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Biblical and Theological Studies Courses
Unless otherwise indicated, courses are in person with the option that students can access the course online if they are living at a distance (beyond the Winnipeg perimeter). When accessing online, the courses are delivered synchronously (live streamed) via zoom. Local students who are not able to attend in person are asked to contact their instructors to get permission to attend classes online.
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BTS-5310
Christian Worship: Patterns and Practices
3.0 credit hours
Graduate Level Course MDiv: Practical Theology (Worship Arts) MACM: Practical Theology MASC: Elective MATS: Practical Theology GCCS: Practical Theology
BTS-5310
Christian Worship: Patterns and Practices
3.0 credit hours
Graduate Level Course MDiv: Practical Theology (Worship Arts) MACM: Practical Theology MASC: Elective MATS: Practical Theology GCCS: Practical Theology
BTS-5311
Theology of Everyday Life
3.0 credit hours
This is a practical theology course, grounded in everyday life. We will explore the theological significance of the relationships and practices we value and which take up so much of our time. Topics covered will be friendship, family relationships, homemaking, possessions, animals, food, nature, sports, technology and sacred spaces. The goal of the course is to cultivate the practice of theological reflection, to equip you to think theologically about your life. This course will follow a "flipped classroom" approach where there are online lectures to digest on your own time and then meetings times for discussion and engaging ideas together. This course is in partnership with Conrad Grebel University College at University of Waterloo and will use their online infrastructure. MDiv: Elective MACM: Practical Theology MASC: Elective MATS: Practical Theology GCCS: Practical Theology
BTS-5311
Theology of Everyday Life
3.0 credit hours
This is a practical theology course, grounded in everyday life. We will explore the theological significance of the relationships and practices we value and which take up so much of our time. Topics covered will be friendship, family relationships, homemaking, possessions, animals, food, nature, sports, technology and sacred spaces. The goal of the course is to cultivate the practice of theological reflection, to equip you to think theologically about your life. This course will follow a "flipped classroom" approach where there are online lectures to digest on your own time and then meetings times for discussion and engaging ideas together. This course is in partnership with Conrad Grebel University College at University of Waterloo and will use their online infrastructure. MDiv: Elective MACM: Practical Theology MASC: Elective MATS: Practical Theology GCCS: Practical Theology
BTS-5440
Role of Complaint in Peacebuilding
3.0 credit hours
Building on the dialogues between the biblical figure of Job and his friends, this course will examine the causes and consequences of prejudice against legitimate complaint and develop ways to positively intervene in such situations in churches and other institutions. Students will develop final projects in chosen areas of Bible, ethics, or practical theology in conversation with insights from theology, sociology, and psychology with options for pursuing interdisciplinary work in peacebuilding. Depending on the focus of final projects, students may count this course towards the following categories within their degree: MDiv: Bible (Prophets, Psalms and Wisdom), Theology and History of Christianity (Christian Ethics), or Practical Theology (Pastoral Care) MACM: Bible (Old Testament) or Practical Theology MASC: Sacred Texts (Old Testament) or Studies in Ethics MATS: Bible (Old Testament), Practical Theology, or Methodology GCCS: Bible or Practical Theology Students should discuss their preferred category and final project with the instructor at the beginning of the course.
BTS-5440
Role of Complaint in Peacebuilding
3.0 credit hours
Building on the dialogues between the biblical figure of Job and his friends, this course will examine the causes and consequences of prejudice against legitimate complaint and develop ways to positively intervene in such situations in churches and other institutions. Students will develop final projects in chosen areas of Bible, ethics, or practical theology in conversation with insights from theology, sociology, and psychology with options for pursuing interdisciplinary work in peacebuilding. Depending on the focus of final projects, students may count this course towards the following categories within their degree: MDiv: Bible (Prophets, Psalms and Wisdom), Theology and History of Christianity (Christian Ethics), or Practical Theology (Pastoral Care) MACM: Bible (Old Testament) or Practical Theology MASC: Sacred Texts (Old Testament) or Studies in Ethics MATS: Bible (Old Testament), Practical Theology, or Methodology GCCS: Bible or Practical Theology Students should discuss their preferred category and final project with the instructor at the beginning of the course.
BUSI-5230
Human Capital Development
3.0 credit hours
Developing human capital means creating and nurturing organizational environments in which human beings can develop and apply new ideas, competencies, skills, attitudes, and behaviors. This course will enhance your knowledge and understanding of the value created by an engaged workforce. The course will focus on supporting employees developing skills and abilities in an intrinsically engaging environment. In addition, we will study ways individuals and organizations benefit from well-managed conflict while limiting destructive conflicts that sap organizational creativity and energy.
BUSI-6800
Sustainable Organizations and Global Citizenship
3.0 credit hours
This course integrates the three pillars of the Collaborative M.B.A. Program; management, leadership and stewardship for organizational effectiveness and serving the common good. The keystone of the course is an 8-day international residency designed to engage students as reflective practitioners and invite them to develop an openness to new ways of experiencing and thinking about the world through interactions and learning in a different country. One core value of the Collaborative M.B.A. is global citizenship, recognizing that organizations are interdependent and mutually accountable to local, national, and global communities. This suggests that a global perspective is important for today’s business and organizational leaders, and it is a significant purpose of the international residency.
PCD-5440
Role of Complaint in Peacebuilding
3.0 credit hours
Building on the dialogues between the biblical figure of Job and his friends, this course will examine the causes and consequences of prejudice against legitimate complaint and develop ways to positively intervene in such situations in churches and other institutions. Students will develop final projects in chosen areas of Bible, ethics, or practical theology in conversation with insights from theology, sociology, and psychology with options for pursuing interdisciplinary work in peacebuilding. Depending on the focus of final projects, students may count this course towards the following categories within their degree: PCD Category: Theological and Religious Encounters with Peace-Justice or Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development Students should discuss their preferred category and final project with the instructor at the beginning of the course.
PCD-5440
Role of Complaint in Peacebuilding
3.0 credit hours
Building on the dialogues between the biblical figure of Job and his friends, this course will examine the causes and consequences of prejudice against legitimate complaint and develop ways to positively intervene in such situations in churches and other institutions. Students will develop final projects in chosen areas of Bible, ethics, or practical theology in conversation with insights from theology, sociology, and psychology with options for pursuing interdisciplinary work in peacebuilding. Depending on the focus of final projects, students may count this course towards the following categories within their degree: PCD Category: Theological and Religious Encounters with Peace-Justice or Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development Students should discuss their preferred category and final project with the instructor at the beginning of the course.
