The Pastoral Care concentration provides a general background for students who wish to pursue ministries oriented toward healing, sustaining, guiding and reconciling persons in their care. The concentration focuses upon the historical, theological, and psychological perspectives of pastoral ministry and provides students with both theory and basic professional skills for this ministry.
| Course Title | Credit Hours |
|---|---|
| Integrative Studies | |
| Proseminar | 3 |
| Integrative Seminar | 1 |
| Biblical Studies | |
| Bible Interpretation | 3 |
| Old Testament Elective | 2 |
| New Testament Elective | 2 |
| Systematic Theology | |
| Introduction to Theology and Theological Method | 3 |
| Cross-Disciplinary Seminar | |
| Sacramental and Theological Foundations of Ministry | 3 |
| Moral Theology | |
| Foundations of Catholic Morality | 3 |
| Historical Studies | |
| Critical Moments in Church History | 3 |
| Pastoral Theology | |
| Foundations of Pastoral and Ethical Care | 3 |
| Foundations of Pastoral Counseling | 3 |
| Pastoral Electives | 6 |
| Professional Ministerial Formation | |
| Supervised Practice of Ministry I | 3 |
| Supervised Practice of Ministry II | 3 |
| Clinical Pastoral Education | 4 |
| Electives | |
| ---- | 3 |
| Spiritual Formation | |
| Lay Formation I-IV (lay students only) | - |
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