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257 COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY 2016-2017 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
MAT 3410
Research Statistics
This course is designed to introduce you to descriptive and inferential statistics. With this knowledge, you should then be better
equipped to complete research projects in your chosen field of study. You will analyze a number of well-known statistical tests and
research strategies and then demonstrate your ability to use the tests. After exploring population parameters and the proper uses of
designated statistical tests, you will discover how to use computer applications to free yourself from the notation requirements and
mechanics of the statistical tests, so the research process can become less tedious and more conceptual in nature. (3)
Middle Eastern Studies
MES 3888
Israel Study Tour
This is a study tour that focuses on the cultural and religious history of the areas being visited. Prior to the tour, you will explore each
area's geography philosophy, theology, mission, literature, and arts through lectures, and you will complete several reading
assignments. You must attend the lectures pertaining to the area being visited and complete the assigned journal/papers. Further
requirements will be included in the syllabus. Instructors are CIU faculty members, and the program and tour itinerary are entirely
planned and supervised by CIU faculty members. You will spend at least as much time in preparation, required lectures periods, and
prescribed activities as is normally required for resident courses.
MES 4400
Practical Skill Development in Middle Eastern Studies
Ministry Skills experience within the discipline provides opportunity for the upperclassman to gain competency and confidence within
related vocations. Experiential learning requirements are defined by the student’s program and assessed by the program faculty. A
minimum of 50 clock hours of direct experience is required for a unit of credit. (1)
Requires advisor approval (Repeatable)
Ministry Care
CNC 5075
Multicultural Counseling
In this course you will address cultural diversity issues with a focus on marriage and family therapy. You will examine human needs in
the world community in order to understand how messages relate to individuals and families with dramatically different circumstances.
You will evaluate the person and role of the multicultural counselor in light of his or her theology, personal adaptation, communication,
and counseling skills. You will also address the multicultural counselor in the professional roles of pastor, missionary, business person,
professional counselor, and marriage and family therapist. This course presupposes the validity and necessity of involvement in a
multicultural job or ministry, whether within the United States or in another country. (3)
CNC 5400
Ministry of Counseling: Theory and Practice
This course will introduce you to basic pastoral counseling techniques and paradigms with the goal of learning how to apply biblical
principles, techniques, and paradigms to specific issues such as anger management, marital breakdown, addiction development, crisis
management, anxiety, depression, and grieving. (3)
CNC 6015
Advanced Multicultural Counseling
In this advanced course, you will focus on the application of counseling and therapy skills in multicultural and intercultural settings,
including a focus on multicultural counseling and cultural diversity issues as they relate to marriage and family therapy. You will study
the human needs in the world community in order to understand how messages relate to individuals and families with dramatically
different circumstances. You will evaluate the person and role of the multicultural counselor in light of his or her theology, personal
adaptation, communication, and counseling skills. You will address the multicultural counselor in the professional roles of pastor,
missionary, business person, professional counselor, and marriage and family therapist. This course presupposes the validity and
necessity of involvement in a multicultural job or ministry, whether within the United States or in another country. You must have a
minimum of six months cross-cultural exposure in an international setting to enroll in this course. (3)
CNC 6330
Church and Mission Health
This course will help you understand the counseling, relational, occupational, medical, and leadership issues that exist in ministry both
in the United States and in missionary endeavors. You will use a variety of tools to examine your own health with application to churches
and missionary organizations. (3)
CNC 6400
Pastoral Care Techniques
This course will introduce you to the foundational techniques and skills of pastoral counseling. You will learn how to listen emphatically,
how to facilitate spiritual life assessment and change, and how to counsel strategically within the client’s process of spiritual, emotional,
and relational growth and healing. Emphasis will be placed upon who the counselor is as well as what the counselor does. (3)
CNC 6410
Crisis Counseling
This course is designed to train you to respond with wise counsel to those who have endured a crisis such as the death of a family
member, divorce, loss of a child, illness, or political trauma. Attention will be given to the emotional, spiritual, relational, and physical
symptoms that may occur in the aftermath of crisis. (3)
CNC 6411
Sexuality Counseling
This course addresses the biological, developmental, relational, emotional, and spiritual issues that are involved in understanding
human intimacy and sexuality. You will learn basic diagnostic and treatment skills and how to use a variety of treatment skills, the Bible,
and the
Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV
in teaching and counseling sexual issues. (3)