Open House 2015

APRIL 7, 2015

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1 am noon The Student Experience at HDS MDiv and MTS Degree Programs Curriculum MTS Degree Programs MDiv and from David N. Hempton, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, of Divinity, from David N. Hempton, Dean of the Faculty anel Discussion: ion: anel Discuss Tour of HDS Campus Tour Yard of Harvard Tour Students, and Staff Denominational Counselors, Lunch with Faculty, Braun Room or Rockefeller Café staff and the Denominational Counselors over lunch! faculty, Meet page 10 for details.) (See P This panel discussion will introduce four current students who will share their experiences as students at HDS. They will highlight the elements of community life that have engaged them during life, academic life, and religious and spiritual their time here. Student Services, Associate Dean for Enrollment and Maritza Hernandez, Moderator Danny Student panelists: Xavier Montecel, MTS ’15; Sahar Shahid, MDiv ’17; MTS ’16 Katy Klutznick, Ballon, MDiv ’17; Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Unitarian Universalist Emerson Waldo Dan McKanan, Ralph Senior Lecturer in Divinity Dean for Ministry Studies and Lecturer on Ministry Associate Dudley Rose, Annie Russell, Registrar me, Welco Theological Studies, Professor of Evangelical Alonzo L. McDonald Family and John Lord O’Brian Professor of Divinity P TheyThis will up of faculty members panel is made and the HDS Registrar. as well as requirements of the MTS and MDiv programs, highlight the academic resources at HDS. the faculty and academic for Enrollment and Student Services, Associate Dean Maritza Hernandez, Moderator Tour will leave Andover Lobby at Tour Andover Hall, SperryAndover Hall, Room SperryAndover Hall, Room will leave Andover Lobby at 11:30 Tour Andover Hall, SperryAndover Hall, Room

1–2 PM 1–2 or noon–1 PM noon–1 PM 12:15–1 11:30 AM–noon pm 11:15–12:15 am 11–11:15

10–10:50 am 10–10:50 1–1:50 pm Panel Discussion: Field Education for MDiv and MTS Students Andover Hall, Sperry Room Theological field education is at the heart of HDS’ efforts to prepare leaders

Program Schedule through a combination of traditional classroom studies and practical experiential learning. HDS students serve in a diverse range of settings, including mosques, schools, non-profit organizations, Christian congregations, hospitals and college chaplaincies, and many other places. This panel will introduce a field education supervisor and three field education students who will reflect on the unique gifts of field education at HDS.

Emily Click, Assistant Dean for Ministry Studies and Field Education and Lecturer on Ministry, Moderator

Laura Tuach, Assistant Director of Field Education

Student panelists: Caston Boyd, MDiv ’16; Olivia Hamilton, MDiv ’15; Amanda Napior, MDiv ’16; Christopher Whiteman, MDiv ’16

1:30–2 PM Tour of HDS Campus Tour will leave Andover Lobby at 1:30 pm

2–3 PM Tour of Harvard Yard Tour will leave Andover Lobby at 2 pm

2–3 PM Meet Career Services Student Services, Divinity Hall, 1st floor

2–2:50 pm Panel Discussion: Housing Options for HDS Students Andover Hall, Sperry Room This panel will address options for finding housing in the Boston and Cambridge area. Current students will offer their stories of finding housing and how they made their decision to live in their current location.

Timothy Whelsky, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs, Moderator

Student panelists: Evan Karg, MTS ’16; Sujith Kumar Prankumar, MTS ’15; Alexa Kutler, MTS ’16

2–2:50 pm Special Student Curriculum Session Office of the Registrar, Divinity Hall, 2nd Floor This is a group information session with the Registrar, Annie Russell, about being a special student at HDS.

2–2:50 PM Buddhist Ministry Initiative Information Session Divinity Hall 307 This is a group information session with the Buddhist Ministry Coordinator, Julie Gillette, about being a Buddhist Ministry Initiative, Robert H. N. Ho Scholar at HDS.

