Fall Term 2022/2023

Meets Mondays 10 AM-Noon Central Time. Call of the Wild examines the history of nature, ecology, and religion primarily in North America through nature writing, autobiographies, fiction, film, and essays. Some of the questions we consider are: What is…

Meets Mondays 6-8 PM. This course introduces ethics by analyzing central debates in public life. Our conversations will cover a range of topics, including war, abortion, prisons, assisted dying, sexual choices, environmental racism, and distributive justice…

Meets Mondays, 2-4 PM Central Time. Regardless of the context in which they serve, whether in parish or community settings, religious professionals are expected to "do it all." Along with the call to provide moral, ethical, and pastoral leadership, we…

Meets Wednesdays 10 AM-Noon Central Time. A required course for those seeking Unitarian Universalist fellowship, UU History, and Polity provides a general introduction to the history and polity of the Unitarians and Universalists in North America with…

Meets Tuesdays 6-8 PM Central Time. An introduction to the study of chaplaincy across a range of professional contexts.

Meets Wednesdays 3-5 PM Central Time. Formerly titled Religious Education for a Changing World. This course is designed to be a comprehensive introduction to ideas and practices that give Unitarian Universalist Religious Education its meaning and purpose…

Meets Wednesdays 10 AM-Noon Central Time. Healthy boundaries are key to healthy ministries. They are meant to create a safer and more liberative space within which we can freely minister. This course will prepare you to develop and articulate your professional…

Meets Wednesdays, 6-8 PM Central Time. In this class, we will become acquainted with 1) the corpus of laws, narrative, and poetry that comprise the Hebrew Scriptures and 2) the variety of interpretive strategies that have been used to understand that…

Meets Tuesdays, 6-8 PM Central Time. Replaces Community Studies II, former title Social Engagement. The work of compassion, justice, and collective liberation is integral to religious leadership in the 21st century, and for many progressive and liberal…

Meets Thursdays 3-5 PM. This Fall semester course is linked with an approved congregational or community internship. The course builds on forms of awareness of congregational/organizational systems gained during the first year of the internship and provides…

Meets Thursdays 3-5 PM. Replaces Congregational Studies I. This Fall semester course is linked with an approved congregational or community internship. The focus of this course is on the formation of ministerial identity. The internship site serves as…

Meets Wednesdays 3:30-5:30 PM. This required course in theology introduces students to an interdisciplinary and engaged way of doing theology that integrates aspects of liberal and liberationist theological traditions, attempts to bridge modern and postmodern…

CPE brings theological studies into supervised encounters with persons in crisis. Students develop new awareness of themselves as ministers and of the need of those they minister. Provides opportunity for theological reflection on human situations.<br /> 6…

MALS Internship - first semester

Thesis Project