Global Leadership Practicum

Travel abroad and intercultural exercises place students in challenging cross-cultural situations where it is necessary to demonstrate skills in managing different customs, norms and expectations produced by inter-cultural encounter. Students exercise global leadership by enhancing understanding among people of vastly different cultural backgrounds and by adding value to the lives of the people they meet. There will be a service-learning dimension to the course, where students will engage in activities beneficial to the society visited and report on what they learned from their service. Special attention will be given to developing effective strategies for enhancing understanding among people of vastly different cultural backgrounds. This class relates intimately to the DBU mission of integrating faith and learning, since missiology in its essence analyzes from a broad interdisciplinary perspective how to improve our efforts as believing Christians to proclaim Christ to all peoples. This 5000-level course is cross-listed with a 4000-level course and includes specific graduate course requirements which reflect appropriate deeper learning experiences and rigor in the higher-level course. This course contains a field-based service-learning component.