Experiential learning is an important aspect of the intercultural studies program. The FPU community itself has a thriving international community, with students from over thirty countries. In addition, the city of Fresno is home to more than ninety ethnic groups and a wide range of organizations that seek to serve and impact the various communities. Students are given opportunities to intern or volunteer with organizations locally and abroad. The following are links for various opportunities and organizations.
Local Opportunities
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The intercultural studies major prepares students for living and working within cultures different from their own. Students develop a broadened perspective and the knowledge needed to function and serve in our inter-dependent global society.
Distinctive Features
This major is built around a core set of interdisciplinary courses designed to give a broad understanding of the world and connections between societies. It offers two emphases:
The topics emphasis enables students to investigate different cultures from various perspectives and disciplines.
The missions/service emphasis builds on core concepts of the intercultural studies major and prepares students for work and service throughout the world.
Distinctive Features
Required courses in the missions/service emphasis build theological and economic frameworks for working across cultures.
Culture encompasses our habits, our lifestyle, our language-it shapes who we are has humans. The intercultural studies minor exposes students to cultural contexts other than their own. Students learn central elements of understanding and working in diverse and different cultural environments.
Distinctive Features
Courses for the intercultural studies minor discuss many of the topics that are enveloped in culture: religion, political science, geography, sociology, theology and communication.
published by webteam on Wed, 02/02/2011 - 00:00
Events in Egypt are beyond the speed of instant communication. History/political science professor Ken Martens Friesen looks to Berlin and China in 1989 and Iran in 1979 to see which way Egypt could go in 2011.
