Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York · Courses
PT
3 courses with the subject PT, 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.
PT 204RISE Students learn and practice leadership skills through discussion, facilitation and directed
Together Mentorship practicum work in small groups. Through community and peer learning, this course centers for Women of Color and affirms the collective wisdom, lived experiences and intercultural voices of women of (1 credit) color. Students engage in a thriving ministry journey focusing on the reality of ministry, Online ecclesial structures, multidimensional oppression, impact on pastoral/personal identities and Capacity: uncapped leadership. Through the lens of race, gender, age and culture and a researched informed Lisa Rhodes curriculum, a safe and sacred community learning space is created for theological and ethical reflection. Note: Religion and the Black Experience concentration course. Spans three semesters for three credits total. PT 253 – Professional What does it mean to be a spiritual caregiver? What is our ethical imperative to care, and Ethics for Chaplaincy where/how do we each set our boundaries? What does it mean to care for ourselves and to and Ministry (3 care for others? Topics of concern, learning and reflection include the ethics involved with: credits) power dynamics in spiritual care and ministry; racial, gender-related, and cultural trauma; In Person othering and being othered; care for and by Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) Capacity: uncapped practitioners; and identity. Students use values to consider the ethics of care of self and Linda S. Golding others. Note: Concentration requirement for Chaplaincy students. SPRING 2027
PT 220Moral The ongoing crises of poverty, systemic racism, the war economy and militarism, ecological
Leadership in the devastation, and the distorted theology of white Christian nationalism demand moral Public Square in leadership to organize a movement from the bottom up. Through praxis and critical Times of Crisis (3 reflection, students examine the theory and practice of the biblical, theological, spiritual, and credits) moral framework of the movement to end poverty led by the poor. Students engage in Online actions and activities of this movement while applying principles of the poor organizing the Capacity: uncapped poor, and the battle for the Bible to their own congregations, organizations, communities, or Liz Theoharis, Jessica contexts, equipping faith and moral leaders for ongoing engagement in ministries of social Williams, Adam justice. Barnes, Ciara Taylor & Note: Fulfills MASJ Social Movements Requirement ana lara lopez AS/PT 285 – Ministry This course introduces students to the practice of ministry in diverse and marginalized with Marginalized contexts through the lenses of Practical Theology and Anglican Studies. Emphasizing Communities (3 relational, justice-oriented, and contextually grounded approaches, students engage credits) theological reflection, liturgical practice, and community-based learning. The course prepares In Person students for adaptive leadership across ecclesial, ecumenical, and interreligious settings. Capacity: 25
PT 230In this course, students will learn about technowomanism, an ethical framework grounded in
Technowomanism in womanism that focuses on social justice issues in and around technology, as a tool for Praxis (3 credits) critique and assessment. The very notion of what constitutes as a technology will be Online challenged and expanded as together we will explore theological, ecological, and ancestral Capacity: uncapped technologies alongside contemporary technologies. Through weekly readings, responses, Shamika Klassen presentations, in class activities, and a digital humanities project, students will leave the class with tools to assess and address a litany of social justice issues surrounding technology including those impacting the global majority, racial/ethnic groups, people with disabilities, people of different genders and sexualities, and the environment. This class is ideal for students interested in deepening their understanding of technology’s impacts on society, and how they can apply these learnings to their vocation. PT/SE 242 – What Central to the Womanist emancipatory struggle and methodology is the privileging of About Her? African-American cultural history, Black women’s literary expressions, communal memory, Incarceration as and Black women’s enfleshed experience as sources for understanding both oppression and Racialized Gendered liberation. In addition, because the Black female body stands within a racial and gendered Social Control (3 history of brutal enslavement, subjugation, and violence, Womanist methodology privileges credits) the Black female body as the site of theo-anthropological inquiry. Thus, this course will utilize Online Womanist theorizing and an unapologetic universalization of the Black woman’s particularity Capacity: uncapped to examine the intersections of gender, race, class, and the criminal legal system, with a focus Charlene Sinclair on how carceral frameworks with an emphasis on policing and incarceration regulate gendered experiences. Religion and Society (RS) FALL 2026 RS/IE 219 – Critical Critical Religious Literacy (CRL) is a method for understanding how religion functions in overt Religious Literacy and and covert ways to promote and thwart just peace building efforts in both "secular" and Contemporary "religious" contexts. In this course we will learn the method of CRL and apply it to case Culture (3 credits) studies in a wide range of fields (e.g. journalism, government, arts and culture, education, Online organizing, humanitarian action) to better understand the power of religion in contemporary Capacity: 25 culture and to explore how this knowledge can promote just peace building and moral Diane Moore & imagination in fresh and innovative ways.
