Wheaton PhD

I have now completed my first week of studies in the PhD program at Wheaton College and I thought I would pass along what I am doing, either so that you can be jealous of my position or happy that you are not here.

1. Classes. We have four required PhD seminars for the program, which consist of reading a lot, arguing in class about the reading, and then writing a paper. The one I am taking right now is theological interpretation of Scripture, which I might write about at some point. I am also auditing some classes, which means I sit in on master's level classes and do the reading but no tests or papers. I am currenting taking Deuteronomy from Dan Block, historical theology of the ancient church from George Kalanzis and Haggai/Malachi from Andrew Hill.

2. Comprehensive reading. We each have a list of books to read by the time we gradaute. Mine is 12 pages long. 35 of the books I have to write 6-8 page reviews.

3. Dissertation. We have to present in the spring a detailed proposal to the PhD committee, so we need to be working on that project as well.

4. Langauges. I just found out I passed out the German test, but I need to continue working on being able to read it quickly. French is next summer's project.

5. I also work ten hours a week for one of the professors, Daniel Master. He is the dig director at Ashkelon. 

I seriously don't know how people do this if they working at the same time.

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