BTS-5130
Theology of the Book of Genesis
3.0 credit hours
As a book about beginnings, Genesis is foundational for both the biblical story and Christian faith. This course will explore themes such as creation, blessing, the problem of sin, God’s call, promise and fulfilment, and the formation of God’s people. The course will also examine how these themes contribute to the larger biblical story and Christian faith. The breath of God enlivens the first human, and the wrath of God destroys the resultant population. The word of God calls progeny “good,” and the command of God calls for the sacrifice of a first-born child. From beauty to devastation, and hope to horror, the book of Genesis has captured the imagination of generations of religious faithful and religious critics alike. How can such a text continue to shape the belief and practice of the church today? Informed by critical methods, ancient parallels, and literary form, this course will lead students through a close reading of the book of Genesis. The course will be grounded by the following questions: What does Genesis say about God and how God interacts with God’s creation? What does Genesis have to say about the earth and the place of humanity therein? And, how can Genesis continue to inform faith and practice for the church? Through an examination of the literary structure, historical and social context, critical issues, and theological significance of Genesis, students will be provided with a foundation for ongoing, responsible and meaningful interpretation of the book for today. MDiv: Bible (Pentateuch) MACM: Bible (Old Testament) MASC: Sacred Texts (Old Testament) MATS: Bible (Old Testament) GCCS: Bible
BTS-5246
Biblical Languages for Exegesis
3.0 credit hours
This course introduces students to biblical Hebrew and Greek. It is designed for non-specialists looking for Hebrew and Greek language tools that facilitate study of the biblical text. The goal is to illuminate the characteristics and distinctive features of each language in order to help students evaluate commentaries, engage in advanced linguistic and semantic analysis, and use Bible computer programs and printed research aids. MDiv: Bible (Biblical Languages) MACM: Bible MASC: Elective MATS: Bible GCCS: Bible
BTS-5272
Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in the Pauline Letters
3.0 credit hours
Some of the most contentious issues with respect to gender, class, and ethnicity are found in the Pauline letters. They are important to analyze because Paul’s letters make up a third of the New Testament. The course dives into key biblical texts on these topics, allowing students to engage with wide-ranging debates regarding interpretation and application with attention to their historical and contemporary significance. MDiv: Bible (Non-gospel New Testament) MACM: Bible (New Testament) MASC: Sacred Texts (New Testament) MATS: Bible (New Testament) or Methodology GCSC: Bible
BTS-5290
Freedom, Liberation, and Politics in the Bible
3.0 credit hours
While freedom and liberation are words that are commonly used in global politics, they are also themes that animate the world of the Bible. This course will allow students to appreciate the Bible’s positive politics, allowing for an exploration of freedom and liberation as common themes through a close reading of various biblical texts and stories alongside other secondary sources. Cannot be held with the cross-listed course PCD-5580. M.Div. Category: student specific depending on focus, M.A.C.M. Category: Bible, OT, NT M.A.S.C. Category: Sacred Texts OT or Sacred Texts NT M.A.T.S. Category: Bible, OT, NT, Methodology G.C.C.S. Category: Bible, OT, NT
BTS-5360
Pastoral Care
3.0 credit hours
This course will cover theoretical and practical issues related to pastoral care among persons in various stages of life, who may be encountering transitions such as birth, baptism, marriage, career, accident, illness, or death. Biblical and theological understandings along with a diversity of resources, methods, and approaches will give insight into effective ways of ministering to others. MDiv: Practical Theology (Pastoral Care) MACM: Practical Theology MASC: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies MATS: Practical Theology GCCS: Practical Theology
BTS-5493
Discerning for Christian Ministry
1.0 credit hours
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BTS-5500
Anabaptist-Mennonite History and Identity: From Reformation to Global Movement
3.0 credit hours
In this course, students will survey the development of the Anabaptist-Mennonite tradition from its medieval origins through its transformation into a global movement. We will trace the development of Mennonite identity and theology over the last 500 years, paying particular attention to the ways that history can be a source for theological discernment. Cannot be held with BTS-5530. M.Div. Category: Theology or History of Christianity, M.A.C.M. Category: Theology or History of Christianity, M.A.S.C. Category: Historical Studies of Faith Community/Tradition, M.A.T.S. Category: Theology or History of Christianity, G.C.C.S. Category: Theology or History of Christianity. This is a week-long intensive course ( Nov 10, 2025 - Nov 14, 2025) held in-person in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
BTS-5530
Continuity and Change in Anabaptism
3.0 credit hours
This course explores the dynamic and evolving character of Anabaptist identity over a 500-year period and considers various contemporary issues and challenges facing the tradition in the midst of ever-changing intercultural and global realities. MDiv: Theology and History of Christianity MACM: History of Christianity MASC: Historical Studies of Faith Community/Tradition MATS: History of Christianity or Methodology GCCS: Theology and History of Christianity
BTS-5700
Indigenous Christian Spirituality: Exploring the Common Threads that Bind Us Together
3.0 credit hours
This 3-credit hour course will provide students with foundational knowledge of spiritual wisdom and practices of Indigenous peoples here in Canada. Discovering links between Biblical and Indigenous story will enhance theological understanding of the common threads that allows for respectful affirmation of Indigenous beliefs within God’s creation and love manifest through the grace of Jesus Christ. MDiv: Theology and History of Christianity MACM:Theology MASC: Teaching and Tenets of Faith and Indigenous Area Requirement MATS: Theology GCCS: Theology and History of Christianity
BTS-5700 - 1
Loss and Love
3.0 credit hours
Human persons face extraordinary losses and catastrophes of various kinds like systemic injustices, identity-based polarization, death of species, and the feeling of being alone in a seemingly interconnected world, to name just a few. Bringing Bible and theology into conversation with these challenges, the course will pursue what it means to form bonds of connection and solidarity, and how to love amidst loss, including caring for dying and dead persons. M.Div. Category: Theology, Christian Ethics, or Practical Theology Pastoral Care, M.A.C.M. Category: Theology or Practical Theology, M.A.S.C. Category: Studies in Ethics, M.A.T.S. Category: Theology or Practical Theology or Methodology, G.C.C.S. Category: Theology or Practical Theology.
BTS-5700 - 2
Metis Spirituality: Celebrating the Wisdom of Metis Matriarchs
3.0 credit hours
In this course exploring Red River Metis culture, students will examine Metis Matriarch life stories which exemplify kinship principles and leadership roles in homes, communities, and places of worship. In addition, the exploration of historical and cultural contexts, such as the fur trade and the Red River Resistance, alongside the impact of colonial policies, will provide a foundation for an understanding of Metis spirituality. Students will encounter the diversity and complexity of Christian and Indigenous land-based ceremonies that shape the contemporary faith story and learn how some Metis people navigate blended Catholicism, Protestantism, and traditional Indigenous spiritualities. M.Div. Category: Theology, M.A.C.M. Category: Theology, M.A.S.C. Category: Indigenous Studies, Teaching and Tenets of Faith, M.A.T.S. Category: Theology, G.C.C.S. Category: Theology.
BTS-5700 - 3
Money, Sex, and Power: Christian Ethics in Context
3.0 credit hours
This course examines the major sources and topics of Christian ethics. The sources include scripture, the church past and present, and experience along with theology, philosophy, worship, prayer, and character. In dialogue with these sources and each other, students will explore perspectives on topics such as politics, just war and pacifism, human sexuality, bioethics at the beginning and end of life, medical assistance in dying (MAID), sexual abuse in churches, wealth, and artificial intelligence. M.Div. Category: Theology or Christian Ethics, M.A.C.M. Category: Theology, M.A.S.C. Category: Studies in Ethics, M.A.T.S. Category: Theology, G.C.C.S. Category: Theology.
BTS-5700 - 4
What is a Human? Theology of Body and Identity
3.0 credit hours
This seminar course will address the question of what it means to be fully human in relation to God, others, and the rest of creation. Drawing on ancient, medieval, modern, and (primarily) current sources, we will investigate specific themes such as the image of God, freedom and limit, gender and sexuality, the nature of the ‘self,’ and the relationship of technology and humanity (posthumanism, transhumanism). M.Div. Category: Theology or Central Christian Teachings, M.A.C.M. Category: Theology, M.A.S.C. Category: Teaching and Tenets of Faith, M.A.T.S. Category: Theology or Methodology, G.C.C.S. Category: Theology.
BTS-5701
Anabaptist Peace Theology and Gender Justice
3.0 credit hours
Despite their historic peace church status, Anabaptist-Mennonite peace positions have not incorporated opposition to gender-based violence until recently. Drawing mainly from conversations in Mennonite Church Canada and USA, this course examines contemporary theological, ecclesial, and ethical issues facing these branches of the church as they recognize past failures and begin to integrate gender justice into their peace theologies, with particular focus on intersections with feminist theologies, power analysis, and the roles of forgiveness, restorative justice, and trauma healing within abuse response and prevention. *REGARDING TIME CHANGE*: This course has two options for attendance. It will meet in-person at Mennonite Church Saskatchewan on Thursdays from 1:30-4:15 PM Central Standard Time. It is also available remotely via Teams. Saskatchewan does not change time on November 1, 2026, so after that date the course will remain in Central Standard Time. *For example, a student in Winnipeg: Sept-Oct = 2:30-5:15 PM, Nov-Dec =1:30-4:15 PM.* MDiv: Theology and History of Christianity (Christian Ethics) MACM:Theology MASC: Teaching and Tenets of Faith or Studies in Ethics MATS: Theology GCCS: Theology and History of Christianity
BTS-5880
The Secular: Philosophical and Theological Investigations
3.0 credit hours
This course explores the concept of the secular by examining the following sorts of questions. How, why, and where did the concept of the secular come into being? How are the religious and secular spheres positioned relative to one another? How are some recent religious and political movements to be understood vis-à-vis the distinction between the religious and the secular? Must religion and the secular be understood in opposition to one another? What might a post-secular theology look like? What might a secular faith look like? MDiv: Theology and History of Christianity MACM: Theology MASC: Teaching and Tenets of Faith MATS: Theology GCCS: Theology and History of Christianity
BUSI-5220
Leadership and Management for the Common Good
3.0 credit hours
Complexity, globalization, and competing demands characterize the realities of leading and managing organizations in today’s environment. The focus of the course is on developing systemic wisdom and long-term perspective. The course combines times for self-reflection, conversation, questioning, and integration of various leadership and management theories to identify approaches to leading people, systems, and organizations in ways that bring restoration, that offer hope, and that work toward promoting the common good.