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3 pm pm “Science at the Divinity School” by the “Science at the Divinity anel Discussion: Please join HDS students, staff, and faculty for the weekly Community Tea, and faculty for the weekly Community Please join HDS students, staff, Meet members of the HDS community for hosted by the Office for Student Life. find it is a time to relax, refuel, and make new and socializing. You’ll conversation friends. House Open Religions World for the Study of Center TheWorld Religions will host an faculty and staff of the Center for the Study of informal gathering to discuss its activities, including its residential community. Wong, SRC Administrative Coordinator; Lubabah Helwani, Executive Lubabah Helwani, Executive Coordinator; Administrative SRC Wong, Alex Nichipor, Amulya Mandava, MTS ’15; Director; Assistant to SRC MTS ’15 West, MDiv ’15; Lewis A.Taylor, MTS ’15; Lauren Campus of HDS Tour Church of Memorial Tour Tea Community SRC and discuss how students can design their study of science and religion at HDS. and discuss how students can design their study SRC Opportunity for Q&A will the discussion to follow about allow for questions research and internship opportunities, especially for those planning to go on to medical or nursing school, example as well as to other interdisciplinary pursuits. Some opportunities include work experience and in academic administration and science ofreligion communications in addition to the chance to help plan and facilitate “Ways graduate one of the largest conferences in religion in the country. Knowing,” Assistant Professor of Science and Watson T. Ahmed Ragab, Richard Religion Amanda Heffner- Alex Chen, MDes ’15; MTS ’16; Attaway, Anna Panelists: ThM Students Curriculum Session ThM Students Annie Russell, about This session with is a group information the Registrar, being a ThM student at HDS. P Program and Culture Science, Religion, of theThe leading programs of its kind in the US. Members is one of the SRC and student team present research and will events conducted staff, by the faculty, 42 Francis Ave., across the street from Ave., Andover Hall 42 Francis Tour will leave Andover Lobby at 3 Tour will leave Andover Lobby at 3:15 Tour Braun Room Andover Hall, Office of the Registrar, Divinity Hall, 2nd floor Office of the Registrar, SperryAndover Hall, Room 4–5:30 pm 4–5:30 pm 3–3:30 pm PM 3:15–4:30

3–4:30 pm 3–4:30 3–3:50 PM OPEN CLASSES Pre-registration is required for all courses Please see staff at the information table if you still need to register or you would like to update your selections. Open Classes Please note that some classes may be at capacity.

Charles Hallisey This course is an introduction to the study of narrative and story literature in the Introduction to Buddhist Narrative Buddhist world. A primary focus will be on the narrative and story literature found and Story Literature in Buddhist scriptures and commentaries, but there will also be consideration of examples of narrative and story literature that circulated independently. Examples will 8:30–10 am be drawn from across the Buddhist world. Andover Hall 102 Limit 20 visitors

Adam Afterman This course is an introduction to the classic texts of Jewish Mysticism in its rabbinic, Introduction to Jewish Mysticism medieval and early modern iterations. The course will introduce the basic themes and ideas embodied in the Jewish sources. Special emphasis will be given to questions 10–11 am regarding experience, technique, and mystical transformation. The course will also Andover Hall 118 focus on the impact of Islam and Christianity on the articulations of the major trends Limit 4 visitors of Jewish mysticism.

Irit Aharony The course introduces students to the phonology and script as well as the Elementary Modern Hebrew fundamentals of morphology and syntax of Modern Hebrew. Emphasis is placed on 10–11 am developing reading, speaking, comprehension and writing skills, while introducing students to various aspects of contemporary Israeli society and culture. FAS, Sever Hall 304 No visitor limit

Catherine Brekus This course is an introduction to the history of women, gender, and religion in Women, Gender and Religion in America. It will discuss several related questions. How have religious communities Colonial North America and the shaped understandings of gender and sexuality? How have individuals used religious United States beliefs, texts, and practices to defend or criticize gender norms? Why has religion in America often been perceived as “feminine”? It will also discuss conceptions of 10–11:30 am femininity and masculinity in early America, the ideology of “Republican motherhood” Andover Hall 117 during the American Revolution, controversies over female preaching in the nineteenth Limit 3 visitors century, fundamentalist attitudes toward gender, and twentieth-century debates over contraception, women’s ordination, and homosexuality.

