Doctor of Missiology - Biola University

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Cook School of Intercultural Studies Department of Intercultural Studies: Doctor of Missiology DISSERTATION PROPOSAL SECTION 5.9 DISSERTATION PROPOSAL The D.Miss. is a professional degree with an emphasis on applied research; therefore the D.Miss. dissertation should be designed to research an area of ministry with the specific objective of evaluating past ministry effectiveness, designing and testing new ministry strategies or conducting research which has a practical end toward the furtherance of the task of world mission. Within this very broad scope of activities, the individual has the responsibility to identify specific problems of interest and specific areas of research they wish to pursue. As part of the course of study the student has the requirement of six semester units in research design and qualitative research. ISCL 803 Qualitative Research: 3 Units This is a mentor-directed course that requires the student to read widely in the literature on the ethnographic method in order to determine which qualitative techniques would be useful to his/her dissertation research. ISCL 879 Research Design: 3 Units Research Design is a mentor-directed course which requires the development and refinement of the doctoral dissertation proposal through preparation, presentation and critique of proposal drafts and examination and discussion of issues related to dissertation research. The student is required to complete a formal dissertation proposal and to present and defend it within the seminar. This is ordinarily one’s first attempt at defining a specific subject for research and, as such, is the culminating course in the program. Although completion of ISCL 879 does not mean that the student can proceed automatically to the creation of the committee and receive formal approval for the proposal, no proposals will be accepted without the student having completed the research design seminar. By the time a student reaches the research design course, he/she should have an idea of which faculty members might be interested in the research. The most important step is to choose a committee chair with whom the student feels he/she can work in this process. Together with the chair the student will select two other members for the committee. Two of the committee members must be from the School of Intercultural Studies, but a third member may be an outside scholar or a faculty member Date: March 2004 Page 1 of 2
Cook School of Intercultural Studies Department of Intercultural Studies: Doctor of Missiology DISSERTATION PROPOSAL SECTION 5.9 from across the University. When a committee of three has been chosen and the student’s mentor approves the proposal, he/she will circulate the proposal to the other members of the committee and call a meeting to discuss its merits with the committee. When the committee approves the doctoral dissertation proposal, the student is approved to begin doctoral dissertation research. A student may not be cleared for field research and dissertation units until the comprehensive examinations have been successfully completed. Protection of Human Rights in Research Approval All doctoral research proposals at Biola University must receive PHRR Committee approval before field research begins. The PHRRC is a campus-wide committee of graduate professors who rule on the matter of human subjects research projects. You should take this matter into consideration, particularly in Research Design when you formalize your dissertation proposal. Since university-wide committees seldom meet during the summer, you should plan to submit your proposal to the committee during one of the regular semesters. This is to protect both you and the university in a time of increasing litigation and heightened awareness of the rights of those people with whom we work. Date: March 2004 Page 2 of 2
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