Course Offerings

NOTE: Course offerings are subject to change for many unseeable reasons.

Please double-check with the listing on Populi (when they are made available) before you finalize your course plan. If you have any questions about the course offerings and registration, please don't hesitate to contact our Registrar, Elena Jimenez.

[Canceled courses are listed in Italics.]

Summer Term I 2020/2021

(May 25 - July 17, 2020)

Intensive: June 1-5, 2020

• Global Religions [Muhammad]: 3.00 credits

Intensive: June 8-12, 2020

• Topics in Worship and Liturgy [Rideout]: 3.00 credits - Course Cancelled
• Designing and Leading Worship in a Time of Crisis [Miller]: 1.5 credits

Intensive: July 13-17, 2020

• Religious Education as a Tool for Change [Rogers]: 3.00 credits

Fall Term 2020/2021

(August 31 - December 11, 2020)

Note: Fall courses will be offered fully online. Not all courses will have an intensive week, but courses that do use an intensive will meet during the designated weeks listed below. Other courses will instead meet regularly throughout the semester, via Zoom and asynchronous (not live) discussions in the Populi course platform. More information about the specifics of the Fall schedule for individual courses will be available prior to course registration.

Intensives: September 28-October 2, 2020

• Faith Formation in a Changing World [Rogers]: 3.00 credits
• Introduction to Pastoral Ministry [Journey]: 3.00 credits
• Religion on the Move [Kirk]: 3.00 credits
• Humanism II: The Anti-Racist Challenge to Humanist Epistemology [Hooper & Miller]: 3.00 credits 
• Constructive Theology [Hogue]: 3.00 credits

Intensives: October 5-9, 2020

• Healthy Boundaries, Healthy Ministry [Ambrose]: 3.00 credits

• Unitarian Universalist History and Policy [Kirk]: 3.00 credits
• Religion, Vulnerability, and Resilience [Hogue]: 3.00 credits
• Topics in Worship & Liturgy: Designing Sensory-Rich Worship [Straube & Tolley]: 3.00 credits
• Pedagogy for Social Change: Method is the Message [Hicks]: 3.00 credits

Intensives: October 12-16, 2020

• Introduction to Ethics [Ambrose]: 3.00 credits
• Humanism Course I: The Nature of Being [Breeden]: 3.00 credits 
• Academic Research and Theological Writing [Walsh]: 3.00 credits
• Introduction to Buddhist Traditions [Straube]: 3.00 credits
• Introduction to Chaplaincy [Journey]: 3.00 credits

Intensive: October 19-23

• Hebrew Bible [Sharp]: 3.00 credits

Signature Courses

• Cultural Grounding and Theological Formation [Hogue]: 3.00 credits
• Vocational Studies: Formation [Kirk]: 3.00 credits
• Leadership Studies: Formation [Hicks]: 3.00 credits

Spring Term 2020/2021

(January 25 - May 7, 2021)

Intensives: March 1-5, 2021

• Building Communities to Counter White Nationalism [Welch]: 3.00 credits
• History of Global Christianity [Kirk]: 3.00 credits
• Intro to Pastoral Ministry [Taylor]: 3.00 credit
• Preaching As If You Mean It [Schwartz]: 3.00 credits
• Ecotheologies [Hogue]: 3.00 credits

Intensives: March 8-12, 2021

• Ministry in Times of Crisis [Taylor]: 3.00 credits
• Teaching for Faith Formation - The Laboratory [Hicks] - 3.00 credits
• Call of the Wild: Nature and American Religion [Kirk] - 3.00 credits
• Community Organizing and Ethical Leadership [Ambrose]: 3.00 credits
• Humanism III: Ethics and Aesthetics [Jagoe]: 3.00 credits

Fully Online Courses

These course may have online intensives March 15-19, 2021, or may spread online engagement throughout the semester. 

• New Testament [Beverly]: 3.00 credits
• Multi-Racial Congregations as Faith Formation [Hicks]: 3.00 credits

• Tools for Parish and Nonprofit Administration [LaBoy]: 3.00 credits

Signature Courses

• Social Engagement [Hogue, Welch]: 3.00 credits
• Vocational Studies: Communities [Rogers]: 3.00 credits, plus 3.00 credit internship
• Leadership Studies: Administration [Ortega]: 3.00 credits, plus 3.00 credit internship

Summer Term II 2020/2021

(May 24 - July 16, 2021)

• Ethics and the Politics of Emotion [Ambrose]: 3.00 credits

• Spirituality and Social Justice Activism in the African American Tradition [Lightsey]: 3.0 credits

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Again, course offerings are subject to change for many unseeable reasons. Please double-check with the listing on Populi (when they are made available) before you finalize your course plan. If you have any questions about the course offerings and registration, please don't hesitate to contact our Registrar, Elena Jimenez.