Doctoral Level Courses
School:
Boston College Department of Theology
Course Name
Graeca
BTI Category:
Scripture & Biblical Studies
Semester
FA24
Rapid reading in Jewish Greek texts (LXX, Philo, Josephus), with an introduction to research in the authors treated, for students who have completed Intermediate Greek.
Professor Name
Perkins
Online?
N
Credits:
3
Class Time
W
1-3:25p
Professor Approval Required?
Y
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes:
DOCTORAL; NT Greek profeciency
School:
Boston College Department of Theology
Course Name
Mariology
BTI Category:
Systematic Theology & Philosophy (Western)
Semester
FA24
TBD
Professor Name
Adkins
Online?
N
Credits:
3
Class Time
W
10a-12:25p
Professor Approval Required?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes:
DOCTORAL
School:
Boston College Department of Theology
Course Name
New Testament Textual Criticism
BTI Category:
Scripture & Biblical Studies
Semester
FA24
The academic study of the NT requires a text of the NT for that study. This course, therefore, seeks to provide foundational competencies in the knowledge of NT manuscripts, the history of the discipline of textual criticism, and the creation and use of modern critical editions. At the same time, the contemporary field of NT textual criticism is concerned with far more than merely the (re)construction of the NT text. Thus, the course will also consider recent scholarship on early Christian scribal culture, manuscripts as early Christian artifacts, and the theological significance of textual variants.Must be proficient in NT Greek.
Professor Name
Roth
Online?
N
Credits:
3
Class Time
W
10a-12:25p
Professor Approval Required?
Y
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes:
DOCTORAL; Must be proficient in NT Greek.
School:
Boston College Department of Theology
Course Name
Theology, Ethics, and Politics
BTI Category:
Ethics (all traditions)
Semester
FA24
How can Christian ethics respond to the intractability of historical evil and the difficulty of structural change? This course will work on the borderlines of political theology, public theology, liberation theology, Christian social ethics, and Catholic social teaching, reading for example, Bohoeffer, Moltmann, Solle, Day, Niebuhr, Murray, Hauerwas, Sobrino, Katongole, and additional examples of global Christian ethics and politics.
Professor Name
Cahill
Online?
N
Credits:
3
Class Time
T
4:30-6:50p
Professor Approval Required?
Y
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes:
DOCTORAL
School:
Boston College Department of Theology
Course Name
Seminar: Biblical Studies II
BTI Category:
Scripture & Biblical Studies
Semester
FA24
Required of Ph.D candidates in Biblical Studies.
Professor Name
Vanderhooft
Online?
N
Credits:
3
Class Time
F
10a-12:25p
Professor Approval Required?
Y
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes:
DOCTORAL; Required of Ph.D candidates in Biblical Studies.
School:
Boston University School of Theology
Course Name
Seminar in Mission History and World Christianity
BTI Category:
Church History/History of Religions
Semester
FA24
A seminar in the history of Christian missions, from the early church to the present. Issues of historiography, method, and the emergence of non-western church history. Required course for doctoral students in mission studies.
Professor Name
Dana Robert
Online?
N
Credits:
4
Class Time
F
8:00-10:45am
Professor Approval Required?
N
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes:
Doctoral
School:
Boston University School of Theology
Course Name
Couple and Family Dynamics (Doctoral)
BTI Category:
Practical/Pastoral Theology
Semester
FA24
This course includes a comprehensive overview of the field of family systems and family therapy. It will serve as an introduction to the theory and techniques of couples and family therapy. An attempt will be made to integrate theory and practice through assignments, class activities, and personal and professional self-reflection. Students will have the opportunity to reflect upon how they might actually use course content professionaly in their respective disciplines.
Professor Name
Steven Sandage, Sarah Crabtree
Online?
N
Credits:
4
Class Time
W
6:30-9:15pm
Professor Approval Required?
N
Prerequisites?
Y
Notes:
Doctoral
School:
Harvard Divinity School
Course Name
Colloquium in American Religious History
BTI Category:
Church History/History of Religions
Semester
FA24
Presentation and discussion of the research of doctoral candidates in American religious history. Available, with instructors permission, to Harvard doctoral students in other fields of religious studies or American studies. Note: First half of an academic year bi-weekly course. Credit will not be earned unless both the fall and spring semester of the course is completed. Course may be taken on a Sat/unsat basis only. This course is limited to doctoral students with interests in North American religions. Jointly offered in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences as Religion 3505A.
Professor Name
Brekus
Online?
N
Credits:
4
Class Time
T
06:00pm-07:59pm
Professor Approval Required?
Y
Prerequisites?
N
Notes:
DOCTORAL ONLY