Doctor Of Ministry Program Courses

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  • CONCD 902 / Spiritual Formation For Congregational Vitality - (view)
    Leading congregations is demanding especially in the third millennium. As a result, congregational leaders need firm grounding in spirituality and leadership skills and the opportunity to network with others. This course will offer strategies to enhance pastoral directions, skills, and ways to engage the church community as "life-long learning" disciples. Bring your experience and ideas!
  • CONCD 903 / Church Growth Shaped By Community Outreach and Mission - (view)
    This course will explore the role of community and mission in church growth while taking the premise that we must first build community before we can build congregations. In what ways must the church build community and perform necessary outreach? What must the church do to sustain outreach into sustained church growth? Approaches for developing community and implementing mission outreach will be theologically and critically analyzed.
  • CONCD 914 / PREACHING IN THE POSTMODERN AGE - (view)
    No description is available for this course.
  • CONCD 923 / Practical Theory in Context - (view)
    This course will examine the contexts, methods and purposes of practical theology which can be defined as theology "of the People, by the People, and for the People" of God. Through an examination of the recent cultural history of theology in America, an interpretation and criticism of Don Browning's classic Fundamental Practical Theology, and an exploration of other recent models of practical theology (including the student's own), participants will gain an understanding of the methodology. In class application of this methodology will help students shape and form projects that build-up "the people of God". The students will employ theological and ministerial skills to identify a problem, analyze it, and, in conjunction with an increased awareness of his/her context, use these skills to imagine possible and justifiable solutions to problems of how to be the people of God in an increasingly problematic world.
  • DMIN 951 / Topics in Preaching - (view)
    Deals with the diversity in patterns of preaching.
  • GRC 901 / Topics in Church and Society: - (view)
    An intensive study of selected problems and themes in contemporary sociology of religion having special significance for the church and its ministry. Course may be repeated. Sustainability / the ethics of sustainability have been selected for this term.
  • LOGON 932 / Thriving in the Digital Age through Collaborative Leader - (view)
    Recent cultural transitions are affecting not only how we work, learn, and socialize; they are affecting how we do ministry and nurture congregational community. Many congregations today consist not only of five generations, but three worldviews that reflect the influence of three major communication eras. This course addresses what is happening in today's congregations and why as we explore what it means when we have three worldviews, three sets of expectations, and three perspectives on what it means to belong and to participate. As we look at the collaborative approaches being introduced by the digital age, we will explore opportunities for congregational leaders to take advantage of these opportunities for leading their congregations in ministry. This course will give students the opportunity to develop: a) an understanding of the affects of the three communication eras on congregational life, and b) a leadership approach that will facilitate a shared vision among congregational sense of hope, purpose, and mission in the lives of congregational members.
  • WSP 902 / The Preaching Life - (view)
    This foundational course will examine the life of the sermon and preaching with specific attention given to centering the sermon in the church's liturgy and centering the preacher in a life of spiritual discipline. This course will be taught in New York City with particular attention given to the history of preaching in this urban context.
  • WSP 912 / Writing for Worship - (view)
    Focused on practical skills used in writing for contemporary worship and ritual.

