CUL 6602

Global Mission and Culture

This course provides a contemporary survey of the changing nature of world missions, and introduces foundational principles for missional practice in the 21st century. Survey topics will include salient sociological trends, the rise of the majority world church and modern movements, and the evolving role of North American “missions” in global Christianity. Secondly, this course introduces foundational principles in charitable giving, program research and evaluation, cross-cultural contextualization and competency, and doing theology in a global context to prepare students for informed missional practice. Topics will be drawn from multiple disciplines

Units: 3.0