BUSI-5220

Leadership and Management for the Common Good
(3.0 credit hours)

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-5410

Global Sustainability
(3.0 credit hours)

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)

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)

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)

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)

BUSI-6710 Data Analytics 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.

BTS-5910

Supervised Ministry Experience
(6.0 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-5950

Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 1
(6.0 credit hours)

BTS-5950 Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 1 (6.0 credit hours) 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: Practical Theology.

BTS-5951

Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 2
(6.0 credit hours)

BTS-5951 Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 2 (6.0 credit hours) 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. BTS Category: Practical Theology.

BTS-5952

Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 3
(6.0 credit hours)

BTS-5952 Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 3 (6.0 credit hours) 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. BTS Category: Practical Theology.

BTS-5953

Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 4
(6.0 credit hours)

BTS-5953 Supervised Psychospiritual Education CPE Unit 4 (6.0 credit hours) 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. BTS Category: Practical Theology.

BTS-6950 

Supervised Psychospiritual Education Supervision Unit 1
(3.0 credit hours)

BTS-6950 Supervised Psychospiritual Education Supervision Unit 1 (3.0 credit hours) 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-6951

Supervised Psychospiritual Education Supervision Unit 2
(3.0 credit hours)

BTS-6951 Supervised Psychospiritual Education Supervision Unit 2 (3.0 credit hours)  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-5080 

Ezekiel: Exile, Trauma, and the Land
(3.0 credit hours)

This course will focus on reading Ezekiel in the book's exilic context. The book wrestles with the exile in its depiction of both people and land, presenting both as traumatized. This course will explore the points of connection between people, land, and God in Ezekiel, and examine how these parties relate to one another in the book. We will consider how the trauma of exile confronts and reshapes these relationships. Our study will be informed by modern scholarship on trauma in the social sciences and literary studies, in addition to current scholarship on Ezekiel.

Intensive week: May 19-23, M-F, 9am-4pm

Category: Bible, Old Testament

BTS-5700

Queer Christologies
(3.0 credit hours)

This course explores how the mysteries of Jesus Christ's personhood, body, and resurrection might bear on our embodied life. After foundational engagement with early Christology controversies, we will read several authors within or influential to queer theology, including Virginia Burrus, Marcella Althaus-Reid, and Linn Marie Tonstad. Gender and sexuality will be key themes, but ultimately, queering Christ -- or encountering a Christ who queers -- will draw us into more fundamental questions of difference, love, and power.

BTS Category: Theology.

BUSI-5230

Human Capital Development
(3.0 credit hours)

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 - 1

Sustainable Organizations and Global Citizenship
(3.0 credit hours)

BUSI-6800 Sustainable Organizations and Global Citizenship (3.0 credit hours): This course integrates the three pillars of the Collaborative MBA 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 MBA 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-5390

Conflict Transformation Through Dialogue and Narrative
(3.0 credit hours)

DRAFT: By exploring personal case studies and responses to conflict, students will enhance their skills in communication and proactive engagement. With an emphasis on brave conversations, recognizing polarities, and applying effective strategies for conflict resolution, students will learn to manage stress, understand trauma, and develop resilience. Through reflective practices and diverse cultural perspectives, students will gain confidence in transforming conflicts into opportunities for growth and understanding.

PCD Categories: Peacebuilding and Conflict Resolution, Peacebuilding and Collaborative and Transformative Development, or Peacebuilding and Collaborative Development

PCD-5853 - 3

Practice Skills: Accompanying Those in Conflict
(1.5 credit hours)

This workshop will help participants prepare and reflect on accompanying those in conflict. Particiapnts will reflect on their opportunities to support others, and practice key techniques. The workshop will emphasize the importance of analyzing conflict situations, exploring assumptions about conflict, and supporting others without taking sides. Key steps include active listening, staying neutral, asking open-ended questions, and encouraging reflection to help others find their own solutions. Cannot be held with prior workship in Coaching.

Friday, June 20, 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Saturday, June 21, 9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Sunday, Jun 22, 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM

PCD-5910

Program Planning in Development and Conflict Resolution
(3.0 credit hours)

PCD-5910 Program Planning in Development and Conflict Resolution (3.0 credit hours) Program planning is a critical first step in most interventions by development and conflict resolution organizations. This course covers blueprint planning required for preparation of funding proposals and various forms of strategic and participatory planning required for the application of results-based management and learning approaches during program implementation. Current debates regarding approaches to planning are also reviewed. Students acquire skills necessary for conceptualizing and implementing international or domestic projects undertaken by non-governmental organizations: needs assessment, goal and purpose identification, formulation of logframe, work plan and budget, and preparation of a funding proposal. PCD Category: Methods in Research, Planning, or Evaluation.

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.
Restricted to students in the MBA program.

BUSI-6800

Sustainable Organizations and Global Citizenship
(3.0 credit hours)

This course integrates the three pillars of the Collaborative MBA 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 MBA 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.
Restricted to students admitted to the MBA program.

BTS-5268

Disruptive Good News: The Church in Acts
(3.0 credit hours)

BTS-5080 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. 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)

BTS-5330 Foundations of 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.

BUSI-5640

Organizational Behaviour
(3.0 credit hours)

BUSI-5640 Organizational Behavior (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)

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-6150

Narrative Leadership
(3.0 credit hours)

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)

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)

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.