Congregation and Community Development Concentration: Regional Groups

  • CONCD 901 / A Systems Approach to Leading Congregations: Understanding the Congregation (3) - (view)
    Promotes an articulation of the Biblical and theological rationale for congregational growth in the contemporary post-modern context. It uses family systems theory as a means to understand congregational dynamics as well as a systems approach to change. In addition to examining several change strategies, the participants will develop an audit of their congregation using the resources of Bill Easum's congregational audit. This audit will then be used by the participant to chart out a set of priorities based on the strengths, needs, and readiness of the congregation for change. Participants reflect critically on pastoral leadership and congregational context, offer professional feedback to one another, and give attention to a systems approach as a basis for planning and implementing parish ministry
  • CONCD 910 / Ministerial Leadership and Congregational Dynamics (3) - (view)
    Explores the challenge to leadership by unhealthy triangles found in pastoral relationships and congregational conflicts. In two three-day retreat sessions, students are exposed to Bowen Family Systems Theory as interpreted by Edwin Friedman and others. The course is taught by a qualified family therapy practitioner and/or pastoral psychotherapist. Students reflect on their personal dynamics of pastoral leadership through recollections from their "family of origin emotional process" and ways of relating in their current families and congregations. Case studies, brought to class by students, are discussed and interpreted.
  • CONCD 911 / Contextual Models of Church and Paradigms of Ministry (3) - (view)
    Examines insights from secular and church sources in order to scrutinize the dynamics and leadership requirements to accomplish change. The course will involve two field trips to an urban and suburban church site, require an in-depth examination of a healthy effective church in the candidate's ministry area, and review the results of a congregational survey taken in each candidates setting of ministry. The focus for this session will be to assist the participant in beginning to formulate a strategy and approach to leading a congregation through change. Offered as a week long intensive.
  • CONCD 921 / A Systems Approach to Leading Congregations: Understanding the Context (3) - (view)
    Explores the ministry context of the participant by a critical analysis of the demographics of the ministry area based on a Ministry Area Profile created by Percept. It will integrate the information from the congregational survey and congregation ministry audit together with the area demographics in order to begin the development of a strategy and plan for leading the congregation into the future. Each participant will carry out a Future Search Conference in his or her ministry context in order to develop five major goals for the future. The student will then begin to work through how, who, when, and what will be needed to accomplish these goals. Building on previous work in CONCD 901 and CONCD 911, each candidate will develop an 18 month timeline for their ministry that sets the focus for their project-thesis phase of their DMIN program.
  • CONCD 980 / Theological Methods for Minist ry (3) - (view)
    Prepares students for the Professional Project and Thesis. Introduces research tools and methodologies appropriate for D.Min. projects. Assist sstudents in developing an initial Topic Outline for the professional project.

Global/Online Concentration in Ministerial Leadership

  • LOGON 900 / Topics in Re-imagining Faith and Ministry (3) - (view)
    A study of historical and theological foundations of ministry by means of particular interpretative frameworks. Topics vary; description to be determined by D.Min. faculty. Course may be repeated.
  • LOGON 901 / Apocalyptic Theology and New Millennialism (3) - (view)
    A survey of historic paradigm shifts, cultural turning points and major theological transitions in religion and society that can be interpreted eschatologically and epoch-alyptically as the end and/or beginning of an era (e.g., the shift from scroll to codex, from codex to printed page, and from word to sound/image). Requires critical and creative weekly online reflections on the theological implications of the present paradigm shift (technological revolution) for ministry in the Third Millennium. Promotes critical reflection on the ways in which technology and ministry intersect using historical and theological methods related to eschatology.
  • LOGON 902 / Sound Theology: Music a Marker of Congregational Identity (3) - (view)
    This course is a study of how Jesus appears in literature, art, and film, and other popular media in America, examining how those representations have shifted and changed over the course of time. The course will give students an understanding of how books, film, and other media convey representations of the sacred. D.Min. students are expected to use insights from the course to produce a social-theological study of how people in their own congregations understand and imagine the figure of Jesus. Course may be repeated.
  • LOGON 910 / Ministerial Leadership in Postmodern Culture (3) - (view)
    Exploration of new means of envisioning, planning and carrying out ministry in the contemporary setting. Topics vary, description to be determined by DMIN faculty.
  • LOGON 911 / Christian Futuring: An Operator's Manual for the Future (3) - (view)
    Provides a theological basis for pointing churches toward the future and provides an alternative model to church planning as strategic planning. Explores common stumbling blocks ministers and churches face as they move into the future. Provides an optimistic, postmodern "birthing" theology that requires church transformation rather than mere stylistic tinkering, and a practical "operator's" manual to the future.
  • LOGON 912 / Preaching in a Postmodern Culture: Communicating with Contemporary Audiences (3) - (view)
    Postmoderns do not "know" life like moderns "knew" the world. In postmodern culture, knowing proceeds through imaginative leaps, loops, and lurches that come to life almost holographically around performative metaphors. This course explores the abductive hermeneutic that all communicators to contemporary audiences need to claim and clarify. This abductive epistemology moves worship beyond the discussion over induction or deduction, over theory-based or data-oriented. Knowing is not linear movement either from (deduction) or towards (induction) propositions. We will review the multiple modes of cognition, and propose an EPIC methodology that moves preaching into more experiential, participatory, image-rich, and connective directions and dimensions.
  • LOGON 920 / Models of a Future Church (3) - (view)
    A study of contemporary issues in theology, ecclesiology and ministry. Topics vary; descriptions to be determined by D.Min. faculty. Course may be repeated.
  • LOGON 921 / Readings in Postmodern Ecclesiology (3) - (view)
    A theological and sociological exploration of church leadership in the face of ambiguity and adversity. Confronts the challenge of "getting engaged" in high and low context societies, as well as the economies of design in modern vs. postmodern cultures. Includes an advance at a selected "new paradigm" teaching church with national profile that provides on-site learning in postmodern ecclesiology.
  • LOGON 922 / The Next Church: Ministry in the New World (3) - (view)
    A theological and sociological exploration of new models for ministry in the contemporary context. Students will explore how one meets the challenge of envisioning ministry in a contemporary mix of modern and postmodern cultures without succumbing to co-optation by those cultures. Includes an advance at a selected "new paradigm" teaching church with national profile that provides on-site learning in postmodern ecclesiology.
  • LOGON 930 / Topics in Practical Theology and Postmodern Ministry (3) - (view)
    A study of contemporary issues in theology and ministry. Topics vary; description to be determined by D.Min. office. Course may be repeated.
  • LOGON 931 / Practical Theology: Virtual Faith and Postmodern Ministry (3) - (view)
    This course aims to explore the nature of virtualization as a feature of postmodern culture with regard to its implications on faith formation and Christian ministry in the new millennium. Students will be introduced to the recent discussions on virtualization, including a theory that the virtual is not the opposite of the real but a fecund and powerful mode of being that expands the process of creation and opens up the future. Understanding the virtual as a legitimate mode of being (along with the possible, the real, the actual), and virtualization as a change of identity displacing the center of ontological gravity of the object, this course seeks to develop ways of expressing and nurturing Christian formation in postmodern ministry.
  • LOGON 980 / Theological Methods and Practice (3) - (view)
    Building on the understanding of ministry in the postmodern context, the course will introduce students to relevant research methodologies and tools that may be employed in the Doctor of Ministry project. Students will engage in formulating their D.Min. project using their ministerial context. Framing the project theologically, students will begin to conceptualize the components of the project that will enable them to address the project focus.

