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Steps for Course Writers

  1. Look first at Course Chart (links to in-process course descriptions)

  2. Review the Common Understandings

  3. Design your course using the Simple Formatted Template for Coursewriters and 21 Steps to design your course 

  4. Start with the course descriptions in the Common Understandings

  5. Catch the heart of The Nature of the MATUL (power point)

  6. Review the Profile of a Graduate which has 900 outcomes split among the courses of the degree so as to understand and define the desired outcomes of your course.

  7. Understand Transformational Conversations as contextual theology process for UrbanContextualTheology this degree.

  8. Connect with the rest of your team at the other institutions: ATS Course Writers and HBI course writers for peer review.

  9. Lots of useful things in the Course Designers Resource Web (MATUL web site) This has many Power Points, Lectures, Readings that can be used for each course design - updated weekly,

  10. Send materials to your program director for review (This process generally requires 3-4 revisions initailly then at least one per year) and to add to these websites.