Courses

Spring 2025 Courses

BTI 525O Interpreting the Bible: Exegesis, Hermeneutics, and Community

3 credits

This course guides learners to identify and employ interpretive methods for engaging the biblical text within local contexts. Learners will distinguish, locate, and critically assess the interpretive and meaning-making lenses undergirding readings of scripture and of the place/peoples they serve. The course will equip learners with exegetical tools to draw text and lived context into conversation.

BTI 525O Interpreting the Bible: Exegesis, Hermeneutics, and Community

3 credits

This course guides learners to identify and employ interpretive methods for engaging the biblical text within local contexts. Learners will distinguish, locate, and critically assess the interpretive and meaning-making lenses undergirding readings of scripture and of the place/peoples they serve. The course will equip learners with exegetical tools to draw text and lived context into conversation.

CSL 503O Professional Ethics & Law

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

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

Please note: All sections of CSL 503 will meet synchronously online for a training on 5/21/25, 10-11 am PT.

CSL 503S Professional Ethics & Law

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

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

Please note: All sections of CSL 503 will meet synchronously online for a training on 5/21/25, 10-11 am PT.

CSL 512O Substance Use Disorders

3 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.

CSL 516O Research & Statistics

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

PLEASE NOTE: In addition to this course's weekly scheduled time, this class will also meet on Friday, June 13 from 10am-1pm (PDT) online for our Joint Research Symposium. This is a required part of this course and will be part of fulfilling one of the major assignments for this course. Please plan accordingly.

CSL 516S Research & Statistics

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

PLEASE NOTE: In addition to this course's weekly scheduled time, this class will also meet on Friday, June 13 from 10am-1pm (PDT) online for our Joint Research Symposium. This is a required part of this course and will be part of fulfilling one of the major assignments for this course. Please plan accordingly.

CSL 517O Family Systems

3 credits

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

CSL 517S Family Systems

3 credits

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 532A Internship III

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

This section will meet on the following dates: 4/21, 5/5, 5/19, 6/2

CSL 543R Helping Relationships II

3 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.

CSL 543S Helping Relationships II

3 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.

CSL 564O Assessment & Treatment of Trauma & Abuse

2 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 544

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

This course is offered for either 2 credits OR 3 credits. If you would like to take it for 2 credits, register for CSL 564O. If you would like to take it for 3 credits, register for CSL 564CO.

CSL 564O Assessment & Treatment of Trauma & Abuse

2 Credits
Prerequisites: CSL 544

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

This course is offered for either 2 credits OR 3 credits. If you would like to take it for 2 credits, register for CSL 564O. If you would like to take it for 3 credits, register for CSL 564CO.

CSL 572S Infant Observation III

1 credit

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

TUESDAY SECTION: Weekly, 7:15-8:45 pm PST; Hybrid (Kris’s Office, or Zoom).

FRIDAY SECTION: Weekly, 9:00-10:30 am PST; Hybrid (COR’s Office, or Zoom).

CSL 575BO Special Topics: African American Experiences in Societal Context

2 credits
This class will explore the African-American population through historical, sociocultural, and theological perspectives. Bowen’s theoretical framework will be used to conceptualize the experiences of African-Americans and to better understand the ways triangulation and scapegoating have impacted this population’s ability to thrive. This course will also explore ways in which faith and the Black Church have been instrumental in the lived experiences of African-Americans. Special attention will also be given to counseling implications for African-Americans and the broader societal factors which impact the lives of individuals within this population.

CSL 580A Individualized Research: Athletic Play and the Making of the Mind

Course descriptions for IR courses are unique to each class. Please see syllabus.

EXTERN Externship

IDS 503O Intersections: Textual Integrations

1 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.

IDS 503S Intersections: Textual Integrations

1 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.

IDS 521O Listening Lab: Part II

2 credits total ; taught over 2 terms
This section is open to certificate students ONLY

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 521O Listening Lab: Part II

2 credits total ; taught over 2 terms
This section is open to certificate students ONLY

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

RES Residency

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

SFD 520T Engaging Local Partnerships: Northwest Native American History, Spirituality, and Culture

2 credits
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.

This course meet as an intensive April 16-19.

SFD 521T The Artist's Way

2 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 spiritual being and how the practice of creativity unblocks spirituality in our lives and can inspire and transform humanity's relationship to God, community and culture. We will also discover how creativity can enliven our academic study and vocational practice.

This course begins with an artist’s retreat; students then continue coursework asynchronously throughout the term, including regular engagement with previously established reading groups.

Logistics Note: The bus will leave from 2501 Elliott Ave at 6 pm PT on April 10 and return to 2501 Elliott Ave around 12:30 pm PT on April 13. Please note that the building will not be open/accessible on 4/13.

TCE 533O Theories of Change: Community Leadership

3 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.

TCE 544O The Triune God & Creation

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

TCE 545O Beauty, Brokenness, & the Cross

2 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.

TCE 552O Studio & Seminar: The Arts

3 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.

TCE 575AO Special Topics - Art, Theology, and Shalom: Frailty, Power and Making.

1 credit
More than a greeting of peace, shalom signifies wholeness, all the parts of creation and culture working together for human flourishing. This course employs the theological concept of shalom as a method for critical investigation and as an aesthetic impetus for Christian involvement in the world. Through lecture presentations, readings, creative exercises and assignments, the class endorses God at work through human creative faculties and inspires liberating endeavors informed by art texts. Many institutes, organizations, and community groups have turned to art’s viability to inform or transform. Moreover, the study of neuroaesthetics reports art’s personal and social benefits. Subsequently, this course models and makes a case for applying art-based methodologies as an interdisciplinary practice towards performing inner and social shalom.

This course meets on the following dates only: Friday April 25, May 9, 23, June 6, 13.

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