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106 IM 795 Intercultural Ministry Practicum This practicum is required of all MDiv students completing the intercultural ministry concentration. The practicum (which generally takes place overseas over a ten-week period at forty hours per week) includes two distinct components: (1) at least 300 hours of hands-on ministry involvement in an intercultural setting for the purpose of skills development, and (2) at least one hundred hours of exposure to the specific kinds of issues and contexts that are typically part of the immersion experience included in IM 611. Details should be worked out with the coordinator of the program in intercultural ministry in advance of course enrollment. Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Three hours. IM 590, 690 Studies in Intercultural Ministry These course numbers are reserved for courses of special or one-time interest that do not otherwise appear in the catalog. Two or three hours. IM 591, 691 Individualized Study in Intercultural Ministry These course numbers are reserved for courses that are designed to free the student for independent investigation in intercultural ministry under the guidance of a professor. One to three hours. JUSTICE AND MISSION Poverty, injustice, disease, oppression and slavery, religious persecution, and many other issues are headline news on a daily basis. There is a clear biblical mandate to care for widows, orphans, the poor, the unloved, and the forgotten who live in our midst and around the world. Justice and mission courses will help students analyze justice issues through the lens of this biblical mandate. They will equip students to serve God through engagement in social action, which meets the needs of the whole person; spiritually, physically, and socially. They incorporate hands-on, practical training in a biblical and theological framework for transformational ministry, and provide the tools needed to make a difference and change the world. JM 501 Knowing Justice: Theological Foundations This course offers a biblical and theological framework for understanding issues of justice as an aspect of the mission of God. It explores the meanings of justice as encountered within the cultural contexts of the biblical world and as applied to the injustices of the contemporary world. Special attention will be paid to debates about the relationship between evangelism and social concern, the process of social transformation, and the distribution of wealth, power, and privilege. Offered fall semesters. Three hours. JM 502 Doing Justice: Practical Foundations Doing justice takes many forms and operates at many levels of society. This course introduces the major vocational expressions of doing justice as an aspect of the mission of God. Through careful study of the careers of godly, experienced practitioners, students take steps to discern their unique calling to engage in the relational, professional, economic, and political dimensions of work among the poor and marginalized. Offered spring semesters. Three hours. JM 601 Uncovering Injustice: Empirical Realities Empowers students to think critically about injustice as a complex, structural reality embedded in the cultural, economic, and political systems of the U.S. and the world. Using intellectual tools from the social sciences and missiology, students prioritize issues they anticipate encountering in their supervised field-based learning experience. Thus, depending on student interest, the course focuses on topics such as displaced persons, human trafficking, racism, domestic violence, unemployment, environmental degradation, and political corruption. Offered fall semesters. Three hours.