Bachelor of Community Development

This is an education to prepare you for a life of service to the marginalized. Explain the Great Commission within the context of the Old and New Testament Design and implement a project that addresses a developing world issue in a culturally appropriate way.Communicate cross-culturally in a foreign language at an intermediate level.

Demonstrate a specialized skill in a category of serviceUnderstand approaches to design, implementation, and the evaluation of projects that meet the basic needs of communities in a cross-cultural context.Identify their gifts and discern how to use them to benefit their community. Pursue further studies in community development, missiology, or organization leadership at the graduate level.

The Bachelor of Science in Community Development prepares students to learn to understand and think critically about the social, political, economic, and cultural dynamics shaping various types of communities. Particular emphasis is given to empowering disadvantaged communities to address inequalities and improve their long-term social, economic, and environmental sustainability.

The program enables students to lead efforts to create and maintain healthy, sustainable communities by providing a broad-based understanding and awareness of multi-dimensional aspects of urban and suburban community challenges in a metropolitan regional context and the means of effecting change from both grass-roots and public policy perspectives.