Division of Integration Studies (IDS)

2 credits

Corequisite: IDS 504

This course introduces students to the realm of interdisciplinary inquiry with psychology as the primary lens. Students will explore and articulate conceptions of personhood and the self, drawing from psychological theories, personal histories, and social location. Through reflective exercises, students will examine the nature of the self in their own lived experiences. Additionally, the course emphasizes the development of skills necessary for constructing well-organized, coherent, and scholarly written works, while adhering to APA style guidelines.

2 credits

Prerequisites: IDS 501, IDS 504

Corequisite: IDS 505

This course introduces students to the realm of interdisciplinary inquiry with Christian theology as the primary lens. It will attend to the ways cultural contexts influence interpretive traditions and theological formations. Real-world implications of the doctrine of God, the incarnation of God in Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit will be engaged from an interdisciplinary framework of theology, psychology, and biblical studies. Additionally, the course emphasizes the development of skills necessary for constructing well-organized, coherent, and scholarly written works, while adhering to Chicago Turabian style guidelines.

1 credit

Prerequisites: IDS 501, IDS 502

This third Intersections course guides students in the synthesis of the first two Intersections courses. With faculty advising, students will develop a working draft of a theological and psychological anthropology (spanning issues such as economics, politics, culture, etc.) that will serve as an important contribution to the portfolio particular to the student’s program of study and as a basis for their vocation.

1 credit

Corequisite: IDS 501

Critical Reading Lab is a companion class to the first term Common Curriculum classes. In this course, students explore what it means to know and to learn within the graduate curriculum, particularly as it relates to interdisciplinary and integrative work. Students will explore various ways of knowing as part of a journey of discovery in a smaller group format with other students.

1 credit

Corequisite: IDS 502

This course grounds interdisciplinary inquiry within the reality of students’ everyday lives. It equips students to listen as storied, located, and bodied creatures, providing skills for ways of loving God and neighbor within their place’s ecosystem unto the common good.

2 Credits (given over 2 terms, every Fall and Winter)

This lab provides opportunities for students to engage with interdisciplinary theory and praxis related to deep listening. By tending to the data of experience at three levels (intrapsychic, interpersonal, and group as a whole), students will cultivate a relational stance marked by observation, openness, and curiosity. The frame of Listening Lab is designed to foster a getting-to-know posture rather than a knowing posture, working within the frame of the lab to explore and express one’s own realities, internal and external, past and present, personal and collective.

0 Credits

This course is intended to provide incoming students with context for learning methods employed at The Seattle School, academic resources, and other information to help them be successful in the classroom.