James Robson This course provides an introduction to the study of East Asian religions, covering Introduction to the Study of East the development and history of Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism, Shinto, and Asian Religions popular religion in a cross-cultural setting (India, China, Korea, Japan). It engages major conceptual themes, including ritual, image veneration, mysticism, meditation, 10–11:30 am ancestor worship, and issues of religious category formation in the study of religion. FAS, Boylston Hall 110—Fong The emphasis is on the hermeneutic difficulties of studying religion in general, and Auditorium East Asian religions in particular. No visitor limit

Kevin Madigan This course is designed to provide a historical overview of the Church and society in History of Western Christianity, Western Europe from the fourth through the twelfth century. Thus, this course will 1100–1500 investigate late-antique and early medieval Christianity in its social and its cultural context. Narrative and theological story lines to be pursued will include the varieties of 10–11:30 am early Christianity. Rockefeller Hall 117 Limit 4 visitors

4 Open Classes 5 how boundaries have been negotiated within and between traditions. Significant revelation, and reason; law, themes include scripture and authority; the role of history, The course will also consider the ethics, and community; and the rise of modernity. faiths. in referring to these traditions as “Abrahamic” interpretive issues at stake and contemporaneous texts within their Testament This course examines New first- and second-century contexts, pays special attention to archaeological materials to be a canon, these particular texts came of the time, considers how and why and demonstrates contemporary hermeneutical strategies, including feminist and postcolonial. Students will also consider the vibrant and controversial contemporary Testament. contexts in which they and others interpret the New This course will look carefully at John Calvin, Friedrich Schleiermacher and Karl Barth, Friedrich This course will look carefully at John Calvin, to God, scripture, cognition, thinking comparatively about respective approaches sacraments, and the relation sense, and affection, the question of natural theology, offering close This course serves as an introduction to theology, of church and state. in their theological and historical figures engagement with the work of three major Protestantism At the same time, it will consider the orientation of Reformed contexts. as historical and living tradition. and This course provides an introduction to the study of Judaism, Christianity, The course considers religious traditions. Islam, often referred as the “Abrahamic” also attending to moments in the history of these interrelated traditions, while key Great. Topics include: the key figures of the Sumero-Babylonian pantheon, the major of the Sumero-Babylonian pantheon, the major figures include: the key Topics Great. (read in translation), personal religion, cosmogonies and compositions mythological The temples, and cult and ritual. theogonies, magic and divination, Mesopotamian use of ancient iconography. rich course makes thought interpretation of works This course provides a close critical reading and Temple through the Second Wisdom tradition of ancient Israel, to derive from the such of God as they appear in works period: the workings of the world and the ways Wisdom of Solomon, Fourth the as Proverbs, Job, Qohelet, Ben Sira, some Psalms, narratives such as the Joseph story, Maccabees, and Pseudo-Phocylides, as well as and Daniel. Egyptian and Mesopotamian antecedents and parallels are briefly Esther, and literary form. considered. Emphasis on matters of worldview This course will examine the history, beliefs, practices and aesthetics of evangelical beliefs, practices and aesthetics the history, This course will examine between States, paying particular attention to the relationship Christians in the United covered Topics War. Civil American national politics since the evangelical theology and and neo- of the Social Gospel; the Niebuhr Brothers will include: the development and the and Civil Rights; the “Southern Strategy” suffrage theology; women’s orthodox well as Christian Reconstructionism. Right; as rise of the so-called Religious concerns of ancient survey of the history and major This course provides a Alexander the from prehistoric times down to the reign of Mesopotamian religion FAS, Northwest Lab Building B-108 FAS, No visitor limit FAS, Barker Center 403 Center Barker FAS, Limit 5 visitors Laura S. Nasrallah Testament Introduction to the New pm 11:30 am–1 Charles E. Lockwood The Children An of Abraham: Introduction to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam pm 11:30 am–1 Calvin, Scheiermacher, Barth Scheiermacher, Calvin, pm 11:30 am–1 Andover Hall 118 Limit 8 visitors –1 pm 11:30 am–1 Divinity Hall 211 Limit 3 visitors Michelle C. Sanchez FAS, Semitic Museum 201 Semitic Museum FAS, No visitor limit Jon Levenson Wisdom Literature Ancient Jewish Limit 5 visitors Piotr Steinkeller Introduction to Mesopotamian Religion 11 am–noon Walton and Piety: Evangelicals and Power the Contemporary in U.S. Politics am 10–11:30 CGIS South S001 FAS, Marla Frederick and Jonathan Marla Frederick Open Classes

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza This course will engage a critical feminist reading of New Testament texts in order to Gospel Stories of Women assess whether they are “good news” for wo/men. Special attention will be given to a feminist hermeneutics of imagination. Discussion will focus on the significance of noon–2 pm social location, critical methods, and historical imagination for the interpretation and Andover Hall 103 significance of these stories about Jewish wo/men, for contemporary religious self- Limit 6 visitors understanding and ministerial praxis.

