Course descriptions and scheduling are subject to change by administrative decision. See course offerings booklet for current offerings. Some courses will be offered on a two- or three-year rotation.\Developing the Skills of Ministry#cpe
Congregational Life and Work (SMCL)
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SMCL 521 Teaching for Christian Community (3 SH)
What role does pedagogical practice play in cultivating community? Utilizing an experiential learning model, this course combines theory, practice and reflection to explore the possibilities and challenges of teaching for Christian community. A basic foundation in educational theory will be established. Anabaptist theology and practices will guide the consideration of key issues such as learning, authority, mutuality and harm in community. John’s presentation of Jesus’ theology of friendship and pedagogical formation of community will serve as a biblical guide for reflection.
SMCL 564 Theological Reflection on Trauma (3 SH)
This asynchronous online course integrates theological reflection with an awareness of trauma and resilience. The complexities of sufferings, evil, healing, forgiveness and reconciliation are explored in conversation with theological sources including the Hebrew Bible; New Testament; and black, womanist and mujerista theologies. Recognizing the embodied and relational impact of trauma, this course imagines how the life-affirming resources of community, spirituality and practices can weave a net of care and empowerment. This course must be taken in the same academic year as and after completing the synchronous session of, the first module of Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience at EMU's Center for Justice and Peacebuilding (PAX 540, 2 SH)s.
SMCL 602 Foundations for Christian Preaching (3 SH)
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SMCL 640 Topics (1-3 SH)
This course provides theoretical and practical preparation in one or more of the ever more diverse skills called for in contemporary ministry settings.
SMCL 642 Congregational Worship (3 SH)
This course both surveys the foundations of Christian worship – biblical, historical, and theological – and prepares students for designing and leading congregational worship experiences. A comparative study of contemporary ecumenical expression provides the student with critical tools to examine the liturgical practices of their own faith tradition. Students will become familiar with patterns of worship based on the Christian year and various lectionary cycles and will practice specific acts of liturgical leadership through the writing of prayers and other worship resources. Special emphasis will be placed on the practice of hospitality through intercultural awareness.
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This project is intended to help students integrate their seminary education into their intended ministry setting. As a culmination of their seminary experience, students will develop a resource, with the assistance of a faculty advisor, which will equip them more fully to minister in contexts beyond the seminary.
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Missions and Evangelism (SMME)
Mission in Cultural Context (3 SH)
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Intercultural Church Experience (3 SH)
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Mentored Ministry Internship (2-6 SH)
See SMFE 781.
Field Education (SMFE)
(see See the requirements for Mentored Ministry)
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Clinical Pastoral Education is professional education for ministry. The learning process includes group seminars and the practice of ministry in an institutional or congregational setting with the guidance of an ACPECertified an ACPE Certified Educator. From encounters with persons in need, and the feedback from peers and educators, students develop new awareness of themselves as persons and of the needs of those to whom they minister. From reflection on specific human situations utilizing the resources of theology and the science of human functioning students expand their understanding of ministry. In addition to the practice of ministry program components include the writing of verbatims, lectures, reading, journaling, individual supervision and the interpersonal experience of a group of peers in a common learning experience.
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Independent studies may be taken in any department subject to the approval of the instructor and the associate dean. More information here.
MAR 791 MAR Thesis (1-6 SH)
Research project done in the area of the student’s concentration and under the direction of the faculty supervisor.