Field Education [FE] (Contextual Learning)
FE0200 Internship Orientation
Offered during the Winter term and Summer term for students preparing for upcoming internship placement. Prior to registering for orientation, please contact the Contextual Learning team about your internship timeline and have your internship application completed and submitted.
Note: This course is a prerequisite to internship. There is a $50 materials fee.
Non-credit course
FE0500 Clinical Pastoral Education - Full-Time
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) offers students the opportunity to develop and integrate theological knowledge and professional skills in a wide variety of clinical contexts such as hospitals, extended care facilities, social service and social justice organizations, and congregational settings. The focus of learning are the people and relationships affected by the act of giving spiritual care, including both the one who receives and the one who gives that care. Some methods employed to develop this reflective practice include verbatims, journaling, peer group sessions, and one-on-one conversations with a CPE supervisor. All CPE registration is completed by the Office of Contextual Learning.
Non-credit course
FE0505 Clinical Pastoral Education - Part-Time
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) offers students the opportunity to develop and integrate theological knowledge and professional skills in a wide variety of clinical contexts such as hospitals, extended care facilities, social service and social justice organizations, and congregational settings. The focus of learning are the people and relationships affected by the act of giving spiritual care, including both the one who receives and the one who gives that care. Some methods employed to develop this reflective practice include verbatims, journaling, peer group sessions, and one-on-one conversations with a CPE supervisor. All CPE registration is completed by the Office of Contextual Learning.
Non-credit course
FE0509 Clinical Pastoral Education - Nine-Month Experience
Clinical Pastoral Education (CPE) offers students the opportunity to develop and integrate theological knowledge and professional skills in a wide variety of clinical contexts such as hospitals, extended care facilities, social service and social justice organizations, and congregational settings. The focus of learning are the people and relationships affected by the act of giving spiritual care, including both the one who receives and the one who gives that care. Some methods employed to develop this reflective practice include verbatims, journaling, peer group sessions, and one-on-one conversations with a CPE supervisor. Students take more than one consecutive semester of part-time extended CPE unit. All CPE registration is completed by the Office of Contextual Learning.
Non-credit course
FE0523 Field Education: Systems and Leading Change
This course attends to leading change in the midst of particular communities and their distinct contextual realities with a system’s point of view. In this course, students will expand their leadership capacity by engaging systems theory while leading and being in dialogue with a particular ministry context. With their ministry context as a primary conversation partner, students will critically reflect on themselves as leaders, discover the communal nature of leadership, explore different spiritual practices, and develop their own leadership practices. Particular attention will be given to praxis, contextualization, and integrative approaches to ministry which will be connected to the student's degree program or concentration of study. The format for this course includes weekly classes and small groups sessions, in addition to weekly leadership in a ministry context. This course has a requirement of at least 100 hours.
Full course