DMin Curriculum
The doctor of ministry (DMin) program lasts three years and involves an annual three-week summer residency. During the residency students take the following courses:
- Core courses examining preaching as interpretive, performance, and social acts
- Peer colloquy in which students share their journeys, clarify goals, and design their parish projects and theses
- Elective courses
Post-residency work to be done during the traditional school year consists of:
- Preaching ministry projects — Each year this action/reflection experience provides students the chance to apply what they learned in the core and elective courses in their individual ministry contexts. The project is designed during the summer intensive, through conversation with a professor and the colloquy, and will last throughout the year between residencies
- A thesis in preaching ministry — This serves as the culmination of a student's work in the DMin program.
Curriculum Outline
Year One Summer Residency
- DMPR 8690: Preaching as an Interpretive Act
- Colloquy
- One elective course
Year Two Summer Residency
- DMPR 8691: Preaching as a Performance Act
- Colloquy
- One elective course
Year Three Summer Residency
- DMPR 8692: Preaching as a Social Act
- Colloquy
- One elective course
- Thesis electives