Check out our upcoming courses below. If you are a current student and have questions about a particular course you can reach out to the faculty member or email registrar@wciu.edu. If you are an applicant or new student email info@wciu.edu and someone from our enrollment team will gladly help you!

Graduate Course Offerings

This course leads students to analyze the history of development and its trend, biblical and theological reflections related to development, the role of culture and worldview, shalom and Kingdom and their relationship to international development, all of which explored from the perspective of international authors and practitioners. The framework of development, integrating multiple perspectives, is clearly identifiable through the readings and learning activities. 

This course will provide skills on how to develop short-and-long-term plans at the organization and project levels to ensure the best use of resources and the greatest reach and impact. 

This course provides an understanding of the role of advocacy in development and equips the students with essential skills on how to undertake advocacy, empowerment of the marginalized, and pursuit of justice. Students will engage in foundational theological analysis and reflections on issues of vulnerability, justice, and transformation; analyze situations of poverty and injustice; reflect on such situations with biblical lenses; and shape their perspective on engagement with people living in such situations. 

WCIU’s MA in Development Studies aims to enhance the effectiveness of scholar practitioners in their development work. Our students need to grow not only in scholarship, but even more in their ability to translate what they learn into improved performance in the field. The Applied Learning course requires students to evaluate their current level of practice, and then to work with a mentor/supervisor in the field to craft and implement a plan to enhance their development practice.

This is the last MA course. Students develop a major project that integrates historical, biblical, and cultural principles to identify the root of a specific problem within a specific society and to propose solutions to that problem. Guidance is given by the instructor in selecting the topic, choosing and applying appropriate research methodologies, and in developing the final presentation. 

This course seeks to establish a biblical and theological basis for women and men leading and using their gifts to enhance societal development, including their religious community.  Students will participate in close textual analysis, which is helpful in communities that derive principles and practices of faith from sacred texts.  Special consideration will be given to the impact of women and men’s partnership in advancing God’s reign.  GWE 611 is a seven-week intensive version of this course. 

This course builds a biblical theology overview that connects the motif of the Kingdom of God to issues of poverty, oppression, community development, and church growth in urban poor communities.  

In this course, students conduct the qualitative/participatory research projects they designed in TUL670. This culminates in the writing and oral presentation of a report that involves local residents in transformation. 

Ph.D. Course Offerings

This course provides learners with general knowledge of how national and global economics impact people’s wellbeing and their development. It equips them to better understand economic theories and models, draw on different strands of economics for their own work and challenge economic thinking more fruitfully when necessary. The learners will also be equipped to engage better with economists and policymakers on economic matters.  

Students in this course design qualitative/participatory research projects related to significant issues on behalf of an urban movement or community organization.  Students apply analytic frameworks and practical skills to an investigation of a specific issue on behalf of a church movement or community organization that involves local residents in specific transformation efforts. Research methods are taught and used to gather and organize pertinent information, culminating in the writing and oral presentation of a Professional Report.