Course Description
Course Name
Mission In Contemporary Scotland
Session: VGSS3122
Hours & Credits
30 SCQF Credits
Prerequisites & Language Level
Taught In English
- There is no language prerequisite for courses at this language level.
Overview
Assessment by coursework.
Two coursework essays of 2,500 words each (25% each)
One oral presentation to be written up and submitted as a 500 word paper (10%). This can be accompanied by other media such as powerpoint, video, slideshow etc. and should take the form of a review of a 'cultural product' which is 'made in Scotland' (play, novel, film, TV show, poem, song, animation, painting, sculpture). You will describe, introduce, illustrate the product , place it within the Sxcottish cultural landscape and suggest how an understanding of it might connect to missiological thinking or contextual theology. Your presentation should last 10 minutes.
One 3,000 word reflective project (40%) which will be on a topic chosen by the student and which will be based on personal research, fieldwork and/or primary investigation. It will focus on an aspect of mission in contemporary Scotland as it is occurring in practice at grassroots level.
*Course content subject to change