Description
This intensive online course serves as a replacement course for a core course missed by DMin students coming into the DMin program on a staggered admission. The course may take the place of the research methodology course required of all DMins at the beginning of their programs and will include robust writing exercises and assignments and will include readings and vigorous discussions of qualitative research methodology, doctoral-level writing, expectations of doctoral work, the opportunities and difficulties of interdisciplinarity, and the related concerns of context and researcher positionality and reflexivity in doing ethnographic work in the service of theological inquiry. The course seeks to assist students as they become practical theologians, offering them opportunities to read practical theological texts and work together in guided groups as they discern how to do practical theology themselves with an eye toward their final projects at the end of the DMin.