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SU 190 Intensive Course Registration Form

Union Theological Seminary

Registrar's Office

This form is for currently Union students only. All other people should register using this page: https://utsnyc.edu/academics/lifelong-learning/


Overview

  • Register for intensive SU 190 classes that meet Friday & Saturday via this form.
  • If students attend and earn grades, (P, AU) the instructor submits the roster and grades to the registrar, who then registers the students and applies the grades on the transcripts.
  • Only 3 credits total for any SU courses may be counted toward degree requirements. Once the 3-credit maximum is reached, students may only enroll as auditor.
  • Note: Courses with low enrollment are subject to cancellation.

Instructions

  • Complete the form in its entirety then select "Submit Form" to submit to registrar.
  • Student not able to attend, MUST submit an Add/Drop form.

Use this form to register for the following Topics in Ministry courses:

Fall 2023

Registration for Fall 2023 courses opens on Monday, April 24, 2023

  • SU 190 SC1 – Topics in Ministry: Black & Spanish Harlem: Music, Religion, Politics, Culture –September 15-16
  • SU 190 VB1 – Topics in Ministry: Union of Ati Yoga & Chaplaincy- October 20-21: NOW CLOSED
  • SU 190 MV1 – Topics in Ministry: Icons Workshop- October 27-28 NOW CLOSED
  • SU 190 MS1- Topics in Ministry: Journey from Diatribe to Dialogue Christian Muslim Relations- November 10-11

Spring 2024

Registration for Spring 2024 courses opens on Wednesday, November 15, 2023

  • SU 190 PS1- Topics in Ministry: Harriet Tubman Freedom Practice- February 9-10
  • SU 190 MR1- Topics in Ministry: Trans Sounds of Black Freedom- February 16-17
  • SU 190 JC1- Topics in Ministry: Mass Incarceration & Public Safety- April 12-13



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Each course = 1 credit; A maximum of 3 SU credits permitted for degree credit.

This form is for Union Students only. All other people who want to enroll in Union's Lifelong Learning courses should register using this page: https://utsnyc.edu/academics/lifelong-learning/

Course Information

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SU 190 SS1

Sadhana Of Araminta Ross: Harriet Tubman Freedom Practice 

Instructor: Shanté Paradigm Smalls 

in Person

1 Credit

February 9-10, Friday 1-6pm & Saturday 9am-5pm

This course offers how we might manifest the qualities of healer, liberator, companion, and visionary for ourselves, others, and the planet? During this course, we will discuss Harriet Tubman’s legacy, the efficacy of using Western bodhisattvas (awakened beings). We will work in small groups and do directed writing. There are typically three main practice components of a Sadhana: a. Mudras (sacred gestures) b. Mantra (sacred speech) c. visualization. Over the course of the weekend, we will begin each session with shamatha meditation (peaceful abiding) and end with simply resting in space (Dzogrim). We will practice the Sadhana practice I have written and read short excerpts from Spring Washam’s The Spririt of Harriet Tubman (Penguin Books, 2023). The weekend will also include small discussion groups, writing exercises, and walks.

SU 190 MR1

The Trans Sounds of Black Freedom

Michael Roberson 

In Person

1 Credit

February 16-17, Friday 1-6pm & Saturday 9am-5pm

This course will explore the history of the House | Ballroom community as a Black Trans-Womanist theological discourse, a freedom movement, and its spiritual formation responses to race, class, sexuality, and gender oppression. It will further examine the community's ability to use the art of performance as a hermeneutics of the body, and situate its history in mobilizing as a resistance to these oppressions and place it in conversation with other historical struggles



SU 190 JC1

Challenging Mass Incarceration & Reimagining Public Safety

Judy Clark

In Person

1 Credit

April 12-13, Friday 1-6pm & Saturday 9am-5pm

This course will look at advocacy efforts in New York State to address a prison system that warehouses 30,000 people, in which a person dies every three days. These advocacy efforts include bail, parole and sentencing reform, the fight to close Rikers Island, the call for treatment not jails and efforts to prioritize stabilizing families. We will analyze how the opposition to these reform efforts is drawing on the public’s fear of rising crime rates and examine alternative approaches to fostering public safety.

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