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SACEP COURSE OFFERINGS

Online Salvation Army Continuing Education Program Course offerings

The Salvation Army and ONU partnership is designed so that Salvation Army officers can continue the education they began at the CFOT. The Salvation Army Continuing Education Program (SACEP) equips officers with the skills needed to better serve in today’s changing communities, where they are called to serve.

Additionally, all SACEP courses align to one of the partnership bachelor degree programs. The credits accumulated from both CFOT and SACEP put an officer close to the completion of one of ONU’s partnership bachelor degrees. These courses are open to officers who are in their early years of officership or those who are seasoned officers and are interested in completing their degree at ONU.

In order to serve The Salvation Army officers in the best way possible, officers will complete an on-boarding introductory module, which introduces the Olivet Learning Management platform, Canvas. The on-boarding module (GNS-030 Introduction to College Studies) is a pre-requisite resource that provides an introduction to online expectations, basic skills and strategies of online learning, and online learning resources which support student success. Completing the module will require approximately 10-15 total hours of work. Students continue to have access to this module in their dashboard within in the learning management system.

Register for SACEP Courses

ACC-407 - Managerial Accounting and Decision Making: 8/15/22, 2/13/23, 8/14/23: The primary emphasis of this course is on the role of accounting in the processes of management decision-making for planning and control. Topics include relevant cost analysis, standard costing, and analysis of variances; budgeting and responsibility accounting, and planned capital expenditures.
BUS-410 - Leadership and Management: 1/02/23, 9/30/24: The focus of this course will be on clarifying the distinction between management and leadership by the examination of different models of leadership and the integration of ethical principles into various functional topics. The course presents leadership and management theories/concepts that have emerged over the past several decades. Also, learners will survey contemporary perspectives of networking, coaching, organizational culture, diversity, learning organizations, strategic leadership, and crisis leadership. Special attention will be paid to examining the role that leaders play in identifying and implementing change in organizations. *Formerly BUS-311
BUS-411 - Leading Groups and Teams: 5/08/23, 4/01/24: This course examines leadership theories, research, and models related to working in groups and teams. It will explore new paradigms of leadership that will help teams perform at higher levels through diversity and inclusion while challenging shortsighted leaders to higher team performance through better communication and positive exchanges between leaders and followers.
BUS-419 - Organizational Behavior: 5/08/23, 2/17/25: Organizational Behavior is an interdisciplinary field drawing from numerous disciplines including psychology, sociology, economics, organizational theory, statistics, and others. This course will analyze the behavior of people in organizations. Organizational motivation, group behavior, group dynamics, communication, and decision making are explored in the context of individual and group behavior. Learners are exposed to organizational behavioral science theories and their applications in different management settings and a variety of organizations. *Formerly BUS-319
BUS-435 - Human Resources Management: 3/27/23, 9/25/23, 7/07/25: The development of current policies, practices, and techniques necessary to ensure effective personnel management in complex organizations are covered. There will be an emphasis on the role of operating supervisors, executives, and the union in researching such challenges as employee selection, training, placement, wage and salary administration, promotion, fringe benefits, employee services, and management-labor relations.
BUS-441 - Conflict Management and Resolution: 11/07/22, 7/03/23, 3/31/25: This course revolves around identification and analysis of leadership strategies for dealing with both functional and dysfunctional conflict in the workplace. Leaders need to understand the potential for conflict to be either destructive or beneficial within an organization. Included is a study of various conflict management styles including avoidance, accommodation, collaboration, negotiation, mediation, and domination. Learners will understand the appropriate and inappropriate use of each technique.
CJS-440 - Human Trafficking: 5/08/23, 11/06/23: This course will focus on international and domestic human trafficking. Human trafficking victims include men, women and children who are subject to sexual exploitation or forced labor. This course will analyze human trafficking through research, enforcement issues, laws and presentations.
CMIN-517 - Dynamics of Youth Ministry: 1/9/23-3/5/23; 8 weeks fully online: This course will explore ministry with adolescents and their families. The lenses of social sciences, context, biblical concepts, and theological insight, will be utilized to determine the faithful action required for Kingdom focus.
CMIN-527 - Biblical Teaching for Family Ministry: starts 10/23-12/17/23, 8 weeks online: This course will explore creative Bible teaching theories and models and their application to successful Christian education in a family ministry context.
CMIN-535 - Leadership in Christian Ministry: starts 1/9/23-3/5/23, 8 weeks fully online & 1/15-3/8/24, 8 weeks fully online: By examining and identifying the core principles and best practices of leadership, bringing those principles and practices under the authority of Scripture, and applying those principles and practices to the student’s specific context, the student’s capacity for effective Christ-like leadership will be enhanced.
CMIN-544 - Compassionate Ministries Development: Dates: TBA 8 weeks fully online: The purpose of this course is to look at the various challenges of developing effective compassionate ministries. We will examine the process of helping people break the cycle of dependency on social services. We will look at the do’s and don’ts of fundraising built on a Biblical basis, as well as world views of fundraising. Additionally, we’ll discuss ways of building relationships between the community and the church.
CMIN-545 - Theology of the City: 10/23/22-12/17/23, 8 weeks fully online: This course identifies and examines the various aspects of ministry in the city. It reviews the Biblical support for urban ministry. It also investigates various writers’ views on ministry in the city. Learners will view urban ministry through the lens of Wesleyan-Arminianism.
CMIN-548 - Missional Theology: Leadership and Praxis: 10/23 - 12/17/23, 8 weeks fully online: The objective of this course would be to offer a theologically informed missional hermeneutic derived from the meta-narrative of Scripture, the eschatological promises of Jesus, and the call of the ecclesia into the world, the field on which God’s redemptive purposes are being established. Once introduced to this missional hermeneutic, students would then be challenged to integrate this hermeneutic into a philosophy of missional leadership and articulate the possibilities within their current and particular contexts.

