Ministry Concentrations
Students in the Intercultural Studies, Ministry, and Youth and Emerging Adult Studies majors have the opportunity to pursue a variety of concentrations within their degree plan. They also have the option of working with their advisor to build their own concentration using transfer courses or classes that meet their area of interest and intended ministry.
The following concentrations are available in the Ministry and Youth and Emerging Adult (YEA) Studies majors:
Media Ministry: Students complete a minimum of 12 credits with the goal of preparing them to serve in a ministry and media capacity. Classes include Story Structure, Audio or Video Production, and two upper level media production courses with additional elective credits that supplement the student’s specific goals for the concentration.
Ministry: Students complete a minimum of 12 credits with the goal of preparing them for ministry. Students interested in a double major may want to pursue a general ministry concentration. Students should consult with their academic advisor to choose a group of interrelated ministry courses.
Next Generation: Students complete a minimum of 12 credits with the goal of preparing them for ministry with youth and emerging adults in the local church or nonprofit contexts. Required courses include Spiritual Lives of Children or Spiritual Lives of Youth, Leading Children and Families, and Serving Youth and Emerging Adults. The requirements for this concentration in the Youth and Emerging Adult Studies major are slightly different since some of these courses are taken in the major core.
Nonprofit Leadership: Students complete a minimum of 12 credits with the goal of gaining essential skills in relational leadership, managerial leadership, and missional leadership so that they can work in either local church or nonprofit contexts. Classes include Business as Mission, Foundations of Nonprofit Leadership, and Principals of Financial Accounting, Grant Writing, Human Resource Management, Principles of Marketing and/or Nonprofit PR.
Social Engagement: Students complete a minimum of 12 credits with the goal of preparing them with the theological and practical understandings that are needed to act mercifully and love justly in a broken world. Classes include Human Global Migration, Race and Ethnicity in America, and Social Justice.
Youth and Emerging Adult Ministry: Students complete a minimum of 12 credits with the goal of preparing them with a basis for serving in a ministry capacity with youth and young adults. Classes include Serving Youth and Emerging Adults, Contemporary Issues and Interventions with Youth, Spiritual Lives of Youth, and Leading Youth and Emerging Adults.
