Online Continuing Education Consortium

The General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of The United Methodist Church is pleased to introduce an Online Continuing Education Consortium in collaboration with the 13 United Methodist theological schools and the University Senate approved seminaries.

Goals:

Enhance global access to theological education
Confident and knowledgeable Christian leadership development on an ongoing basis
More widely available, affordable theological educational resources
Increase revenue for participating theological schools

GBHEM’s responsibilities:

Serve as the gateway, providing a single entry point through an online catalogue
Promotion/Marketing of the Consortium through UMC.org and other venues

Download a sample listing of courses (PDF)

Individual School’s responsibilities:

Provide instructor, handle registrations and payment
Manage technological aspects of providing online courses
Tuition or fees set by and paid directly to the theological school that is hosting the online class

Courses are listed by their start date. Click on a course title for more detailed information. To register or find out more, please follow the instructions in the listing.

Apotaxis and Ethics: The Baptismal Renunciations and Christian Discipleship

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dates: Self-directed class. Written work must be submitted within 30 days of enrollment.

Tuition: $50
CEUs: 0.5

For more information contact Ms. Shay Craig.

Instructor: Ron Anderson, Ernest and Bernice Styberg Professor of Worship and Director, Nellie B. Ebersole Program in Music Ministry

Class description: This class explores the implications of the recovery of the apotaxis and syntaxis in the baptismal liturgies of many mainline protestant churches in the USA. Explore how the baptismal renunciation and affirmation provide a framework for the development of a Christian ethic.

This is a self-directed class in which the student follows a three-step process and is awarded .5 CEU upon satisfactory completion:

Watch the videotaped presentation online Complete an assigned reading Write a reflective paper, which will be reviewed by a tenured professor.

Apotaxis and Ethics: The Baptismal Renunciations and Christian Discipleship

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dates: Self-directed class. Written work must be submitted within 30 days of enrollment.

Tuition: $50
CEUs: 0.5

For more information contact Ms. Shay Craig.

Instructor: Ron Anderson, Ernest and Bernice Styberg Professor of Worship and Director, Nellie B. Ebersole Program in Music Ministry

This is a self-directed class in which the student follows a three-step process and is awarded .5 CEU upon satisfactory completion:

Watch the videotaped presentation online Complete an assigned reading Write a reflective paper, which will be reviewed by a tenured professor.

Brain Matters: Toward a Practical Theology of Human Connectedness

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dates: Self-directed class. Written work must be submitted within 30 days of enrollment.

Tuition: $50
CEUs: 0.5

For more information contact Ms. Shay Craig.

Instructor: Dr. David Hogue, Professor of Pastoral Theology and Counseling

Class description: This lecture sketches recent developments in the neurosciences and explores their implications for a practical theology of human relationality. Of particular interest will be human capacities for empathy and love, provocative hints about what goes wrong in relationships, and hopeful signs for their restoration.

This is a self-directed class in which the student follows a three-step process and is awarded .5 CEU upon satisfactory completion:

Watch the videotaped presentation online Complete an assigned reading Write a reflective paper, which will be reviewed by a tenured professor.

Brain Matters: Toward a Practical Theology of Human Connectedness

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dates: Self-directed class. Written work must be submitted within 30 days of enrollment.

Tuition: $50
CEUs: 0.5

For more information contact Ms. Shay Craig.

Instructor: Dr. David Hogue, Professor of Pastoral Theology and Counseling

This is a self-directed class in which the student follows a three-step process and is awarded .5 CEU upon satisfactory completion:

Watch the videotaped presentation online Complete an assigned reading Write a reflective paper, which will be reviewed by a tenured professor.

Dead Reckoning: Eschatology and Ethics

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dates: Self-directed class. Written work must be submitted within 30 days of enrollment.

Tuition: $50
CEUs: 0.5

For more information contact Ms. Shay Craig.

Instructor: Dr. Brent Waters, Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics

Class description: Waters examines the relationship between eschatology and ethics by likening the Christian moral life to the ancient mariners and early pilots who, when unequipped with charts and instrumentation, employed what is known as “dead reckoning."

