Doctoral Formation & Research Colloquium

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Catalog: 2026–2027 · Noncredit Formation & Competencies · Noncredit requirement

Prerequisites: See the catalog requirement below.

Course description

All doctoral students participate in a noncredit Doctoral Formation & Research Colloquium during active enrollment. The colloquium creates continuity across coursework and dissertation development through research presentations, peer critique, ethics consultation, scholarly dialogue, professional formation, and examination of the student's relationship to authority, certainty, interpretation, and community impact. Doctoral formation is not psychotherapy. Students are not required to disclose private trauma histories or medical information. The focus is scholarly and ministerial reflexivity: how the researcher’s identity, assumptions, authority, relationships, and values shape questions, methods, interpretation, and dissemination.

Source: Sacred Bloom Catalog – Reader Edition, page 51.

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Course Content

Doctoral Formation & Research Colloquium — Course orientation
Catalog requirements and learning outcomes.

  • Doctoral Formation & Research Colloquium — Course overview

Doctoral Colloquium — Doctoral study guide
Catalog requirements, study route, reading guide, and progression.

Doctoral Colloquium — Unit 1: Scholarly positioning and formation
Teaching note, application, and self-check.

Doctoral Colloquium — Unit 2: Presenting research in progress
Teaching note, application, and self-check.

Doctoral Colloquium — Unit 3: Giving and receiving rigorous critique
Teaching note, application, and self-check.

Doctoral Colloquium — Unit 4: Continuing participation and ethical consultation
Teaching note, application, and self-check.

Doctoral Colloquium — Assessment and scholarly evidence
Three course-specific briefs, review rubric, and record templates.