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the GIAL programs, contact the Intercultural Studies Program office or contact the Graduate Institute for Applied Linguistics,
7500 West Camp Wisdom Road, Dallas, TX 75236, 800.892.3356
www.gial.edu
, or contact the CIU Teaching English as a
Foreign Language program supervisor.
The HEART Institute
The HEART Institute offers courses to a cohort of students from a variety of schools participating through articulation
agreements. The HEART Institute is affiliated with and located adjacent to Warner Southern College in Lake Wales, Florida.
CIU students selected to participate in the program will be under the faculty supervision of Dr. Mike Barnett. (Please note that
admission to the HEART Institute at CIU requires an additional application process and that admission is limited.)
Institute for Strategic Languages & Cultures
As part of a continuing partnership with CIU, the Institute of Strategic Languages and Cultures offers undergraduate-level
intensive courses in Russian, Arabic, and Chinese. Students may study language full-time (a five hour per day curriculum) or
may enroll in individual courses covering vocabulary, grammar, Bible in another language, and conversational language skills.
Students enjoy a close interactive atmosphere with instructors who provide an encouraging communicative environment for
optimum language acquisition. For more information contact the College of Arts and Sciences academic dean’s office.
Institute of Theological Seminars
The Institute of Theological Seminars (ITS), a joint ministry of Great Commission Center International (GCCI) and Christian
Renewal Ministries (CRM), is dedicated to providing graduate theological training for Chinese Christian professionals. Through
a formal articulation agreement, CIU’s SSM permits students who have completed studies at the Institute of Theological
Seminars to become transfer students with advanced status in the certificate and degree programs of CIU’s SSM. Students
transferring from ITS must have completed a bachelor’s degree from a recognized college at the time they pursue coursework
at ITS.
Jerusalem University College
Since CIU is a member of the Associated Schools Consortium of Jerusalem University College (JUC), CIU students have access to
an off-campus center for the study of biblical history, geography, and archaeology on Mount Zion in Jerusalem. Students
enrolled in CIU’s Middle Eastern Studies program have a year of study in Jerusalem built into their program (provided they are
accepted to attend JUC). Students in other CIU programs may supplement their studies with courses at JUC.
JUC provides exposure to the history, culture, language, and geography of Israel from antiquity to the present. The faculty
includes Christian, Jewish, and Arab scholars from the faculties of Israel’s leading institutions, as well as JUC’s resident faculty.
Classroom instruction is complemented with field work in archaeology and historical geography. Students may study the
Hebrew language, biblical history, Middle Eastern studies, and early Christianity studies. Undergraduate students may bring
up to one year of study at JUC into their program at CIU. Graduate programs are also available through JUC’s School of
Graduate Studies. For more information, visit
www.juc.edu
or contact the Middle Eastern Studies program director.
Los Ang les Film Studies Center
The Los Angeles Film Studies Center is a one-semester program of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities designed to
provide specialized academic preparation for placement in the mainstream Hollywood film industry. College-level students
receive intense instruction and experience in a 16-credit semester format whereby the student receives credit from CIU. This
program provides an excellent learning component for the Communication major. For more information, visit
www.bestsemester.com
, or contact the Communication program director.
Urbana Theological Seminary
CIU’s SSM and Urbana Theological Seminary have established an articulation agreement that permits qualified students who
take courses at Urbana Theological Seminary to apply those courses to the certificate and degree programs of the SSM. For
additional information on this agreement, contact the SSM dean’s office.
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