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120 PME 604 Worship Theory and Practice Provides a historical, theological, and theoretical overview of Protestant worship traditions and emphasized worship in the student's ministerial context. Students will become familiar with leading worship and religious services within their own faith tradition, in Protestant settings, the wider ecumenical Christian community, interfaith contexts, and secular, community settings. They will create, structure, organize, lead, and implement numerous types of worship and religious services within various ministry settings without compromising their personal beliefs and those of their faith community. Particular attention is given to prayer in secular versus religious settings. Students develop their own personal book of worship with outlines for a regular worship service, communion, wedding, funeral, baptism/infant dedication, and various other special services. Offered fall semesters. Two hours. PME 613 Worship and Culture Introduces students to the spectrum of worship styles present in churches today. Formal liturgy, seeker sensitive, and parachurch campfires will all be part of the exposure to differing styles and elements of contemporary worship and the cultural forces that have both formed and informed them. Globalization is an integral part of the course as worship represented by various ethnicities and cross-cultural settings is explored. Two hours. PME 633 Presbyterian History and Polity Introduction to the history of Presbyterianism and the distinctives, connectional functioning, and processes of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church. Offered on sufficient demand. Two hours. PME 720 Intergenerational Ministry Designed to enlarge students' thinking and understanding of what constitutes significant children, youth, adult, and family ministry as an integral part of a local congregation. It addresses the need for intergenerational ministry strategies in combination with age specific ministry for faith formation. Two hours. PME 755 Worship Practicum This course provides students the opportunity to build worship teams, design services, and lead the student body at Denver Seminary in worship during weekly chapel services. Pre- or corequisite: PME 751 Administration and Organization of Worship Ministry. Two hours. PME 590, 690 Studies in Pastoral Ministry and Evangelism These course numbers are reserved for courses of special or one-time interest that do not otherwise appear in the catalog. Two or three hours. PME 591, 691 Individualized Study in Pastoral Ministry and Evangelism These course numbers are reserved for courses that are designed to free the student for independent investigation in pastoral ministry under the guidance of a professor. One to three hours.