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This capstone course will offer pastoral ministry students an opportunity to gain experience in a ministerial setting while being supervised onsite and mentored by a faculty member.  Through experience, additional reading, synthesis of prior theological study, and structured reflection, course participants prepare for employment as ministerial professionals. Should be taken in the final year of theological study.

This series of courses is organized by topic, event, individual, movement, era, issue, question or concern and is designed to explore areas not covered in regularly offered courses.

A study of research methods and resources in the discipline of theology, this course teaches students to compile a bibliography for use in the discipline. The emphasis of the course varies from year to year, focusing on an important person in the history of Christian theology or an important movement or school of thought in the history of Christian theology. The course fulfills the advanced writing requirement for majors in Theology.

This course provides a framework for responding to the needs of the disadvantaged members of society, especially the elderly, the hungry, the homeless and the institutionalized. Students provide practical action plans of service learning based on Scripture, existing or possible social or ministerial services, and the support of others similarly interested. The course includes a required service learning component.

This capstone provides an integrative experience for the Peace Studies Minor offering students an opportunity to synthesize what they have learned in both course and field work. Students review and evaluate theory, models of practice, research, and experience to develop their understanding of the ways peacebuilding and conflict-transformation are engaged personally, spiritually, locally, regionally, and globally. The course requires a project (e.g., the completion of an e-portfolio, major paper, and/or public presentation) integrating peace and justice theory and praxis with a student’s academic major and future career aspirations. THEO 45000 should be taken in the final semester of the minor.