CSR Courses

Required and elective coursework for the CSR program can be taken through a variety of means. PSR offers several courses each year that are designed specifically with CSR requirements in mind (“CSR-Designed Courses”). Other PSR courses and courses at other GTU schools will sometimes meet those requirements as well (“CSR-Suitable Courses"). In addition, some courses can be taken, in consultation with the instructor, so as to meet CSR expectations (“CSR-Potential Courses”).

Courses in the latter of those three categories require approval from the CSR Coordinator, who will also discern with the student which of the courses will work for CSR requirements and which ones will work for electives. Other courses may fulfill CSR requirements depending on the CSR student’s interests and goals; again, these need to be approved by the CSR Coordinator.

Summer session and Intersession courses are usually offered for 1.5 credits (for more information on PSR's Summer Session, go here); semester courses are usually offered for 3.0 credits and some are offered online. Summer session courses may also be taken for Continuing Education Units rather than full academic credit (but CEUs cannot count toward the Certificate).

Questions about coursework and requirements can be directed to Jay Johnson (jjohnson[at]clgs[dot]org).

For more information on how to apply to the Certificate of Sexuality and Religion program or as a special student, go to the PSR website. Information about summer session courses can be found here.(Unless otherwise noted in the following list, the instructors for these couress are associated with PSR.)

 

Summer 2011

CSR-Designed Courses

CSR-Suitable Courses

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Fall Semester 2011 

CSR-Designed Courses

  • HS-1860: Gender & Sexuality in Christian History, Schlager (PSR blended course) Fulfills CSR requirement D
  • SPRS-2400: Sexuality and Christian Spirituality, Leung (PSR)

CSR-Suitable Courses

  • ST-4163: Theologies of the Body, Bieler and Johnson (PSR) Fulfills CSR requirement C
  • CEST-4559: Liberating Ethical Imagination, Lettini (SKSM) Fulfills CSR requirement C
  • RSPS-2520: Church, Change, and Inclusion, Keshgegian (CDSP)

CSR-Potential Courses

  • HSRS-3040: Modern Social Justice Prophets, Burns (FST)
  • HS-4194: Religion & Civil Rights in the American West, Walker (PSR)
  • RSED-4036: Theater of the Oppressed, Chung (SKSM)
  • SPRS-2512: Spirituality and Liberation, Ronzani (JST)

Intersession 2012

CSR-Designed Courses

  • RS-1401: Comparative Sexualities and Culture, Teunis (PSR) Fulfills CSR requirement B

CSR-Suitable Courses

  • FTRS-2450: Refuge in the City, Flunder (PSR)

Spring Semester 2012

CSR-Designed Courses

  • RSST-4556: HIV and Theology, Mitulski (PSR blended course)
  • BSRS-8220: Gender, Sexuality, & the Bible, Vernieu (PSR online course) Fulfills CSR requirement A

CSR-Suitable Courses

  • STRS-4242: Women’s Studies in Religion, Radzins (PSR)
  • CEST-4138: The “Allergy to the Other,” Lettini (SKSM) Fulfills CSR requirement C
  • STLS-4695: Marriage(s): Theology and Rituals, Meyers & Johnson (CDSP/PSR) Fulfills CSR requirement C

CSR-Potential Courses

  • BSCE-2260: Biblical Foundations for Social Justice, Donahue (JST)
  • CE-2003: Roman Catholic Sexual Ethics, Farina (DSPT)

Required Core CSR areas:

  • A. Religious texts and sexuality/sexual identity
  • B. Human sexuality with a focus on sexual orientation and gender identity, including attention to contemporary scientific and psychological understandings of sexuality
  • C. Theology, ethics, and sexual identity, including discussion of the limits and conditions of appropriate sexual conduct
  • D. History of sexuality/sexual orientation issues and religion