BUSI-5220 - 1
Leadership and Management for the Common Good
3.0 credit hours
Complexity, globalization, and competing demands characterize the realities of leading and managing organizations in today’s environment. The focus of the course is on developing systemic wisdom and long-term perspective. The course combines times for self-reflection, conversation, questioning, and integration of various leadership and management theories to identify approaches to leading people, systems, and organizations in ways that bring restoration, that offer hope, and that work toward promoting the common good.
BUSI-5410
Global Sustainability
3.0 credit hours
The global economic system produces goods and services on a massive scale. Consumers benefit from access to necessities as well as increased comfort, convenience, and choice. Producers benefit from opportunities to innovate and invest, while also providing employment and generating returns to investors. The question many are asking, however, is simple: Can the current system be sustained in the long run? To be sustainable, businesses and non-profit organizations must find ways to generate value and minimize waste while simultaneously satisfying human needs and protecting ecological systems. This course examines the global economic system from a triple-bottom line perspective—planet, people, and profit. It utilizes systems thinking and explores seven forms of capital: financial, manufactured, natural, human, social, cultural, and spiritual.
BUSI-5410
Global Sustainability
3.0 credit hours
The global economic system produces goods and services on a massive scale. Consumers benefit from access to necessities as well as increased comfort, convenience, and choice. Producers benefit from opportunities to innovate and invest, while also providing employment and generating returns to investors. The question many are asking, however, is simple: Can the current system be sustained in the long run? To be sustainable, businesses and non-profit organizations must find ways to generate value and minimize waste while simultaneously satisfying human needs and protecting ecological systems. This course examines the global economic system from a triple-bottom line perspective—planet, people, and profit. It utilizes systems thinking and explores seven forms of capital: financial, manufactured, natural, human, social, cultural, and spiritual.
BUSI-6230
Financial Management
3.0 credit hours
The second course of this sequence examines more of the quantitative tools managers use in decision making. Topics include an in-depth analysis of value chains, including supply chain and distribution channels, activity-based management, analysis of external funds needed, in-depth analysis of time, value of money, and capital budgeting.
BUSI-6230
Financial Management
3.0 credit hours
The second course of this sequence examines more of the quantitative tools managers use in decision making. Topics include an in-depth analysis of value chains, including supply chain and distribution channels, activity-based management, analysis of external funds needed, in-depth analysis of time, value of money, and capital budgeting.
BUSI-6470
Strategic Marketing Management
3.0 credit hours
This course focuses on the tasks of creating and communicating value and gaining loyal customers for an organization in today’s dynamic global marketplace. Topics include marketing strategy and planning, marketing research, the impact of technology on strategic marketing decisions, consumer behavior, ethics in marketing, social media and its role in marketing, internet marketing, customer relationship management, database marketing, and marketing evaluation. Leadership for the Common Good concepts are also offered as a backdrop for an ethical marketing framework.
BUSI-6470
Strategic Marketing Management
3.0 credit hours
This course focuses on the tasks of creating and communicating value and gaining loyal customers for an organization in today’s dynamic global marketplace. Topics include marketing strategy and planning, marketing research, the impact of technology on strategic marketing decisions, consumer behavior, ethics in marketing, social media and its role in marketing, internet marketing, customer relationship management, database marketing, and marketing evaluation. Leadership for the Common Good concepts are also offered as a backdrop for an ethical marketing framework.
BUSI-6630
Managerial Economics
3.0 credit hours
This course applies insights from economic theory to the functions of managerial planning and decision making within a market-oriented business context. Specific content includes an overview of the market system, consumer demand theory, cost analysis, profit analysis, pricing strategies, the economics of technical change and innovation, the architecture of the firm, employee incentives, international economic impacts, and government regulation. Leadership for the Common Good concepts are also offered as competing methods of improving the traditional market system.
BUSI-6630
Managerial Economics
3.0 credit hours
This course applies insights from economic theory to the functions of managerial planning and decision making within a market-oriented business context. Specific content includes an overview of the market system, consumer demand theory, cost analysis, profit analysis, pricing strategies, the economics of technical change and innovation, the architecture of the firm, employee incentives, international economic impacts, and government regulation. Leadership for the Common Good concepts are also offered as competing methods of improving the traditional market system.
BUSI-6710
Data Analysis for Decision Making
3.0 credit hours
The quality of decision-making in organizations is greatly influenced by the quality of data gathered and by information derived from that data. This course focuses on the use of tools and processes to enhance corporate decision-making strategies. Topics include research design, survey development, defining data and information requirements, how and where data is stored, informatics and business intelligence, critical thinking, and transforming data into meaningful information.
BUSI-6710
Data Analysis for Decision Making
3.0 credit hours
The quality of decision-making in organizations is greatly influenced by the quality of data gathered and by information derived from that data. This course focuses on the use of tools and processes to enhance corporate decision-making strategies. Topics include research design, survey development, defining data and information requirements, how and where data is stored, informatics and business intelligence, critical thinking, and transforming data into meaningful information.
BUSI-6990
MBA Seminar II
0.0 credit hours
This course will continue the material covered in BUSI-5990 and provide a forum for students to present and develop their final M.B.A. projects. Classroom: M207
BUSI-6990
MBA Seminar II
0.0 credit hours
This course will continue the material covered in BUSI-5990 and provide a forum for students to present and develop their final M.B.A. projects. Classroom: M207
PCD-5100
Models for Peace and Conflict Transformation
3.0 credit hours
This course examines integrative models of social change, which hold together peace, development, justice, and identity issues. Using such models requires the multifaceted tasks of critical analysis of structural violence and direct violence, nurturing justice through human development, proactive building of dynamic peace cultures, and responding to crises in ways that build on local cultural and faith traditions and that witness to a sustainable and peaceable future. P.C.D. Category: Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution, Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development, or Methods in Research, Planning, or Evaluation.
PCD-5120
Doing Peace: From Theory to Practice
3.0 credit hours
Peacebuilding is a creative, dynamic art. Through an examination of local, national, and international case studies of peacebuilding, and through careful reflection on the dynamics of conflict transformation and peacebuilding, this course seeks to nurture students’ strategic imaginations and creative capacities as artisans of peace. PCD Category: Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution or Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development
PCD-5130
Workplace Conflict Resolution
3.0 credit hours
This course examines contemporary workplace issues, causes of workplace conflict and a variety of dispute and conflict resolution responses such as negotiation, conciliation, mediation, grievance procedures, and arbitration as well as tribunals such as labor relations boards and human rights commissions. Examination of approaches to conflict resolution in the workplace includes reference to such issues as violence, bullying, harassment, organizational culture, "constructive dismissal," and other workplace concerns. P.C.D. Category: Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution, Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development, or Methods in Research, Planning, or Evaluation.
