Christian Leadership

CL510 FORMATION FOR UNITED METHODIST ORDAINED MINISTRY (2)

Staff
This course offers candidates for ordained ministry in The United Methodist Church an opportunity to be mentored in the candidacy process required for United Methodist ordination. Along with other candidates and under the leadership of a trained candidacy mentor, "exploring candidates" will share their spiritual lives and calls into ministry, practice spiritual disciplines, and identify areas for service as they work through the Candidacy Guidebook. Candidates will explore together the many facets of decisions required of those progressing toward licensed, ordained ministry. Satisfactory completion of the course fulfills United Methodist requirements necessary for application for "certification" with a District Committee on Ministry. The course will include mock interviews, consideration of pertinent issues, and input from relevant, visiting United Methodist leaders. Prerequisite: Current status as an exploring candidate in The United Methodist Church with two years membership in the same United Methodist church by January. This is a two-hour, credit/no credit course. Certain fees will apply depending on one's annual conference.

CL550 TUTORIAL IN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP (1-3)

Andrews, Gray, Smith, Tumblin
For students with specialized interests/needs in selected areas of beginning Leadership studies. Consult syllabus for prerequisites and course requirements. See academic policy. May be repeated.

CL551 THE MISSION OF THE FREE METHODIST CHURCH (2)

Staff
A study of the mission of the Free Methodist Church, giving special attention to its history, distinctive character, current issues, and local and international organization. Student involvement and consideration of the texture of the denomination will be encouraged through lectures, discussions, special speakers, surveys, and research projects. Offered alternate years.

CL552 WESLEYAN POLITY AND DISCIPLINE (2)

Staff
A study of the Discipline of the Wesleyan Church and parliamentary procedure. The course meets requirements for ordination. Offered alternate years.

CL553 UNITED METHODIST POLITY AND DISCIPLINE (2)

Staff
A thorough study of the polity and discipline of The United Methodist Church. The student is equipped to meet the requirements of the Discipline for admission-on-trial into the various conferences. Required of all candidates for the United Methodist ministry.

CL555 FRIENDS HISTORY AND DISCIPLINE (2)

Staff
A study of the origin, development, and spread of the Religious Society of Friends. Designed to meet the requirements of Yearly Meeting Committees on the Recording of Ministers. (By tutorial; on demand.)

CL556 NAZARENE POLITY AND DISCIPLINE (2)

Staff
A survey of the historical and political development of the Church of the Nazarene, with particular emphasis on current issues, procedures, and patterns of decision-making within this holiness denomination. The course meets requirements in the ministerial course of study for ordination.

CL599 INDEPENDENT RESEARCH IN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP (1-3)

Andrews, Gray, Martyn, Smith, Tumblin
Guided, independent, introductory research in Christian Leadership. See academic policy and procedures. By contract. Credit only. May be repeated.

The core elective requirement in Christian Leadership for the M.Div. is met by courses in the range, CL610-649.

CL610 THEOLOGY OF SERVANT LEADERSHIP (3)

Martyn, Tumblin
The biblical narrative provides ample understanding of what makes leadership "Christian." Whether one follows the models of the kings and prophets or the kenosis of Christ and subsequent Christian followers, the Christian leader is called to a distinctive style of leadership. This course exposes Christian leaders to the principles and practices that nurture life-long servanthood. Participants will examine and seek to practice Christian community as the crucible for authentic Christian leadership.

CL611 FOUNDATIONS OF CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP (3)

Gray
This course is designed to introduce students to the historical development of the leadership discipline. Special attention will be given to the theoretical constructs that undergird the major leadership paradigms, beginning with the "Great Man Era" and ending with the "Age of Complexity." This course will be sensitive to the interplay between management theory in the marketplace and its usefulness within a Christian context.

CL612 CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT (3)

Gray
This course is designed to move students into deeper levels of understanding of the significant concepts and theories that shape our contemporary understanding of leadership development in a Christian context. From this base of understanding, students will be guided into discoveries of personal individual styles, strengths, and opportunities for growth in an effort to enhance personal leadership competencies with a deliberate servanthood focus.

CL613 EQUIPPING THE LAITY (3)

Martyn, Smith, Stonehouse, Tumblin
This course will lay the foundation for a lay revolution within and beyond the local church. Using Ephesians 4 as our base, we will flesh out the paradigm of pastor as equipper/coach and laity as unpaid servants engaged in the work of the ministry. In many ways the delineation between laity and clergy will be minimized in favor of a model emphasizing the ministry of the whole people of God. We will address such issues as assimilation, leadership development, and discipling disciplers.

CL614 LEADING GROUPS AND ORGANIZATIONS (3)

Tumblin, West
This course combines organizational psychology, ecclesiology, and leadership studies to move the student to an understanding of organizational and group dynamics. Students will develop proficiency in the analysis and development of organizations. Meets with ML714 on the Wilmore campus.

