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.

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.