PCD-5190
Women & Peacemaking
3.0 credit hours
This course addresses, from an interdisciplinary perspective, both theoretical and practical contributions that women have made to peacemaking in the modern world. It includes analysis of women’s involvement in peace action, research and education. Attention is given to the challenges that activists face in organizing around their identity as women such as how to build common ground among women with varied experiences and concerns. There will be an emphasis on storytelling, that is, on telling women’s stories of nonviolent resistance that often go untold. P.C.D. Category: Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution or Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development.
PCD-5190
Table Peacebuilding
3.0 credit hours
This course will examine the nexus between eating together and conflict through an inter-disciplinary approach to seeking new directions for peacebuilding. How we consume our food, and with whom, is a complex set of dynamics of cultural and religious practices that incorporate our assumptions and our most basic ways of building relationships. Focus will centre on raising awareness of how the "simple" act of eating can create space for reconciliation. Course modules will include interactive activities, guest presentations and eating together. PCD Category: Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution, Collaborative and Transformative Development, or Methods in Research, Planning, or Evaluation
PCD-5195
Independent Study in Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution
3.0 credit hours
This is reading and research in the field of a student’s interest, carried out under the direction of a faculty member.
PCD-5210
Seminar in Social Change
3.0 credit hours
This course explores food system dynamics at multiple scales, from the household to the global, with particular attention to the diversity of worldviews that underpin the current discourses surrounding ecological sustainability, food security, and food justice. The course follows food from the farms and fishing boats, through local and global marketplaces, and finally to those who eat. Participants will examine models of agriculture, small-scale fisheries, water scarcity, the Asian and African Green Revolutions, corporate concentration in the food system, local and global food markets, community food security, obesity, hunger, food waste, the global food price crisis, energy, and the impacts of climate change. PCD Category: Collaborative and Transformative Development.
PCD-5210
Seminar in Social Change
3.0 credit hours
In this capstone seminar, students review and compare inter-disciplinary and discipline-based approaches to social change, including issues in peacebuilding and conflict transformation, social and economic development, environmental sustainability, and democratization and social movements. Using a seminar format, students will examine contending theories of social change, and address questions of power, interpretation, ethics, commitments, and virtues in understanding and working for social change. These examinations will allow students to explore ways of integrating theories and practices and articulate their own understanding and ethics of social change PCD Category: Collaborative and Transformative Development.
PCD-5570
Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in the Pauline Letters
3.0 credit hours
Some of the most contentious issues with respect to gender, class, and ethnicity are found in the Pauline letters. They are important to analyze because Paul’s letters make up a third of the New Testament. The course dives into key biblical texts on these topics, allowing students to engage with wide-ranging debates regarding interpretation and application with attention to their historical and contemporary significance. PCD Category: Theological and Religious Encounters with Peace-Justice
PCD-5580
Freedom, Liberation, and Politics in the Bible
3.0 credit hours
While freedom and liberation are words that are commonly used in global politics, they are also themes that animate the world of the Bible. This course will allow students to appreciate the Bible’s positive politics, allowing for an exploration of freedom and liberation as common themes through a close reading of various biblical texts and stories alongside other secondary sources. Cannot be held with the cross-listed course BTS-5290. PCD Category: Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development or Theological and Religious Encounters with Peace-Justice.
PCD-5590
Indigenous Christian Spirituality: Exploring the Common Threads that Bind Us Together
3.0 credit hours
This 3-credit hour course will provide students with foundational knowledge of spiritual wisdom and practices of Indigenous peoples here in Canada. Discovering links between Biblical and Indigenous story will enhance theological understanding of the common threads that allows for respectful affirmation of Indigenous beliefs within God’s creation and love manifest through the grace of Jesus Christ. PCD Category: Theological and Religious Encounters with Peace-Justice
PCD-5590,
Metis Spirituality: Celebrating the Wisdom of Metis Matriarchs
3.0 credit hours
In this course exploring Red River Metis culture, students will examine Metis Matriarch life stories which exemplify kinship principles and leadership roles in homes, communities, and places of worship. In addition, the exploration of historical and cultural contexts, such as the fur trade and the Red River Resistance, alongside the impact of colonial policies, will provide a foundation for an understanding of Metis spirituality. Students will encounter the diversity and complexity of Christian and Indigenous land-based ceremonies that shape the contemporary faith story and learn how some Metis people navigate blended Catholicism, Protestantism, and traditional Indigenous spiritualities. P.C.D. Category: Collaborative and Transformative Development or Theological and Religious Encounters with Peace-Justice.
PCD-5850
Practice Skills: Mediation Skills
1.5 credit hours
This workshop focuses on the process and skills of interpersonal mediation. This is accomplished through presentation of a mediation model, large and small group interaction, as well as participation in mediation simulations. Intensive Weekend course: Friday, Oct 3, 5:00–9:00 PM Saturday, Oct 4, 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Sunday, Oct 5, 1:00–6:00 PM Room M211 (Marpeck Mezzanine) Last day to drop with refund: Friday October 3 VW deadline: Saturday October 4
PCD-5853
Practice Skills: Accompanying Those in Conflict
1.5 credit hours
This workshop course will focus on developing knowledge and competencies in specific peacebuilding and conflict resolution skills. Possible topics include but are not limited to: mediation, nonviolent crisis intervention, conciliation, interfaith dialogue, facilitated meetings, and nonviolent direct action. The topics of the peace skills workshop may change from semester to semester. The workshop will usually be offered in an intensive format over 3 days, usually on a weekend. Instruction will be practice-based. Oct 2-4, 2026 F5-9, SaSu 9-5
BTS-5910
Supervised Ministry Experience
3.0 credit hours
This course provides an opportunity for a supervised internship experience in a congregation or other ministry type setting, and it includes a biweekly seminar. SME can be done in either two or three semesters. Students must attend an SME orientation in spring prior to the fall registration. Prerequisite: 18 credit hours of graduate-level work in Biblical and Theological Studies or permission of the instructor. BTS Category: Field Education.
BTS-5910
Supervised Ministry Experience
3.0 credit hours
This course provides an opportunity for a supervised internship experience in a congregation or other ministry type setting, and it includes a biweekly seminar. SME can be done in either two or three semesters. Students must attend an SME orientation in spring prior to the fall registration. Prerequisite: 18 credit hours of graduate-level work in Biblical and Theological Studies or permission of the instructor. MDiv: Ministry Formation MACM: Ministry Formation MASC: Elective MATS: Elective GCCS: Elective
BTS-5920
Supervised Ministry Experience
9.0 credit hours
Graduate Level Course
BTS-5920 - 1
Supervised Ministry Experience
9.0 credit hours
Graduate Level Course
BTS-5920 - 2
Supervised Ministry Experience
9.0 credit hours
Graduate Level Course
BTS-5950 - 1
Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 1
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This course builds on the foundational concepts learned in SPE: First Basic Unit. Students will further cultivate skills in spiritual care with a focus on spiritual assessment, interventions, family/group visits, contributing to the care plan/case management, and documentation. Prerequisite: BTS-5950. MDiv: Elective MACM: Elective MASC: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies MATS: Elective GCCS: Elective
BTS-5950 - 2
Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 1
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This course provides students with an introduction to the foundational skills of practicing effective spiritual care through the use of the experiential method of learning. With a focus primarily on the development of self-awareness, students will gain an understanding of their personal philosophy of ministry, including how to provide and utilize feedback, and how to conduct spiritual care visits safely and effectively. BTS Category: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies.
BTS-5950 - 2
Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 1
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This course provides students with an introduction to the foundational skills of practicing effective spiritual care through the use of the experiential method of learning. With a focus primarily on the development of self-awareness, students will gain an understanding of their personal philosophy of ministry, including how to provide and utilize feedback, and how to conduct spiritual care visits safely and effectively. MDiv: Elective MACM: Elective MASC: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies MATS: Elective GCCS: Elective
BTS-5951 - 1
Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 2
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This course builds on the foundational concepts learned in SPE: First Basic Unit. Students will further cultivate skills in spiritual care with a focus on spiritual assessment, interventions, family/group visits, contributing to the care plan/case management, and documentation. Prerequisite: BTS-5950. BTS Category: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies.
