A typical seminar might include a visit to a housing project, a student presentation on psychological types, silent meditation or integration of biblical story with our subject. In this course, we try to break this barrier. Each student will choose a particular artist to study in-depth, as well as create several pieces of art. We will attend and analyze performances by acclaimed artists of music, dance and drama. This is a study of story as a ground for our social, communal and individual lives.
Students choose an area of social conflict and read fiction and essays relevant to that area.
Through stories, we examine how persons respond emotionally, intellectually and spiritually to conflict. We look especially for themes of ethical choices, social group conflict and redemptive change. We also examine the ways in which biblical narrative brings liberation to oppressed persons. In this course, we explore community in society and the church. Students choose topics of current conflicts or issues in the church and visit and experience local communities.