Francis Schüssler Fiorenza This seminar will explore major figures and issues within political theology. The focus Political Theology will be on the relation between religion and society, especially public and political life. The seminar will consider the relation between the development of diverse modern noon–2 pm political theologies and their contrasting interpretations of modernity. It will also Divinity Hall 320 focus on relation between political theology and the notions political justice, law, and Limit 4 visitors human rights. Special emphasis to the work of Schmitt, Agamben, Metz, Moltmann, Charles and Mark Taylor, Wolterstorff, Nancy Fraser, Iris Young, Amartya Senn, Martha Nussbaum, and Jürgen Habermas.

Cheryl A. Giles This seminar will examine the necessary developmental tasks of adolescents, while Risk and Resilience in Adolescent exploring the obstacles to healthy emotional, psychological, cognitive, and spiritual Development: Seminar growth. Emphasis will be placed on understanding at-risk populations in which violence, trauma, and/or poverty are prevalent in the lives of adolescents. Particular noon–2 pm attention will be given to queer youth and the current research on the dynamics of Divinity Hall 106 assessment, intervention, and advocacy in facilitating resilience in adolescents. Limit 3 visitors

Ousmane Kane The course is organized in two parts. The first part of the course will focus on the Islam in African History history of Islamization of Africa, and topics will include the ways in which Islam came to Africa, the relationship of Islam to trade, the growth of Arabic and Ajami literature, 1–2 pm the rise of clerical classes and their contribution to State formation in the pre-colonial Andover Hall 118 period. The second part of the course will address Muslim responses to European Limit 4 visitors colonial domination, and the varieties of Islamic expressions in the post independence period (rise of Islamist, Shiite and Salafi jihadi movements) and Muslim globalization.

Frances X. Clooney, SJ This course will examine the Bhagavad Gita, a Hindu classic of devotion and theology The Bhagavad Gita and Its that has received extensive classical and contemporary commentary. The seminar Commentators explores selectively the interpretations of classical commentators (such as Sankara, Ramanuja, and Madhusudana Sarasvati), and 20th century interpreters (B. G. Tilak, 2–4:30 pm Mohandas Gandhi, Bede Griffiths). This course is meant for students interested in Rockefeller Hall 117 closely reading Indian/Hindu texts, with attention to textual analogues from other No visitor limit religions.

Charles Stang and Amy Hollywood This course will examine the history of mystical theology in early and medieval Mystical Theology traditions of Christianity. Through a close reading of primary texts in translation students will engage questions of divine mystery, transcendence, and hiddenness; the 2–4 pm practice of affirmationkataphasis ( ) and negation (apophasis); mystical union; and the Andover Hall 102 limits of language. No visitor limit

