Degree: Master of Arts
Semester Hours: 36

Core courses (21 SH)
These courses are available in an online or hybrid format.

• Foundations 1 sequence

  • PAX 533 Analysis for Conflict Transformation (3 SH)

  • PAX 532 Formation for Peacebuilding Practice (3 SH)

• PAX 535 Research Methods for Social Change (3 SH)

• OLS 510 Leadership for the Common Good (3 SH)

• MBA 560 Stewardship, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship (3 SH)

• PAX 568 Transformational Leadership for Creating Change OR MOL 620 Transformative Leadership in Dynamic Contexts (3 SH)

• Praxis courses

  • PAX 507 Praxis: Personal & Community Formation (1 SH)

  • PAX 508 Praxis: Project (1 SH)

  • PAX 509 Praxis: Integrative Capstone (1 SH)

Skills Electives (at least 6 SH)
A variety of courses focusing on leadership skills are available. Topics include:

• Group facilitation and designing facilitated processes

• Mediation and negotiation

• Program evaluation

• Circle processes

• Finance and accounting

• Project management and grant writing

• Ministering in times of trauma

• Pastoral care

Focus-Area Electives (9 SH)
These will be selected from CJP course offerings through consultation with program mentors to help the students meet their professional development goals.  Courses may include, but are not limited to:

• CM 631 Churches and Social Transformation (3 SH)

• CM 654 Race and Religion in America (3 SH)

• CM 724 Racial Healing and the Blue-Eyed Soul (3 SH)

• OLS 530 Organizational Behavior (3 SH)

• PAX 571 Restorative Justice: Principles, Theories & Applications (3 SH)

• PAX 677 Restorative Justice & Whole Systems Approaches (3 SH)

• PAX 615 Leading Organizational Change (3 SH)

Currently, other OLS and MOL courses can be completed upon request with departmental permission.