CMIN-564/664 - Living Christian Justice in an Urban Context: Start dates: TBA, 8 weeks fully online

This course will explore the essential theological foundations of a Wesleyan view of justice and hope applied to the urban ministry context. Students will develop a biblical concept of restorative justice from the prophets, Jesus, and New Testament writers.

CMIN-565/665 - Issues in Family Ministry: 1/15 - 3/10/24, 8 weeks fully online.

This one day per week course will address specific issues that confront both the structural and functional family. We will pay special attention to the role of parents and other leaders in the spiritual development of the family, as well as discovering family dynamics that foster spiritually healthy families. Our goal is to develop the students’ ability to provide effective ministry to families in the local church.

HSL-433 - Casework Certification-Intervention and Direct Services: Students can begin this course at any time.

This course provides an Overview and working knowledge of The Salvation Army Casework Model of Intervention and Direct Services. Working on behalf of The Salvation Army requires an understanding both of the history of that organization as well as the principles by which it shaped its social ministry and continues that ministry in 128 countries today. This module sets forth that history, including the historical events and theological commitments that account for the advancement of The Salvation Army into social ministries. The guiding principles for The Salvation Army’s social ministry will also be examined.

HSL-543A - Certified Life Coach A: Students can begin this course at any time.

Certified Life Coach Courses leverage proven and fundamental building blocks of effective coaching in order to help others clarify personal and relational goals with insight and focus, develop a highly customized and proactive path for success, and achieve an actionable plan for positive outcomes with pragmatic results.

This course introduces students to the building blocks of coaching and includes course modules on communicating effectively, facilitating learning, and generating results.

HSL-543B - Certified Life Coach A: Students can begin this course at any time.

Certified Life Coach Courses leverage proven and fundamental building blocks of effective coaching in order to help others clarify personal and relational goals with insight and focus, develop a highly customized and proactive path for success, and achieve an actionable plan for positive outcomes with pragmatic results.

This course builds on the fundamentals of coaching with a focus on improving personal well-being, developing healthy relationships, as well as ethics and guidelines.
Prerequisite: Students must successfully complete HSL 543A before registering for this course.

HSL-544 - Certified Life Coach Specialization Option-Marriage & Family: Students can begin this course at any time.

Certified Life Coach Courses leverage proven and fundamental building blocks of effective coaching in order to help others clarify personal and relational goals with insight and focus, develop a highly customized and proactive path for success, and achieve an actionable plan for positive outcomes with pragmatic results.

This course provides proven strategies for coaching families by understanding the family system, preparing for marriage, developing ways to sustain a marriage, and creating a healthy environment for children.

Prerequisite: Students must successfully complete HSL 543A and HSL 543B before registering for this course.

HSL-545 - Certified Life Coach Specialization Option-Executive Coaching: Students can begin this course at any time.

Certified Life Coach Courses leverage proven and fundamental building blocks of effective coaching in order to help others clarify personal and relational goals with insight and focus, develop a highly customized and proactive path for success, and achieve an actionable plan for positive outcomes with pragmatic results.

This course provides proven strategies for executive coaching by helping others understand one’s call in life, understand organizational culture, develop ways to improve teamwork, and leading change.

Prerequisite: Students must successfully complete HSL 543A and HSL 543B before registering for this course.

HSL-546 - Certified Life Coach Specialization Option-Intercultural Confidence: Students can begin this course at any time.

Certified Life Coach Courses leverage proven and fundamental building blocks of effective coaching in order to help others clarify personal and relational goals with insight and focus, develop a highly customized and proactive path for success, and achieve an actionable plan for positive outcomes with pragmatic results.

This course provides a framework for understanding oneself in order to communicate and interact appropriately in a diverse world.

Prerequisite: Students must successfully complete HSL 543A and HSL 543B before registering for this course.

PRM-572 - Urban Ministry Practicum: TBA

This is a hybrid course combining online content with a 5-day on-site practicum experience (September 21-25, 2020) conducted at the Urban Mission Center in St Louis area and Benton Park West neighborhood in partnership with the Salvation Army. Benton Park West has a good blend of urban life (density, diversity, and disparity) to submerge into for practicing theory and principles learned in Urban Studies. The course will look at neighborhoods, areas of marginalization, areas of conflict, and identified sacred spaces. Time will be given for discussion and study on the Urban Millennium and how it impacts the region, city, and neighborhood and how the church has been impacted. While present in the community, students will learn and practice the 6 postures for creating and practicing missional community (Thin Places) and will spend time daily in the urban garden for spiritual reflection.