REGR 6202.01 YOUTH AND YOUNG ADULTS Prof. Mark King Fordham University Graduate School of Religion and Religious Education Fall 2015, Session B, Online Course Email: amaking@fordham.edu Cell phone: (347) 224-5748 For Fall 2015: Appointments available upon request The course explores the personal and communal dynamics of youth and young adult faith and provides a conceptual framework for youth and young adult ministry. Students will draw from contemporary theology, the research of developmental theorists, and popular culture (for example, music, music videos, literature, and movies) as they discuss how we can nurture the faith and spirituality of youth and young adults today. Course Resources: Required texts for all students: Cusick, John and Katherine F. Devries. The Basic Guide to Young Adult Ministry. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis, 2001. (ISBN: 157075392X) Dean, Kenda Creasy, Chap Clark & Dave Rahn, editors. Starting Right: Thinking Theologically About Youth Ministry. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2013. (ISBN: 9780310234067) Parks, Sharon Daloz. Big Questions, Worthy Dreams: Mentoring Young Adults in Their Search for Meaning, Purpose and Faith. Revised, 10 th Anniversary edition. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2010. (ISBN: 9780470903797) USCC, Renewing the Vision: A Framework for Catholic Youth Ministry. Washington, DC: Department of Education, USCC, 1997. (ISBN: 1574550047) (Available in the Additional Course Readings Folder on the course Blackboard site.) USCC, Sons and Daughters of the Light: A Pastoral Plan for Ministry with Young Adults. Washington, DC: USCC, 1996. (ISBN: 1574551272) (Available in the Additional Course Readings Folder on the course Blackboard site.) * There will also be additional readings, audio and video presentations, and online materials that will be made accessible to students through the course Blackboard site. * Additional required text for doctoral students: White, David. Practicing Discernment with Youth: A Transformative Youth Ministry Approach. Cleveland OH. Cleveland OH: Pilgrim Press, 2005. (ISBN: 978082981630). The experience and insight of the teacher 1
The experience and insight of the students * Writing Resources: The Chicago Manual of Style: The Essential Guide for Writers, Editors, and Publishers 15 th edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. Turabian, Kate L. A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, Sixth edition. Revised by John Grossman and Alice Bennett. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Strunk, William, Jr. and E.B. White. The Elements of Style, Fourth Edition. New York: Longman, 2000. Groome, Thomas H. Language for a Catholic Church: A Program of Study, Rev. and expanded ed. Kansas City, MO: Sheed and Ward, 1995. Course Goals To foster a better understanding of the disciplines of youth ministry and young adult ministry by exploring a conceptual framework for understanding the life issues and concerns of youth and young adults To further develop student's abilities as youth and young adult ministers to understand, reflect on, discuss and write about youth and young adult faith To foster the ability to mentor the personal and spiritual growth of youth and young adults Learning Outcomes: Students will: Demonstrates a knowledge of core theories, approaches, and historical origins of the youth and young adult ministries in relation to the academic field of religious education; Demonstrate an ability to relate effectively the core theories, approaches, and historical origins of the youth and young adult ministries to the educational ministries of the church and the larger religious and public world; Articulate the relationship between the Christian faith and their professional practice and spiritual development. Proposed Curriculum MODULE ONE: Getting Started in Youth and Young Adult Ministry (available Tuesday, March 15, 2016) USCC, Renewing the Vision*. 2
USCC, Sons and Daughters of the Light.* Give the documents a quick read to familiarize yourself with the official statements by the U.S. Bishops on youth and young adult ministries. I recommend that you return to the documents periodically throughout the course as we discuss the various components of youth and young adult ministries. If you are a member of one of the Protestant denominations you may want to skim though these documents and spend time reading Starting Right, chapter 4 in depth. If you are an international student, have the bishops of your country or region of the world issued statements on youth and young adult ministries? If you do not know the answer to this question I suggest you find out, and then compare the USCC statements to any statements by your own bishops and pass on to me copies of these statements on youth and young adult ministry. Go back and read carefully the short section on Evangelization in Renewing the Vision and the paragraph on Accepting God s Invitation in Part Two of Sons and Daughters of the Light. Then, consider the question: How do these two sections deepen my understanding of evangelization? McCorquodale, Charlotte, Victoria Shepp, and Leigh Sterten. National Study of Youth and Religion: Analysis of the Population of Catholic Teenagers and Their Parents. Washington, D.C.: NYCFM, 2004: pp. 57-63. (module Alliance for the Certification of Lay Ecclesial Ministers, Revised National Certification Standards. (module Alliance for the Certification of Lay Ecclesial Ministers, NCCL / Catechetical Leader (CL) Specialized Competencies; NFCYM / Youth Ministry Leader, Including Pastoral Juvenil Hispana (YML) Specialized Competencies; and NFCYM / Diocesan Youth Ministry Leader, Including Pastoral Juvenil Hispana (DYML) Specialized Competencies. (module Starting Right, Introduction & Chapters 1 and 7. McCorquodale, Charlotte. The Emergence of Lay Ecclesial Ministry as a Profession. Springfield, MO: Ministry Training Source, 2002. (Printed by and available from the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry (NFCYM), 415 Michigan Avenue, NE, Suite 40, Washington, D.C. 20017-1518; Telephone: 202-263-3835; www:nfcym.org.) (This book is not included in the module materials.) Starting Right, Chapter 4 MODULE TWO: Human Development (available Tues, March 22, 2016) Erik Erickson, Identity, Youth and Crisis. New York: Norton, 1968, Chapter 3. (module 3
Starting Right, Chapter 2 Parks, Chapters 1-4 John S. Nelson, "Faith Among Adolescents: Joining, Drifting, Searching, Owning." The Way Supplement 40 (Autumn 1997): 60-79. (module John S. Nelson, Faith Development in Early Adolescence. In John Roberto, compiler, Readings in Youth Ministry: Volume I: Foundations. Washington, D.C.: National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministry, 1986. (module John S. Nelson, "Research on Adolescent Moral and Faith Development." The Journal of Youth Ministry 1:1 (Spring 1983): 4-18. (module MODULE THREE: Contemporary Culture & Life Contexts (available Tuesday, March 29, 2016) Starting Right, Chapter 3 Harold Daly Horell, Cultural Postmodernity and Christian Faith Formation. In T. H. Groome and H. D. Horell, editors, Horizons and Hopes: The Future of Religious Education. New York: Paulist Press, 2003. (module Tom Beaudoin, "Beginning Afresh: Gen X Catholics," America 179:16 (November 21, 1998): 10-14. (module James M. Davidson, "The Post-Vatican II Generation of Christian Catholics.'" New Theology Review 11:1 (1998): 12-22. (module Jeff Guntzel, Between Two Cultures, National Catholic Reporter, January 30, 2004. (module Lane, David Stuart, Generations, in Soviet Society Under Perestroika. Winchester, MA: Unwin Hyman, 1990: 231-243. (module Tom Roberts, Young Adult Catholic Accept the Church as Is, National Catholic Reporter on-line, July 2009. (module William V. D. Antonio, James D. Davidson, Dean R. Hoge, Mary L. Gautier, American Catholics Today: New Realities of their Faith and Their Church. Lanham, MD: Sheed and Ward, Rowman and Littlefield, 2007. (selection included in module James T. Fisher, Young American Catholics: Who are They and What Do They Want? Commonweal (November 23, 2001): 10-14. (included in module 4
MODULE FOUR: Advocacy and Religious Education/Catechesis (available Tuesday, April 5, 2016): **Short Essay due Sunday evening April 10, 11:59pm Cusick & DeVries, The Basic Guide to Young Adult Ministry, Part I Maggie McCarty, Youth Ministry: The Component of Advocacy, In Robert J. McCarty, ed. The Vision of Catholic Youth Ministry. Winona, MN: St. Mary s Press, 2005. (module Thomas H. Groome, On Being With Late Adolescents in Ministry. In John Roberto, complier. Readings in Youth Ministry: Volume 1: Foundations. Washington, D.C.: National Federation of Catholic Youth Ministry, 1986. (module James DiGiacomo, "Educating for a Living Faith: What Does It Mean to Go for the Gold?" America, 197:6 (September 10, 2007): 12-16. (module Harold D. Horell, Catechesis in an Age of Doubt, Catechetical Leader, 16:5 (September/October 2006): 4-7. (module Tom Beaudoin, The Ethics of Characterizing Popular Faith: Scholarship and Fandom. In Beaudoin, Witness to Dispossession: The Vocation of a Postmodern Theologian. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2008. (module Robert Brancatelli, Discipleship and the Logic of Transformative Catechesis. In Ed., Bradford Hinze. Spirit, Church, and World: The Annual Publication of the College Theology Society. Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 2004. (module James DiGiacomo, "Theology for Teens." America 182:3 (January 29-February 5, 2000): 12-16. (module MODULE FIVE: Pastoral Care and Prayer & Worship (available Tuesday, April 12, 2016) Starting Right, Chapters 9, 17 and 26. Michael Novak, Ready to Assemble: Youth as Part of the Liturgical Assembly, in Vibrant Worship with Youth, general ed. Brian Singer-Towns. Winona, MN: Saint Mary s Press, 2000, 35-46. (module Irish Catholic Bishops Conference. Life is for Living: A Reflection on Suicide. October 3, 2004. (module Robert J. McCarty, "Adolescent Suicide." Pace 16: 104-109. (module Alcohol: Your Child and Drugs (module Parks, Chapter 5 MODULE SIX: Christian Faith Communities and the World beyond the Church (available Tuesday, April 19, 2016) 5
Starting Right, Chapters 8, 12 Parks, Chapter 6 Cusick & DeVries, The Basic Guide to Young Adult Ministry, Chapters 4-5. Cusick & DeVries, The Basic Guide to Young Adult Ministry, Chapters 6-7. MODULE SEVEN: Leadership Development (available Tuesday April 26, 2016) Starting Right, Chapters 10, 13 Parks, Chapter 7 Cusick & DeVries, The Basic Guide to Young Adult Ministry, Chapters 8. 10. and 11. MODULE EIGHT: Justice and Service (available Tuesday May 3, 2016) Starting Right, Chapter 5 Warren, Michael, 3. Youth Politicization: Consciousness Plus Engagement and 10. Youth and Social Justice: A Possible Combination? In Youth Gospel Liberation. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1987. (module Parks, Chapter 8 Starting Right, Chapter 11. *Final due May 10, 2016, 11:59pm Revised: 01/6/16 6