Worship and Spirituality Concentration

  • WSP 900 / Foundations in Worship and Spirituality (3) - (view)
    Promotes critical reflection on ministerial leadership in the congregation through preaching, teaching, and theological reflection. Includes a 3-day retreat/advance at teaching church or extension site, and a follow-up session on historical and theological foundations for ministry. Course objective: to understand the role of worship and spiritual formation in one's particular denominational tradition and congregational history. Term project includes a written theological portrait of one's congregational ethos.
  • WSP 901 / Theology of Sacrament & Story (3) - (view)
    Draws on historical and theological foundations for worship and spirituality through critical reflection on the acts of preaching, teaching, story-telling and imaginative interpretation of Scripture. Ministerial leaders live and breathe at the intersection of stories that are secular and sacred, human and holy. Communities of faith construct narratives that signify the traditions that shape their ministries in healing or wounding ways. This course will explore the use of narrative in personal identity and congregational development. Course objective: to understand the role of worship and spiritual formation in one's particular denominational tradition and congregational history. Term project includes a written spiritual-theological portrait of one's "parish" (congregational or ministry context). Offered at Drew during fall term 2004.
  • WSP 910 / Leading in Worship and Spiritual Formation (3) - (view)
    An active learning event and planning retreat for contemporary worship and ritual, focused on practical skills and ministerial leadership development. Offered at Drew Extension Sites.
  • WSP 911 / Ministerial Leadership and Congregational Dynamics (3) - (view)
    Explores the use of family systems theory in the analysis of the inner dynamics of the congregation and the pastor's leadership style.
  • WSP 920 / Spirituality and Community (3) - (view)
    Explores the classical Christian contemplative tradition in light of spiritual experience and trends in the modern and postmodern eras, and considers new ways to appropriate ancient wisdom for the contemporary church and community.
  • WSP 961 / The Varieties of Spiritual Experience (3) - (view)
    In contemporary American culture, the term "spirituality" can be applied to anything and everything: addiction recovery therapies, alternative medicine regimens, diet plans, and financial investment strategies are labeled and marketed as spirituality options. The cultural ethos that sustains the spirituality movement and is reflected in the phenomenon offers opportunities and hazards for the church. This course examines the development, spread and varieties of spirtuality in the context of postmodernity, and its import for constructive theology. Same as: DMIN 961.
  • WSP 962 / Figures in Contemporary Spirituality: The Life and Work of Henri J. M. Nouwen (3) - (view)
    As a Dutch psychologist, contemplative theologian and Roman Catholic priest, Henri Nouwen's shaping influence on contemporary Christian spirituality is unsurpassed. This introductory course traces his extraordinary life---from his birth and childhood in the Netherlands, through his academic career at Notre Dame, Yale and Harvard, to his final days at L'Arche Daybreak Community near Toronto---and reviews many of his 40 books on spiritual life. Same as: DMIN 962.
  • WSP 972 / Pilgrimage: Exploring Celtic Sites with Christian Faith (3) - (view)
    Celtic Christianity flourished from the fifth to the twelfth centuries in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany and northern France. Emerging from the mists of time, Celtic spirituality continues to resonate with many interests and concerns of contemporary Christians and seekers of faith. This travel-study seminar will explore the rich Celtic traditions by visiting historic sites in Wales and hearing presentations from a variety of international scholars at St. Deiniol's Library, Wales. Celtic themes include: divine immanence, intimacy with God, soul friendship, solitude and community, communion of the saints, and "thin places in the universe." Preparatory reading and integrative term paper required. Same as: DMIN 972.
  • WSP 980 / Theological Methods and Practice (2) - (view)
    Building on the understanding of ministry in the postmodern context, the course will introduce students to relevant research methodologies and tools that may be employed in the Doctor of Ministry project. Framing the project theologically and contextually, students begin to conceptualize the components of the project that will enable them to address the project focus.

