Students must register for at least two semester hours each academic year until the completion of their program. The Doctor of Philosophy in Intercultural Studies program is designed for teaching and academic development and is classified as an academic research doctorate. Openings for additional students are determined by the number graduating in a given year. The curriculum is designed to nurture sound scholarship, meaningful research, and the relationship between theory and practice. The Doctor of Philosophy in Intercultural Studies degree is conferred on the basis of high scholarship and sound research skills as demonstrated by the student's course work, comprehensive written and oral examinations, proposal, and dissertation.
Summer sessions are normally devoted to individual research concerns.
The purpose of the Doctor of Philosophy in Intercultural Studies program is to assist in the development of specialists in intercultural ministry strategy, theology, anthropology, history, education and missiological research. Students are usually well-established in one or another of the numerous intercultural ministries connected with the world missions of the church whether at home or abroad. Many students are related to intercultural ministries that have been undertaken by churches and missions of the non-Western world. Prospectus The Doctor of Philosophy in Intercultural Studies program brings together advanced graduate students from many parts of the world, providing them a meaningful learning environment. The doctoral students vary widely in age, but many are in their late 30's or early 40's.