Becoming Intercultural Communities

This course will develop knowledge and practice in select skills for intercultural life and work/ministry/leadership in heterogeneous publics.  We will draw on three resources: selected Canadian 'multicultural' narratives and policies; theological and ethical attention to social difference, complex identity formation and scriptural interpretation; and the case of the United Church of Canada project, “becoming an intercultural church.”  Seminar format with instructional input, small groups, modest cross-cultural immersion project. Evaluation: a book review (30%); a class presentation (30%), and a final integrative project (40%). Prerequisites: Basic Bible, Theology, Pastoral.