Term Offered: 2 Year: 1
Some suggestions from similar courses:
Code ID
SubjectTitle Lecture Supervisio n Fieldwork Read/Written Assign Total
EC706 TUL560 Small Business Development 35 5 40 40 120

Candidates will be able to expand nine principles of Kingdom Economics into a design of a Credit

Cooperative process for a church. This will include an understanding of theories of causes of poverty

and evaluaton of how the poor escape poverty including theories by de Soto, Milton Santos, John

Kenneth Galbraith. Students will develop processes for registration of churches, quality bookkeeping,

board strategy, funding and marketing plan, business plan, and eldership or deacons development

processes for their ministries. Candidates are able to understand the benefits of small business

development and have the ability to explain those benefits to poor slum dwellers.
SF703 TUL540 Urban Reality & Theology 35 5 40 40 120

An interface of traditional Western systematic theology with contextual urban theologies. Candidates

will gain confidence and develop processes of urban story telling approaches to developing indigenous

slum theology.



Theology of the city, sociological and anthropological theories on the creation and culture of cities and

urban systems are introduced. (e.g. urban religious movements and development; macro-economic

policies impacting slums; informal sector development)



An introduction to applied research and evaluation emphasises qualitative action and church growth

research for use in churches, urban ministries, missions, and development organizations. Applied

research is presented as a systematic inquiry designed to provide information to decision makers

and/or groups concerned with particular human and societal problems. Christian perspective on the

purpose and practice of urban research is of special interest with a bias to non-intrusive and
TH824 TUL670 Integration Seminar (Capstone Project) 35 5 40 40 120

The program culminates with students analyzing the achievement of learning outcomes, and applying

their knowledge and skill to specific community problems. Students produce a “professional report” (PR)

on behalf of an urban poor church or community organization that involves local residents in specific

improvement efforts. In the PR, students diagnose a problem situation, select appropriate analytic

methods, evaluate alternative approaches, and recommend actions. It is a report on a real-world

planning task, carried out in a manner demonstrating professional judgment and competence. An

integrative seminar allows the PR to be presented to and reviewed by community residents through

Program No. Subjects: 18
LectureHours Supervisio n Fieldwork Read/Written Assign Total Hours

Totals 500 80 640 640 1860

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