Course Descriptions
Field Education
Clinical Pastoral Education
This course is for Starr King students engaged in part-time or full-time Clinical Pastoral Education. Participate in ministry to persons in crisis and engage in individual and group reflection. Didactic sessions draw together theoretical material from theology, the behavioral sciences, and pastoral care. Students learn to integrate theological understanding and knowledge of behavioral science with pastoral functioning. Upon completion, a written evaluation from the program supervisor will be placed into the student’s permanent file. Discuss CPE with your advisor and then faculty. Final evaluation from CPE supervisor needs to be sent to faculty by the last day of the term to receive credit. Students are responsible for applying for and securing a place in a CPE program. Please check the SKSM Student Handbook and Contextual Education Handbook for more information. Relates to SKSM Threshold 5 and MFC Competency 2. Course is available from 1-10 units. [15 max enrollment; Auditors excluded]
Session
January Intersession 2021
Instructors
Course Type
Field Education
Location
No Location
Course ID
FE-4012
Faculty Approval Required
No
Units
1-10
Community Field Work January
Field work describes an involvement in community work for up to 15 hours a week with the ongoing support of a mentor. Community Field Work includes work in gender, racial and economic justice, queer activism, disability advocacy, immigration issues, environmental responsibility, civil liberties protection, HIV response, youth at risk, peace building, participating in a fundraising campaign for a non for profit or grassroots organization, chaplaincy, teaching and more. Students should discuss the field work opportunity with their advisor before making arrangements with the professor. Student and community mentor should discuss and sign a learning agreement before the official beginning of the field work experience. Final student/mentor evaluations will also be required by the end of term. All forms available from the professor at the beginning of the term and on the SKSM Website. Please see Student Handbook and Contextual Education Handbook for more information. [Faculty Consent required; 15 max enrollment; Auditors excluded]
Session
January Intersession 2021
Instructors
Course Type
Field Education
Location
No Location
Course ID
FE-4061
Faculty Approval Required
No
Units
.5-5
Congregational Field Work
Fieldwork is an opportunity to put into action the theory learned in the classroom. Working in a congregation gives the student a chance to develop their unique pastoral voice while navigating complexities of a congregation’s history, culture, systems and ethos. Fieldwork placements may include: teaching a religious education class for children or adults, working with a youth group, serving on a pastoral care team, participating in a stewardship campaign and more. Evaluation is based on Zoom conversations with professor, midterm and final evaluations. This course is for M.Div. students. Variable credits, between 0.5 – 3.0 depending on the scope of work done.
Depending on the focus of the Field Work, your project may relate to Starr King thresholds 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 8 and MFC requirements 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7.
Session
January Intersession 2021
Instructors
Course Type
Field Education
Location
No Location
Course ID
FE-4051
Faculty Approval Required
No
Units
.5-3
Immersion
No courses found
Intensive
ECO Core Intensive: January 11-15 & 19-21
**Course dates and times: January 11-15 and 19-21; 10:00-1:00 pm PST synchronous session plus two hours of work in asynchronous online modality, including breaks.
Educating to “Create Just and Sustainable Communities that Counter Oppressions” (“ECO”) is a core goal of Starr King’s M.Div. and M.A.S.C. degree programs. In this required core intensive, M.Div. and M.A.S.C. students work together to form a framework for counter-oppressive spiritual leadership. We will ask: how can spirituality, ministry, and religious activism respond to the multiple and intersecting realities of injustice, suffering, and oppression in our lives and our world? What models of justice and sustainable community invite our commitment? Drawing on Unitarian Universalist and multi-religious sources, we will explore how in the midst of a world marked by tragedy, sorrow and injustice there remain abiding resources of beauty and grace that nourish resistance, offer healing and call us to accountability and community building. Reading and writing assignments to be completed before the course. Final paper. This course has a special focus on economic and racial justice addressed intersectionally. Relates to Thresholds #2,5,7 and 8 and MFC Competency #4. Please take within your first year. Limited to 20 students.
Session
January Intersession 2021
Instructors
Course Type
Intensive, Online
Location
No Location
Course ID
RSFT-1017
Faculty Approval Required
No
Units
3
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Introduction to Preaching in a Cross Cultural Context: January 11-15 & 19-21
*Course dates and times: January 11-15 and 19-21; 10:00-1:00 pm PST synchronous session plus two hours of work in asynchronous online modality, including breaks.
Introduction to Preaching in a Cross Cultural Context: This non-lectionary, thematic preaching course embraces counter oppressive ministry through worship and the arts. Hands on learning will combine the sharing and peer review of brief homilies with exercises aimed at identifying your authentic preaching voice. Each student will also deliver two full-length sermons in class. Questions of how to make our worship services more relevant in today’s culturally shifting world will be explored through thea/ological study of homiletics through a libratory lens and an engagement with issues of cultural appropriation and misappropriation in Unitarian Universalist liturgical practice. Students from all traditions welcome.