Worship and Spirituality Concentration

  • WSP 900 / Foundations in Worship and Spirituality (3) - (view)
    Promotes critical reflection on ministerial leadership in the congregation through preaching, teaching, and theological reflection. Includes a 3-day retreat/advance at teaching church or extension site, and a follow-up session on historical and theological foundations for ministry. Course objective: to understand the role of worship and spiritual formation in one's particular denominational tradition and congregational history. Term project includes a written theological portrait of one's congregational ethos.
  • WSP 901 / Theology of Sacrament & Story (3) - (view)
    Draws on historical and theological foundations for worship and spirituality through critical reflection on the acts of preaching, teaching, story-telling and imaginative interpretation of Scripture. Ministerial leaders live and breathe at the intersection of stories that are secular and sacred, human and holy. Communities of faith construct narratives that signify the traditions that shape their ministries in healing or wounding ways. This course will explore the use of narrative in personal identity and congregational development. Course objective: to understand the role of worship and spiritual formation in one's particular denominational tradition and congregational history. Term project includes a written spiritual-theological portrait of one's "parish" (congregational or ministry context). Offered at Drew during fall term 2004.
  • WSP 910 / Leading in Worship and Spiritual Formation (3) - (view)
    An active learning event and planning retreat for contemporary worship and ritual, focused on practical skills and ministerial leadership development. Offered at Drew Extension Sites.
  • WSP 911 / Ministerial Leadership and Congregational Dynamics (3) - (view)
    Explores the use of family systems theory in the analysis of the inner dynamics of the congregation and the pastor's leadership style.
  • WSP 920 / Spirituality and Community (3) - (view)
    Explores the classical Christian contemplative tradition in light of spiritual experience and trends in the modern and postmodern eras, and considers new ways to appropriate ancient wisdom for the contemporary church and community.
  • WSP 961 / The Varieties of Spiritual Experience (3) - (view)
    In contemporary American culture, the term "spirituality" can be applied to anything and everything: addiction recovery therapies, alternative medicine regimens, diet plans, and financial investment strategies are labeled and marketed as spirituality options. The cultural ethos that sustains the spirituality movement and is reflected in the phenomenon offers opportunities and hazards for the church. This course examines the development, spread and varieties of spirtuality in the context of postmodernity, and its import for constructive theology. Same as: DMIN 961.
  • WSP 962 / Figures in Contemporary Spirituality: The Life and Work of Henri J. M. Nouwen (3) - (view)
    As a Dutch psychologist, contemplative theologian and Roman Catholic priest, Henri Nouwen's shaping influence on contemporary Christian spirituality is unsurpassed. This introductory course traces his extraordinary life---from his birth and childhood in the Netherlands, through his academic career at Notre Dame, Yale and Harvard, to his final days at L'Arche Daybreak Community near Toronto---and reviews many of his 40 books on spiritual life. Same as: DMIN 962.
  • WSP 972 / Pilgrimage: Exploring Celtic Sites with Christian Faith (3) - (view)
    Celtic Christianity flourished from the fifth to the twelfth centuries in Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Brittany and northern France. Emerging from the mists of time, Celtic spirituality continues to resonate with many interests and concerns of contemporary Christians and seekers of faith. This travel-study seminar will explore the rich Celtic traditions by visiting historic sites in Wales and hearing presentations from a variety of international scholars at St. Deiniol's Library, Wales. Celtic themes include: divine immanence, intimacy with God, soul friendship, solitude and community, communion of the saints, and "thin places in the universe." Preparatory reading and integrative term paper required. Same as: DMIN 972.
  • WSP 980 / Theological Methods and Practice (2) - (view)
    Building on the understanding of ministry in the postmodern context, the course will introduce students to relevant research methodologies and tools that may be employed in the Doctor of Ministry project. Framing the project theologically and contextually, students begin to conceptualize the components of the project that will enable them to address the project focus.

