This program provides practical preparation designed to foster cultural awareness and to develop you into an effective cross-cultural professional who is ready for intercultural service in the U.S. or abroad.
Additionally, this program seeks to create a comprehensive understanding and appreciation for diverse cultural beliefs, values systems, worldviews, and intercultural communication methods and strategies.
A Bachelor of Arts in Intercultural Studies will truly make you a student of the world, ready to appropriately engage with others in your choice of career.
Suggested Program Plan
What Can I Do with an Intercultural Studies Degree?
- Cross-cultural Missions
- Public Relations
- Social Sciences
- International Relations
- Graduate Studies in Numerous Fields
Sample Core Courses
Introduction to Linguistics
A survey of the major subfields of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, socio-linguistics, language varieties and an introduction to the history of English. The approach to this course is practical, emphasizing problem solving and providing the field skills necessary for analyzing the structure of English and other languages as a basis for any linguistics or applied linguistics degree (e.g. Bible translation, TESOL).
Issues in Modern Missions
This course discusses the issues of cross-cultural barriers, the importance of getting the Word of God into other languages, the relationship of the missionary to the various phases of the work of evangelism, church planting, partnering, and the place of development projects as an expression of missions. Biblical underpinnings are examined.
Advanced Intercultural Communications
Theories and research relating to face-to-face communication among people from different cultural, national, ethnic, or racial backgrounds. Cultural contextualization will be examined in depth.