This is a self-directed class in which the student follows a three-step process and is awarded .5 CEU upon satisfactory completion:

Watch the videotaped presentation online Complete an assigned reading Write a reflective paper, which will be reviewed by a tenured professor.

Dead Reckoning: Eschatology and Ethics

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dates: Self-directed class. Written work must be submitted within 30 days of enrollment.

Tuition: $50
CEUs: 0.5

For more information contact Ms. Shay Craig.

Instructor: Dr. Brent Waters, Jerre and Mary Joy Stead Professor of Christian Social Ethics

This is a self-directed class in which the student follows a three-step process and is awarded .5 CEU upon satisfactory completion:

Watch the videotaped presentation online Complete an assigned reading Write a reflective paper, which will be reviewed by a tenured professor.

Standing at the Edge of the Mississippi: Reflections on a Different Paradigm for Theological Education

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dates: Self-directed class. Written work must be submitted within 30 days of enrollment.

Tuition: $50
CEUs: 0.5

For more information contact Ms. Shay Craig.

Instructor: Dr. Cheryl Anderson, Professor of Old Testament

Class description: Dr. Anderson's class guides students in developing their own socio-historical narratives as a connecting thread that weaves together their seminary coursework.

This is a self-directed class in which the student follows a three-step process and is awarded .5 CEU upon satisfactory completion:

Watch the videotaped presentation online Complete an assigned reading Write a reflective paper, which will be reviewed by a tenured professor.

Standing at the Edge of the Mississippi: Reflections on a Different Paradigm for Theological Education

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dates: Self-directed class. Written work must be submitted within 30 days of enrollment.

Tuition: $50
CEUs: 0.5

For more information contact Ms. Shay Craig.

Instructor: Dr. Cheryl Anderson, Professor of Old Testament

Class description: Dr. Anderson's class guides students in developing their own socio-historical narratives as a connecting thread that weaves together their seminary coursework.

This is a self-directed class in which the student follows a three-step process and is awarded .5 CEU upon satisfactory completion:

Watch the videotaped presentation online Complete an assigned reading Write a reflective paper, which will be reviewed by a tenured professor.

Still Present Pasts of War and Immigration: Imagining the Horizons of Korean American Theology

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dates: Self-directed class. Written work must be submitted within 30 days of enrollment.

Tuition: $50
CEUs: 0.5

For more information contact Ms. Shay Craig.

Instructor: Dr. Anne Joh, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology

Class description: This class explores such questions as: What are the conditions of possibility for Koreans in America? What does it mean to construct Korean American identity? What is the relation between Korean Americans with American history and Korean history? How might Korean Americans be haunted by the still present pasts of U.S. presence in Korea?

This is a self-directed class in which the student follows a three-step process and is awarded .5 CEU upon satisfactory completion:

Watch the videotaped presentation online Complete an assigned reading Write a reflective paper, which will be reviewed by a tenured professor.

Still Present Pasts of War and Immigration: Imagining the Horizons of Korean American Theology

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dates: Self-directed class. Written work must be submitted within 30 days of enrollment.

Tuition: $50
CEUs: 0.5

For more information contact Ms. Shay Craig.

Instructor: Dr. Anne Joh, Associate Professor of Systematic Theology

This is a self-directed class in which the student follows a three-step process and is awarded .5 CEU upon satisfactory completion:

Watch the videotaped presentation online Complete an assigned reading Write a reflective paper, which will be reviewed by a tenured professor.

The Ambiguity of God and Humans

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dates: Self-directed class. Written work must be submitted within 30 days of enrollment.

Tuition: $50
CEUs: 0.5

For more information contact Ms. Shay Craig.

Instructor: Dr. James Poling

Class description: Poling explores the concept of ambiguity as a helpful concept for human religious life. In Jesus’s life, the cross and nonviolence are signs that show us the connections between human ambiguity and God’s ambiguity.

This is a self-directed class in which the student follows a three-step process and is awarded .5 CEU upon satisfactory completion:

Watch the videotaped presentation online Complete an assigned reading Write a reflective paper, which will be reviewed by a tenured professor.

The Ambiguity of God and Humans

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dates: Self-directed class. Written work must be submitted within 30 days of enrollment.

Tuition: $50
CEUs: 0.5

For more information contact Ms. Shay Craig.

