Skills in Practice

This 24-credit Skills Integration course develops theological, counselling, academic, and professional competencies across the Master of Theology programme. You will begin with foundational knowledge of SATS, theology, and postgraduate education before progressing into Christian counselling identity and skills, including listening, questioning, rapport building, and case conceptualisation. The course further develops communication and presentation skills for ministry and academic contexts, critical engagement with scholarly literature, and research competencies, including ethical requirements and qualitative research proposal development. In the final phase, you will produce a submission-ready journal article through a guided academic writing process.

Throughout the course, you will be required to complete supervised practicum hours, maintain ongoing Bible reading with pastoral verification, and receive continuous supervision. 

This course requires you to pruchse three microseminary courses. Current cost of the courses is between R200 and R300.

By the end of this course you should be able to:

• Demonstrate foundational theological understanding relevant to counselling practice.

• Demonstrate foundational Christian counselling skills, including listening, questioning, rapport building, and case conceptualisation.

• Communicate ideas effectively through structured verbal and visual presentations in both ministry and academic contexts.

• Critically analyse and engage with academic literature.

• Demonstrate foundational understanding of qualitative research and research ethics within Christian counselling contexts and develop a basic ethics-oriented qualitative research concept proposal suitabel for ethical clearance preparation.

• Prepare a Pre-Intervention Article Foundation Portfolio that demonstrates readiness to conduct the intervention and complete the article in MCC5606.