Learning Outcomes

Institutional Outcomes

Provide educational programs that enable self-motivated, independent learners to acquire core competencies.
Prepare students to function as competent pastoral caregivers and supervisors/educators in the marketplace and qualify for credentialing.
Assess student learning and institutional effectiveness to improve student and educator performance.
Provide professional development opportunities to enhance life-long learning.
Conduct fiscally responsible planning that balances the institution’s commitment to academic excellence.

PLO 1	Develop the ability to use self as the primary resource in pastoral care.
PLO 2	Construct a theology of pastoral care that embraces the ability to provide pastoral care to individuals from a broad range of theological, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds.
PLO 3	Demonstrate personal and professional skills in ethical, interdisciplinary, and consultative relationships.
PLO 4	Integrate current and relevant insights from the field of behavioral science into one’s practice.

PLO 1	Analyze the use of self in a specialized clinical setting.
PLO 2	Construct the knowledge and skills to provide exceptional pastoral care or pastoral counseling to a specialized body of clients, patients, and staff.
PLO 3	Demonstrate personal and professional skills in ethical, interdisciplinary, and consultative relationships.
PLO 4	Integrate insights from theological and behavioral science into one’s practice.

PLO 1	Construct theories and theology of pastoral supervision that guide one’s supervisory practice.
PLO 2	Demonstrate ethical and self-care practices in supervision.
PLO 3	Integrate current and relevant insights from the field of supervision into one’s practice.
PLO 4	Demonstrate the ability to establish and use consultative relationships to enhance supervisory practice.
PLO 5	Articulate the ability to administrate and effectively manage a CPE program.