General information

• Study points: 4.00
• Language: English
• Category: interactive lecture -assignment
• Duration: 26.0 hours 
• Periodicity: Taught this academic year in the second semester
• POC: Facultaire onderwijscel Godgeleerdheid

Taught by

Broesterhuizen Marcel
Liegeois Axel

Aims

Knowledge:

• The students acquire insight into the fundamental aspects of the identity of the pastor and pastoral work in care services.
  
• The students acquire insight into the fundamental aspects of the identity of clients with functional impairments, with special attention for deaf and hard-of-hearing clients.
  Skills:
  
  
• On the basis of these insights students are able to form their own view on the identity of the pastor, pastoral work and the client in care services.
  Attitude:
  
  
• The students develop an attitude of critical thinking about the identity of the pastor, pastoral work and the client in care services.

Content

In the lectures of Prof. Liégeois the following topics concerning the identity of the pastor and pastoral work in care services will be treated:

• The identity of the pastor: relation between person, profession and ministry
  
  
  
  
• The identity of pastoral work: relation between pastoral care, spiritual care and integral care
  
  
  
  
• The pastoral in a care service: relation between confidential space and integral care
  
  
  
  
• Challenges for pastoral care
  
   
  In the lectures of Prof. Broesterhuizen the following topics will be treated:
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Identity of the client: views on functional impairment; the WHO model (impairment, disability, handicap)
  
  
  
  
• Identity of the client: views of theologians with a functional impairment.
  
  
  
  
• Identity of the client: the deconstruction of disability.Identity of the client: self-willing clients: between appropriation and expropriation of functional impairment.
  
  
  
  
• Active involvement of people in pastoral ministry: examples from Deaf Pastoral Ministry.

Course Material

• A PowerPoint presentation will be put on Toledo every week.
  
• A reader with articles and the reading assignment concerning the lectures of Prof. Liégeois will be available in the course shop.
  
• The course notes of the lectures of Prof. Broesterhuizen will be put on Toledo.
  
• A reader with articles concerning the lectures of Prof. Broesterhuizen will be available in the course shop.

Course activities

• Interactive lectures with PowerPoint presentation.
  
• An active participation of the students is expected.

Evaluation description

Examination type:
    oral with written preparation
When?: final examination during examination period
Evaluation type:
    Open book
    Paper

Explanation

For each of both professors a short paper with four statements should be written:

• Two statements about the topics treated in the course and two statements about the literature.
  
• Each statement is not only a reproduction of a point of view of the course but should also express a creative and critical opinion of the student on the course.
  
• A statement is no longer than one page.
  
• Submission of the paper by e-mail  one week before the oral examination
  Oral Examination
  
  
• Oral examination will take place separately by both professors
  
• Motivation of and discussion about two of the four statements