BTS-5951 - 1
Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 2
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This course builds on the foundational concepts learned in SPE: First Basic Unit. Students will further cultivate skills in spiritual care with a focus on spiritual assessment, interventions, family/group visits, contributing to the care plan/case management, and documentation. Prerequisite: BTS-5950. BTS Category: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies.
BTS-5951 - 2
Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 2
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This course builds on the foundational concepts learned in SPE: First Basic Unit. Students will further cultivate skills in spiritual care with a focus on spiritual assessment, interventions, family/group visits, contributing to the care plan/case management, and documentation. Prerequisite: BTS-5950. BTS Category: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies.
BTS-5951 - 2
Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 2
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This course builds on the foundational concepts learned in SPE: First Basic Unit. Students will further cultivate skills in spiritual care with a focus on spiritual assessment, interventions, family/group visits, contributing to the care plan/case management, and documentation. Prerequisite: BTS-5950. MDiv: Elective MACM: Elective MASC: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies MATS: Elective GCCS: Elective
BTS-5952 - 1
Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 3
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. Students will further develop skills in spiritual assessment, ethical frameworks, end of life conversation, and recognizing how spiritual care influences and works within organizational systems and structures. Students are encouraged to choose an area for deeper study such as Palliative Care, Mental Health, Long Term Care, etc. Advanced students are expected to demonstrate increased leadership in peer interactions, and group process. Prerequisite: BTS-5951. BTS Category: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies.
BTS-5952 - 1
Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 3
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. Students will further develop skills in spiritual assessment, ethical frameworks, end of life conversation, and recognizing how spiritual care influences and works within organizational systems and structures. Students are encouraged to choose an area for deeper study such as Palliative Care, Mental Health, Long Term Care, etc. Advanced students are expected to demonstrate increased leadership in peer interactions, and group process. Prerequisite: BTS-5951. MDiv: Elective MACM: Elective MASC: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies MATS: Elective GCCS: Elective
BTS-5952 - 2
Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 3
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. Students will further develop skills in spiritual assessment, ethical frameworks, end of life conversation, and recognizing how spiritual care influences and works within organizational systems and structures. Students are encouraged to choose an area for deeper study such as Palliative Care, Mental Health, Long Term Care, etc. Advanced students are expected to demonstrate increased leadership in peer interactions, and group process. Prerequisite: BTS-5951. BTS Category: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies.
BTS-5952 - 2
Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 3
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. Students will further develop skills in spiritual assessment, ethical frameworks, end of life conversation, and recognizing how spiritual care influences and works within organizational systems and structures. Students are encouraged to choose an area for deeper study such as Palliative Care, Mental Health, Long Term Care, etc. Advanced students are expected to demonstrate increased leadership in peer interactions, and group process. Prerequisite: BTS-5951. MDiv: Elective MACM: Elective MASC: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies MATS: Elective GCCS: Elective
BTS-5953 - 1
Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 4
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This capstone course is intended for students wishing to move on to professional certification with CASC/ACSS. It will prepare students for certification by providing a cumulative integration of the skills and competencies gained in previous SPE courses, as well as supervisory oversight on one of the two required certification papers. Prerequisite: BTS-5952. BTS Category: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies.
BTS-5953 - 1
Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 4
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This capstone course is intended for students wishing to move on to professional certification with CASC/ACSS. It will prepare students for certification by providing a cumulative integration of the skills and competencies gained in previous SPE courses, as well as supervisory oversight on one of the two required certification papers. Prerequisite: BTS-5952. MDiv: Elective MACM: Elective MASC: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies MATS: Elective GCCS: Elective
BTS-5953 - 2
Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 4
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This capstone course is intended for students wishing to move on to professional certification with CASC/ACSS. It will prepare students for certification by providing a cumulative integration of the skills and competencies gained in previous SPE courses, as well as supervisory oversight on one of the two required certification papers. Prerequisite: BTS-5952. BTS Category: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies.
BTS-5953 - 2
Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 4
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This capstone course is intended for students wishing to move on to professional certification with CASC/ACSS. It will prepare students for certification by providing a cumulative integration of the skills and competencies gained in previous SPE courses, as well as supervisory oversight on one of the two required certification papers. Prerequisite: BTS-5952. MDiv: Elective MACM: Elective MASC: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies MATS: Elective GCCS: Elective
BTS-6950 - 1
Supervised Psychospiritual Education Supervision Unit 1
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This course is for CASC/ACSS certified Spiritual Care Practitioners or Psychospiritual Therapists who have achieved formal admission to learn the theories and competencies required to supervise SPE. Students in this course will provide supervision to students in SPE units under the supervision of a CASC/ACSS Certified Supervisor-Educator. Prerequisite: Previous certification as a Spiritual Care Practitioner or Psychospiritual Therapist and approval from the CASC/ACSS Admission to Provisional Education Consultation team. BTS Category: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies.
BTS-6950 - 1
Supervised Psychospiritual Education Supervision Unit 1
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This course is for CASC/ACSS certified Spiritual Care Practitioners or Psychospiritual Therapists who have achieved formal admission to learn the theories and competencies required to supervise SPE. Students in this course will provide supervision to students in SPE units under the supervision of a CASC/ACSS Certified Supervisor-Educator. Prerequisite: Previous certification as a Spiritual Care Practitioner or Psychospiritual Therapist and approval from the CASC/ACSS Admission to Provisional Education Consultation team. MDiv: Elective MACM: Elective MASC: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies MATS: Elective GCCS: Elective
BTS-6950 - 2
Supervised Psychospiritual Education Supervision Unit 1
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This course is for CASC/ACSS certified Spiritual Care Practitioners or Psychospiritual Therapists who have achieved formal admission to learn the theories and competencies required to supervise SPE. Students in this course will provide supervision to students in SPE units under the supervision of a CASC/ACSS Certified Supervisor-Educator. Prerequisite: Previous certification as a Spiritual Care Practitioner or Psychospiritual Therapist and approval from the CASC/ACSS Admission to Provisional Education Consultation team. BTS Category: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies.
BTS-6950 - 2
Supervised Psychospiritual Education Supervision Unit 1
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This course is for CASC/ACSS certified Spiritual Care Practitioners or Psychospiritual Therapists who have achieved formal admission to learn the theories and competencies required to supervise SPE. Students in this course will provide supervision to students in SPE units under the supervision of a CASC/ACSS Certified Supervisor-Educator. Prerequisite: Previous certification as a Spiritual Care Practitioner or Psychospiritual Therapist and approval from the CASC/ACSS Admission to Provisional Education Consultation team. MDiv: Elective MACM: Elective MASC: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies MATS: Elective GCCS: Elective
BTS-6951 - 1
Supervised Psychospiritual Education Supervision Unit 2
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This course builds upon the foundational skills of supervision, emphasizing the integration of theory and practice, group facilitation, and program administration. Prerequisite: BTS-6950. BTS Category: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies.
BTS-6951 - 1
Supervised Psychospiritual Education Supervision Unit 2
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This course builds upon the foundational skills of supervision, emphasizing the integration of theory and practice, group facilitation, and program administration. Prerequisite: BTS-6950. MDiv: Elective MACM: Elective MASC: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies MATS: Elective GCCS: Elective
BTS-6951 - 2
Supervised Psychospiritual Education Supervision Unit 2
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This course builds upon the foundational skills of supervision, emphasizing the integration of theory and practice, group facilitation, and program administration. Prerequisite: BTS-6950. BTS Category: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies.
