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 requirements when taking REL-240, SOC-205 or SOC 250, ECO-213, BIO-107)
Requirements (47 credits)
Ministerial Studies
Community Development
| CDV-229 | Community Development Management | 3 |
| CDV-227 | Transformational Development Principles | 3 |
| GLM-315 | Christianity in Intercultural Contexts | 3 |
| BIL-252 | Biblical Theology of Social Justice | 3 |
| REL-307 | Race, Class, and Gender: Church and Society | 3 |
| CDV-360 | Development Internship | 2 to 9 |
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| INT-390 | Intercultural Engagement Seminar | 1 |
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| CDV-365 | Urban Ministries Internship | 3 to 9 |
| CDV-422 | Leading Ministries in Diverse Contexts | 3 |
Supporting Courses
Choose one 12 hour track
Child Advocacy
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
Human Trafficking Intervention
| CDV-225 | Issues in Human Trafficking | 3 |
Choose any 3 of the following courses
| ADC-320 | Theory and Practice of Group Counseling | 3 |
| CRJ-332 | Victimology | 3 |
| SOC-250 | Global Child Advocacy Issues | 3 |
| SWK-342 | Human Behavior and the Social Environment I | 3 |
Intercultural Studies
Public and Global Health
Urban Ministry
| CDV-240 | Urban Anthropology | 3 |
| CDV-276 | Models of Urban Ministry | 3 |
| CDV-376 | Urban Church Planting | 3 |
| CDV-488 | Special Topics in Community Development | 1 to 3 |
