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At the time of certificate completion student will prepare a three-four page essay responding to the following prompt: Read the EMS Purpose Statement in the seminary catalog (1-6). Focusing on the fourth guiding principle, growth as transformational leaders, describe at least three ways your ministry and your person hood have grown and/or changed during your certificate studies. Refer to specific courses, readings, assignments, or conversations with instructors and fellow students.
Graduate Certificate in Faith-Based Peacebuilding
The Graduate Certificate in Faith-Based Peacebuilding blends skills and practices for leading communities in times of conflict with reflection on the theological commitments that are embodied in these practices. The overall requirements are 9-10 SH from the Seminary and 8-9 SH from CJP, for a total of 18 credits.
Required Core Courses - 9 SH
- PAX 533 Analysis: Understanding Conflict (3 SH)
- PAX 532 Formation for Peacebuilding (3 SH)
- CM 631 Faith-Based Social Transformation or CTT 546 Justice, Peace and the Biblical Story (3 SH)
Theology Electives - choose 6-7 SH from the following:
- CM 631 Faith-Based Social Transformation or CTT 546 Justice, Peace and the Biblical Story (3 SH, whichever did not fulfill above requirement)
- CM 643 643 Missio Dei in Cultural Context (3 SH)
- CM 654 Race and Religion in America (3 SH)
- CM 724 Racial Healing and the Blue-Eyed Soul (3 SH)
- SMCL 521 Teaching for Christian Community (3 SH)
- CTT 634 Living Theology (3 SH)
- CTE 7020 Christian Ethics (3 SH)
- SMCL 564 Theological Reflections on Trauma (1 SH) - must be taken with PAX 540 Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience I (2 SH) below.
Peacebuilding Electives - choose 2-3 SH from the following:
- PAX 601 Mediation & Negotiation (2 or 3 SH)
- PAX 672 Circle Processes (1or 2 SH)
- PAX 610 Facilitation (2 or 3 SH)
- PAX 665 Designing Processes for Conflict Transformation (2 or 3 SH)
- PAX 571 Restorative Justice (2 or 3 SH)
- PAX 588 Nonviolent Mobilization (2 or 3 SH)
- PAX 540 Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience I (2 SH)
- PAX 640 STAR Strategies for Trauma Awareness and Resilience II - prerequisite STAR I (2 SH)
- Offerings in the Summer Peacebuilding Institute