人，社区和宗教生活（PCRL）学习课程为探索在人，社区和文化系统的宗教与社会科学研究的交叉点发生的宗教实践的基本问题提供了机会。广泛的研究鼓励在人类发展，教育，社会学，心理学和宗教社会学，学者，牧民咨询，实践神学，灵性，会众研究和其他研究领域中的工作。学生可以利用上述领域的教师奖学金，并鼓励他们在GDR的其他领域以及整个大学从事跨学科工作。
The Person, Community, and Religious Life (PCRL) Course of Study provides opportunities to explore basic questions of religious practice that occur at the intersection of religious and social science studies of persons, communities, and cultural systems. This broad scope of inquiry encourages work in such areas as human development, education, sociology, psychology and the sociology of religion, homiletics, pastoral counseling, practical theology, spirituality, congregational studies, and other areas of research. Students draw on faculty scholarship in the above fields and are encouraged to do interdisciplinary work in the other areas of the GDR and across the university.