Pre-requisites: ECO core intensive or equivalent. Starr King thresholds 1, 2, 6 and 7, and MFC Competency 1. This course is for M.Div students and will be evaluated based on sermons and class participation. Maximum enrollment: 10
Students must contact the instructor via e-email prior to enrolling in order to receive permission to register. Registration is contingent upon faculty approval.
Session
January Intersession 2021
Instructors
Course Type
Intensive, Online
Location
No Location
Course ID
HMLS 4075
Faculty Approval Required
Yes
Units
3
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Multireligious Core Intensive: January 24-29
*January 25-29: 9:30 am – 1:30 pm PT; 4 hours synchronous and 1.5 hours asynchronous per day.
Multireligious Intensive: Amidst the Blessing of the Ancestors weaves teachings on organic multireligiosity from Shaykh Ibrahim Baba / Dr. Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajaje with practices of ancestral engagement. Organic multiregliosity “interrupts practices of considering religions as monolithic, rigidly-separated traditions in conflict with one another [and] understands them as having complex and constantly-morphing relationships…” (Ibrahim Baba). This intensive focuses on multireligiosity in personal practice, in spiritual leadership, and toward countering oppression and cultural (mis)appropriation. This course includes conceptual exploration and embodied practice with work in ancestral lineage engagement, reverence and healing. Students complete readings and watch / listen to recordings and submit a reflection post prior to the intensive, and complete a second reflection paper after the intensive. Required for MDiv and recommended for MASC degrees. Limited to 20 students. Intended audience: All degree programs. Relates to Thresholds: I, II, IV, VI, VII. Relates to MFC: I, III, VII. Maximum enrollment: 20
Session
January Intersession 2021
Instructors
Course Type
Intensive, Online
Location
No Location
Course ID
IDS-1400
Faculty Approval Required
No
Units
3
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SKSM Symposium
Starr King’s 9th Annual Symposium, will be held January 9th, 2021. This urban retreat is an annual gathering of entire student body, faculty, staff, trustees, and friends for a day of learning, ritual, celebration, food, music, community-building and service. The academic course is required for all SKSM students: M.Div candidates must register for at least two Symposia and MASC students for one. Students who have completed their Symposium academic credit are welcome to attend the event without registering for course credit. Symposium registration is a two (2) step process: (1) Enroll for the Symposium as a course through Populi to ensure course credit AND (2) Complete a separate event registration form on the SKSM Symposium web page. In order to obtain credit, students must read all required readings before Symposium, participate fully in the event, and complete the reflection paper, which must be submitted to your advisor. [Auditors excluded]
Session
January Intersession 2021
Dates
1/9/21 – 1/9/21
Instructors
Course Type
Intensive
Location
No Location
Days
Sa
Course ID
IDS-4205
Faculty Approval Required
No
Units
0.5
Online
ChI Spiritual Direction I
For joint-program students participating in Chaplaincy Institute (ChI) courses as part of the Interfaith Spiritual Direction Certificate. This course is the first of four quarterly classes in the 2021 program. The certificate is designed to inspire, nurture and educate those who are called to serve as Spiritual Directors in our increasingly diverse world. Our innovative program focuses on a combination of the study of world religions, an exploration of personal spirituality, and spiritual direction skills….all in a creatively infused context. Each course focuses on the development of practical skills and competencies for offering spiritual direction to persons of varying religious beliefs and backgrounds. This immersion in the arts of ministry combines pedagogies of theoretical, practical, and artistic learning.
This course is only for students who have been admitted to the SKSM-ChI joint program and is not available to other SKSM students or to students from other GTU schools.
Relates to SKSM Thresholds 1, 5, 6, 8; MFC Competencies 2, 3. Max. enrollment 10; auditors excluded. REMOTE FORMAT.
Session
January Intersession 2021
Dates
1/19/21 – 1/23/21
Instructors
Course Type
Online
Location
No Location
Days
M / T / W / Th / F
Time
9:00am-5:00pm
Course ID
SPFT-1495
Faculty Approval Required
No
Units
2
ChI Spiritual Traditions 1
Global Spiritual Traditions 1: for joint-program students participating in Chaplaincy Institute (ChI) courses as part of the Interfaith Chaplaincy and Ministry Certificate. The first of a two-part series that introduces students to ChI’s core philosophy and learning approach as well as an introduction to World Religions and/or spiritual paths that have their origins in earth-centered, indigenous practice (Africa, Pagan, First Nation and other indigenous worldviews), as well as ancient Eastern philosophy and belief systems (Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism). While engaging with the world’s knowledge, beliefs, traditions, scriptures, and practices, the ChI curriculum incorporates lecture, dyad/small group work, various art modalities, and site visits to deepen our many ways of learning and integrating new awareness. This course is only for students who have been admitted to the SKSM-ChI joint program and is not available to other SKSM students or to students from other GTU schools.