6 Open Classes ). The second half ). ‘ al-lugha ḍ wa from a range of Buddhist traditions in the context of 7 sangha the needs of its members. It will also explore liturgical practices and seek to build a resource for ritual and core texts that support and represent a diverse range of community praxis. It will additionally discuss shaping sustainable polity among developing Buddhist communities in terms of “skillful means” as attending to the specific needs and structure of a given organizational vision. This seminar will read (in Arabic or in the translations by Professor Johansen) This seminar will read (in social and cultural define language, law, philosophical, legal, and philological texts that and examine the philological debate practices as continuing processes of innovation, ( on the divine or human “Instituting of language” scholars of the eleventh and twelfthof the seminar will focus on the fields to which the way in which the scholarly and centuries apply their concept of innovation and political milieu reacted to this conceptualization. This course explores and functions to meet the way a lived spiritual community is organized “polity,” avenues of Buddhist ethics, theological discourse, and community activism. It will also avenues of Buddhist ethics, theological discourse, authors and teachers that call for look at modern discourses from Buddhist-inspired activism, and those that consider a shift from an anthro-centric religion to nature- This course will address topics such as the relationship between centric religion. in the 21st Century. environment consumer culture, religion and the state of the about the use of force. Primary attention The course will examine normative discourse Defense” ethic. Reading War/Just “Just will be paid analytically and historically to the to it from the tradition of and lectures will assess the ethic in light of challenges The ethic will be tested in light from the nature of modern warfare. and nonviolence destruction, humanitarian military of distinct challenges posed by weapons of mass intervention, and response to terrorism. This course will look at the influences on Bonhoeffer as a theologian, pastor and a the influences on Bonhoeffer as a theologian, This course will look at the complex One set of questions that will interest us is person of religious faith. experiences early philosophical theology; his Bonhoeffer’s interrelationships among and the related to white racism, black Christianity especially in 1930–31, America in pastoral and political work and life back and his later theological, Harlem Renaissance; in Germany. community the growing movement within the Buddhist This course will examine and climate change through the degradation environmental to address the issue of ) in tajdid centuries) th -12 th No visitor limit Chris Berlin Sangha, SocietyBuddhist Polity: and Practice 4–6 pm Divinity Hall 211 Classical Islam (9 4–6 pm Hall 116 Rockefeller Limit 3 visitors 2:40–4 pm 2:40–4 HKS, Littauer Building L230 Limit 5 visitors Baber Johansen of Innovation ( Concepts Divinity Hall 211 No visitor limit J. Bryan Hehir and Ethics of the Use The Politics of Force Limit 5 visitors Willa B. Miller Ecology, Green Buddhism: Faith, and Activism pm 2–4 Dudley C. Rose Dietrich A Profile in Ministry: Bonhoeffer pm 2–4 Andover Hall 118 OPEN OFFICE HOURS

Drop-in unless otherwise noted

Mark D. Jordan, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Christian Thought 9–11 am Divinity Hall 302 Op en O ff i ce Hours

Dudley C. Rose, Associate Dean for Ministry Studies, Lecturer on Ministry 11 am–noon Andover Hall 109

Barbara Boles, PhD Administrator 9:30am–3 pm Barker Center 302

Financial Aid 10 am–1 pm Pre-registration required! 2–5 pm Drop-in Divinity Hall, 2nd floor

Ahmed Ragab, Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion, and Director of the Science, Religion, and Culture Program. 1–2 pm Center for the Study of World Religions 213

Charles Hallisey, Yehan Numata Senior Lecturer on Buddhist Literatures 1–4 pm Andover Hall 308

Catherine Brekus, Charles Warren Professor of the History of Religion in America 2–3 pm Andover Hall 501

Kerry Maloney, Director of Religious and Spiritual Life 2–3 pm Andover Hall 105

Admissions 2–3:30 pm Divinity Hall, 2nd floor

Francis SchÜssler Fiorenza, Charles Chauncey Stillman Professor of Roman Catholic Theological Studies 2–4 pm Divinity Hall 301

Chris Berlin, Counselor to Buddhist Students, Instructor in Ministry 2–4 pm Andover Hall 407

Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity 2–4 pm Divinity Hall 415

8 Op en O ff i ce Hours

Michelle C. Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Theology 2–5 pm Andover Hall 120

Cheryl A. Giles, Francis Greenwood Peabody Senior Lecturer on Pastoral Care and Counseling 2–5 pm Divinity Hall 308

Jon D. Levenson, Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies 2:15-3:15pm Divinity Hall 321

Anne E. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions 3–5 pm Center for the Study of World Religions 214

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Krister Stendahl Professor of Divinity 4–4:30 pm Andover Hall 405

Karen L. King, Hollis Professor of Divinity 4–5 pm Andover Hall 503

Willa B. Miller, Lecturer on Buddhist Ministry 4–5 pm Divinity Hall 407

Office of Registrar 4–5 pm Divinity Hall, 2nd floor

Dudley C. Rose, Associate Dean for Ministry Studies, Lecturer on Ministry 4:15–5 pm Andover Hall 109

