A. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

1.     Community Leadership & Organization

        LDR 602  Organizational Leadership

        LDR 604  Strategic Change Leadership     

        PRM 608  Community Development & Organization

 

2.     The Emerging Church

        PRM 604  Emerging Church

        PRM 605  Healthy Leaders in the Emerging Church

        PRM 617  Worship & Communication in the Emerging

                          Church

 

3.     Practical Ministry

        PRM 610  Personal Gifts & Calling

        COM 601  Preaching & Communication

        SFM 601  Spiritual Formation Practice & Theology

 

4.     Urban Youth

        PRM 607  Urban Youth at Risk

        PRM 611  Global Youth Trends

        THE 604   Exegesis: Reading the Word, Reading the

                          Street

B.  PROGRAM OBJECTIVES

1. To give students a biblical and theological foundation for effective ministry;
2. To broaden the student ministry perspective to include urban and global realities with a Christian worldview;
3. To build the student understanding and application of the missional aspects of ministry;
4. To empower students for transformational leadership within their ministry context; and
5. To enable each student to do a significant graduate integration project or thesis within their ministry setting, applying what they have learned during the course of their MTS studies.

C. DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

D. ADMISSION AS SPECIAL STUDENT

1. Academic knowledge, achievement and competence, as evidenced by previous writing, speaking, research and project management either inside or outside of formal academic programs;
2. A proven record of previous leadership experience;
3. Two additional recommendations from his/her community indicating at a minimum a rating of good to excellent;
4. Two to four Personal Learning Community (PLC) contracts submitted by support system, e.g. church, family, organization, etc.;
5. A paper describing a good rationale for the student not having had access to higher education, e.g. religion, culture, geographic, etc. This paper must demonstrate that the student does not have reasonable access or cannot be reasonably expected to complete a bachelors degree through a distance provider. Students who meet all other criteria, but do have access, may be required to complete three courses in upper level relevant areas, e.g. Bible, theology, etc., to verify their ability to do graduate work.
6. A minimum of five years of ministry experience; and
7. An assessment conducted by a subcommittee of the AAC in which a review of the documentation in the six areas of criteria listed above has been conducted and possibly a personal interview with the applicant and/or references, ministry colleagues, and members of the applicant's support system.

E. DEGREE REQUIREMENTS

1. The prospective candidate will have fulfilled all entrance deficiencies and other conditions stipulated at the time of admission into the program;
2. The prospective candidate will have demonstrated a capacity for individual research, indicated by the quality of written work submitted in conjunction with course work;
3. The prospective candidate will submit a Request for Candidacy form to the Office of the Registrar;
4. The prospective candidate will submit a project proposal to the Academic Affairs Committee for approval. A sample proposal is available from the Registrar's Office. A project fee equal to the current course tuition for a four-credit course is to be submitted with the project proposal; and
5. All candidacy requirements must be completed by the second week of May in the year prior to graduation (see Chapter 9, Academic Calendars).

F. THESIS POLICY

G. CURRICULUM