Variances from the Core Program

Variances (Please write Y for yes, you are in agreement or N for no, you disagree, for each item below, in which case give your reasons below and return to Viv by Jan 30)

Variances at APU (to be added by Rich)

1. Urban Poor Churchplanting will be called Urban Poor Church Leadership (agreed in Feb)
2. Students will be required to study one of the local languages in the country of the partnering institution prior to entry to the program to get to the level of basic communication (about 4 months)
3. English TOEFL is set at 600 rather than 550 for those not native English speakers.
4. The course on the marginalized will focus more on marginalization of women.
5. Entrance requirements involve prior urban exposure but not significant urban poor leadership experience

Variances at ATS (to be edited by Lee)

1. A leadership focus more than movement leadership, indicating entrance requirements do not require significant leadership experience
2. The Health Care course will focus on primary health care but not significantly cover HIV /AIDS programs as this is not as significant in the Philippines context
3. The Slum Education Course will focus on preschools not vocational schools or adult education processes as this is the area of expertise.
4. CHED, the national accrediting body requires additional courses, currently 2 Research courses
5. The English language requirements require up to three extra courses in English.

6.  The theology faculty require additional courses in a Bible Overview

1. Introduction to the Bible (3 credits)  equivalent to TUL500 (though has not been developed according to the standards of the MATUL.

2.   Evangelical Theology (3 credits) Similar to the course required for M.A. grads in the old curriculum

3. Hermeneutics from the Underside (3 credits) General hermeneutics theory combined with ethnohermeneutics

6. “We will not be doing practicums with most of the courses, only the two field education courses”.  (Final statements by Lee in the discussions, such that we were unable to reach any consensus on making this change.  This was not accepted by Viv or Rich.  It seems to have come from a conversation between Larry and Lee after Bangkok, where the additional 1 unit practicums that had been  mandated by the academic committee or board at ATS were dropped because the practicums are core to each course.  Lee did not realize that they were core , but thought they had been dropped altogether, thus courses so far have been didactic  ).

Variances at HBI (to be edited by Paul)

1. Additional courses required by faculty:

¨  TUL 504 World Religions,

¨  Introduction to Theology,

¨  Introduction to Missions

Variances in time commitments per semestral course.  

As best I can understand there is no common standard between the schools, so I deleted it from the program proposal, but it has resurfaced, so we need some definitions.  Courses in general have been designed on the common stands of 120 hours per MA course, consisting of 39-40 hrs class contact time, 40 hrs practicum and 40 hrs reading and writing.

However, Lee understands CHED require 54 hours of class contact time (this can include the practicum, but there is no Filipino statement as to total time for the course).  (Lee we need somewhere to see the formal CHED documentation on this, don’t you think.  I have searched their site twice but can’t find it anywhere.)

Rich understands the global international standard as 160 hours for a masters course. (Rich can you dig out the sources for this statement).

Viv understands it as 120 hours for a masters course (This is the Fuller standard  and has used this for the master course designs).   NZQA credit each course with 15 units = 150 hours.

HBI work to a standard of >>>>>