Explores the responsibility of the church to engage in restorative justice by being a voice for the oppressed and an advocate for the poor. Students will learn contemporary models of restorative justice. Participation in analytical class discussions, research papers, and class presentations will equip the student in the theology and practice of restorative justice.

An exciting behind-the-scenes look at the workings of the police, courts, and correctional systems while equipping them with a solid understanding of criminal justice concepts. The class has an emphasis on today's criminal justice careers, offering insights from numerous professionals on the rewards and realities of their jobs. Student will use critical thinking skills to formulate, devise and evaluate these inner workings of the police, courts and correctional systems.

The course will examine in depth the nature of correctional work. The major topics include theories of criminal behavior, justifications for punishment, correctional philosophy, the correctional processes, correctional treatment methodology, recidivism, early American prisons, today's prisons, prisons of the future, faith-based initiatives and the role of probation/parole in the criminal justice system.

This course addresses recidivism of offenders, and the care of their families, which includes strategies for a political advocacy and Christian based ministries around issues in today's criminal justice reform. Learners will learn how empathy, compassion, understanding, presence and awareness play a central role in the field of pastoral care. At this level a verbatim will also begin to address the learner's evaluation and participant's feedback.

This course addresses the similarities of one's faith with that of others. It also stresses the importance of listening to other individual's stories as well as sharing your own story that is similar to theirs. The learners will share each others stories of faith and write a short verbatim using some of the tools they shall develop in the form of an acronym.

Learner will be addressing the ministerial factors that chaplains must address on a daily bases. How chaplains are to facilitate the different kinds of ministries even if they are not a part of their own religious belief system shall be discussed. Ways to invite, not force, our Christian beliefs to those that are seeking. Ways to maintain respect for other religious belief systems will also be discussed. Learners will develop a Christian liturgy using at least one of the sacraments.

This course challenges the learners to critically think on issues in spirituality concerning offenders. Learners shall learn to articulate on what they and offenders have experienced concerning loses and the grief that follows. This course shall challenge the learners on how to address some of the basic issues related to helping the Christian offenders to advance to spiritual maturity and to become an ambassador for Christ in a correctional setting.