9 COMMUNITY LUNCH

WITH FACULTY, DENOMINATIONAL COUNSELORS, STUDENTS, AND STAFF

Braun Room Rock Café C o mm un i ty L unc h 12:15–1 pm 12:15–1 pm

Adam Afterman, Visiting Senior Lecturer on Jewish Ann D. Braude, Senior Lecturer on American Religious Mysticism, Kabbalah, and Medieval Jewish Theology History, and Director of the Women’s Studies in Religion Jeremy Battle, Lecturer on Anglican Polity, Counselor to Program Baptist Students Catherine Brekus, Charles Warren Professor of the History Rabbi Sally Finestone, Denominational Counselor to Jewish of Religion in America Students Scott Campbell, Counselor to Methodist Students, Chris Berlin, Counselor to Buddhist Students Instructor in Church Polity, Instructor in Ministry Reebee Girash, Counselor to United Church of Christ Katie Lee Crane, Counselor to Unitarian Universalist Students Student David Hempton, Dean of Faculty of Divinity, Alonzo L. Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity Studies, and John Lord O’Brian Professor Divinity Willa B. Miller, Visiting Lecturer on Buddhist Ministry Ousmane Kane, Counselor to Muslim Students, Prince Ann E. Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Annie Russell, Registrar Religion and Society Laura Tuach, Assistant Director of Field Education Susan Lawler, Director of Career Services Timothy Whelsky, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs Ahmed Ragab, Richard T. Watson Assistant Professor of Science and Religion, Director of the Science, Religion, and MDiv and MTS current student table Culture Program Dudley C. Rose, Associate Dean for Ministry Studies and Lecturer on Ministry Patricia Simpson, Counselor to Roman Catholic Students, Instructor in Ministry

Braun Room Rock Café 1–2 pm 1–2 pm Catherine Brekus, Charles Warren Professor of the History Reebee Girash, Counselor to United Church of Christ of Religion in America Students Scott Campbell, Counselor to Methodist Students, Maritza Hernandez, Associate Dean for Enrollment and Instructor in Church Polity, Instructor in Ministry Student Services Janet Gyatso, Hershey Professor of Buddhist Studies and Susan Lawler, Director of Career Services Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs Michelle C. Sanchez, Assistant Professor of Theology Kerry Maloney, Director of Religious and Spiritual Life Patricia Simpson, Counselor to Roman Catholic Students, Dan McKanan, Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Instructor in Ministry Universalist Association Senior Lecturer in Divinity MDiv and MTS current student table Cameron Partridge, Counselor to Episcopal/Anglican Students, Lecturer on Anglican Polity Ministry

10 pa nel i sts

FACULTY AND STAFF PANELISTS

Emily Click is both the Assistant Dean for Ministry Studies and Field Education and Lecturer on Ministry. Her scholarship focuses on new ways of conceptualizing connections among adult education theory, human development theory, and education for religious leadership. She has served as chair of the steering committee of the Association for Theological Field Education (ATFE), the North American professional association for theological field educators. She is ordained in the United Church of Christ.

Beth Flaherty has served as the Director of Financial Aid at Harvard Divinity School since 2006. Ms. Flaherty has previously held various titles in the Financial Aid office at Lesley University. She holds a BA from Plymouth State University.

Julie Barker Gillette (MTS ’98) coordinates the activities of the Buddhist Ministry Initiative, which seeks to enrich training for HDS students preparing for ministry from a Buddhist perspective, support field education and study projects of Buddhist students, and offer insights from Buddhist textual and practice traditions to all ministry students and the larger community. After completing an MTS in Buddhist studies, she spent fifteen years focused on Buddhist practice and engaged in good works in the nonprofit world. In 2012 Julie returned to HDS to help create the Buddhist Ministry Initiative.

Prudence Goss is the Director of Admissions at Harvard Divinity School. After years of work in Financial Aid, Student Life, and Admissions at Emory University, Ms. Goss brought her talents to HDS in the spring of 2014. Ms. Goss holds a BA from Spelman College and an MA in Higher Education from the Teachers College of Columbia University.

