Interdisciplinary Courses

• STH TF 700: First Year Formation
  This course will center and strengthen the spiritual and relational formation component of 1st year MDiv & MTS students. It will be developed to provide robust frameworks and practices aimed at identity formation in community. It takes seriously the holistic formation of students throughout the span of their MDiv/MTS program, providing frameworks and practices aimed at identity formation in community. It will address formational competencies identified by the faculty such as: • Naming commitments to communities of concern • Student identity formation & worldview recognition • Listening and talking respectfully across difference • Approaching conflict in the STH learning community constructively • Vocational discernment • Interdisciplinary research on spiritual formation • Spiritual formation and spiritual practice while at STH • Exploring self-care and mental health resources for healthy stress management and well-being to facilitate growth • Identifying one's place in dynamics of power and privilege
• STH TF 701: Introduction to Christian Traditions
  This first course of a two-course sequence provides a basic academic orientation to the Christian movement through a survey of its history from antiquity through the Protestant Reformation. Lectures and readings on the history of Christianity will be complemented by parallel lectures and readings on great theologians of those times. Emphasis is placed on increasing students' self-consciousness of their own theological and religious identity, Christian or otherwise, relative to the first sixteen centuries of Christian history. MDIV and MTS core requirement.
• STH TF 702: Christianity Engaging Modernity
  Continuation of TF 701.
• STH TF 703: Practicing Faith
  Situated in the first semester of the MDiv program, the various sections of Practicing Faith, each in their unique ways, aim: 1) to increase the student's self-awareness of lived faith in dialogue with cultural and religious traditions and with attention to formative spiritual and religious texts and practices and 2) to develop the student's ability to reflect critically about practicing faith. Each course aims to do this differently, by providing a lens through which students will explore and examine how persons and communities live out faith.
• STH TF 710: First Year Formation
  This course is required of all incoming MDiv, MTS, and MSM students, including transfer students, in the first fall semester of their degree program and aims at orienting students (1) to the legacy, faculty, curriculum, resources, and community principles of the School of Theology; (2) to a wholistic framework for thinking about stewardship of body, mind, spirit, finances, and the wider ecosphere; (3) to tools for reflection and practice on personal and spiritual formation during the course of one's theological studies; and (4) to a robust embrace of and engagement with social and theological diversity, power and privilege, and one's capacity to relate across difference. The individual sessions will also make room for answering questions students might have about the curriculum or the school.
• STH TF 808: Travel Seminars
  Travel seminars are offered each year by the School of Theology, and they afford students the ability to think about theology and ministry in relationship to various local and global contexts. The descriptions of each seminar and the cluster requirements which they fulfill are listed as the courses are announced. (Cluster 2)
• STH TF 810: Global and Community Engagement Capstone
  MDiv students on the Global and Community Engagement track design a customized practicum or seminar with the help of their advisor that serves as an integrative capstone course and culmination of their degree program. (Cluster 2)
• STH TF 813: Theological Writing Workshop
  This course is a general introduction to the tasks of conducting research in order to write academic theological arguments. The course focuses on honing the skills you already have in order to research more efficiently, and write more precisely.
• STH TF 821: Contextual Education I (Dual Degree)
  Integration of Theology and Practice (ITP) reflection groups for STH-SSW dual degree students in their advanced placements. Offered fall semester. 1 credit. MDIV CORE REQUIREMENT.
• STH TF 822: Contextual Education 2 (Dual Degree)
  Continues and presupposes STH TF821 for STH-SSW dual degree students. Offered spring semester. 1 credit. MDIV CORE REQUIREMENT.
• STH TF 901: Doctoral Colloquium 1
  All first-year ThD and PhD students at STH are required to take this two-semester doctoral colloquia associated with the Doctoral Research and Teaching Internship Program (DTRIP). The colloquia focus on (1) research methods, (2) teacher training, and (3) professional identity.
• STH TF 902: Doctoral Colloquium 2
  The continuation of TF901.