2018-19 COURSE CALENDAR DMIN
Doctor of Ministry
WINTER January 7 to March 10, 2019
PROFESSOR: Dr. Bryan McCabe
TBD: or Possible Overture in Nairobi
This course will focus on the eight perspectives of transformational leadership in relationship to communities globally. Students will be introduced to concepts and topics related to urban leadership, as well as the philosophy and theological underpinnings for this field. Students will be provided with group experiences in order to develop a cohort community to ensure a strong support and accountability infrastructure for the entire program. Study tips and logistics will be reviewed.
PROFESSOR: Dr. Bryan McCabe
This course addresses issues that are at the heart of the crisis being experienced by virtually every global metropolis. It examines current theories of poverty, diversity, and social justice, including current debates on poverty and development, the proper role and response of the church to urban, inner-city realities, Liberation Theologies for today’s world, and evangelical reflection on social action and political involvement. It seeks to expose the students to poverty and poverty-alleviation efforts on the front lines of urban centers.
PROFESSOR: Dr. Kit Danley
This course will examine the benefits of ABCD and AI as contrasted with a deficit-based approach to community transformation. Students will examine the concepts of the abundant community based on the work of McKnight and Block and others, as well as define and execute ABCD/AI projects in their own communities (should be taken second in the series).
PROFESSOR: Dr. Maria Pompea
This course examines the core aspects of generative, relationally-based community development, as well as the unique vision and leadership strengths women bring to the community advocacy table. Focusing on the theology and sociology of community building, the importance of holistic and multi-cultural community, in addition to the life-affirming elements of culture care, this class will address the complexities relative to constructing cohesive communities, including any constraints potentially encountered within the global urban context.
SPRING April 1 to June 2, 2019
PROFESSORS: Drs. Yvonne McKenzie & Leroy Hurt
Students will assess their readiness and next steps to be transformational leaders in their organizations, city or internal/external cultures where they have influence. Students will work to express their calling based upon current opportunities as well as their life narrative. Students will assess natural giftedness as evidenced in their life stories; spiritual gifts as evidenced in their ministries; as well as issues in their life that will limit their relational and missional abilities. This course includes a special emphasis on spiritual formation practices and principles connected to God’s wiring in their life and context. This course provides the personal focus and framework for the student to design the rest of the MAGUL degree to develop specific steps for mentoring, skill development, and research to build upon their strengths and opportunities and shore up weaknesses.
PROFESSOR: TBD
Cross-culture understanding is essential to building relationships and leading organizations in the 21st century. This fast-paced course will address fundamental concepts of cross-cultural studies from a Christian perspective, including cultural and social anthropology, worldview, contextualization, communications and cross-cultural conflict, with particular emphasis on cross-cultural ministry and business. Going beyond theory, students will engage in practical cross-cultural exposure and development of key cross-cultural, listening, interpretation, and communication skills.
PROFESSOR: Dr. Larry Peabody
To integrate wholeness in work, life, relationships and social impact, students need to grasp the purpose of work, their own unique calling and the meaning of human dignity. Every BGU degree begins with this course in various forms. It explores the meaning and ministry of work that engages people for most of their waking hours. The approach taken is biblical – surveying and meaning of work in God’s revealed purpose. It is contextual – showing how worldviews affect one’s work ethic and providing both points of content and prophetic challenges. It is integrative – exploring how work is related to ministry, calling, and mission. And it is theological – investigating work in the light of God’s timeless Word and the contemporary situation. Having a theology of work is critical both for those engaged in non-ecclesiastical work and also for pastors, called to equip the saints by empowering them to serve God and others in the work world.
PROFESSOR: Dr. Claire Henry
This course is designed to give insight into programmatic methods used to identify underlying factors that impact inequities specific to health and the economic well-being of women. The research literature will be assessed to better understand the dynamics of transformational leadership practices that inform data collection processes, program design, methodology, mobilization, and implementation strategies that empower women that lead program development initiatives.
SUMMER July 8 to September 9, 2019
PROFESSORS: Drs. Yvonne McKenzie & Leroy Hurt
Students will assess their readiness and next steps to be transformational leaders in their organizations, city or internal/external cultures where they have influence. Students will work to express their calling based upon current opportunities as well as their life narrative. Students will assess natural giftedness as evidenced in their life stories; spiritual gifts as evidenced in their ministries; as well as issues in their life that will limit their relational and missional abilities. This course includes a special emphasis on spiritual formation practices and principles connected to God’s wiring in their life and context. This course provides the personal focus and framework for the student to design the rest of the MAGUL degree to develop specific steps for mentoring, skill development, and research to build upon their strengths and opportunities and shore up weaknesses.
