Regular class attendance is essential. A student who misses a class is responsible for securing class notes, class activities, or syllabus changes from a classmate. Class participation is expected.
Students also learn from each other.
Students are expected to participate actively in class discussions, small group work, and experiential exercises. Students must be ready to learn, ask questions, and to explain what they do not understand. Class participation is defined as active involvement in class discussions, including constructive comments, criticisms, and questions. Students will make a pastoral ministry field visit to a setting which poses a significant challenge to your comfort level. This place should be a culturally different ministry place, a church with special ministries of care, a recovery group, a prison, an intensive care unit of a hospital, etc.