United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities · Courses
ST
5 courses with the subject ST, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
ST 1002Social Analysis and Community Engagement3
Previous Course Numbers: ST1003, ST2002 Planned frequency of offerings: annually This course empowers students to think critically about injustices as complex, structural realities embedded in our cultural, economic, religious, and political systems. The social sciences and critical theory offer rich tools and knowledge that can be deployed for dismantling systems of oppression, creating social change, and building just communities. Using these conceptual tools, students will engage in community-based action research and assess the issue they anticipate addressing in their capstone project.
Previous Course Number: ST1002 Planned frequency of offerings: biennially (every other year) This course explores the theological and spiritual foundations enabling and inspiring a more just, more United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities Academic Catalog 2026–2027 7/1/2026 Page 77
Previous Course Number: ST1004 Corequisite for this course: ST1002. Planned frequency of offerings: biennially (every other year) This course introduces students to the field of Social entrepreneurship; the practice of identifying, designing, starting and growing successful mission-driven ventures. The course provides an applied understanding of the processes, challenges and demands associated with creating ventures that seek to integrate financial and social/environmental benchmarks of success. Students will design a real world social transformation project, related to their capstone issue that is scalable and sustainable in today's economic and social realities.
ST 2004Leadership and Strategies for Social Change3
Previous Course Number: ST1001 Corequisite for this course: ST1002. Planned frequency of offerings: biennially (every other year) This course explores leadership and strategies of organization and social transformation. Drawing from the best practices of faith-based and secular justice work, students will explore a variety of theoretical and practical tools for interpreting and leading social transformation within various organizational contexts. Grounded in a real life project, students will employ a theo-ethical leadership framework to deepen understanding of complex organization and social dynamics, apply core strategies for social transformation, and develop a 12-month implementation plan for their project.
Planned frequency of offerings: biennially (every other year) In this course, DMin students will closely examine issues of social justice and develop concrete plans and skills to effectively address them. The class invites students to explore the depth and complexity of injustice related to issues with which they are currently (or potentially) engaged in their ministry contexts. Students will use critical theoretical and theological approaches to locate their contextual issues of concern in broader cultural, socioeconomic, and political systems. Students will also engage a variety of theoretical and ethically grounded strategies for social transformation that reflect a deepening understanding of the complex relational, organizational, and sociopolitical structures that hold injustice in place. Students will employ such strategies in their development of a 12-month implementation plan for a project meant to address the issues they have identified. The Islamic Seminary of America (TISA) The following courses are delivered in the distance format only using TISA’s online learning platforms.
