This course provides the opportunity to step back to see the bigger picture of Islamic rules and regulations, the universal principles or higher objectives (maqasid) underlying them, and the complex interplay of reason, revelation, ethics and utility within this coherent system.
Islam and Christianity understand Jesus as an essential figure in connection to God's revelation to humanity, although each religious tradition has its particular view that makes them unique.
The gateway course to the MA in Interreligious Studies and a required course for the MA in Peacebuilding curriculum, Introduction to Interreligious Studies is an intersectional, integrative course that promotes deep understanding of worldviews different from one’s own.
This course explores and introduces major contemporary theological approaches to religious pluralism: theology of religions, comparative theology, and scriptural reasoning.
Explores how faith communities move from the text to practices with the use of structured beliefs and traditions, approaches and doctrines.
This class will interrogate the politics of religious liberty with a particular focus on the context of the United States.
This course will have three distinct parts: Orientation, Introduction to Peacebuilding, and Capstone Preparation, all designed to set students up for success in their year at Hartford International University.
This class will train each student to be a mediating presence in interpersonal and community conflicts.
This course will support students in critically examining the concept of trauma and the way it plays out in our brains, bodies, behavior, relationships and the systems we engage with.
This course is to prepare and maintain students in their placements optimizing their learning with debriefing and assessment tools using critical reflection.