Intercultural Studies - Mission/Service Emphasis
The mission/service emphasis builds on core concepts of the intercultural studies major and prepares students for work and service throughout the world.
Unique Features
Required courses in the missions/service emphasis build theological and economic frameworks for working across cultures. Elective courses allow students to focus on mission, urban issues, international business and community facilitation in other cultures or multicultural contexts.
Our Graduates
This emphasis preprares students for a variety of career and service opportunities in cultural contexts other than their own, both within and across national boundaries. These include cross-cultural mission, commuity participation from village to urban communities, social action, international relations and internal policy-making as it relates to cultural/ethnic issues.
Courses
Required Courses (12 Units)
- INTB-370 International Business (3)
- or PS-425 Global Economics and Sustainable Development (3)
- THEO -365 Current Perspectives on Mission (3)
- THEO -430 Contemporary Theologies (3)
- or THEO-447 Theology of the Human Person (3)
- THEO -445 Biblical Theologies of Mission (3)
Electives (11-13 Units)
Select three courses in consultation with the program director to meet individual needs and interests. COM-420 and REL-452 are recommended.
- BLIT-310-349 Choose in consultation with the program director (3)
- BIOL-310L Ecology (4)
- BUS-365 Business Ethics (3)
- COM-420 Conflict Management and Resolution (3)
- GEOG-330 Urban Geography (3)
- HIST -410 Latin American History and Religious Thought (4)
- MIN-357 Christian Leadership and Administration (4)
- MIN-360 The Church in an Urban World (3)
- MIN-375 Discipleship and Evangelism (2)
- MIN-379 Spiritual Formation (2)
- PS-412 Modern Africa: History, Politics and Culture (3)
- PS-414 Modern Asia: History, Politics and Culture (3)
- PS-416 Modern Middle East: History, Politics and Culture (3)
- PS-430 America in a Global Community (4)
- REL -452 Christianity in the Non-Western World (4)
- SW-410 Working with Groups (3)
- SW-420 Becoming a Change Agent (3)
- THEO -370 Expansion of the Christian Faith (3)
- THEO -425 Theological Ethics and the Environment (3)
- THEO -430 Contemporary Theologies (3)
- THEO -465 Theological Ethics of Conflict and Peacemaking (3)