Instructor: Dr. James Poling

This is a self-directed class in which the student follows a three-step process and is awarded .5 CEU upon satisfactory completion:

Watch the videotaped presentation online Complete an assigned reading Write a reflective paper, which will be reviewed by a tenured professor.

Theology and the Unimaginable

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dates: Self-directed class. Written work must be submitted within 30 days of enrollment.

Tuition: $50
CEUs: 0.5

For more information contact Ms. Shay Craig.

Instructor: Dr. Stephen Ray, Neal F. and Ila A. Fisher Professor of Systematic Theology

Class description: An exploration of how the Church can, in a theologically responsible way, conceive of forgiveness in the face of genocide; particularly when it unfolds in the midst of Christian communities and is facilitated by the actions of the faithful.

This is a self-directed class in which the student follows a three-step process and is awarded .5 CEU upon satisfactory completion:

Watch the videotaped presentation online Complete an assigned reading Write a reflective paper, which will be reviewed by a tenured professor.

Theology and the Unimaginable

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dates: Self-directed class. Written work must be submitted within 30 days of enrollment.

Tuition: $50
CEUs: 0.5

For more information contact Ms. Shay Craig.

Instructor: Dr. Stephen Ray, Neal F. and Ila A. Fisher Professor of Systematic Theology

This is a self-directed class in which the student follows a three-step process and is awarded .5 CEU upon satisfactory completion:

Watch the videotaped presentation online Complete an assigned reading Write a reflective paper, which will be reviewed by a tenured professor.

Vital Worship for the Twenty-First Century

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dates: Self-directed class. Written work must be submitted within 30 days of enrollment.

Tuition: $50
CEUs: 0.5

For more information contact Ms. Shay Craig.

Instructor: Dr. Ruth Duck, Professor of Worship

Class description: Based on the final chapter of Dr. Duck’s forthcoming textbook, Worship for the Whole People of God, this class focuses on the new and promising developments in North American worship.

This is a self-directed class in which the student follows a three-step process and is awarded .5 CEU upon satisfactory completion:

Watch the videotaped presentation online Complete an assigned reading Write a reflective paper, which will be reviewed by a tenured professor.

Vital Worship for the Twenty-First Century

Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary

Dates: Self-directed class. Written work must be submitted within 30 days of enrollment.

Tuition: $50
CEUs: 0.5

For more information contact Ms. Shay Craig.

Instructor: Dr. Ruth Duck, Professor of Worship

This is a self-directed class in which the student follows a three-step process and is awarded .5 CEU upon satisfactory completion:

Watch the videotaped presentation online Complete an assigned reading Write a reflective paper, which will be reviewed by a tenured professor.

Introduction to New Testament: Epistles

Wesley Theological Seminary

Dates: January 23, 2013 – May 10, 2013 (Regular Spring Term)

Origins, critical methods, outstanding theological ideas of selected portions.

Tuition: $624
CEUs: 3.0

Register here. For more information contact Rev. Dr. Joe Conte.

Introduction to New Testament: Epistles

Wesley Theological Seminary

Dates: January 23, 2013 – May 10, 2013 (Regular Spring Term)

Origins, critical methods, outstanding theological ideas of selected portions.

Tuition: $624
CEUs: 3.0

Register here. For more information contact Rev. Dr. Joe Conte.

Leadership and Administration for Small Churches

Wesley Theological Seminary

Dates: January 23, 2013 – May 10, 2013 (Regular Spring Term)

Various exercises in ecclesiology (e.g. naming the marks of the true church, searching for the “soul” of the congregation, unfolding the ministry of all Christians) for the sake of uncovering a contemporary vision of hope for small churches.

Tuition: $624
CEUs: 3.0

Register here. For more information contact Rev. Dr. Joe Conte.

Class description: The application of this vision to the fiscal, sociological, cultural, and denominational challenges facing small churches. Includes leadership and administration topics such as starting out, discerning direction, time management, and the character of the called.

Leadership and Administration for Small Churches

Wesley Theological Seminary

Dates: January 23, 2013 – May 10, 2013 (Regular Spring Term)

Tuition: $624
CEUs: 3.0

Register here. For more information contact Rev. Dr. Joe Conte.