Environmental Ministries and Ecological Spirituality Concentration

Hispanic Ministry and Leadership Development Concentration

Pastoral Care and Counseling Concentration

  • PCC 951 / Biblical Faith and Family Systems Theory (3) - (view)
    Builds on the potential of the counseling relationship to bring together real life human stories with the redemptive stories of biblical faith. Engages students to develop skills in recognizing the repetitive, "stuck" intergenerational ingredients in family systems dynamics and congruencies with biblical concepts of sin and evil, obligation and legacy, captivity, and injustice. Encourages students to theologize as they build models for counseling practice. Challenges students to focus on strengths and resources of families and individuals and the facilitation of growth in mind-body-spirit wholeness. Stresses the sacramental nature of relationships and how counselors can facilitate empowerment in counselees through growth in self-understanding and liberation from oppressive social projections.
  • PCC 952 / Theories of Psychology (3) - (view)
    Psychological theory is introduced through an in-depth presentation of Object Relations Theory. The origin and development of Object Relations Theory and its clinical applications to individual, couple, and family counseling will be covered. Other useful theories of counseling psychology, such as Erikson Ego-Psychology, Narrative, and Internal Family Systems psychologies, will be introduced and contrasted in an effort to better understand the relationship of the self to self, others, and the created world. Course addresses the emerging critique of psychology as "mere science" and the need to recognize and validate other sources of truth and explores the ways in which gender, race, socio-economic, and other features of the social context impact pastoral care and counseling.
  • PCC 953 / Theories of Family Therapy (3) - (view)
    Details in depth Bowen Family Systems Theory and its applications to individual, couple, family counseling and institutional consultation as an introduction to theories of family therapy. Covers other family systems theories such as Structural (Minuchin), Strategic (Madanes), Symbolic-Experiential (Whitaker), Contextual (Bosormenyi-Nagy), and Narrative (Freedman and Combs). Notes common origins and suggested clinical applications and integrations of the theories. Encourages theological critique and integrative thinking.
  • PCC 954 / Ethnicity in Family Therapy Assessment (3) - (view)
    Guides students in assessing the functioning of families through the lens of ethnic and cultural awareness and familiarizes them with a variety of useful assessment tools. Develops consciousness of how inherited cultural norms and values shape the individual's development and affect the relationship dynamics of the family. Highlights the importance of the counselor's own culturally conditioned biases and preferences in assessing family health and functioning, and the need to compensate for these in planning interventions. Reviews relevant cross-cultural literature and identifies such issues as racism, ethnocentrism, the social projection process, and the damaging effects of the introjections of negative social norms and perceptions. Encourages a counseling and family education approach which is inclusive, respectful of ethnic heritage, and open to the positive learning of shared diversity.
  • PCC 955 / Counseling Skills in Clinical Practice (3) - (view)
    Engages students in learning and application of counseling skills to actual counseling cases from their work settings and experiencing team case consultation under professional supervision aimed at sharpening skills in establishing rapport, listening, interviewing, handling transference and countertransference, assessment, diagnosis, clinical reasoning, intervention, and case management within a well-defined theological and theoretical framework. Explores how to recognize severe mental illness, use protocols for referral and evaluation, and collaborate with physicians and clinical consultants for a multidisciplinary approach.
  • PCC 956 / Family Systems Interventions with Couples, Families, Groups, and Social Institutions (3) - (view)
    Develops skills in systems assessment of the relationship functioning of families, groups, and social institutions. Introduces methods for data-gathering through charting, genograms, and interviewing. Presents tools for assessing relationship functioning, tracking issues, recognizing triangles, cutoffs, power imbalances and injustices, etc., and planning appropriate interventions. Identifies intergenerational transmission, myths and legacies, recursive patterns, script construction, and rituals and rites of passage. Structures counseling and consultation skill practices through training films, role play, and case development.
  • PCC 957 / Family Crisis (3) - (view)
    Presents a spectrum of literature on personal, couple, and family crisis and models for crisis intervention. Investigates the utility of personal life crises as a vehicle for understanding the emotional dynamics of crisis and enhancing crisis intervention skills. Employs casework on crisis counseling.
  • PCC 958 / Gender, Sexuality and Wholeness (3) - (view)
    Explores sexuality as a metaphor that unites physical, psychological, social, religious and political aspects of human life in contrast to the traditional perspective that understood the five aspects of sexuality as separate and distinct modes of analysis. Examines sexuality as a fluid layering of interaction between those elements for each individual within their social context. Course explores gender, sexuality, and wholeness from the perspective of object relations theory, cultural psychoanalysis, and process theology.
  • PCC 959 / Use of Self and Countertransference (3) - (view)
    Illustrates that counseling depends not only on knowledge of theory but also the counselor's ability to use her or his own psyche and spirit to understand the psychological, spiritual, and systemic dynamics involving another person or group. Explores different perspectives on using the couselor's reactions to the dynamics in a given situation as a tool for effective interventions.
  • PCC 960 / Addiction and Recovery Counseling (3) - (view)
    Using substance abuse as the primary clinical example of addiction, examines the nature of addiction as a disease and how recovery from the disease is and must be a spiritual, as well as a psychological process. Studies in-depth the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous as a spiritual growth process and how these steps are compatible with traditional Christian spirituality. Employs didactic presentations, group discussions, and clinical presentations, group discussions, and clinical experiences with recovering persons who share the spirituality of their experience, strength, and hope. Explores family/systemic dimensions of addiction.
  • PCC 980 / Theories and Methods for Evaluating Change in Pastoral Care and Counseling (3) - (view)
    This course on social science research methodologies is designed to help students plan for their final projects. It introduces theories and methods for evaluating change that occurs as a result of pastoral care and counseling interventions. Quasi-experimental design and unobtrusive methods are utilized to measure this change. Students learn to enable people in their ministry setting to become more reflective of psychosocial and spiritual dynamics, understanding how values and history shape immediate decisions.

