Missional Leadership in a Professional Setting

This course serves as a final capstone course for the three professional MA degrees in the Leadership Division of Luther Seminary. Students will demonstrate their ability to integrate theology, theory and practice in the creation and defense of a capstone project centered on a current issue in their concentration area. Capstone projects might include a practical ministry project or an article for publication. In addition, students will reflect on themselves as professional Christian leaders in light of their program learning, and prepare professional development plans for their first two years after the program.

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Course Objectives

• Students will refine their ecclesiology and theology of leadership in light of their learning throughout their program.
• Students will assess themselves as a Christian public leader within community and in light of the competencies of their concentration.
• Students will create their own leadership resources in their area of concentration by collecting, reviewing and supplementing their work through their learning in their degree program.
• Students will help peers reflect on their learning and will assemble a portfolio in their concentration area.
• Students will demonstrate their ability to integrate theology, theory, and practice in the creation of a capstone project in their concentration area.