2019-2020 Master of Arts in Social Justice & Ethics (MASJE)

These are the requirements for students who matriculated during the 2019-2020 school year. Degree requirements for previous years can be found at the bottom of the Master's Student Handbook main page. Students can track their own individual degree progress through the degree audit on my.iliff and by consulting their advisors.

At least 80 quarter credits with a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 or better (or 40 quarter credits and an MDiv degree or its equivalent from an accredited institution) are required for the Master of Arts in Social Justice & Ethics (SJE) degree. These include: 

• 32 credits from required Iliff curriculum 
• 16 credits from required Social Justice & Ethics Core curriculum 
• 18 credits in Personal and Professional Formation (PPF) and Masters Recital
• At least 14 credits from other courses

First Year Interdisciplinary Course (4 credits): This course is team-taught and will introduce students to terminology, reading of primary texts and how to write academic papers as well as expose them to the complexity and significance of theological reflection. The course must be taken within the student's first 40 credit hours.  

Core Courses (28 credits)

Comparative Religious Traditions (CR), 4 credits. Check with your advisor for current offerings. Some options include:

IST 2000 Religions in the World

IST 2001 Intro to Islam

IST 2086 Religion, Space, and Place

IST 2102 Intro to Hinduism

IST 2131 Religion and Violence

IST 2155 Black Religious Denver

IST 3000 Native American Cultures and Religious Traditions

IST 3001 Islam, Gender, Sexuality

IST 3010 Pilgrimage in Comparative Perspective

IST 3110 Asceticism and Monasticism

IST 3### Judaism, Gender, and Religion

IST 3025 Comparative Mysticism

IST 3038 Buddhist Philosophy

IST 3049 Sufism

IST 3053 Religion and Film

Bible/Contextual Analysis (BI), 4 credits - one of the courses from the list below:

IST 2003 Intro to Hebrew Bible

IST 2004 Intro to New Testament

Social Ethics/Contextual Analysis (SE), 8 credits - two required courses: 

IST 2005 Ethical Analysis & Advocacy

IST 2014 Foundations of Social Justice & Ethics (taken in the first year)

Historical Development & Expressions of Religious Traditions (HI), 4 credits - one required course:

IST 2500 - Intro to the History of Christianity

Constructive/Systematic Theology (CT), 4credits - one required course:

IST 2510 - Intro to Theology

Theology & Religious Practices (PR), 4 credits - one required course:

IST 2020 Community Organizing (taken in the first year)

SJE Seminars (8 credits). Check with your advisor for current offerings.

SJE Praxis (8 credits). Check with your advisor for current offerings.

Personal and Professional Formation (18 credits)―Required courses:

IST 1100, 1101, 1102 - Identity, Power, and Vocation in Community (6 credits)

Internship (12 credits)

Masters Recital: To be completed during the Spring term of the final year

Other courses (14 credits)

All requirements for the degree must be completed within seven calendar years from the date of the first course taken in the program. To graduate, students must meet the requirements as specified in the Catalog and Master's Student handbook of their year of matriculation.