BTS-6951 - 2
Supervised Psychospiritual Education Supervision Unit 2
6.0 credit hours
Join the waiting list and contact gradstudies@cmu.ca for next steps. This course builds upon the foundational skills of supervision, emphasizing the integration of theory and practice, group facilitation, and program administration. Prerequisite: BTS-6950. MDiv: Elective MACM: Elective MASC: Spiritual Care Practice and Competencies MATS: Elective GCCS: Elective
BTS-5080
Family, Fertility, and Faith
3.0 credit hours
Procreation, fertility, and family are key elements in the biblical stories of God’s people. While these themes are central to God’s promises and movement in the lives of God’s people, we struggle with the theological and societal pressures surrounding fertility, including the stigmas of childlessness, singleness, and unwanted pregnancy. This course will examine these themes and the various forms of family in the biblical text. It will explore the ways that various cultures have shaped the interpretation of these texts and the ways, in turn, that these texts continue to shape the faith and lives of God’s people. Depending on the focus of final projects, students may count this course towards the following categories within their degree: MDiv: Bible (Pentateuch, Gospels, or Epistle or book or collection of NT books other than the Gospels) MACM: Bible (Old Testament or New Testament) MASC: Sacred Texts (Old Testament or New Testament) MATS: Bible (Old Testament or New Testament) GCCS: Bible Students should discuss their preferred category and final project with the instructor at the beginning of the course.
BTS-5310
Power, Ethics, Abuse, and Church Leadership
3.0 credit hours
This course will examine the nature, function, ethics, and processes of pastoral influence. We will explore healthy pastoral relationships and stewardship of power, and the responsibility to both prevent and respond to transgressions of power. We will also explore healing centred practices when responding to domestic violence or sexual harm situations experienced by congregants. We will consider a variety of theological perspectives and how they can and have shaped the challenges of abuse response and prevention. Throughout the course, we will focus on the importance of an honest and healthy understanding of the "self" when in a position of authority. MDiv Category: Theology and History of Christianity (Christian Ethics) or Practical Theology (Pastoral Care) MACM Category: Theology or Practical Theology MASC Category: Studies in Ethics MATS Category: Theology or Practical Theology GCCS Category: Theology and History of Christianity or Practical Theology Intensive week: Apr 27-May 1, M-F, 9am-4pm This course is only available in-person.
BTS-5970
Human Professional Ethics in Spiritual Care
3.0 credit hours
This course will have a combination of in-person and online meetings. This course will explore the ethical theories, frameworks, principles, and challenges in professional spiritual care provision. Through case studies, group discussion, and course readings, students will examine topics such as confidentiality, professional boundaries, cultural competence and safety, ethical decision-making, ethical conduct, and professional functioning in an interdisciplinary professional context. Students will develop practical skills in navigating moral dilemmas/distress while maintaining personal and professional integrity. MDiv: Elective MACM: Elective MASC: Professional Ethics MATS: Elective GCCS: Elective
BUSI-5230
Human Capital Development
3.0 credit hours
Developing human capital means creating and nurturing organizational environments in which human beings can develop and apply new ideas, competencies, skills, attitudes, and behaviors. This course will enhance your knowledge and understanding of the value created by an engaged workforce. The course will focus on supporting employees developing skills and abilities in an intrinsically engaging environment. In addition, we will study ways individuals and organizations benefit from well-managed conflict while limiting destructive conflicts that sap organizational creativity and energy.
BUSI-6800
Sustainable Organizations and Global Citizenship
3.0 credit hours
This course integrates the three pillars of the Collaborative M.B.A. Program; management, leadership and stewardship for organizational effectiveness and serving the common good. The keystone of the course is an 8-day international residency designed to engage students as reflective practitioners and invite them to develop an openness to new ways of experiencing and thinking about the world through interactions and learning in a different country. One core value of the Collaborative M.B.A. is global citizenship, recognizing that organizations are interdependent and mutually accountable to local, national, and global communities. This suggests that a global perspective is important for today’s business and organizational leaders, and it is a significant purpose of the international residency. In-person classes: To be confirmed. Room: M211 (Marpeck Commons). Residency in Costa Rica 6/26 – 7/4
PCD-5390
You're Not the Boss of Me: Authority, Legitimacy, and Resistance
3.0 credit hours
This course explores relationships between those in power and those subject to that power. Key texts and case studies will be from different contexts -- historical, cultural, and institutional (governmental, corporate, non-governmental and community-based organizations). These will illustrate how claims to govern are made, reinforced, made to seem acceptable or legitimate, and are challenged. Students will also consider critically their place within various structures of authority in daily life. Readings will include voices rooted in historical and contemporary Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia and from Post-Colonial, Intersectional feminist, Faith-based, and Indigenous traditions. PCD Category: Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development or Collaborative and Transformative Development
PCD-5853 - 1
Practice Skills: Skills for Leading Meetings and Small Group Facilitation
1.5 credit hours
This workshop course will focus on developing knowledge and competencies in specific peacebuilding and conflict resolution skills. Possible topics include but are not limited to: mediation, nonviolent crisis intervention, conciliation, interfaith dialogue, facilitated meetings, and nonviolent direct action. The topics of the peace skills workshop may change from semester to semester. The workshop will usually be offered in an intensive format over 3 days, usually on a weekend. Instruction will be practice-based. PCD Category: Electives If you would like to take both Spring 2026 workshops, email registrarsoffice@cmu.ca. May 15-17 Intensive F 5:00-9:00 PM Sa 9:00 - 5:00 PM Su 9:00 - 5:00 PM
PCD-5853 - 2
Practice Skills: From Bystanders to Allies
1.5 credit hours
This workshop course will focus on developing knowledge and competencies in specific peacebuilding and conflict resolution skills. Possible topics include but are not limited to: mediation, nonviolent crisis intervention, conciliation, interfaith dialogue, facilitated meetings, and nonviolent direct action. The topics of the peace skills workshop may change from semester to semester. The workshop will usually be offered in an intensive format over 3 days, usually on a weekend. Instruction will be practice-based. PCD Category: Electives If you would like to take both Spring 2026 workshops, email registrarsoffice@cmu.ca. May 8-10 Intensive F 5:00-9:00 PM Sa 9:00 - 5:00 PM Su 9:00 - 5:00 PM Classroom: M211 (Marpeck Commons)
BTS-5267
Liberating Good News: The Gospel of Luke
3.0 credit hours
This course studies the Gospel of Luke as a theological narrative proclaiming the liberating good news of salvation through Jesus. Students will explore Luke’s literary features, key theological themes, and the social-historical context of its writing. The course introduces major interpretive scholarship, includes close reading and exegesis of selected texts, and examines how Luke prepares readers for Acts. Students will also reflect on how Luke’s story continues to shape Christian life and the church today. MDiv Category: Bible (Gospels) MACM Category: Bible (New Testament) MASC Category: Sacred Texts (New Testament) MATS Category: Bible (New Testament) GCCS Category: Bible
BTS-5268
Disruptive Good News: The Church in Acts
3.0 credit hours
The church in the Acts of the Apostles is accused of “turning the world upside down” (Acts 17:6). The Holy Spirit blows through the church, often turning it upside down. This course will examine how the good news of Jesus’ life, death, and resurrection disrupted people’s lives, social conventions, religious beliefs, and systems of power, even as it birthed a Spirit-empowered community of faith that continues in the church today. The emphasis will be on a literary, theological, and pastoral reading of Acts, rather than on historical exegetical issues. Throughout the course we will ask how the contemporary church can learn from and be challenged by this disruptive good news. M.Div. Category: Bible (Epistle or book or collection of NT books other than the Gospels), M.A.C.M. Category: Bible or New Testament, M.A.S.C. Category: Sacred Texts (New Testament), M.A.T.S. Category: Bible, G.C.C.S. Category: Bible.
BTS-5330
Foundations for Christian Ministry
3.0 credit hours
This course provides students an opportunity to develop ministerial identity, self-understanding, and skills. The course explores biblical and theological foundations for Christian ministry in light of God’s mission. It fosters self-awareness of gifts and competencies, temperament, limitations, and calling, and it teaches pastoral leadership for congregational rituals and practices. M.Div. Category: Practical Theology, M.A.C.M. Category: Practical Theology, M.A.T.S. Category: Practical Theology, G.C.C.S. Category: Practical Theology.
