Fall 2017/Fuller Online

PM537

Martínez

PM537: MIGRATION, TRANSNATIONALISM, IDENTITY, AND MISSION (4 Units: 160 hours). Juan Francisco Martínez.

DESCRIPTION: This online course introduces migration theory and transnationalism as tools for understanding ministry and mission among migrant communities. The course will place migration within a global context and will help students use Practical Theology (PT) and missiology to address specific ministry contexts.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: The course seeks the following goals for each student: (1) ability to articulate migration theory and how to integrate it with ecclesiology, missiology, leadership, and practical theology for ministry and mission among migrants; (2) critically reflect on migration in a transnational globalized context, using social science research, for transformational discipleship, mission and ministry; (3) understand some of the specific challenges of the migrant experience in conversation with Christian theology; and (4) develop interpretive and intercultural relational skills for ministry and mission among migrants.

COURSE FORMAT: This course will be conducted online on a ten-week schedule aligned with Fuller’s academic calendar for a total of 40 instructional hours. Students are required to interact with the material, with each other, and with the instructor regularly through online discussions, reading, and other assignments that promote active learning. Students will need to commit 160 hours to successfully complete the course.

REQUIRED READING: 1015 pages required.

Budde, Michael. The Borders of Baptism: Identities, Allegiances, and the Church. Wipf & Stock, 2011. ISBN: 978-1610971355, Pub. Price $24.00 [204 pp.].

Brettell, Caroline, and James Frank Hollifield, eds. Migration Theory: Talking Across Disciplines. 2nd edition. Routledge, 2008. ISBN: 978-0415954273, Pub. Price $50.95 [180 pp. assigned].

Carroll, M. Daniel & Sánchez, Leopoldo, eds. Immigrant Neighbors among Us: Immigration across Theological Traditions. Pickwick Publications, 2015. ISBN: 978-1625643766, Pub. Price $21.00 [100 pp.]

Cavanaugh, William. Migrations of the Holy: God, State and the Political Meaning of the Church. Eerdmans, 2011. ISBN: 978-0802866097, Pub. Price $22.00 [208 pp.].

Groody, Daniel & Campese, Gioacchino, eds. A Promised Land, A Perilous Journey: Theological Perspectives on Migration. University of Notre Dame Press. 2008. ISBN: 978-0268029739, Pub. Price $32.00 [200 pp. assigned].

Koser, Khalid. International Migration A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 978-0199298013, Pub. Price $11.95 [123 pp.].

RECOMMENDED READING:

Bauman, Zygmunt. Culture in a Liquid Modern World. Polity, 2011. ISBN: 978-0745653556, Pub. Price $17.95 [144 pp.].

Carroll, M. Daniel. Christians at the Border: Immigration, the Church, and the Bible. Brazos Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-1587433511, Pub. Price $20.00 [200 pp.]

Kerwin, Donald, and Gerschutz, Jill Marie. eds. And You Welcomed Me: Migration and Catholic Social Teaching. Lexington Books, 2009. ISBN: 978-0739141007, Pub. Price $39.99 [153 pp.].

Nail, Thomas. Theory of the Border. Oxford University Press, 2016. ISBN: 978-0190618650, Pub. Price $29.95 [288 pp.]

____________. The Figure of the Migrant. Stanford University Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-0804796583, Pub. Price $24.95 [307 pp.]

Payne, J.D. Strangers Next Door: Immigration, Migration and Mission. IVP, 2012. ISBN: 978-0830857586, Pub Price $16.98 [206 pp.]

Portes, Alejandro & DeWind, Josh, eds. Rethinking Migration New Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives. Berghahn Books, 2007. ISBN: 978-1845455439, Pub. Price $34.95 [439 pp.].

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT:

1. Interact with weekly course material presented online within the assigned time period (10%). [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1, 2, 3, 4]. [20 hours].

2. 1015 pp. of required reading. Students will turn in a reading log at the end of the quarter (10%). [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1, 2, 3, 4]. [51 hours].

3. Weekly forum posts and responses based on readings and course material (30%). [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1, 2, 3, 4]. [35 hours].

4. Write three 1000 word essays based on the readings and course material (20%). [Each essay will be linked on one of the learning outcomes, #1, 2 or 3]. [24 hours].

5. Signature assignment: Write a research paper (3000 words) integrating course lectures and materials to ministry among a specific migrant group (30%). [This assignment is related to learning outcomes #1, 2, 3, 4]. [30 hours].

PREREQUISITES: None.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Option to meet the C2 or C5 requirement in the 120 MDiv and 80 MATM Programs (Fall 2015).

FINAL EXAMINATION: None.