The AHA Center for Education Humanist Studies Program (HSP) is dedicated to fostering leadership that is ethically grounded, informed, skillful, globally responsible, personally sustainable and committed to meeting the genuine needs of real people. It offers students an opportunity to collaborate with a diverse faculty and student body who take a non-theistic, naturalistic approach to humanism, whether interpreted in secular or congregational terms.
PROGRAM
HSP students have the opportunity to become Certified Humanist Professionals (CHP) by earning a Certificate in Humanist Studies. Through the HSP program, students will:
- Explore ontological questions from a humanist perspective in historical and contemporary contexts.
- Acquire a solid grounding in critical thinking, knowledge, truth, and humanist epistemologies.
- Aid students in analyzing and building a personal and articulate humanist axiology from fundamental existential questions.
Certificate in Humanist Studies
Acquiring a certificate in humanist studies is a unique graduate-level experience where individuals are engaged to build competencies and skills in the pursuit of acquiring a broader, deeper knowledge of humanism. Our courses provide an educational environment that supports a collaborative community inclusive of all humanist perspectives, ranging from secular to religious, and enhances one’s ability to reach individual aspirations.
Earning a Certificate in Humanist Studies prepares students to be articulate advocates of a humanist worldview in the public sphere and innovative thinkers who keep our movement alive with their provocative insights and writings.
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Clinical Pastoral Education Program
Compassionate Care, Reflective Practice, Human-Centered Leadership
Clinical Pastoral Education Program, an educational offering of the AHA Center for Education Humanist Studies Program, prepares professional to provide compassionate, evidence-based informed spiritual care in today’s diverse religious, Humanist, spiritual, and secular communities.
Grounded in the Humanist tradition, our program is guided by the values of dignity, reason, compassion, ethical responsibility, and respect for every person’s inherent worth. Our educational approach equips students to provide exceptional spiritual care wile engaging thoughtfully with the full diversity of traditional religious, Humanist, spiritual, and secular worldviews they will encounter in clinical and community settings.
We welcome students from Humanist, traditional religious, interfaith, secular, and other philosophical traditions who are committed to accompanying people through some of life’s most significant experiences. Through ACPE Clinical Pastoral Education, students integrate rigorous clinical practice with reflective learning to develop the self-awareness, knowledge, and professional competencies essential for compassionate and ethical care.
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WHO ENROLLS IN HSP
We welcome all humanists (secular, naturalistic, scientific, atheistic, non-theistic, and religious) interested in training to be effective leaders, chaplains, spokespersons, and advocates for humanism.
WHERE ARE THE COURSES OFFERED?
HSP courses are offered, at present, online.
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AHA Center for Education admits students without regard to their religion so long as they are respectful of the principles of humanism. The center does not discriminate on the basis of age, race, gender, sexuality, national or ethnic origin, or ability in the administration of education policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, or school-administered programs.