BTS-5492
Theological Reflection in Ministry
1.0 credit hours
In this seminar, students will practice theological reflection through their experiences of ministry and the church. Various models of theological reflection will be introduced. The seminar will also provide an opportunity for students to continue developing their goals and plans for ministry formation in light of their theological reflections. Corequisite(s): BTS-5910 or BTS-5920. Required for students enrolled in the M.Div. program and will normally be completed midway through the program. May be taken by students in other programs. MDiv: Ministry Formation MACM: Elective MASC: Elective MATS: Elective GCCS: Elective
BTS-5500 - 1
The Early Church
3.0 credit hours
This course centres on developments in the Christian tradition from roughly the second to the fifth century. In particular, it examines the diversity of ways of being “Christian” during this period with attention to topics such as ritual, canon, ecclesiology, soteriology, gender, and ethics. Primary texts are at the forefront of the course. M.Div. Category: History of Christianity, M.A.C.M. Category: History of Christianity, M.A.S.C. Category: Historical Studies of Faith Community/Tradition, M.A.T.S. Category: History of Christianity, G.C.C.S. Category: History of Christianity.
BTS-5500 - 2
Radical (and other) Theologies of the Reformation(s)
3.0 credit hours
The multiple reformations of the sixteenth century (Lutheran, Swiss, English, Radical, Calvinist, Catholic and so on) produced a variety of theologies, the study of which will be our central concern, with added emphasis on the Radical Reformation. While attention will be given to several dimensions of the reformations – imagination, art, hymnody, politics, gender, commemorations – we will primarily be reading and thinking about theology produced by preachers, theologians, and other characters. M.Div. Category: Theology, History of Christianity, or Central Christian Teachings, M.A.C.M. Category: Theology or History of Christianity, M.A.S.C. Category: Historical Studies of Faith Community/Tradition or Teaching and Tenets of Faith, M.A.T.S. Category: Theology or History of Christianity or Methodology, G.C.C.S. Category: Theology or History of Christianity.
BTS-5730
Theological Ethics
3.0 credit hours
This course will examine the development of Christian ethical reflection within a biblical, theological, liturgical, and historical framework. Such an approach will provide students the possibility of entering into conversation with various Christian ethical traditions. While this is not primarily a survey course in methods and theories, considerations of what it might mean to shape Christian ethics theologically will expose students to a variety of approaches and specific issues. MDiv: Theology and History of Christianity (Central Christian Teachings or Christian Ethics) MACM: Theology MASC: Teaching and Tenets of Faith or Studies in Ethics MATS: Theology or Methodology GCCS: Theology and History of Christianity
BTS-5840
Interfaith and Intercultural Encounters
3.0 credit hours
Interfaith and intercultural encounters are part of everyday life and may involve indifference, conflict, or violence. Sometimes they may lead to surface‑level tolerance or co‑existence. This course examines how encounters of various kinds shape personal, social, ecclesial, and political life. Drawing on Christian traditions along with Indigenous, Jewish, Islamic, and other perspectives, students consider how encounters with “the other” can foster respect, dignity, and human flourishing. Cannot be held with the cross-listed courses PCD-5430. MDiv: Theology and History of Christianity (Christian Ethics) MACM: Theology MASC: Teaching and Tenets of Faith or Studies in Ethics MATS: Theology or Methodology GCCS: Theology and History of Christianity
BTS-5990
Political Theology
3.0 credit hours
Political theology names the study of theology’s political register. This can and has taken a variety of forms throughout history, but in its modern academic form tends to focus centrally on questions of sovereignty, the secular, and messianism. These core loci are often interrogated through a range of interdisciplinary critiques including insights from decolonial, ecological, feminist, and queer theory. In this class we will enter this engagement through the lens of hospitality, asking, how far can hospitality take us and what happens when we meet its limits? MDiv: Theology and History of Christianity (Christian Ethics) MACM: Theology MASC: Studies in Ethics MATS: Theology GCCS: Theology and History of Christianity
BUSI-5640
Organizational Behaviour
3.0 credit hours
Utilizing an experiential case study method, this course surveys the evolution of theory, practice, and research in the areas of organizational behavior. Learning topics include motivation theory, group dynamics, leadership, decision-making, conflict transformation, change theory, organization structure, emotional intelligence, and communication. This course affirms a systemic perspective and approach to organizational behavior and affirms the concepts implicit in the concept of Leadership for the Common Good.
BUSI-5640
Organizational Behaviour
3.0 credit hours
Utilizing an experiential case study method, this course surveys the evolution of theory, practice, and research in the areas of organizational behavior. Learning topics include motivation theory, group dynamics, leadership, decision-making, conflict transformation, change theory, organization structure, emotional intelligence, and communication. This course affirms a systemic perspective and approach to organizational behavior and affirms the concepts implicit in the concept of Leadership for the Common Good.
BUSI-5850
Financial and Managerial Accounting
3.0 credit hours
Managers and executives carry fiduciary responsibility for their organizations; it is therefore imperative that they know how to read financial statements, analyze financial health, assess financial risks, and communicate this knowledge effectively to others. The course emphasizes the role of the manager relating to finance and accounting through the analysis of quantitative information largely at the conceptual level. Topics include financial governance, understanding and reading financial statements, financial statement analysis, cost behavior, breakeven analysis, budgeting, balanced scorecard, working capital management, and the use of short-term cash planning. The overall aim is to improve organizational decision-making based on financial, social, and ecological metrics.
BUSI-5850
Financial and Managerial Accounting
3.0 credit hours
Managers and executives carry fiduciary responsibility for their organizations; it is therefore imperative that they know how to read financial statements, analyze financial health, assess financial risks, and communicate this knowledge effectively to others. The course emphasizes the role of the manager relating to finance and accounting through the analysis of quantitative information largely at the conceptual level. Topics include financial governance, understanding and reading financial statements, financial statement analysis, cost behavior, breakeven analysis, budgeting, balanced scorecard, working capital management, and the use of short-term cash planning. The overall aim is to improve organizational decision-making based on financial, social, and ecological metrics.
BUSI-5990
Graduate Seminar I
0.0 credit hours
This course is a seminar for graduate students. The course will act as a forum for discussion and presentation of research in both academic and business areas. Students will be expected to complete a research project and present the project within the course.
BUSI-5990
Graduate Seminar I
0.0 credit hours
This course is a seminar for graduate students. The course will act as a forum for discussion and presentation of research in both academic and business areas. Students will be expected to complete a research project and present the project within the course.
BUSI-6150
Narrative Leadership
3.0 credit hours
Effective leaders communicate to inspire talent to excel; to partner with investors and communities; to engage with customers and clients and to grow their impact in the world as part of a global community. These communications are understood and acted upon based on the perceived context of the communication. Effective leaders are attentive to the ways that they shape the narratives that form the context for this communication. This course helps leaders to shape their own story and the organizational stories to cultivate an authentic, trustworthy, and compelling narrative whether oral or written, in person or embedded within social media, in small groups and with large audiences.
BUSI-6150
Narrative Leadership
3.0 credit hours
Effective leaders communicate to inspire talent to excel; to partner with investors and communities; to engage with customers and clients and to grow their impact in the world as part of a global community. These communications are understood and acted upon based on the perceived context of the communication. Effective leaders are attentive to the ways that they shape the narratives that form the context for this communication. This course helps leaders to shape their own story and the organizational stories to cultivate an authentic, trustworthy, and compelling narrative whether oral or written, in person or embedded within social media, in small groups and with large audiences.
BUSI-6700
Strategic Leadership in a Multicultural World
3.0 credit hours
Historically, the field of strategy has focused on strategies as mechanisms for winning and thus causing others to lose. Instead, we are learning that strategic partnerships and creation of manufacturing/service processes that develop human capabilities and use material resources wisely are needed to position the organization for sustained success in the marketplace. This course will help leaders develop approaches that strategically position their organizations to achieve this success. Theoretically, this course will be grounded in Michael Porter’s recent work on “creating shared value.”
BUSI-6700
Strategic Leadership in a Multicultural World
3.0 credit hours
Historically, the field of strategy has focused on strategies as mechanisms for winning and thus causing others to lose. Instead, we are learning that strategic partnerships and creation of manufacturing/service processes that develop human capabilities and use material resources wisely are needed to position the organization for sustained success in the marketplace. This course will help leaders develop approaches that strategically position their organizations to achieve this success. Theoretically, this course will be grounded in Michael Porter’s recent work on “creating shared value.”
