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.

Students in this course will examine sources from the Hebrew Bible, New Testament, and Quran that relate to peace, justice and violence.

We will hone perspectives and practices for leading adaptive change and for engaging in nonviolent processes for change in contemporary issues.

This course uses the framework of “otherness” and “belonging” to explore how othering becomes structured and embedded within religious communities.

This course employs a wide range of instructional methods to enable students as spiritual caregivers (chaplains or ministers) to gain insight into how residents of America’s multireligious communities engage in deliberative reflection on matters of ultimate concern, what answers they might give to “worldview questions,” what sacred sources they use to do so, and how they utilize those sources for caregiving.

This course introduces you to the central tools and concepts within the disciplines of sociology and psychology that provide insights into the spiritual care work of chaplains across a variety of settings.