Department: Christian Leadership

Code Name Description
CLD5512 ISSUES IN BIBLICAL LEADERSHIP Through a case study approach, this course will examine the biblical view on how leaders accomplish the five categories of management: planning (determining vision and direction), organizing (organizational behavior), staffing (selection and training...
CLD5592 EMPOWERING WOMEN IN MINISTRY LEADERSHIP The course will provide biblical and theological foundations for empowering women in ministry, and lead them to explore their own callings and gifts. Historical biographies will be examined, as well as examples of contemporary women who are impacting...
CLD6630 LEADING THE PEOPLE OF GOD This course equips students to develop a philosophy of leadership, based upon a biblical, theological, and Christian tradition. This will include both character and competency issues that leaders must know, develop and apply within their context of m...
CLD6660 PASTORS OF EXCELLENCE This course will equip students to integrate the discovery and community components of the Pastors of Excellence program into their lives and ministries. Students will experience a process of self-discovery using several assessment tools, lecture, i...
CLD6661 PASTORS OF EXCELLENCE II This course will equip students to integrate the personal well-being and spiritual vitality components of the Pastors of Excellence program into their life and ministry. Students will experience a process of formational prayer through lecture, spirit...
CLD6662 POE REUNION SEMINAR No Description Set
CLD6668 BIO STUDIES IN CHR LEADERSHIP No Description Set
CLD6670 COACHING FUNDAMENTALS This initial course focuses on the core skills needed to coach effectively. Classroom instruction would focus on a repeatable process for coaching and the skills required to deliver a high quality coaching experience. The field work connected to t...
CLD6671 COACHING FOR MULTIPLICATION Prerequisite: PM 670 Coaching Fundamentals; 12 coaching hours experience. This course will focus on coaching's place in a larger toolkit, one that is aimed to equip a leader with insight from multiple disciplines with an eye toward organizational gro...
CLD6672 COACHING LAB W/MENTOR COACH Prerequisites: CLD 6670 Coaching Fundamentals, This course is designed around higher level coaching skills. Once a coach has acquired baseline coaching skills and an appropriate level of experience, these higher level skills- based on the core coach...
CLD6675 TEAM COACHING While the other courses in this track are specifically built on individual coaching relationships (one on one), this course explores the distinctives in coaching a team or group, how that differs from one on one coaching, and best practices for maxim...
CLD6690 CITY GATES COHORT EXP CLD 6690 City Gates Cohort Experience (Non-credit) The City Gates Cohort Experience provides a formational path for those in vocational roles outside the church. Cohorts facilitate a group-based learning process that prepares frontline Christians t...
CLD7729 TRAIN LEADERS IN VOL ORGANIZ This course will focus on identifying spiritual gifts and skills among the laity, equipping them for the tasks to which they have been called and facilitating their involvement in ministry.
CLD7740 FUNDRAISING FOR KINGDOM MIN This course equips students to develop a biblically and theologically faithful philosophy of financing ministry that is sensitive to the student's Christian tradition. This will include capacity building for vision casting connected to resource devel...
CLD7763 PERSON IN MINISTRY This course equips students to experience ongoing personal development and growth necessary for well-being in ministry. Attention will be given to core identity, character, calling, and competency, identified within the course as the upward, inward,...
CLD7774 CHRISTIAN LDRSHP & FAMILY SYSTEMS This course will examine the task of Christian leadership through the perspective of family systems. Particular attention will be given to the biblical and theological foundations for key concepts. Students will engage in critical self-reflection o...
CLD7790 PILOT COURSE IN CHR LEADERSH Uncatalogued courses are offered occasionally to enrich the offerings of the major and to tap the resources of department faculty and visiting scholars. Specific course titles and descriptions are available when the course is scheduled.
CLD7794 -IND STUDY IN CHR LEADERSHIP Independent Studies are designed to cover specialized material not usually included in a course offering listed in the catalog.
CLD7795 IND STUDY IN CHR LEADERSHIP Independent Studies are designed to cover specialized material not usually included in a course offering listed in the catalog.