NEW COLLEGE
APPLIED ETHICS AND THE PROFESSIONS MASTER'S PROGRAM
Pastoral Care Ethics and Spirituality
(M.A. CONCENTRATION WITHIN THE AEP MASTER’S PROGRAM)*
*NOTE: NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR FALL 2009
Description of the M.A. in Applied Ethics and the Professions (AEP)
The M.A. Program in AEP offers a broadly interdisciplinary training for professionals and decision-makers in law, medicine, business, engineering, industry, public administration, environmental ethics, social work, and pastoral care. The two required courses in Foundations of Ethics I & II (AEP 501 & AEP 502) provide the students with the theoretical and historical basis to pursue specialized applied ethics expertise; the concentration gateway course for each concentration introduces the students into basic concepts and practices of their field. There are five concentrations in the AEP for this M.A. degree: 1) Leadership, Management, and Ethics; 2) BioMedical Ethics; 3) Sustainability and Environmental Ethics; 4) Ethics and Emerging Technologies; 5) Pastoral Care Ethics and Spirituality. Arizona State University at the West Campus will be offering a 30 credit hour concentration within this M.A. degree that will focus on Pastoral Care Ethics & Spirituality*. For more information on the Applied Ethics and the Professions degree visit the Lincoln Center website
DESCRIPTION OF PASTORAL CARE ETHICS AND SPIRITUALITY (PCES)
This M.A. concentration within the AEP Master’s Program combines the fields of applied ethics, philosophy, social work, spirituality and religion, and trauma and bereavement studies. PCES is unique among the programs in ethics and spirituality of care in that it prepares its graduates to work in palliative centers and hospices and as trauma and bereavement counselors. The program offers skills needed for professional careers sought in ministry, social and community services, hospital and hospice counseling, veteran affairs, contemplative education, and other services provided by chaplains of diverse faiths as well as by non-religious personnel and bereavement counselors engaged in ethics and spirituality of care.
Recalling the ancient Socratic, biblical and other spiritual traditions of the cura animarum (care for and cure of the soul) and joining contemporary post/secular conversations relevant to the integration of the body-mind-spirit, this program introduces students to the basic concepts and practices of pastoral care ethics and spirituality. The theoretical and practical training pays attention to the irreducibility of existential (ontological), therapeutic (psychosomatic), and spiritual (religious) dimensions of care and cure. The theoretical part of the curriculum is inter-faith and interdisciplinary in approach, holistic in scope, and specialized in content. In the applied, activity-portion of the curriculum students investigate real life issues in care ethics and spirituality and examine them from several theoretical perspectives.
Who Should Pursue the Concentration in Pastoral Care Ethics & Spirituality?
The program is suitable to professionals who are working in the fields of care, bereavement, trauma, chaplaincy, or veteran affairs and who want to deepen their seminary, divinity, health or social work training. It is likewise suitable for recent graduates who wish to pursue the fields of care, bereavement, trauma, chaplaincy, or veteran affairs. The training in pastoral care ethics and spirituality provides a bridge a between standard divinity or theology curriculum and a graduate social work or counseling degree; PCES is thus ideally suited to complement and integrate ethical, religious, social work, and counseling fields in a way that prepares the graduates for a variety of care situations.
Trauma and Bereavement Certification
Students have the option of combining their study in Pastoral Care Ethics & Spirituality (PCES) with a Certificate in Trauma and Bereavement (CTB). For more information please visit: http://ssw.asu.edu/portal/academic/certificates/trauma-and-bereavement
Contact Information
Students interested in the M.A. in Applied Ethics and the Professions should visit http://lincolncenter.asu.edu/students_MADegree or contact Kelly O’Brien (KellyOBrien@asu.edu) at the Joan and David Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics Directly. Students interested in pursuing the M.A. concentration in Pastoral Care Ethics & Spirituality offered at ASU’s West Campus please contact PCES@asu.edu at ASU’s West Campus; for more information use the form below and the Program Coordinator or Program Director will contact you shortly.
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