Meets Jan. 19-23 + additional online coursework. Relevant for SKSM thresholds 1, 2, and 6; MFC competency 3. Maximum enrollment: 10.; auditors excluded. REMOTE FORMAT.
Session
January Intersession 2021
Dates
1/19/21 – 1/23/21
Instructors
Course Type
Online
Location
No Location
Days
M / T / W / Th / F
Time
9:00am-5:00pm
Course ID
HR 1100
Faculty Approval Required
No
Units
3
ECO Core Intensive: January 11-15 & 19-21
**Course dates and times: January 11-15 and 19-21; 10:00-1:00 pm PST synchronous session plus two hours of work in asynchronous online modality, including breaks.
Educating to “Create Just and Sustainable Communities that Counter Oppressions” (“ECO”) is a core goal of Starr King’s M.Div. and M.A.S.C. degree programs. In this required core intensive, M.Div. and M.A.S.C. students work together to form a framework for counter-oppressive spiritual leadership. We will ask: how can spirituality, ministry, and religious activism respond to the multiple and intersecting realities of injustice, suffering, and oppression in our lives and our world? What models of justice and sustainable community invite our commitment? Drawing on Unitarian Universalist and multi-religious sources, we will explore how in the midst of a world marked by tragedy, sorrow and injustice there remain abiding resources of beauty and grace that nourish resistance, offer healing and call us to accountability and community building. Reading and writing assignments to be completed before the course. Final paper. This course has a special focus on economic and racial justice addressed intersectionally. Relates to Thresholds #2,5,7 and 8 and MFC Competency #4. Please take within your first year. Limited to 20 students.
Session
January Intersession 2021
Instructors
Course Type
Intensive, Online
Location
No Location
Course ID
RSFT-1017
Faculty Approval Required
No
Units
3
Download
Introduction to Preaching in a Cross Cultural Context: January 11-15 & 19-21
*Course dates and times: January 11-15 and 19-21; 10:00-1:00 pm PST synchronous session plus two hours of work in asynchronous online modality, including breaks.
Introduction to Preaching in a Cross Cultural Context: This non-lectionary, thematic preaching course embraces counter oppressive ministry through worship and the arts. Hands on learning will combine the sharing and peer review of brief homilies with exercises aimed at identifying your authentic preaching voice. Each student will also deliver two full-length sermons in class. Questions of how to make our worship services more relevant in today’s culturally shifting world will be explored through thea/ological study of homiletics through a libratory lens and an engagement with issues of cultural appropriation and misappropriation in Unitarian Universalist liturgical practice. Students from all traditions welcome.
Pre-requisites: ECO core intensive or equivalent. Starr King thresholds 1, 2, 6 and 7, and MFC Competency 1. This course is for M.Div students and will be evaluated based on sermons and class participation. Maximum enrollment: 10
Students must contact the instructor via e-email prior to enrolling in order to receive permission to register. Registration is contingent upon faculty approval.
Session
January Intersession 2021
Instructors
Course Type
Intensive, Online
Location
No Location
Course ID
HMLS 4075
Faculty Approval Required
Yes
Units
3
Download
Multireligious Core Intensive: January 24-29
*January 25-29: 9:30 am – 1:30 pm PT; 4 hours synchronous and 1.5 hours asynchronous per day.
Multireligious Intensive: Amidst the Blessing of the Ancestors weaves teachings on organic multireligiosity from Shaykh Ibrahim Baba / Dr. Ibrahim Abdurrahman Farajaje with practices of ancestral engagement. Organic multiregliosity “interrupts practices of considering religions as monolithic, rigidly-separated traditions in conflict with one another [and] understands them as having complex and constantly-morphing relationships…” (Ibrahim Baba). This intensive focuses on multireligiosity in personal practice, in spiritual leadership, and toward countering oppression and cultural (mis)appropriation. This course includes conceptual exploration and embodied practice with work in ancestral lineage engagement, reverence and healing. Students complete readings and watch / listen to recordings and submit a reflection post prior to the intensive, and complete a second reflection paper after the intensive. Required for MDiv and recommended for MASC degrees. Limited to 20 students. Intended audience: All degree programs. Relates to Thresholds: I, II, IV, VI, VII. Relates to MFC: I, III, VII. Maximum enrollment: 20
Session
January Intersession 2021
Instructors
Course Type
Intensive, Online
Location
No Location
Course ID
IDS-1400
Faculty Approval Required
No
Units
3
Download
Residential
No courses found
Residential Hybrid
No courses found
Thesis/Final Project
No courses found