David Hempton is the Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies, and John Lord O’Brian Professor of Divinity. Before joining the Faculty of Divinity in spring 2007, he was University Professor and Professor of the History of Christianity at Boston University, and prior to that appointment, he was Professor of Modern History and director of the School of History in Queen’s University Belfast. He is a social historian of religion with particular expertise in populist traditions of evangelicalism in Europe, North America, and beyond. He was HDS’s outstanding teacher of the year in 2008.

Maritza Hernández is the Associate Dean for Enrollment and Student Services at Harvard Divinity School. She has over 20 years of professional experience in higher education that includes undergraduate and graduate admissions, financial aid, and student affairs, and 18 of them at Harvard University. At HDS she oversees the following departments; admissions, financial aid, career services, registrar, student life/affairs and religious and spiritual life. She holds a Bachelor of Science from Boston University and an EdM from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Susan Lawler has been the Director of Career Services at Harvard Divinity School since 2008. Coming to HDS by way of the MA Department of Workforce Development, IBM, and Northeastern University, Ms. Lawler advises HDS students on summer and school-year internship opportunities and future career possibilities.

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* ThM, Special Students, Buddhist Ministry Initiative program description handouts available at curriculum session

MASTER OF THEOLOGICAL STUDIES

The MTS program teaches students to be responsible members of the community of scholars of religion, as preparation for diverse vocational paths. program descriptions

MTS Program Goals 1. MTS graduates will articulate a deep understanding of at least one major religious tradition or of religious practice, thought, and structure within one geographical area, or of one major methodological approach to the study of religion. 2. MTS graduates will demonstrate a broad familiarity with the languages, literatures, thought, institutions, practices, normative claims, and structures of more than one religious tradition, and with more than one methodological approach to the study of religion. 3. MTS graduates will assess some of the major theories and methods in the scholarly study of religion, and will be able to analyze the connections between the study of religion and other academic and professional disciplines. 4. MTS graduates will be able to analyze the ways that knowledge of religion is shaped by the cultural, political, and social location of the knower, and to explain how cultural, political, and social processes and strategies of inclusion and exclusion have shaped religious formations, knowledges, traditions, practices, and institutions. 5. MTS graduates will be able to use their understanding of religion to engage creatively and critically in the contemporary practice of such fields as education, the arts, law, medicine, journalism, social service, or social change. 6. MTS graduates who aspire to academic careers will be well-prepared to pursue the interdisciplinary studies and independent research typical of doctoral study, and will be cognizant of diverse fields of doctoral study.

MTS Degree Requirements

Conferral of the MTS degree is dependent upon the successful completion of the following requirements: (1) Course Requirements; (2) Course Distribution Requirements; (3) Language Requirement; and (4) Financial Requirements.

Course Requirements

MTS students must satisfactorily complete the equivalent of two years of full-time study (16 courses) within two and one-half years from the initial date of registration for the degree (including leaves of absence) according to the following stipulations:

• Two consecutive semesters of a student’s first three semesters must be spent in full course load residency (meaning they complete four courses each term). • No more than three courses counted toward the program may be taken on a sat/unsat basis. • Students must maintain a “B” average each term per the grading scale in the HDS Handbook for Students. No course with a grade below C- may be counted toward the degree. • A minimum of eight courses completed must be selected from those offered by the Divinity School.

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• One-half of the total number of courses attempted each semester must be chosen from those offered by the Divinity School. FAS courses primarily aimed at undergraduates that are not cross- listed in the HDS catalog (i.e., those numbered 99 and below) may not be counted toward Area of Focus requirements.

The normal course load is four courses a semester; the maximum allowed is five. Students who have met their residency requirement and are on track to graduate may enroll in as few as three courses. Students who have been approved for part-time status may take no more than two courses per term.

MTS students may elect to take denominational polity courses, if space is available, but these courses will not ordinarily count towards the course requirements for the degree.

Course Distribution Requirements

Required Course: HDS 4515 Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion (fall semester, first year)

Area of Focus Requirement

• An MTS student must successfully complete no fewer than six half courses within their chosen area of focus with the following stipulations: • Three of the six courses must be taken at the Divinity School. • All six courses must be taken for a letter grade. • No course with a grade below a B- may count toward this requirement.

