Healthcare Chaplaincy
Healthcare Chaplaincy Concentration Courses
Competencies include:
- Articulate the holistic nature of healthcare chaplaincy and how it relates to pastoral care, healthcare, and administration.
- Articulate the biblical and theological underpinnings for healthcare chaplaincy.
- Demonstrate pastoral and spiritual leadership, as well as relationship-building skills in a hospital setting--with its employees, and with patients and their local congregations.
- Understand the multifaceted, multicultural, religiously pluralistic nature of healthcare chaplaincy, and exemplify skills for self-care and a healthy lifestyle.
Required Courses (12 Credit hours)
- PC 7340 - Level 1 Clinical Pastoral Education (6 credit hours)
- TC 8325 - Bioethics
- XS 8331 - Health Care/Holy Care
Concentration-Specific Courses (6 Credit hours)
Choose two from the following:
- BB 7330/TC 7330 - Disability Studies, the Bible, and Theology
- HX 8338 - Patristic Anthropology and Soteriology
- MT 8332 - Ethics, Theology, and Children
- MT 8335 - Ethics, Theology, and Family
- MT 8352 - Contemporary Moral Issues
- NT 8365 - Evil, Suffering, and Death in the New Testament
- PC 7322 - Pastoral Care and Family Systems
- PC 8301 - Pastoral Care: Special Problems
- PC 8341 - Spirituality and the Human Life Cycle
- TC 8308 - Contemporary Issues in the Philosophy of Religion
- TC 8360 - Issues in Science and Theology
- XS 7303 - Medical Music Therapy and Spiritual Care
- XS 8370 Religious Beliefs/Practices: Honoring the Body
Total: 18 Credit Hours