Steven C. Bauman, Ph.D.(Cand.)

Sample of Courses Taught:

 

• Link to 2007-2008 Teaching Portfolio

 

• Introduction to Pastoral Theology
  • Teagle-Wabash Teaching Fellow, Spring 2008

This course provided seminary students with a solid introduction to pastoral care, counseling, and intervention in congregations, institutions, and communities, equipping students with the knowledge and skills for basic assessment, intervention, and follow-through in the crises, opportunities, and transitions in people’s lives. The course followed a skill-development process, beginning with some basic skills and building toward an integrated approach to pastoral care. Special attention was given to unique pastoral offices and religious perspectives in the Anglican tradition and to varied religious perspectives and needs in our increasingly multicultural and multi-religious society. Co-taught with Teagle-Wabash Project Supervisor, Dr. David Gortner. Syllabus.

 

• Conversion: Models and Methods of Religious Change
  • Newhall Teaching Fellow, Fall 2007

This graduate seminar explored the nature of religious and spiritual change and transformation from the perspectives of anthropology, history, psychology, religious studies, theology, and sociology. Co-taught with Dr. Lewis Rambo, author, Understanding Religious Conversion (1993, Yale University Press). Syllabus.

 

• Dreams & Spiritual Care
  • GTU-PSR Summer Session, 2006

This course explored the history of spiritual dreams as well as providing practical experience in group dreamwork. We examined dreams in the primary religious texts of Christianity and other religious traditions as well as subsequent historical dreams. Patterns and themes were identified and related to contemporary dream experiences of children and adults to highlight the continuing relevance for humankind. We considered dreams with regard to conversion and spiritual growth, visitation and precognition, as well as dying and the beyond. Participants acquired familiarity with the theological, psychological, cultural, and historical dimensions of spiritual dreams and developed skills for exploring the many layers of meaning in their own dreams and those for whom they care.

 

• Psychology of Religion: Theories of Religious Belief, Behavior, & Experience
  
  • Newhall Teaching Fellow, Fall 2004
    

Co-taught with Dr. Lewis Rambo & Dr. Kelly Bulkeley.

The goals for this project were threefold:  to educate students in the multiple methodologies – classic and contemporary – in the sub-discipline of Psychology of Religion; to inform students of research methods employed by scholars in this area; and to prepare and encourage students to engage in interdisciplinary dialogue with researchers in fields “outside” of their own areas. To this end, guest lecturers, experts in their respective specialized areas, contributed to the seminar with presentations and discussion.

Seminar participants came from nearly every academic area at the GTU. Of 19 seminar participants, two-thirds were international students. Recognizing the rich diversity and expertise of this group, we decided to provide opportunity for each to lead their own “teaching & research consultation.” These peer-participant consultations were, for many, the beginning of genuine interdisciplinary collaboration and research.

Following the Fall Seminar, in Spring 2005, I organized and led the Faculty-Student colloquium Religion & Psychology at the GTU: Opportunities for Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Scholarship. In addition to Dr. Rambo, Dr. Bulkeley, and myself, the panel included two of our seminar participants. What resulted was a productive discussion on the implications of student research in the Psychology of Religion, theology, religious studies, and pastoral care. In addition, panelists offered models for future teaching appropriate to the interdisciplinary and multicultural context of theological study at the GTU.

 

 

• Graduate Teaching Assistantships:

• Introduction to Pastoral Theology with David Gortner

• Spring 2007
• Spring 2006

 

• Introduction to Dreamwork; Dream Group Leadership; Meaning in Dreams & Dreaming with Jeremy Taylor
  

• Fall 2004
• Spring 2004
• Fall 2003
• Spring 2003
  
• Fall 2002
  
• Spring 2002