PCD-5100
Models for Peace and Conflict Transformation
3.0 credit hours
This course examines integrative models of social change, which hold together peace, development, justice, and identity issues. Using such models requires the multifaceted tasks of critical analysis of structural violence and direct violence, nurturing justice through human development, proactive building of dynamic peace cultures, and responding to crises in ways that build on local cultural and faith traditions and that witness to a sustainable and peaceable future. PCD Category: Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution, Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development, or Methods in Research, Planning, or Evaluation
PCD-5110
Genocide, War, and Violent Conflict
3.0 credit hours
Genocide, war, and violent conflict—and their prevention—are among the pressing problems investigated by conflict analysts and peacebuilders. This course introduces students to key conceptual frameworks for interpreting and understanding the occurrence of extreme forms of conflict involving both state and non-state actors. Examining a range of cultural and historical contexts this course will address the underlying social, political and psychological processes involved in collective violence. Selected case studies of wars, genocides and insurgencies will provide concrete examples of the stakes and stages of these phenomena. PCD Category: Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution or Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development
PCD-5140
Refugees and Forced Migration
3.0 credit hours
Global trends continue to show unprecedented numbers of forcibly displaced people worldwide. Countries have struggled with how to assist refugees and internally displaced people. Less than one percent of refugees under UNHCR mandate are resettled in other countries. This course explores the root causes of forcibly displaced people; the costs associated with such movements, including economic, physical, and mental health; the responses of world governments; and the work of resettlement agencies in assisting refugees. The issues and lessons learned from the experience of resettling and integrating refugees around the world are studied, including in Canada. PCD Category: Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution.
PCD-5160
Peace Psychology
3.0 credit hours
Peace psychology examines how individual differences and intergroup dynamics contribute to the escalation and de‑escalation of conflict. Engaging theory, empirical research, and applied practice from diverse conflict contexts, this course introduces psychological frameworks for analyzing and evaluating peacebuilding interventions, including their long‑term durability. Topics include violent mobilization, resistance and resilience, victim–perpetrator relations, the political economy of peace, reconciliation, and sustainable peacebuilding. PCD Category: Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution, Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development, or Methods in Research, Planning, or Evaluation
PCD-5190
Trauma and Violence
3.0 credit hours
This course explores serious, violent conflict, with attention to the multifaceted causes, dynamics, and traumatic consequences of violence. It considers these issues at all relevant levels, including intrapersonal, interpersonal, familial, community, and national. Students are exposed to the existing knowledge base in research and crisis theory, and also observe and study practical skills for crisis first aid and community longer-term intervention. P.C.D. Category: Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution or Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development.
PCD-5210
Seminar in Social Change - Conflict Resolution Focus
3.0 credit hours
This course provides a broad overview of the field of Conflict Resolution Studies, and highlights the unity in the field at all scales from the personal to the global. It emphasizes major theories and practical approaches with which to analyze and address different types of social conflict at interpersonal/organizational and community/global levels. As a major component of the course requirement students research and present a mini-thesis on a topic of their choice. PCD Category: Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution, Collaborative and Transformative Development. Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development
PCD-5430
Interfaith and Intercultural Encounters
3.0 credit hours
Interfaith and intercultural encounters are part of everyday life and may involve indifference, conflict, or violence. Sometimes they may lead to surface‑level tolerance or co‑existence. This course examines how encounters of various kinds shape personal, social, ecclesial, and political life. Drawing on Christian traditions along with Indigenous, Jewish, Islamic, and other perspectives, students consider how encounters with “the other” can foster respect, dignity, and human flourishing. Cannot be held with the cross-listed courses BTS-5840. PCD Category: Theological and Religious Encounters with Peace Justice
PCD-5590
Political Theology
3.0 credit hours
Political theology names the study of theology’s political register. This can and has taken a variety of forms throughout history, but in its modern academic form tends to focus centrally on questions of sovereignty, the secular, and messianism. These core loci are often interrogated through a range of interdisciplinary critiques including insights from decolonial, ecological, feminist, and queer theory. In this class we will enter this engagement through the lens of hospitality, asking, how far can hospitality take us and what happens when we meet its limits? PCD Category: Theological and Religious Encounters with Peace-Justice or Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Develoment
PCD-5630
Cultures of Violence, Cultures of Peace
3.0 credit hours
A multi-layered examination of peace and violence from the perspective of culture, addressing questions such as: How are attitudes towards peace and violence reflected in the way cultures enact discipline, security, education, reconciliation, etc.? How are peace and violence reflected in expressions of popular culture and various sub-cultures? How are peace and violence modelled in relationships between different cultures? How might the very idea of culture be questioned through the lens of peace? PCD Category: Collaborative and Transformative Development or Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development
PCD-5851
Practice Skills: Restorative Justice in Schools
1.5 credit hours
Intensive weekend, Feb 6-8: Fri : 1:00-7:00 PM Sat: 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM Sun: 1:00-5:00 PM Room M211 (Marpeck Mezzanine) Last day to drop with refund: Friday Feb 6 VW deadline: Saturday Feb 7
PCD-5853
Practice Skills
1.5 credit hours
* Weekend Intensive. Details tbd. Join waitlist if interested.* This workshop course will focus on developing knowledge and competencies in specific peacebuilding and conflict resolution skills. Possible topics include but are not limited to: mediation, nonviolent crisis intervention, conciliation, interfaith dialogue, facilitated meetings, and nonviolent direct action. The topics of the peace skills workshop may change from semester to semester. The workshop will usually be offered in an intensive format over 3 days, usually on a weekend. Instruction will be practice-based.
PCD-5920
Program Evaluation in Development and Conflict Resolution
3.0 credit hours
Evaluating programs is a means of systematically assessing interventions designed to promote development and conflict resolution. This course covers formative evaluations required for program decision-making and summation evaluations applicable for analyzing outcomes and impacts to determine relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, and potential for replication of programs normally implemented by non-governmental organizations. Current debates in approaches to evaluation are also reviewed. Students acquire skills in: selecting relevant quantitative and qualitative indicators, various approaches to obtain measures for the indicators selected, approaches to analyzing collected data, and effective presentation of evaluation conclusions and recommendations. PCD Category: Methods in Research, Planning, or Evaluation.
PCD-5950
Qualitative Inquiry in the Social Sciences
3.0 credit hours
Examination of principles and procedures for conducting qualitative research in the social sciences. Topics include: the assumptions that inform qualitative research designs; procedures for gathering meaningful data through interviews, observation and textual archives; the analysis of such data; and ethical issues pertaining to the research endeavour. P.C.D. Category: Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution, Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development, or Methods in Research, Planning, or Evaluation.
PCD-5990
Advanced Transformative Justice
3.0 credit hours
In Advanced Transformative Justice students will deepen their earlier understanding of transformative justice principles, including post-colonial perspectives critical of the "professionalizing" of the field and will include an emphasis on Indigenous justice-making initiatives. Students will learn about the practical applications of Transformative Justice through a series of site visits to organizations in Winnipeg. Students will be encouraged to understand Transformative Justice as more than a supplement to criminal justice systems but rather as a potentially transformative force within various societies and states through experiential learning, classroom inputs, guest speakers and class discussions. P.C.D. Category: Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution, Theory in Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development, or Methods in Research, Planning, or Evaluation.
PCD-5999
Graduate Seminar I
0.0 credit hours
This course is a seminar for international graduate students. The course will act as a forum for discussion and presentation of research in academic, applied, and practitioner areas. Students will be expected to complete a research project plan and present the project plan within the course.
PCD-5999
Graduate Seminar I
0.0 credit hours
This course is a seminar for international graduate students. The course will act as a forum for discussion and presentation of research in academic, applied, and practitioner areas. Students will be expected to complete a research project plan and present the project plan within the course. PCD Category: Electives
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