St. Stephen's College at the University of Alberta

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Educating the Whole Person

Nestled on the main campus of the University of Alberta, St. Stephen’s College is a multifaith, applied graduate school. We equip caregiving professionals and ministers with the spiritual and intellectual capacity needed for service in the public and private spheres. Our students train at the intersection of both mental and spiritual health. Our Department of Psychotherapy and Spirituality prepares spiritually-informed counselling psychotherapists and/or art therapists within the fields of mental and spiritual healthcare. Our Department of Theology provides both specialized training for spiritual care providers (primarily in healthcare and religious contexts) and more general theological training for those wishing to expand their understanding of the sacred.

A central component of St. Stephen’s College is our affiliation with the University of Alberta, which dates from the founding of the University in 1908. For more that 110 years, St. Stephen’s and the University of Alberta have been educational partners. As an affiliated degree-granting graduate college of the University, St. Stephen’s participates in some UAlberta degree programs, and offers undergraduate and graduate courses for UAlberta students.

St. Stephen’s mission is “to be a multi-faith community that offers sacred spaces for learning and transformation.” This mission has evolved over the 110-year history of the College. Initially St. Stephen’s was a training centre for Methodist and United Church ministers. From the 1970s onwards, the College has broadened from a narrow denominational focus to work on a broadly ecumenical and interfaith basis. Today St. Stephen’s is a multi-faith community that educates the whole person (body, mind, and spirit) for a variety of professional ministry and caregiving contexts. Speaking to the diversity present at St. Stephen’s, a former Doctor of Ministry student remarked: “I truly believe that St. Steve’s is producing a model that has the potential to revolutionize theological education. The diversity here is incredible: Christians, Muslims, Atheists, Pagans, Indigenous, and others. Somehow we all become family in the deepest sense without losing our personal and spiritual identities.”

St. Stephen’s is a graduate college of the United Church of Canada. We are an Associate Member of the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS), and our Art Therapy programs meet the educational standards of the Canadian Art Therapy Association (CATA).