professional Ethics & Law
Course Description3 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.
Monday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
CSL 512O Substance Use Disorders
Course Description3 credits
Prerequisites: CSL 544
Recommended Prerequisite: CSL 517
This course is designed to provide an introduction to foundational theories of addictive processes, principles of prevention, diagnosis and assessment, and evidenced-based treatments. Attention will be given to the full continuum of care (including: prevention, assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and recovery), as well as how sociocultural context impacts the development and implementation of treatment for substance use disorders in diverse populations and communities.
Tuesday, 8:30am – 12:30pm
CSL 516O Research & Statistics
Course Description3 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.
PLEASE NOTE: In addition to its weekly scheduled time this class will also meet Saturday, June 15 from 9am-1pm. Please see the syllabus for details.
Thursday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Wednesday, 8:30am – 12:30pm
CSL 516S Research & Statistics
Course Description3 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.
PLEASE NOTE: In addition to its weekly scheduled time this class will also meet Saturday, June 15 from 9am-1pm. Please see the syllabus for details.
Tuesday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
CSL 517R Family Systems
Course Description3 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.
Wednesday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Thursday, 8:30am – 12:30pm
CSL 517S Family Systems
Course Description3 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.
Monday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
CSL 532A Internship III
Course Description1 credit
Prerequisites: CSL 530, CSL 531
Students who have not completed their required hours of internship may register for internship until the hours are completed. Note that internship credits beyond the required Internship I and II do not count toward the total credits required within the degree.
This class will meet on the following dates: April 23, May 7, May 21, June 4.
Tuesday, 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Wednesday, 9:00am – 10:00am
CSL 543R Helping Relationships II
Course Description3 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 502, CSL 544, CSL 545, CSL 553, IDS 520/521, CSL 542
This course is the second in a two-part series that builds on the competencies, deep listening skills, and self-reflection practices introduced in the common curriculum and Pre-Internship CSL 553. The course continues to cultivate students’ grasp of therapeutic processes, skills, and techniques crucial for effective psychotherapy treatments across the lifespan from a relational posture. The course helps students apply their clinical knowledge and theory as they begin to inhabit the role of therapist. Students will engage course content through a combination of supervised role-play experiences, reflections, and didactic teaching methods as they prepare for their internship experience.
Wednesday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
CSL 543S Helping Relationships II
Course Description3 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 502, CSL 544, CSL 545, CSL 553, IDS 520/521, CSL 542
This course is the second in a two-part series that builds on the competencies, deep listening skills, and self-reflection practices introduced in the common curriculum and Pre-Internship CSL 553. The course continues to cultivate students’ grasp of therapeutic processes, skills, and techniques crucial for effective psychotherapy treatments across the lifespan from a relational posture. The course helps students apply their clinical knowledge and theory as they begin to inhabit the role of therapist. Students will engage course content through a combination of supervised role-play experiences, reflections, and didactic teaching methods as they prepare for their internship experience.
Tuesday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
CSL 560O Psychopharmacology
Course Description1 Credit
Prerequisite: CSL 544
This overview course in psychopharmacology includes the biological, psychological (intrapsychic and interpersonal conflicts and anxieties), and the social model. This course covers the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, pharmacology of medications of abuse, pharmacology for special populations (child, adolescent, geriatric patients as well as suicidal, and violent patients), and a synthesis of psychopharmacology and psychological therapies in the care of the patient. From a biopsychosocial model, there is an emphasis on understanding of how the ethnic and cultural background of patients influence development, disease expression, the patient-therapist relationship, diagnosis and treatment variations across the globe. Each class of medication will be explored, specifically: the history, mechanism of action, pharmacology, indications with specific clinical syndromes, effects on symptoms, adverse effects, drug interactions, medication compliance and future directions of the particular classes of medications. Through a representative selection of clinical scenarios, cases will be used to illustrate how to apply the concepts in clinical practice settings.
Wednesday, 5:30pm – 7:30pm
CSL 564O Assessment & Treatment of Trauma & Abuse
Course Description2 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.
Thursday, 9:00am – 12:00pm
CSL 572S Infant Observation III
Course Description1 credit
This course introduces the experience of early formation, development in the infant, and the infant in relationship to their mothering figure, other primary caretakers, as well as ultimately to the birthing of the infant’s mind. Infant observation focuses on the primary relationships, primitive anxieties, defenses, which later inform clinical work with children, adolescents, and adult patients in psychotherapy. This in vivo learning experience takes place through a weekly observation of the infant with their mothering figure, primary caregiver in their home environment.
Tuesday, 7:15pm – 8:45pm
CSL 575BO Special Topics - Doing the Work: Counseling Observation and Consultation
Course DescriptionPrerequisite: CSL 531
This class provides students with ongoing opportunities to engage with some of the regular (needed) rhythms in counseling praxis, including consultation with peers and trusted elders in the field, documentation, and self-reflection.
