SDPC VISIONING DOCUMENT V.1 12/20/18 (IEC)
Working Course Title: Prophetic Witness: 21st Century African American Church
To support multidisciplinary instructional and curricula delivery targeted at those engaged in ministry formation, social justice organization and mobilization, public policy/ethical consultation. The instructional design will have two foci: theoretical/ theological and praxis/practice.
Proposed modules include:
- Liberation Theology
- Womanist Theology
- Creating Justice Ministries
- Homiletics
- Theology of Sufficiency and Eco Justice
- Reparatory Justice and Reparations
- Interfaith Context
- African World Spiritualities
- African Origins of Christianity
- Biblical Lexiconography
- Journey to Justice – Palestine and Dalit
- African Origins of Civilization (Stolen Legacy
- From Transatlantic Slave Trade to Afrophobia (Role of Church
- Christian Education
- From Mass Incarnation to Mass Criminalization
- Financing Ministries: Faith, God and Money
The two modules for Beta design and testing are:
- Liberation and Womanist Theologies
- Reparatory Justice/Reparations & Role of Church
Proposed Types of Content/Categories
- Sacred Texts
- Historical Proclamations
- Iconography/Visual Arts
- Biblio References (tied to SDPC Amazon % sales)
- Glossary
- Toolkits and Models of Ministry
- Music
- Prophetic Proclamations – Quotes/Papers
- Video
- Church Proclamations/Declarations
- Historical Time Line (Browder to Now cross generational narratives
- Index Who What Where When
- Comments Space
- Blogs, Interactive Space
- Inquiry or Questioning Narrator
- Student Tracking/Posting Products
- Liturgies – e.g. Maafa/Naming ceremonies
Targeted Market
This education platform is targeted at several audiences:
- Schools of Religion/Divinity and seminaries
- Church based educational centers
- Community organizations engaged in justice advocacy and activism
- Clergy and lay leaders engaged in continuing education
- Global faith communities aligned with issues impacting people of African descent
SDPC Team
Tech delivery/Inhouse team (Julie and Angel)
Copy Editors (Julie, Jeremiah Wright, Larita, Quincy)
Content specialists (Jeremiah Wright, Iva, Quincy, Tiauna)
What the student experience should look/feel like?
- Engaging
- Interactive, efficient and clear accessibility
- Support student curation
- Multisensory
- Friendly
What faculty experience should look/feel like?
- Optional ways of student engagement
- Student tracking/accountability
- Clear protocols
- Ease of use
- Compatible interface and alignment with other systems
- Course integration tools for evaluation and documentation
- Friendly and ease of use
What Administrative experience should look/feel like?
- Case for return on investment
- Adheres to best practices and accreditation standards
- Provides appropriate levels of security
- Adherence to best practices and accreditation standards
- Provides case for account creation and management
- Clear and appropriate cost by tiers for targeted audiences
- Complimentary (non-competitive) to existing institutional academic structures
- Notes: Troubling Biblical Wates and Study Guide/ Harris, Black and Christian
- Retrieve Library archive 4533; Jackie acquisition of Archive