TOPIC 1. THE URBAN POOR CHURCH AND THE CULTURE OF URBAN POVERTY (Power-point)  
2. POVERTY: THE CURRENT CONTEXT (Power-point)
3. THE POOR IN YOUR CITY (Discussion)
4. STUDENTS' CONTEXTUAL ANALYSIS

Readings:
    WHERE ARE CHURCHES OF THE POOR?
    GLOBAL MOVEMENTS
    ROUND THE CLOCK SLUM ACTIVITIES
    AN INSIDE PERSPECTIVE
     SQUATTER CULTURE AND THE CHURCH
     SLUM DEFINITIONS

1. Understanding: Trainees will be able to differentiate the causes of poverty in various urban contexts, relating these to social theories. The trainees will be able to document differences between push and pull factors causing urban poverty; theories of causation of slum poverty; the nature of land and land rights issues; the difference between first and third world poverty: and other endemic social and environmental problems of the slums.

2. Understanding: Trainees will be able to identify characteristics of an urban poor church from reflections on Oscar Lewis' "Culture of Poverty" thesis.

3. Understanding: Trainees will be able to identify global and national factors contributing to slum poverty.

4. Skill: Trainees will be able to apply these contextual analytical tools to pockets of poverty in their own city.