PROFESSOR: Dr. Doug Barnett
In vision/values organizations the tools of operational systems and project management become the way teams translate vision and values into reality. Starting with strategic planning as a tool for team alignment, vision expansion, and communication, this course demonstrates how strategic plans are translated into the two core implementation arenas of operations and project management. Operations topics include workflow management, capacity and location planning, and team leadership with an emphasis on a “lean management‟ to streamline all core operational processes and maximize effective decision-making by front-line workers. Students will learn the skills of navigating organizational influences on their project as they define the three “P’s” of project management (purpose, process, and people). Project management topics include: developing and defining the charter, scope, and activities essential to the success of the project; resource allocation (time, money, skill, people, and infrastructure) through Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and Compatibility Maturity Models (CMM) to develop and monitor schedules, costs, and budgets; establish optimal communications technologies strategies and techniques to address accountability and problem-solving; and identifying, quantifying, and minimizing emerging business risk in local and international market environments. During the course, students will actively implement the skills in this course through a practical project within their current organization.
Professors: Drs. Yvonne McKenzie & Leroy Hurt
This course focuses on the person of the leader and explores the paradoxical concept of servant leadership, modeled by Jesus, within the broader context of the abundance of leadership theories, in order to gain a clearer understanding of one’s true vocation, how one best leads, and the ability to lead oneself in an increasingly multi-cultural and complex world.
PROFESSOR: Brad Smith
This course is designed to help students infuse the perspective, values and prayerfulness of a transformational leader into every aspect of resourcing their ministries and businesses. The end goal is clarity of perspective, practical skills, and concrete steps toward their goals during the class. In this course you will learn a theology of fundraising; how to express the story of your vision and mission in a way that connects to people's minds and hearts; how to identify new sources of donation and fee income, and how to develop local sources of funding to decrease dependence upon cross-cultural sources. Practical outcomes will include a personal/ organizational blog with social media coaching; a case for support document and a draft fundraising/resourcing plan for your organization.
PROFESSOR: Dr. Bryan McCabe
This course will focus on the eight perspectives of transformational leadership in relationship to communities globally. Students will be introduced to concepts and topics related to urban leadership, as well as the philosophy and theological underpinnings for this field. Students will be provided with group experiences in order to develop a cohort community to ensure a strong support and accountability infrastructure for the entire program. Study tips and logistics will be reviewed.
PROFESSOR: Rev. Dr. Wayne Weathers
This course is a general introduction that investigates current thinking about globalization and the confluence of Christian families around the world. The course will engage the student in broad-based studies on culturally-diverse Christian family values, sexuality, economics, social policy and other influences in the context of globalization. The student will examine implications on the Christian church as families face the demands of modernity.
PROFESSOR: Dr. Paulette Jordan
This course is an innovative and inter-disciplinary course designed in cooperation with leading experts in collaborative partnerships for Christian mission. This course takes a case study and collaborative approach to learning that is organized around realistic scenarios and shared collaborative experience. You will work individually and in teams to solve problems and complete projects that will give you insight into the possibilities for collaboration in community ministry and global mission. You will learn how to apply the principles and processes of collaborative partnerships to address complex community, organizational, and social issues, accomplish challenging goals, and bring big missional dreams to reality.
AUTUMN October 7 to December 9, 2019
PROFESSORS: Drs. Bill Payne & Jeremy Graves
The course will focus on introducing the student to the emerging field of study of organizational transformation and its application to the challenges and opportunities facing today’s global and urban ministry leader. Specific attention will be given to the factors that need to be taken into consideration in initiating, managing and sustaining needed transformational change within an urban ministry organization, particularly as it relates to the role that leadership and organizational culture plays in this process.
PROFESSOR: Dr. Yvonne McKezie
Students will assess their readiness and next steps to be transformational leaders in their organizations, city or internal/external cultures where they have influence. Students will work to express their calling based upon current opportunities as well as their life narrative. Students will assess natural giftedness as evidenced in their life stories; spiritual gifts as evidenced in their ministries; as well as issues in their life that will limit their relational and missional abilities. This course includes a special emphasis on spiritual formation practices and principles connected to God’s wiring in their life and context. This course provides the personal focus and framework for the student to design the rest of the MAGUL degree to develop specific steps for mentoring, skill development, and research to build upon their strengths and opportunities and shore up weaknesses.
PROFESSOR: Rev. Dr. Wayne Weathers
This course expands beyond Western Church history and also allows students to track their own theological and ecclesial histories. The students will gain insight from the lives of Christian leaders throughout history, who have been instrumental in transformative change.