General Electives

Project Colloquia

  • DMIN 990 / Project Colloquium (3) - (view)
    Fall colloquium for processing project proposals with the goal of getting the prospectus approved before the end of the semester. It usually occurs in two 3-days sessions in mid-September and mid-October, and usually requires revisions in November/December Graded Pass/Unsatisfactory.
  • DMIN 991 / DMin Professional Project (3) - (view)
    Provides academic credit for project execution and requires a one-day "report back" session in the spring semester. Graded Pass/Unsatisfactory.
  • DMIN 992 / Project and Thesis Research and Writing (3) - (view)
    Continuation of work on project and thesis research and writing. "Report back" sessions are scheduled leading to approval of the first draft of the thesis. Graded Pass/Unsatisfactory.
  • DMIN 993 / Project Thesis Completion and Exit Interview (3) - (view)
    Work on writing the final draft of the paper and exit interview. "Report back" sessions are scheduled leading to approval of the thesis. Exit interviews are required for all students. Graded Pass/Unsatisfactory.
  • LOGON 990 / Project Colloquium (3) - (view)
    Colloquium work on approval for the topic outline, then prospectus (which includes plans for the project and thesis). Development of topic outline for doctoral proposal online (September) followed by a two-day workshop on proposal development with faculty advisers (October), leading to a professional project and doctoral thesis. Online "report back" sessions and "cyber-chats" are scheduled each semester until graduation in May of third year. Graded Pass/Unsatisfactory.
  • LOGON 991 / DMin Professional Project (3) - (view)
    Online Colloquium to aid in implementing and evaluating the project. Online "report back" sessions and "cyber-chats" are scheduled during the semester. Graded Pass/Unsatisfactory.
  • LOGON 992 / Project Thesis Research and Writing (3) - (view)
    Continuation of work on project and thesis research and writing. Online "report back" sessions and "cyber-chats" are scheduled leading to approval of the first draft of the thesis. Graded Pass/Unsatisfactory.
  • LOGON 993 / Project Thesis Completion and Exit Interview (3) - (view)
    Work on writing the final draft of the paper and exit interview Online "report back" sessions and "cyber-chats" are scheduled leading to approval of the thesis. Exit interviews are required for Online students. Students may meet with faculty via ISDN videoconferencing compatible with TANDBERG equipment or have the exit interview on campus. Graded Pass/Unsatisfactory.