Outside Area of Focus requirement

Students must successfully complete three half courses in an area outside their area of focus with the following stipulations:

• Two must be taken at the Divinity School. • Two of the three courses must be listed in an area of focus (therefore not a Reading and Research course). The third course may be outside HDS or an HDS course not in a designated area. This course is subject to the approval of the advisor and Chair of the Curriculum Committee. • None of the three courses may also be listed in the student’s area of focus.

Additional Distribution Requirement: Submission of Four Assessment Statements Related to MTS Program Goals (“Meta-Statements”)

• Each semester, MTS students will submit a 2-3 page statement articulating the ways in which the knowledge, skills, and abilities learned in one course contributed to meeting one of the first four MTS program goals. • The MTS program goals can also be found in the Student Handbook, and online at hds.harvard. edu/academics/degree-programs/mts-program/mts-degree-goals. • Each student must submit four such ‘meta-statements’ over two years in order to be eligible for graduation. • These statements are separate from assignments done to satisfy course requirements, and are not intended to be an evaluation of the course instructor.

• The statements are not graded, and do not earn academic credit.

17 Additional information regarding Areas of Focus

MTS students in their first semester, and in consultation with their advisors, declare an area of focus. Occasionally, if a student’s interests are not accommodated by the established areas, he or she with his or her academic advisor may request to pursue an individually designed area of focus. Such a request is made to the MTS Curriculum Committee and must show why an established area of focus program descriptions is inadequate and how the proposed area is sufficiently supported by the resources of the University. This petition begins in the Registrar’s Office.

At the beginning of each semester an MTS student in consultation with her or his advisor creates a plan of study indicating the sixteen courses that will make up his or her program. On this study plan the student indicates which courses will satisfy particular distribution categories. The courses that automatically satisfy an area of focus are indicated as such in the course listings. A student may request that a course satisfy an area of focus requirement that is not designated by discussing it with their advisor and indicating her or his preference on her or his study plan. Such requests are reviewed by the MTS Curriculum Committee who may ask for additional information such as a written rationale or a course syllabus before making a ruling.

Language Requirement

Students must demonstrate intermediate-level reading competency in the language deemed appropriate by a student’s advisor for their course of study. HDS offers instruction and/or examination in six theological languages: New Testament Greek, Biblical Hebrew, Latin, French, German, and Spanish MTS students, however, are not limited to these. If another language of theological scholarship is more appropriate to their studies, they are encouraged to seek instruction in this language through Harvard’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences courses. The language requirement may be met through coursework or, in some instances, through HDS administered exams. Students should refer to the HDS Handbook for Students for more details on these options to meet this requirement.

Financial Requirements

MTS students must pay two years of full-time tuition. Students who must enroll for a fifth term in order to complete requirements must pay for that term on a per course basis at the current per course rate. Students who have been approved to be part-time will pay on a per course basis and must pay for a minimum of sixteen courses.

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MASTER OF DIVINITY

(All courses are four credits unless otherwise specified.)

Course Requirements • 24 Courses, normally 4 courses per term for 6 terms (3 years)

Required Courses • HDS 4510 Introduction to Ministry Studies | Taken in the first term • HDS 4515 Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion| Taken in the first term • HDS 4591 Master of Divinity Senior Seminar| Taken fall term of final year

Distribution Requirements

12 courses to meet distribution requirement. Of these 12 courses:

• a minimum of three must be in theories and practices of scriptural interpretation, • a minimum of six must be in histories, theologies and practices. • No more than a total of nine may be a) courses in the same religious tradition or b) courses listed in no religious tradition(s).

Language Requirement

3 Courses in the same language, taken at Harvard

Field Education and Meaning Making • 2 units field education (at least one during the academic year; the other may be summer) • First field education placement and meaning making registered as courses: • HDS 2933 Meaning Making | Field Education and Meaning Making taken simultaneously • HDS 4516 Field Education | academic year, together comprise one course per term • Second (and subsequent) field education placements not registered as courses.

Arts of Ministry • Proficiency in 3 out of 6 Art of Ministry • Preaching and Worship; • Pastoral Care and Counseling; • Religious Education and Spiritual Development; • Administration and Program Development; • Public Leadership, Community Organizing and Planning; • Denominational Polity.

Each art of ministry is earned by completing a) a course and b) a field education placement that address the art.

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