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TMMC2287: Exploring Leadership and Theology for Ministry and Mission

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Type Tied
Level 2
Credits 10
Availability Available in 2024/2025
Module Cap
Location Durham
Department Theology, Ministry and Mission

Prerequisites

  • None

Corequisites

  • None

Excluded Combinations of Modules

  • TMMC2171 Leadership and Theology for Ministry and Mission

Aims

  • To enable students to apply selected appropriate theological disciplines to inform leadership in the church and the workplace.
  • To encourage students to integrate biblical, theological, pastoral, ethical and liturgical approaches to leadership with their prior experience, formulating their own coherent personal response and practice in the light of the churchs ministry and mission.
  • To enable students to think laterally about issues concerning leadership and to how they might apply them as reflective practitioners able to identify and apply principles of collaborative working to servant leadership.
  • To develop students capacity and disposition for servant leadership that is informed by profound listening to the world, to others, to self and to God.

Content

  • Biblical and theological understandings of leadership, authority, service and collaboration within the perspective of the churchs ministry and mission.
  • A study of the relationship between spirituality and servant leadership.
  • Leadership as listening to self, others, God and the world.

Learning Outcomes

Subject-specific Knowledge:

  • [SSK 3]
  • Describe and analyse in detail key theological and biblical principles underpinning leadership and collaboration in the context of the churchs ministry and mission.
  • Compare and contrast influential ideas about leadership and management and evaluate them and the questions to which they give rise from a theological perspective in the context of Christian discipleship, ministry and mission.

Subject-specific Skills:

  • [SSS 3]
  • Reflect critically and theologically on their own experience of group and team membership and leadership identifying strengths, weaknesses and areas for development.

Key Skills:

  • [KS 3, 4]
  • Take responsibility for a task that involves independent inquiry; leading and working with others collaboratively, critically evaluating their own and others practice as Christian leaders and learning from it the management of time, resources and use of IT; meeting deadlines, evaluating the task and learning from it.
  • Plan their own personal and professional development.

Modes of Teaching, Learning and Assessment and how these contribute to the learning outcomes of the module

  • Lectures and personal study
  • Summative written assessment

Teaching Methods and Learning Hours

ActivityNumberFrequencyDurationTotalMonitored
Lectures81.7516 
Personal study84 
Total100 

Summative Assessment

Component: Written AssessmentComponent Weighting: 100%
ElementLength / DurationElement WeightingResit Opportunity
Written assessment2500 words100 

Formative Assessment

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