CL615/MS653 CROSS-CULTURAL LEADERSHIP (3)

Gray, West
This course examines the role of culture and cultural dynamics in the selection, emergence, and functioning of leadership. Primary attention will be given to leadership dynamics within the multicultural North American context, but consideration will also be given to how American theories and models are appropriated in other cultural contexts. Meets with ML715 on the Wilmore campus.

CL616 LEADING CHANGE (3)

Tumblin
Change inevitably comes, particularly when an organization experiences healthy growth. This course addresses dynamics, including first and second order change, transition, innovation, chaotic systems and conflict. Emphasis will be given to the leader's roles as catalyst, coach and counselor at the individual, group, organizational and enterprise levels.

CL617 URBAN LEADERSHIP (3)

Gray
This course focuses on the basic principles of Christian leadership in an urban context. The city is explored from a socio-cultural perspective while examining successful urban leadership/ministry models.

CL618 CHURCH MANAGEMENT AND FINANCE (3)

Staff
By providing practical how-to tools for the non-financial manager of a church or ministry organization, this course is designed to introduce students to the variety of business and administrative issues related to church management and finance. Special attention will be given to personal finance planning, as well as organizational budgeting, planning and execution.

CL620/MS654 DEVELOPING EMERGING LEADERS (3)

West
An advanced perspective and skill enhancement course which provides a theoretical and practical orientation to leadership development studies through the implicational lens of missiological theory, research, and application. The class helps students accelerate their leadership development vision and ethic, and develop culturally appropriate strategies, perspectives, and principles for training leaders in their current or anticipated ministry settings. Meets with ML700 on the Wilmore campus.

CL650 TUTORIAL IN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP (1-3)

Andrews, Gray, Martyn, Smith, Tumblin
For students with specialized interests/needs in selected areas of intermediate Leadership studies. Consult syllabus for prerequisites and course requirements. See academic policy. May be repeated.

CL/MS651 WOMEN IN MINISTRY (3)

Minger, Stonehouse
Acquaints students with matters relating to women in the ordained, diaconal, and lay ministries of the church. Consideration is given to both the impact of the church on women and the impact of women on the church from biblical times to the present. The course is interdisciplinary in its structure, investigating the topic of women in ministry from biblical, historical, theological, psychological, sociological, anthropological, and pastoral perspectives.

CL/MS655 THE CHANGE AGENT IN MISSION (3)

Rynkiewich
The underlying assumption of this course is that as cross-cultural witnesses we are by definition agents of change. So we better know something about how change occurs, how to introduce it effectively into organizations, how to evaluate when we should and should not be introducing change, and what is the theological foundation for our involvement. To speak to these issues we have divided the course into four parts: (1) Models of Culture Change, (2) Insights from Applied Anthropology, (3) Problems in Community Development, and (4) The Challenge of Integral Human Development. Meets with MB730 on the Wilmore campus.

CL660 ADVANCED SEMINAR IN WESLEYAN LEADERSHIP(1)

Martyn, Gray
This one hour seminar for students in Christian Leadership will integrate learned theoretical constructs of leadership with basic Wesleyan theology and practice.

CL665 Seminar In christian Leadership (1)

This 1-hour credit/no credit seminar is for students interested in Christian Leadership and is designed to allow for their participation in any approved, organized seminar or conference developed to advance the emerging Christian Leadership discipline.

CL/CD/YM690 DISCIPLESHIP DEVELOPMENT THROUGH TRAIL CAMPING (3)

Staff
Backpacking experience in Daniel Boone National Forest and/or Sheltowee Trace, with parish-based youth living and working in trail families of eight to ten persons in a summer backpacking trip. Course requires completing Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation and Red Cross first aid certification, readings, and immersion into Appalachian values and culture. Additional fee for students is required for first aid/CPR training and to help cover costs of food, fees and other expenses for the trail camping trip.

CL699 INDEPENDENT RESEARCH IN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP (1-3)

Andrews, Gray, Martyn, Smith, Tumblin
Guided, independent, intermediate research in Christian Leadership. See academic policy and procedures. By contract. Credit only. May be repeated.

CL701 RESEARCH AND WRITING IN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP (1-3)

Andrews, Gray, West
A capstone course in the Master of Arts in Christian Leadership degree program, this seminar introduces the structure and resources for engaging in quantitative and qualitative research methods and for developing publishable material in the field of Christian leadership. Credit only. Meets with MB800 on the Kentucky campus.

CL750 TUTORIAL IN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP (1-3)

Andrews, Gray, Martyn, Smith, Tumblin
For students with specialized interests/needs in selected areas of advanced Leadership studies. Consult syllabus for prerequisites and course requirements. See academic policy. May be repeated.

CL799 INDEPENDENT RESEARCH IN CHRISTIAN LEADERSHIP (1-3)

Andrews, Gray, Martyn, Smith, Tumblin
Guided, independent, advanced research in Christian Leadership. See academic policy and procedures. By contract. Credit only. May be repeated.

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