MI-20105 Internship II: Practicum

Internship II — Practicum (MI-20105), 5 credits

MI-20105 is a forward-looking practicum course. Where Internship I asked you to make past ministry theologically legible, Internship II asks you to plan and carry out a ministry initiative — and to report honestly on what you did, what it cost, and what it opened. The course carries no textbook and no quizzes. Its primary deliverable is the Practicum Report: a single document that moves from situation analysis through planning, execution, and reflection to a clear account of what comes next. The work must happen in a real ministry context, under real supervision, in collaboration with real people — not at a desk alone.

This course sits at the beginning of a capstone sequence: MI-20105 (Practicum) → MI-30105 (Ministry Project) → MI-30210 (Thesis-project). Students with sufficient capacity and a project of suitable scope may consolidate all three into a single aligned effort (20 credits total). Conversation with your faculty supervisor about consolidation eligibility should happen early — ideally at the orientation stage.

Course Objectives

By the end of this course, students will be able to:

• Identify a genuine gap, need, or opportunity in a specific ministry context and frame it clearly.
• Develop a credible, time-bound plan with named objectives, collaborators, and resources.
• Execute a ministry initiative and document the work with enough detail to be evaluable.
• Reflect honestly on formation, failure, and learning — integrating WWES coursework with field reality.
• Articulate a forward trajectory that connects this practicum to the next phase of their ministry and academic development.

Tracks

The practicum is organized around four tracks. Students select one track and declare it in Part A of their Practicum Report. The track shapes the project but not the report template — all tracks use the same six-part structure.

1. WWES Expansion (recommended default) — Branch development, translation team supervision, contextual adaptation of WWES courses and materials for a specific language group or cultural context. Students on this track work in direct collaboration with WWES staff and examiners. This track is most directly supported institutionally and offers the richest supervision ecosystem.
2. Curriculum and Materials Creation — Research, writing, and field-testing of contextual theological materials that address a real gap in the student's region or language group (e.g., a course for ancestor-worshipping contexts, a resource addressing prosperity-gospel distortion, a Bible study series for a specific demographic or vocational setting).
3. Integral Mission — A holistic ministry initiative that integrates evangelism, discipleship, and social or economic empowerment. Projects on this track engage communities in ways that address whole-person flourishing, drawing on Lausanne commitments and evangelical integral-mission theology.
4. Church Planting — Classic church-planting track covering contextualized Bible teaching, doctrinal formation, and missional strategy in a defined community. Students on this track document both strategic planning and initial execution of church-planting activity.

Prerequisites

Minimum 30 WWES credits completed before enrolling.

Required Text

None. The student's practicum itself — the plan, the execution, and the honest account of both — is the primary text of this course.

Assessments

• Practicum Report (80%) — the six-part document covering situation analysis, plan, execution, and reflection, uploaded via Moodle.
• Forum posts (20%) — Orientation (10%) and Feedback (10%).

Assessment is recorded as pass / fail with the percentage split applied for the Moodle gradebook. A pass requires "Meets" on every rubric criterion. Faculty will return written feedback on any "Developing" criterion and invite one revision before a final pass is recorded.

Rubric

Plan it. Do it. Learn from it. Tell the truth about all three — then build on what you found.