DMin Project Proposal General Guidelines

All DMin students will prepare for their summative project by crafting a proposal. The processes that result in this proposal, and the proposal itself, are designed to help students gather the resources to successfully complete their projects. These resources include knowledge from courses taken, research methods and ethical considerations, project refinement, and faculty buy-in. The DMin Project Proposal is created during the DMin Proposal Seminar course, finalized further in conversation with the Project Director, and should be approximately ten pages in length. The Project Proposal should include:

• Framing of the Project, simply outlining the problem the Project will investigate and the way the Project will address the problem;

• Importance of the Project, describing the ways the project is connected to the student's own work and the work of others in similar contexts and circumstances, and what the project will add to the discourses and practices in those communities; 

• Proposed Research Model, outlining the research the student will undertake, including any IRB considerations; 

• Methodology, including any theoretical models the project will engage and the kinds of prior work that have been done with similar questions; 

• Scope, specifying what the project will and will not consider, and limiting the nature of any conclusions of the project; 

• Bibliography, representing the research undertaken so far, and annotated where appropriate to demonstrate engagement with prior literature and an understanding of the field; 

• Appendices, including an approved IRB request if appropriate.