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Course Criteria
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1.50 Credits
The purpose of the Integrative Paper is to help students integrate the theory and practice of ministry. The paper will also provide an opportunity for students demonstrate a capacity to do theology in their contexts. In this paper a student will identify and explore a pastoral or leadership challenge within their ministry contexts and through sound theological method engage broadly with current theological opinion to find and implement their theological insights.
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3.00 Credits
This course will examine the underlying causes of poverty while differentiating between generational and situational poverty. The course will also consider the church's historical response to poverty continuing through contemporary models. Ultimately, the students will develop a contextually based response to poverty for their communities that reflects an undergirding of Scriptural principles.
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3.00 Credits
This course will explore the interplay of faith, reason, and justice in the call of the Church to "put feet on" the Gospel. Students will investigate the ways in which the pursuit of social justice is grounded in the Gospel of Jesus Christ (and how some Christians reject that notion), as well as explore how Christians in various times and contexts have drawn on their faith and their understanding of what it means to faithfully follow Christ in order to "proclaim good news to the poor.proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind [and] to set the oppressed free."
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to cover the principles of Christian community development and their practical applications that have emerged from a wide range of practices over time and have proven so helpful to ministries in West Virginia and beyond. Drawing on readings from leading practitioners such as John Perkins, Wayne Gordon, Soong-Chan Rah, Bob Lupton, Ron Sider, Kretzmann and McKnight, and Michelle Warren, this interdisciplinary course reviews cultural competencies; economic development concepts and strategies and the role of competition and government intervention within those; and congregational leadership and community empowerment with an eye towards asset-based community development, advocacy, and the roles of place, privilege, and community leadership in that process.
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3.00 Credits
Each year in the fall semester, four Palmer students who have been chosen by the faculty take part in this seminar with students representing other area Protestant and Roman Catholic seminaries. Students are selected on the basis of academic achievement and their perceived ability to constructively interact with diverse theological and social viewpoints. The topic of the seminar varies each year and is usually an interdisciplinary subject selected by students and faculty representatives. By invitation only.
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1.00 Credits
Independent Study in Integrated Topics Diversity, and Issues of Justice
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1.00 Credits
This professional seminar course lays a theological, theoretical, and philosophical methodology for working with juvenile offenders in ways that offer the opportunity to transform character. The content is grounded in Scripture, research evidence on resilence and transformational change theory, brain science, and positive youth development. It translates the latest research into practical methods for creating transformational environments and interactions that are proven effective for even the most challenging youth.
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1.00 Credits
This seminar course focuses on the youth worker. One cannot lead beyond the place one is. Pain-based behavior displayed by high-risk youth taps into the unresolved pain issues in adults. As Rev. Richard Rohr has said, "Your pain will either transform you, or you will transmit it." Particular attention is given to understanding one's own issues of pain, anger, unmet needs, and prejudice, through the use of video, experiential exercises, discussion groups and homework journaling.
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3.00 Credits
Juvenile Justice ministry actually prefigures government attempts and systems in dealing with the challenges of adolescent behavior and the law. This course reclaims the historic role of faith and faith based institutions in engaging youth and their families around issues of restorative justice and productive citizenship. Using the framework of Healing Communities USA, we present a model for training congregations to become Stations of Hope- congregations which minister to individuals and families affected by crime and mass incarceration. Using the principle of proximity, the Healing Communities model works to shape congregational culture in a manner that welcomes persons returning from incarceration, ministers to inmates and their families, and provides support for persons who have been victimized by crime, beginning with those families and individuals already members of or connected to the congregation.
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1.00 Credits
This professional course lays a foundation for ministry to youth in conditions of confinement. It will present an extensive overview for those working with young offenders in institutions as well as helpful skills to train volunteers who desire to minister there. Students will be exposed to various models for serving incarcerated youth. To be effective in juvenile ministry, it is imperative that chaplains and ministers fully understand the environment in which they labor. Juvenile facilities are a cross-cultural environment with multi-complex and competing interests. Incarcerated youth represent a sub-population with the needs and problems of typical teenagers, only hyper-accelerated. Some of this stress comes internally, and some is caused by the environment to which they are confined.
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