Field Education [FE] (Contextual Learning)
FE0200 Internship Orientation
Offered 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. A single CPE unit is 400 hours and includes 300 hours of ministry in a clinical, non-profit, or congregational context. The remaining 100 hours of reflective work is divided between peer group reflection, one-on-one meetings with a CPE Educator, and didactic units focusing on skills and reflective practices for ministry. 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. A single CPE unit is 400 hours and includes 300 hours of ministry in a clinical, non-profit, or congregational context. The remaining 100 hours of reflective work is divided between peer group reflection, one-on-one meetings with a CPE Educator, and didactic units focusing on skills and reflective practices for ministry. 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. A single CPE unit is 400 hours and includes 300 hours of ministry in a clinical, non-proft, or congregational context. The remaining 100 hours of reflective work is divided between peer group reflection, one-on-one meetings with a CPE Educator, and didactic units focusing on skills and reflective practices for ministry. 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 of field education for MA students and 300 hours for M. Div. students. The field education hours for M. Div students may be completed in a later term if agreed upon with the instructor. The student will then need to register for FE0524 to fufill the remaining hours.
Electives: MDiv Leadership
Full course
FE0524 Field Education
This course serves an extension of the fieldwork component of FE0523. Students should register for this course in the term they intend to complete their field education.