MA in Global Leadership Seminar 2 (with one-week intensive Fall 2013) – Pasadena

ML583A--Fall 2013; ML583B--Winter 2014 (Cohort 27)

Downes

ML583 A & B: GLOBAL LEADERSHIP: IMPLICATIONS FOR MINISTRY (A is 2 units, B is 2 units).

Dr. Donna R. Downes, Associate Professor of Global Leadership

DESCRIPTION:

This course sequence primarily serves as a capstone to the cohort portion of the Master of Arts in Global Leadership. Students will be required to demonstrate competencies consistent with the stated learning outcomes of the MAGL degree through a combination of discussions, small group projects, presentations, reading reports, field trips and a final integrative paper. They will have the opportunity to reflect upon and synthesize their learning in the MAGL, to focus on key discoveries and transformative themes that have impacted their lives and their ministries, and to understand more deeply the implications of Christian faith and praxis in their ministry contexts. The work for this course sequence (4-units) spans 2 quarters. Part A – pre-seminar work and in-class activities. Students meet in Pasadena for a one week campus seminar and a one-day urban exegesis experience with their cohort; and Part B – post-seminar work and final paper.

LEARNING OUTCOMES: As a result of this course sequence students will have

• assessed their learning throughout the cohort courses against their own learning plans and the stated MAGL learning outcomes;

• built on prior knowledge and synthesized all previous coursework and readings through the writing of an integration paper about the transformative themes of the degree program;

• presented their learning to the class and gained feedback from their peers;

• experienced an urban exegesis of downtown Los Angeles/Hollywood, viewing the local context from a missiological perspective;

• decided on a revised “community rule” now that the cohort portion of the program is completed.

COURSE FORMAT:

ML583A will meet for the second week of a required two-week intensive residency for the MA in Global Leadership from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The course will include one traveling day (using public transportation) in Los Angeles for field education. Before the on-campus seminar, students will (1) prepare a presentation of “their MAGL Journey” including an outline of their capstone writing project; (2) read Bakke, Gorringe, and the book assigned for a panel discussion; and (3) prepare analytical Reading Reports on Bakke and Gorringe and upload them to “Assignments” prior to the first day of class; (4) participate in one week of connecting posts about the Gorringe book; (5) participate in preparing a one-hour group book panel discussion on one of the course texts (group assigned by the professor). On-campus sessions are designed to facilitate learning through discussion, clarifying lectures, opportunities to teach, relationship-building exercises, field education, and collaboration on research. ML583B (online) will involve post-seminar readings and discussions of remaining course texts, completion of assignments related to MAGL learning assessments, and the writing of the student’s capstone integrative paper for the MAGL.

REQUIRED READING: 1,300 pages from the eight books listed below:

Urban Theology/Missiology

Bakke, Raymond J. A Theology as Big as the City. InterVarsity Press, 1997. ISBN-13: 978-0830818907. Pub. List:: $17.

Gorringe, Timothy. A Theology of the Built Environment: Justice, Empowerment, Redemption. Cambridge University Press, 2002. ISBN-13: 978-0521891448. Pub List: $32.99. (180 pages assigned reading)

Issues Arising from Globalization

Escobar, Samuel. The New Global Mission. InterVarsity Press, 2003. ISBN-13: 978-0830833016. Pub. List: $16.

Ramachandra, Vinoth. Faiths in Conflict? InterVarsity Press, 2000. ISBN-13: 978-0830815586. Pub. List: $20

Rah, Soong-Chan. The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity. Downers Grove, 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0830833603. Pub. List:: $12..

Leadership theology, theory and practice:

Frost, Michael. Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture. Hendrickson, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-1565636705. Pub List $20.

J.R. Woodward. Creating a Missional Culture: Equipping the Church for the Sake of the World. InterVarsity Press, 2012. ISBN-13: 978-0830836536. Pub. List Price: $16.

Lest We Lose Sight of the Goal

Willard, Dallas. The Great Omission. Harper San Francisco, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-0060882433. Pub. List Price: $23.99.

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT (subject to change as the course progresses):

ML583A (Fall 2013)

Seminar participation (65% of grade) includes:

1. General Participation in discussions, group work, etc. (10%)

2. Oral Presentation and Final Paper Outline (35%)

3. Book Review Panel—book assigned prior to seminar (20%)
   

Work completed outside of on-campus seminar (35% of final grade) includes:

4. Two Exegesis (Urban and Local) Reflection Papers (3-4 pages each) (23%)

5. Two 600-700-word (2-3page) reading reports on Bakke and Gorringe – completed and uploaded prior to seminar (8%)

6. One week of connecting posts about the Gorringe book (4 %)

ML583B (Winter 2014)

1. One 600-700 word (2-3page) Devotional Reading report for Willard (5%)

2. Two Weeks of analytical forums and connecting posts over remaining texts (20%)

3. Updated MAGL Learning Plan (5%)

4. A Reflection Paper (3-5 pages) on MAGL Learning Outcomes (10%)

5. A Final Paper (25 pages) integrating the transformative themes of the degree program (60%)

PREREQUISITES: This course sequence is only available to MA in Global Leadership students.

RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: This two-quarter sequence, ML583A&B, is part of the required MAGL cohort series of courses. NO AUDITORS.

FINAL EXAMINATION: None.