PhD/ICS Curriculum

Consult the current catalog regarding Purpose and Nature of the Program, Program Design, Instructional Modes, Language Requirements, Residency Requirements, and Admission, Candidacy and Graduation Requirements 

All PhD/ICS participants take a common core of required courses. Each course and seminar is conducted in such a way as to encourage diversity and to provide opportunities for meeting a wide range of research interests and needs. Furthermore, the program allows flexibility in the design of a personal program of study which best serves the professional and academic needs of the individual participant.

If a participant’s dissertation research will be based on historical study, then ME 9925 should be taken. In all other cases, ME 9922 must be taken. Participants are encouraged to consider taking both. 

Designated electives:                                                                 12 hours

Students select, with the approval of the program director and/or dissertation supervisor, four courses offered at or above the 7500 level by faculty in the missions department. These courses should be related to the participant's dissertation research and/or to the participant's three field statements (the written part of the comprehensive examination) and must include careful attention to theory, method, and data.

Free electives:                                                                              9 hours

These will normally be ME courses, but an individual with a strong academic background in missiology or with special needs related to their dissertation may, with permission of the program director, take PhD classes from other departments.

Comprehensive exam preparation and dissertation:            12 hours

Total Program = 60 semester hours

Updated to 2008-09 Catalog