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Office of Institutional Effectiveness and Assessment

Doctor of Ministry

Graduates of the Doctor of Ministry degree will be able to:

  1. Revisit foundations for sustainable ministry.
    • Being immersed in explicit Wesleyan practices of community-based formation around the priorities of scripture, reason, tradition and experience, participants will discover transformational habits for sustainable ministry lifestyles.
  2. Foster ministry leadership vision, ethic and practice relevant to their ministry context and world.
    • By deeply engaging in analysis of one significant theme from their unique ministry context, participants establish a trajectory for life-long contribution.
  3. Appreciate transformational demands within contemporary ministry organizational contexts such as congregations, non-profits and marketplace engagements through various analytic means of biblical, theological, social and cultural exegesis.
    • Participants must add to their biblical and theological exegesis, cultural-situational exegesis that informs ministry leadership practice on a daily basis.
  4. Demonstrate a self-directed capacity to incorporate a variety of holistically sustaining practices into their lives – expressed in the completion of Leadership Formation Portfolio exercises.
    • The "Action-Reflection" emphasis consistently and creatively invites participants to match their formational priorities with a vigorous prophetic and missiological relevance equal to the times in which we live. To this end, participants will develop scholarly transformation projects within their own contexts.

Doctor of Philosophy

As doctoral-level graduates, PhD graduates will:

  1. Have acquired advanced specialized knowledge of the discipline, research methods, and interpretive theories of the discipline of study (such as biblical studies or missiology).
    ASSESSMENT: Review for Research Readiness (direct assessment) & Successful completion of 48 hours doctoral level courses and seminars.

  2. Demonstrate a comprehensive and integrative knowledge of the appropriate literatures of the area of study, including applicable linguistic skills.
    ASSESSMENT: Comprehensive Examinations

  3. Demonstrate research ability by engaging in original research around an appropriate question, problem, or opportunity in the discipline of study.
    ASSESSMENT: Dissertation (completion, examination, and oral defense)

  4. Exhibit ability to do critical reflection on the vocation of theological scholarship in its dimensions of learning, teaching, and research in the interdisciplinary context of ecclesial and academic communities.
    ASSESSMENTS (indirect):  Weekly Disciplinary Seminars, Annual Colloquium, and Core Courses on Disciplinary Methodologies and Instructional Theory

Master of Theology

ThM graduates will:

  1. Exhibit substantive knowledge and understanding of normative literature in the field of study (such as theology, exegesis, and social scientific studies related to the field).
    ASSESSMENTS: Exit Examinations (Biblical Studies), and Research Readiness Review (Intercultural Studies)

  2. Demonstrate advanced or specialized knowledge in either linguistic specialty (biblical and modern research language in biblical studies) or in a chosen area of concentration (in intercultural studies).
    ASSESSMENTS: Language Courses and Examinations (Biblical Studies), and Concentration Course Papers (Intercultural Studies)

  3. Demonstrate the ability to do focused research in one’s field of study
    ASSESSMENTS: Scholarly Paper or Thesis.