Program Goals

1. Apply critical and creative thinking skills to provide reasoned analysis of competing ideas as well as solutions to difficult problems.
2. Analyze quantitative data to address questions, support arguments, and evaluate conclusions.
3. Access and evaluate information in conducting research and conveying results of that research ethically to others.
4. Compose multi-media presentations and written communicatons, including those specific to their discipline.
5. Communicate orally in various settings, including those specific to their discipline.
6. Express an appreciation for the diversity of people and their cultures, in order to honor God’s creativity and his creation.
7. Demonstrate an appropriate understanding of biblical content, inductive Bible study, and theological synthesis for a Christian leader.
8. Apply a Spirit-filled, biblical understanding of ministry to serve people as followers of Christ in the Church, home, workplace, and the world.
9. Apply strategies necessary for continuous development of knowledge and skills, integrating a Christian worldview within various physical, social, cultural, and technological environments and communities.