INFORMATION FOR COURSES OFFERED IN THE 2024-2025 ACADEMIC YEAR

 

Embracing the Womanist Tradition: Spiritual Formation, Companionship and Soul Work - Dr. Paula Parker

Six-Week Elective Course  | Thursdays, September 5-October 10, 2024  |  7-9 p.m. Eastern Time

There are three inherent components to womanist spiritual direction: 1) formation through practices, 2) companionship, and 3) vocation to do the work your soul must have. This course will offer an opportunity to experiment with spiritual disciplines, identify the essential qualities of spiritual companionship and draw inspiration from the spirit directed lives of influential womanist figures such as the Rev. Drs. Katie Geneva Cannon, Barbara Holmes, Monica Coleman, and Velma Love.

 

Models of Womanist Leadership - Dr. Monique Moultrie

Six-Week Core Course  |  Thursdays, October 17-November 21  |  7-9 p.m. Eastern Time  |  Asynchronous only on 11/21

This interdisciplinary course draws on womanist ethics, Black church studies, and other fields to explore womanist leadership focusing on Black women who utilize religion or spirituality as a basis for their social justice commitments. The course will focus on oral histories and autobiographies of various Black spiritual activists and leaders as we study the long Black Freedom struggle as experienced and initiated by Black women. In particular, we will  investigate how leader identities are formed or flattened by engagement with the “Black church” or spirituality ultimately analyzing the ways in which individuals and groups resist various forms of oppression and dominance to bring social transformation in secular spaces. Guided by the themes of womanist ethical leadership and womanist spiritual activism, this course evaluates womanist leadership practices specifically highlighting authenticity and truth-telling, justice-seeking, spirituality, and collaborative leadership. Within this course, you will hone skills and insights needed to be critically reflective of leadership models via readings, course lectures, class discussions, and media analysis.  

 

Womanist Preaching - Pending

Six-Week Elective Course |  Date TBD  |  7-9 p.m. Eastern Time

Course details pending

 

Womanist Biblical Interpretation - Pending

Six-Week Core Course  |  Date TBD  |  7-9 p.m. Eastern Time

Course details pending