Healthcare Chaplaincy

Healthcare Chaplaincy Concentration Courses  

Competencies include: 

  1. Articulate the holistic nature of healthcare chaplaincy and how it relates to pastoral care, healthcare, and administration.
  2. Articulate the biblical and theological underpinnings for healthcare chaplaincy.
  3. 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.
  4. 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) 

  1. PC 7340 - Level 1 Clinical Pastoral Education (6 credit hours)
  2. TC 8325 - Bioethics
  3. XS 8331 - Health Care/Holy Care

 

Concentration-Specific Courses (6 Credit hours) 

Choose two from the following:  

  1. BB 7330/TC 7330 - Disability Studies, the Bible, and Theology
  2. HX 8338 - Patristic Anthropology and Soteriology
  3. MT 8332 - Ethics, Theology, and Children
  4. MT 8335 - Ethics, Theology, and Family
  5. MT 8352 - Contemporary Moral Issues
  6. NT 8365 - Evil, Suffering, and Death in the New Testament
  7. PC 7322 - Pastoral Care and Family Systems
  8. PC 8301 - Pastoral Care: Special Problems
  9. PC 8341 - Spirituality and the Human Life Cycle
  10. TC 8308 - Contemporary Issues in the Philosophy of Religion
  11. TC 8360 - Issues in Science and Theology
  12. XS 7303 - Medical Music Therapy and Spiritual Care
  13. XS 8370 Religious Beliefs/Practices: Honoring the Body

Total: 18 Credit Hours