ML583A/B - Hybrid/Pasadena

Summer/Fall 2019

Villacorta

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

Wilmer G. Villacorta, PhD., Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies

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 program 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 context. The work for this course sequence (4-units total) spans 2 quarters. Part A includes pre-seminar online work and preparation for in-class activities. Students will meet on the Pasadena campus for a one-week campus integrative experience and an urban exegesis with their cohort; Part B will comprise post-seminar online work, group discussions and a final integrative paper.

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

  1. synthesized their previous learning in MAGL cohort sequence coursework through the writing of an integrative paper about the transformative themes of the degree program and how they are applying them in ministry and life;
  2. presented their learning journey to the class for peer feedback and contribution to their integration papers;
  3. assessed their MAGL learning throughout the cohort courses against their own learning plans and goals and the stated MAGL learning outcomes;
  4. explored several social and religious trends in mission from a local and global perspective
  5. participated in and reflected on two contextual exegesis experiences (urban and local) from a missiological perspective;
  6. considered implications of global and local trends for their own leadership theology and praxis.

RELATIONSHIP TO PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES:

This course serves as a capstone where students 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 context. This is consistent with all six of the MAGL PLOs: Graduates will: (1) integrate theology and praxis to develop informed responses to situations encountered in their ministry/mission, (2) make plans for missional engagement of their church/organization with their cultural contexts to promote transformation, (3) demonstrate familiarity with the diversity of theories, practices, and global contexts of missional leadership, (4) employ a lifelong learning posture that values peer learning with diverse persons as well as reflection on practice, (5) examine various organizational dynamics and apply selected administrative theories, and (6) implement a leadership development perspective that prioritizes character/spiritual formation.

COURSE FORMAT:

ML583A/B is a hybrid course, meaning that it is a ten-week course with nine weeks of online instruction and one week of classroom instruction. The course will meet in Pasadena for classroom instruction 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 (on public transportation) in the Los Angeles area for field education. Before the on-campus seminar, students will engage in online work to: (1) prepare a presentation of their MAGL journey and a thesis and outline of their MAGL program capstone writing project; (2) read the book Faith-Rooted Organizing, and other online articles, and prepare an integrative paper about those readings; and 3) read the book assigned for a panel discussion and prepare for an in-seminar book panel assignment. Pre-seminar work must be uploaded into the Canvas course before the first day of the MAGL seminars. On-campus sessions are designed to facilitate student learning through discussion, clarifying lectures, opportunities to teach, group-building exercises, field education, and collaborative research. Students will also conduct post-seminar research to complete a local exegesis assignment after returning home from the seminar. ML583B will involve post-seminar readings of four texts, guided online discussions, and writing of the final integrative paper along with the completion of other written assignments and program evaluations.

REQUIRED READING:1180 pages from the required texts and online materials below:

Urban Theology/Missiology

Salvatierra, Alexia and Heltzel, Peter. 2014. Faith-Rooted Organizing: Mobilizing the Church in Service to the World. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press. ISBN: 978-0-8308-3661-1. Pub. List: $9; Kindle $8.50. Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library [142 pp. required]

In-course readings on global issues in urban ministry [40 pages assigned]

Issues Arising from Globalization

Dyrness, William A. and Oscar Garcia-Johnson. 2015. Theology Without Borders: An Introduction to Global Conversations. Grand Rapids: Baker. ISBN-13: 978-0801049323. Pub. Price: $22; Kindle $13. Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library [170 pp. required]

Escobar, Samuel. 2003. The New Global Mission. Downers Grove, IL: Inter-Varsity Press. ISBN: 978-0830833016. Pub. Price: $16. Kindle $10. Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library [172 pp. required]

In-course readings on globalization and mission [35 pages assigned]

Leadership and Transformation

Kim, Grace Ji-Sun and Graham Hill. 2018. Healing our Broken Humanity: Practices for Revitalizing the Church and Renewing the World. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press. ISBN:978-0-8308-4541-5. Pub. Price: $13; Kindle $12.50. Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library [207 pp. required]

Rah, Soong-Chan. 2009. The Next Evangelicalism: Freeing the Church from Western Cultural Captivity. Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press. ISBN: 978-0830833603. Pub. Price: $12; Kindle $10. Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library [201 pp. required]

Woodward, JR and Don White. 2016. The Church as Movement: Starting and Sustaining Missional

Incarnational Communities.Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press. ISBN:978-0830841332. Pub. Price: $20; Kindle $10. Available as an e-book from the Fuller Library [210 pp. required]

ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT (in accordance with Learning Outcomes – “LOs”)
(subject to change as the course progresses):

ML583A (Summer 2019) [80 hours workload]

Pre-Seminar and in-class participation (80% of grade) includes:

  1. Pre-Seminar Reading: 560 pages approx. [32 hours] LOs 4, 6
  2. One-week of discussion posts with cohort learning community. (5%) [2 hours] LO 1
  3. General Participation in presentations/discussions/group work/urban exegesis (10%) [35 hours in-class]
  4. Oral Presentation: Learning Journey and Final Paper Thesis/Outline (35%) [3 hours] LOs 1, 2, 3
  5. Book Review Panel—book assigned prior to seminar (25%) [2-hours] LOs 4,6
  6. One 1,000-word integrative reflection paper on the Salvatierra/Heltzel book and other in-course readings completed prior to seminar (15%) [2 hours] LO 4,6

Work completed post-seminar, off-campus: (20% of course grade) includes:

7.One Los Angeles Urban Exegesis Reflection Paper, 3-4 pp. 750 words (10%) [3 hours] LO 5

8.Research for Local Contextual Exegesis Project (Paper due and graded in ML 583B) [3 hours] LO 5

ML583B (Fall 2019) [80 hours workload]

  1. Reading from texts approx. 630 pages approx. [36 hours] LOs 4,6
  2. One Local Contextual Exegesis Reflection Paper, 3-4 pp. 750 words (10%) [4 hours] LO 5
  3. Analytical discussions and posts over five texts (21%) [5 hours] LOs 4,6
  4. Updated MAGL Learning Plan Goals, Curriculum Sheet, Cohort Sequence Survey (3%) [2 hours] LO 3
  5. A Reflection Paper (3 pages, approx.750 words) on MAGL Learning Outcomes (6%) [3 hours] LOs 1,3
  6. A Final Paper (25 pages approx. or 6,250 words) integrating the transformative themes of the degree program into student’s life and ministry (60% of grade) [30 hours] LOs 1, 3

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.

If you are unable toregister forand successfully complete the Part B portion of this course in the subsequent quarter, you will be required to follow the most current version of the course in the quarterthat you do register. Asthere is always a chance that the curriculum may change, please note that you wouldbe responsible for obtaining the books, and participating in the course interaction and assignments required in the most current version. Please confer with MAGL Academic Services Administrator (susanmajor@fuller.edu) before registeringfor Part B to confirm requirements.

This ECD is a reliable guide to the course design but is subject to modification. Updated: July 2019

NOTE: This ECD is a reliable guide to the course design but is subject to modification. Textbook prices are set by publishers and are subject to change. Copyright 2019 Fuller Theological Seminary.