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259 COLUMBIA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY 2016-2017 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
CNC 9010
Healthy Leaders and Organizations
You will take a close look at your own emotional and spiritual health and evaluate how that level of health can affect functioning in a
church, mission, or institutional ministry. You will also be trained to diagnose, build, and maintain spiritual, emotional, and relational
health in Christian organizations. You will explore issues such as emotional and spiritual maturity, power, authority, communication,
preaching, personality, team building, and leadership styles in connection with their contribution to personal and institutional health.
Exposure to a variety of effective biblical and secular tools will help you gain a better understanding of yourself and the organizations
you lead. (3)
CNC 9470
Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) Skills and Supervision
This course will focus on developing your knowledge and skills for effective counseling in a missionary care setting. Emphasis will be
on experiential learning utilizing interviewing strategies in a lab with supervision. (3)
CNC 9474
Clinical Applications in Missionary Care
This course is designed to increase your understanding of various ways to use clinical care and knowledge from the mental health
professions in member care. You will consider ethics, professional relationships, influence of untreated pathology on the community,
and various personal, interpersonal, and systemic dynamics. You will explore biblical, spiritual, and psychological underpinnings as
well as types of clinical resources, referral procedure, and collaboration with clinical service providers. (3)
CNC 9541
Missionary Care for Career Transitions
In this course you will explore pivotal moments in the various seasons of missionary service which ensure growth and longevity in a
lifelong commitment to the missionary call. You will study the career span of a missionary and will define critical seasons and decisions.
Special attention will be given to designing models for the missionary care provider which will enable you to minister to lifelong needs
and to enhance career health and satisfaction. (3)
CNC 9571
Single and Family Issues in Missions
In this course you will focus on the home life of a missionary with the perspective of defining ways to enhance the viability of the
missionary home. You will develop care-giving skills, focusing on how to enrich and address current challenges that encroach on the
missionary’s personal lifestyle. Course segments will view the missionary home through the lens of single adult missionaries, missionary
children, and marital couples. The missionary care provider will examine factors that will assist in assessing the health of the personal
lifestyle and methods of intervention. The ultimate goal is to provide active care-giving while trusting God and His eternal purposes to
cause the missionary to flourish in the home, as well as in ministry. (3)
CNC 9740
Organizational Missionary Care Services
In this course you will examine the operational structure and needs of providing member care within a missions organization. Emphasis
will be given to organizational procedures, policy creation, and the role of the caregiver within the operational structure to ensure health
in the missionary and the mission agency. (3)
Ministry Skill Development
MSD 1110
Encountering Spiritual Formation
This course is designed to introduce the student to the foundational principles of spiritual formation for effective life, ministry, and
vocation. The process of the student’s spiritual formation includes their relationship with God, their biblical self-image, their relationship
with the Body of Christ, their personal relationships, and their relationship with the world. Students are invited into a multiple-year
journey of encountering spiritual formation in community. The goal of this course is to help students build a foundation for continued
spiritual formation at and beyond their time at CIU.
MSD 4400
Practical Skill Development in Ministry
Ministry Skills experiences within the discipline providing 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. Requires advisor approval. (3)
Repeatable.
Ministry Studies
MIN 5002
International Student Teaching
This course will enable you to experience education in a cross-cultural environment. You will observe schools and teachers and interact
with other national educational personnel and students. You will teach in local schools and receive pre-service orientation, on-site
orientation, field supervision and post-field experience, including debriefing and evaluation. (3)
MIN 5025
New Paradigms for Youth, Family, and Culture
In this course you will explore the ways in which different paradigms of ministry affect youth, families, and culture. What does it mean
to be family-based in youth ministry? What is the role of the family in the church? How does Christianity affect culture? What is the role
of the church today and in the future? How does culture play a part in the shaping process? What will youth ministry look like in the
future? What implications for the future arise from the phenomenon of the “emerging church?” (3)
MIN 5030
Advanced Youth Communication
This course is designed for individuals who intend to focus on vocational communication (pastor, youth leader, itinerant speaker,
evangelist, and teacher). You will explore the crucial elements of effective communication, including how to understand learning and
teaching styles and how to connect with a variety of audiences and sizes. You will explore keys for personal and spiritual preparation,