The discipline of pastoral care is a field at the intersection of many disciplines, while also inhabiting its own space. This course will introduce the student to a method for the practice of pastoral or spiritual care with individuals across their lifespan. It will examine not only the internal dynamics occurring between the caregiver and careseeker, but also the current cultural, socio-political, multi-faith, postmodern reality that individuals and communities inhabit, as both elements are necessary for the analysis of the pastoral encounter. Texts for the course put classical models of pastoral care into dialogue with embedded theology and social analysis.