Course description pending faculty review
Thursday, 1:00pm – 4:00pm
IDS 503O Intersections: Textual Integrations
Course Description1 credit
Prerequisites: IDS 501, IDS 502, IDS 504, IDS 505
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.
Monday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Tuesday, 10:30am – 12:30pm
Thursday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Tuesday, 3:00pm – 5:00pm
Thursday, 10:30am – 12:30pm
IDS 503S Intersections: Textual Integrations
Course Description1 credit
Prerequisites: IDS 501, IDS 502, IDS 504, IDS 505
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.
Wednesday, 1:00pm – 3:00pm
Tuesday, 10:30am – 12:00pm
RES Residency
Course DescriptionThis course will house materials related to the residency for the current term.
TCE 554O Contextual Conversations for Community Transformation
Course Description3 credits
These cross cultural courses hosted by local Subject Matter Experts will explore the hurt, hope and heart of the communities in which they serve. This hurt, hope, and heart methodology shapes a credible and collaborative approach to community development. Listening deeply to the context as a collective learning community while making application to participants' own place of ministry. Pre-trip readings and film study will establish foundational knowledge regarding the places, spirituality, theology, history and culture.
For particular context description, please see the course syllabus.
The travel portion of this course meets April 17-18 in Seattle and April 19-20 in Yakama. Students in TCE 554O will then continue to meet weekly online following the trip. Students in SFD 520T will only attend the travel portion of this class.
Thursday, 8:30am – 12:30pm
SFD 521T The Artist's Way
Course Description2 credits
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.
This course meets at the Grunewald Guild in Leavenworth, WA April 18-21. Transportation to and from the school will be provided.
Sunday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 9:00am – 5:00pm
TCE 533O Theories of Change: Community Leadership
Course Description3 credits
This course will explore how business for the common good and innovation are used in creative ways of service to communities in a variety of contexts. Students will examine how innovative practices, philanthropy, and entrepreneurial leadership can be used to heal the heart of a community. A field research component will allow the student to begin to identify and construct the competencies and dimensions of their MATC apprenticeship.
Thursday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
TCE 538O Mission & Faithful Presence
Course Description3 credits
This course surveys the ongoing evolution of the theology and practice of mission. The course explores the history of theologies, frameworks, social constructs, and critiques of Christian mission, better enabling students to engage in mission without colonizing or harming. This course equips learners to personally participate, and guide others into joining the Triune God in God’s liberative mission within the particularity of their context. Students are invited to explore the implications of Emmanuel (God is with us), as the heart of missional presence and practice.
Wednesday, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
TCE 545O Beauty, Brokenness, & the Cross
Course Description2 credits
This class will explore the concept of beauty. This exploration will be shaped by a theology of the cross (which encompasses the whole of the life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus) that not only leads us to a Christian understanding of beauty but to an understanding that beauty, to be true beauty, must have the power to identify, confront, and redeem that which is most ugly – even death itself. It is in this redemptive motion that we are brought to worship, which emerges from our acknowledgment of God’s redemptive power within our lives.
Monday, 8:30am – 11:30pm
TCE 552O Studio & Seminar: The Arts
Course Description3 credits
Prerequisite: TCE 551
This studio course creates opportunities for students to engage in artistic practice integrated with theological thinking. Students will employ experimentation and adaptive approaches toward creative practices and explore an understanding of the artist’s role within society and Christian community. The course culminates in a project in which students demonstrate their integration of theology and art.
Thursday, 8:30am – 12:30pm
TCE 554O Contextual Conversations for Community Transformation
Course Description3 credits
These cross cultural courses hosted by local Subject Matter Experts will explore the hurt, hope and heart of the communities in which they serve. This hurt, hope, and heart methodology shapes a credible and collaborative approach to community development. Listening deeply to the context as a collective learning community while making application to participants' own place of ministry. Pre-trip readings and film study will establish foundational knowledge regarding the places, spirituality, theology, history and culture.
For particular context description, please see the course syllabus.
The travel portion of this course meets April 17-18 in Seattle and April 19-20 in Yakama. Students in TCE 554O will then continue to meet weekly online following the trip. Students in SFD 520T will only attend the travel portion of this class.
Thursday, 8:30am – 12:30pm
TCE 556R Listening & Leading: Spiritual Leadership within Communities of Faith & Practice
Course Description3 credits
Prerequisite: TCE 555R
How does a leader, through their presence, convene groups serving the common good as a faithful expression of personal and collective love of God? This course equips spiritual leaders with tools for attending deeply to the invitation of God’s Shalom, to the particularity of their groups, to the complexity of their places, to their personal journeys, and to the systems of oppression warring against liberation and flourishing for all and everything. Students will be prepared as leaders with the practical knowledge, skills, and tools necessary for convening followers of Christ to serve the common good as a faithful expression of their love of God, love of neighbor, love of creation, and love of self.
Thursday, 8:30am – 12:30pm