PROFESSOR: Dr. Paulette Jordan
| What is traditionally taught as Human Resources elsewhere is taught at BGU as Human Relationships. God created humans to work through their giftedness within the context of healthy personal and institutional relationships. Leaders are responsible to build organizations that do this well, which should result in maximizing organizational goals. This course helps students understand the various types of systems needed for healthy people development and work environments to take place in any marketplace organization or ministry, regardless of the urban arena. Students will learn skills that infuse relational health, empowerment, dignity and transformation into what are often people-insensitive HR activities. Students will gain hands-on experience in key skill areas of labor and employee relations, clear metrics, adequate training, recruitment, hiring, performance management, development and retention/separation of service. Among other models, this course will explore the global paradigm-changing Joy at Work approach pioneered by Dennis Bakke that decentralizes these tasks to front-line work teams around the world, in international and local contexts. |
PROFESSORS: Drs. Christian and Pezzutti
Legal systems should connect to morality. Morality should flow from spiritual truths that form the basis of the connectivity between human dignity, justice, and redemption. Yet these vital connections are increasingly being lost in post-modern societies. This course prepares students to understand how to restore these connections in their own and life and work in order to center their leadership compass on spiritual discernment and biblically-informed personal ethics. From this vantage point, this course helps students navigate national, regional and global legal systems -- to work realistically within them, to model truth-seeking, justice, and universal, inclusive development beyond them as appropriate and to transform them holistically, when possible. This course systematically addresses the dominant national and international legal systems and areas of law that make up the legal environment of business, with special emphasis on contracts, agency, torts, corporate forms and governance, immigration and trafficking, taxation, intellectual property, and bankruptcy. The course will also seek to convey the dynamics of the law, as well as future trends and their implications, with special emphasis on cross-cultural business contexts. This course also examines the growing chronic failure of corporate character development and ethical behavior globally, by examining the pervasive, pandemic of global corruption in business and government, through recent corporate scandals and misguided practices. Students will learn about the difference between biblically grounded ethics and the variety of cross-cultural definitions of situational ethics, and will examine various statements of ethical values and codes from international, national, corporate, and professional organizations, including corporate social responsibility paradigms. Students will develop a series of immediate practical applications of the various topics in this course to their current and prospective work situations with the goal to form life-changing, spiritually-centered, ethical decision-making habits, personally and organizationally.
This course provides students with the foundations of what transformational leadership means in communities globally. Students will be introduced to concepts and topics related to the philosophy and theological underpinnings for this field. Students will be provided with group experiences in order to develop a cohort community to ensure a strong support and accountability infra-structure for the entire program. Study tips and logistics will be reviewed.
PROFESSOR: Dr. Bryan McCabe & Dr. Wayne Weathers
This course is designed to expose the participant to the principles and practices of transformational leadership in the new global city. The course will cover characteristics and skill sets of the transformational leader, as well as the practices of various transformational ministries in a context of concentrated poverty. The role of collaboration and civic networking will be explored, as well as the themes of transformational business, conceptual and strategic approaches to cities, theological foundations for incarnational leadership and other components of Christian community development. The course contains many experiential features, as well as more traditional academic pedagogies to help participant application in their own context.
PROFESSORS: Drs. Bill Payne & Claire Henry
This four-credit course is designed to introduce the Doctor of Ministry (DMin) student to the processes of designing and writing a Doctoral Final Project Proposal. The course includes aspects of academic writing, project planning and management, and developing a research design activity. The course culminates in the creation of a Final Project Proposal, which will be a guiding document for the student’s Doctoral Final Project for the DMin Degree.
PROFESSOR: Dr. Larry Peabody
To integrate wholeness in work, life, relationships and social impact, students need to grasp the purpose of work, their own unique calling and the meaning of human dignity. Every BGU degree begins with this course in various forms. It explores the meaning and ministry of work that engages people for most of their waking hours. The approach taken is biblical – surveying and meaning of work in God’s revealed purpose. It is contextual – showing how worldviews affect one’s work ethic and providing both points of content and prophetic challenges. It is integrative – exploring how work is related to ministry, calling, and mission. And it is theological – investigating work in the light of God’s timeless Word and the contemporary situation. Having a theology of work is critical both for those engaged in non-ecclesiastical work and also for pastors, called to equip the saints by empowering them to serve God and others in the work world.
PROFESSOR: Dr. Claire Henry
The course will examine the attributions, accomplishments and challenges of mentoring women in the professions with a view to identifying theories and proposing a research agenda for mentoring women and girls in a variety of contexts.
Please contact Dr. Wayne Weathers to set up an appointment for assistance in planning out your classes for the next few years.
