Competency Profiles as Basis for Course Design of the MA in Transformational Urban
Course: OO OO Overall Course Goals
CompID Competency Skill Knowledge Value Character
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To increase leaders' capacities to To increase leaders' capacities to

found new church planting found new church planting

missions and movements, missions and movements,

development agencies and development agencies and

indigenous churches led by slum indigenous churches led by slum

dwellers. dwellers.
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To produce effective urban poor skills to engage entrepreneurial comprehensive knowledge to

workers with comprehensive expertise for long-term solutions sustain long-term servant-

knowledge and skills to sustain through multiplying leadership roles among the urban

long-term servant-leadership transformative movements. poor

roles among the urban poor and

engage entrepreneurial expertise

for long-term solutions through

multiplying transformative
Summary for Course = OO (3 competencies)

Course Objectives: Candidates will learn about the nature of culture and practice cross-cultural communication, become familiar with the

LAMP method of language acquisition and be equipped to put it into practice, mastering a new language to the level of

TUL505 Language and Culture basic everyday communication. They will understand social structures, and roles of change agents. They will

Learning develop an anthropological perspective on the role of religions, and in missiological theories of receptivity to the

gospel, cultural exchange systems and the ways in which they are manifested in tribal, peasant, industrial and post-

industrial societies..
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Understands relationship Mastery of a second language to Understands relationship between

between language learning, level of everyday language learning, symbols,

symbols, gestures, roles and gestures, roles and

communication, incarnational communication, incarnational

cross-cultural relationships, cross-cultural relationships,

redemptive analogies, and

methods used by outsiders to

acquire language skills in a non-

formal manner
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Learning the culture of family Daily note and diagram core Understand essential cultural Incarnational entry to a Sensitivity & Adaptability

and work related social cultural values, aspirations and analysis tools for understanding culture - Hanging out in

structural elements including social, economic, family, the community as a

kinship, authority, decision- decisionmaking etc. processes means of entering into the

making, in-group/ out-group etc cultural mindset

through living n the community

and reflecting on social research
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Able to analyse own culture Able to analyse a culture Cultural Analysis frameworks, Love of own culture Strong self-identity

Major elements of own cultural

values and structure
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Can see into another culture with Entrance into, relationship to anthropological approaches to Values an emic approach

anthropological eyes people of another culture, skills in culture analysis

cultural analysis
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Student conscious of own Able to identify ethnocentric Analysis of ethnocentric Avoidance of Appropriately others-centred

ethnocentricity tendencies tendencies withi own's own culture

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