Community Development - B.S.
Purpose
This major seeks to prepare students spiritually and with intellectual breadth to serve God and humanity as true world changers by equipping them with professional knowledge and skills for careers and graduate studies in community development (CDV).
The curriculum presents CDV in alignment with the generally accepted understanding of the field and primes students for graduate studies and employments in national and international relief and development agencies as well as in local church-based and community development organizations.
The basic premise of this major is that context determines content, thus worldviews shape the manner in which God's created resources are acknowledged, tended and utilized. This principle guides the way in which development programs approach the analysis and critique of the stewardship responsibilities of God's created resources in the local, national and global communities. Our students are therefore prompted to the biblical understanding of the world as God's creation and the role of the church in fulfilling the scriptural call for justice, peace and prosperity for all humanity.
General Education Requirements
Students in this major meet the general education requirement in the social sciences by taking REL-240. (Optional courses: SOC-205 or SOC 250, ECO-213, BIO-107)
Requirements (48 credits)
Ministry Core
| REL-200 | Introduction to Ministry | 1 |
| REL-270 | Evangelism and Discipleship | 3 |
| REL-390 | Ministerial Placement and Persistence | 1 |
| REL-490 | Practical Theology Capstone | 1 |
| BIL-202 | Inductive Bible Study | 3 |
| BIL-252 | Biblical Theology of Social Justice | 3 |
| THE-233 | Christian Theology I | 3 |
Practical Theology (PRT)
| REL-240 | Ministry in Context | 3 |
| CDV-229 | Essentials of Non-Profit Management | 3 |
| CDV-276 | Models of Urban Ministry | 3 |
| CDV-350 | Transformational Development Principles | 3 |
| CDV-360 | Development Internship | 3 to 9 |
For this major,
CDV-360 is required to be taken for 3 hours. Additional hours may be taken as electives.
Religious and Ministerial Studies (RMS)
| INT-422 | Intercultural Leadership for Transformation | 3 |
| REL-307 | Race, Class, and Gender: Church and Society | 3 |
Supporting Courses
Choose one 12 hour track
Child Advocacy
Urban Ministry
| INT-220 | Intercultural Relationships | 3 |
| REL-365 | Homiletics I | 3 |
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| CED-240 | Teaching the Bible to Youth and Adults | 3 |
| REL-370 | Introduction to Pastoral Care and Counseling | 2 |
| REL-468 | Church Leadership | 3 |
| WOR-238 | Ethnodoxology in Christian Ministry | 0 to 1 |
For the Urban Ministry track,
WOR-238 must be taken for 1 hour.
Design for Social Change
| ART-224 | Design I: Two-Dimensional Design | 3 |
| ART-201 | Human Centered Design 1 | 3 |
| ART-240 | Placemaking Design | 3 |
| ART-365 | Design and Community Development | 3 |
Economics
Intercultural Studies
Public and Global Health
