Upcoming Flexible Learning Opportunities
At St. Andrew’s College
Interested in doing some credit or non-credit continuing education or exploring your faith through courses offered by an ATS accredited theological college? Take a look at the courses that are available through distance education (in regional clusters), internet delivery and one-or two week long intensive courses. For further information give us a call at 1-877-644-8970. Our web site at www.standrews.ca is currently under revision and you may find that it is not as useful as you might like.
To register please contact Lorraine at 1-877-644-8970.
Intensives Courses & Learning Circles
Forming Young Adult Disciples Instructor: Douglas Fenton
Dates: October 23 – 27, 2006
Location: College of Emmanuel & St. Chad, Saskatoon
Course Fee: $530.00 (Credit) $265.00 (non-credit)
A weeklong opportunity to learn more about
sharing your Christian faith with young adults.
How do young adults become disciples, hospitable stewards, and teachers
of the Christian faith? How has God
prepared you to be an apostle to a new generation.
Dates: November 13 - 22, 2006 (10 days of
intensive learning)
Registration & Tuition Deadline:
October 10, 2006 Credits: 4.5
Course fee: $795 (credit) and $400 (non-credit).
Prerequisites: HA/HL 111-112, SA 113, their equivalents OR
permission of the instructor.
This course explores the history, theology and ethos of the United
Church through an overview of where the United Church has been and how it has
got to where it is now. Students will gain an enriched understanding of how the
United Church was formed, the journey it has traveled to the present, how it is
organized and how its polity functions.
This course normally is offered in February. It is being offered at this time for this
year only. It will next be offered
February of 2008.
Dates: January 8 - 12, 2007 Location: St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon
Registration Deadline: December 1, 2005 Credits: 3 (or a non-credit option)
Course fee: $530.00 ($265.00)
Intended audience/prerequisites: clergy and candidates for lay or ordered ministry wishing
to improve and update their preaching skills. Participants should have at least
one year of university or have completed a Skills Assessment, and have
successfully completed an introductory course in preaching or homiletics.
Program:
This is a required course in the M.Div and B.Th program and an elective course in the MTS program.
This is the
last time we are planning to offer this course as an Intensive. In the future it will be offered as a
Semester course.
Inner Biblical Interpretation [BA329] Instructor: C. Mitchell
Dates: January 15 – 19, 2007 Location: St. Andrew’s
College, Saskatoon
Registration Deadline: December 1, 2005 Credits: 3 (or a non-credit option)
Course fee:
$530.00 ($265.00)
Prerequisite: BA 110 or its equivalent and either a
200-level course in Hebrew Scriptures, or BL 150 or equivalent
An examination of the interrelationships between texts in the Hebrew Bible. Various theories and models will be studied,
followed by an in-depth analysis of a particular biblical book (or part of a
book) and it’s relationships to other biblical texts.
Food, Faith, and the Rural Community [SA/SL282]
Instructor: N. Wiebe
& C. Harder
Dates: TBA (3 weekends) Location: Saskatoon
Course fee:
$530.00 ($265.00)
Everyone
eats - and eating is an act with moral, theological, political and social
ramifications. This course will explore the philosophical assumptions
underlying our food production system in the light of theological guidance from
our Christian tradition about the purpose of human life, the place of
community, and our relationship to the land. It will critically examine the
causes of the current farm crisis and the decline of rural communities.
Exposing the myths which inform current food production and consumption
practices will open the way to envisioning alternative models based on
Christian perspectives and values
Instructor: S. Beardsall
Dates: June, 2007 Location:
St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon
Course fee:
$530.00 ($265.00)
Increasing numbers of Christian communities are working in close
ecumenical ways to facilitate mission and ministry, especially in areas of depopulation
or other financial struggle. Many of
these become formally linked as “ecumenical shared ministry” congregations or
clusters. This course will explore the
dynamics particular to developing and sustaining ecumenical ministry
initiatives in congregational settings.
It will introduce participants to the structures, theologies, and ethos
of the major denominations involved, and consider issues that are unique to
ecumenical relationships. Participants
will identify and strengthen their gifts for these ministries, in the context
of the wider discussions of contemporary ecumenism.
ST. ANDREW’S
COLLEGE WINTER REFRESHER
Theme Speaker: Bruce Harding, Church Music Scholar, Musician, and Composer
Theme: Sing Lustily? Exploring the theology, spirituality (and politics!) of
Congregational Song
Workshops to include: Drumming (Drums Provided); Introducing More
Voices;
Is Our God Too Pale?
Learning from Other Faiths’ … and MORE!
All this, plus worship, Film Night at the Broadway Theatre and three
lunches.
Dates: February 11th-14th,
2007 (a three day annual event for
clergy, alumni and friends)
Registration
Deadline: January 19,
2007 Credits: non-credit
A one credit
option is available (Theology and Spirituality of Congregational Song)
Location: St. Andrew’s College
Registration
Fee: Regular $150
before January 19th or $175 after January 19th, Student
$50.00 before January 19th or $75.00 after January 19th,
Banquet $25.00 per person, one credit course
(to be decided)
Registration
for St. Andrew’s Winter Refreshers is payable to the main office at St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon –
1-877-644-8970.
Intended
audience: Students,
alumni, staff, faculty, clergy and interested lay people.
Program: The Winter Refresher is a
community-building event and all degree program students are encouraged to
participate. An additional course fee is assessed for those wishing to take the
one-credit option. Activities will include worship, music, lectures,
discussion, workshops, a banquet and even a movie. Join us for relaxation,
learning, and rejoicing in community.
INTERNET COURSES
If you have a computer and an Internet connection, you can take regular
degree courses from St. Andrew’s College!
Tuition for Internet courses is $530, and you can take courses for
interest, continuing education, or towards a degree or diploma.
We are offering:
BA 111 Intro to the Jewish
Bible II and
SA 152 Intro to Christian
Ethics
starting January,
2007. To run a course we require that
there be at least 5 people registered.
Regional Learning Clusters
If
you can’t come to St. Andrew’s, perhaps St. Andrew’s can come to you! Five students and a local instructor are
required to set up a regional cluster course.
Tuition for each 3-credit course is) $530
($265 to audit). These courses may be
taken for interest, continuing education, or as a way of fulfilling first-year
requirements in the Diploma, MTS, M.Div. or B.Th. degrees.
Cluster groups have been held in centres such as: Southern Ontario; Glenboro & The Pas, MB; Lloydminster & Calgary,
AB. Consideration will be given to
making classes available in other locations upon request.
Sa 152 Intro to Christian
Ethics is available as a cluster starting January 2007.
If you would like a copy
of our long-term distance course schedule, please contact us. It will be on the web-site eventually but is
not there yet.
To register for a Regional Cluster or Internet
course, or to discuss setting up a regional cluster in your area, call St.
Andrew’s College toll-free at 1-877-644-8970.