Department: Global Leadership

Code Name Description
MAGL5315 Leadership Practicum The course consists of supervised practical training experience in a challenging work environment under the guidance of mentoring relationships provided by a proficient veteran in the field and an academic advisor. Students improve leadership skills...
MAGL5316 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 exercis...
MAGL5321 Sharing Gospel Faith In this course students learn skills in personal evangelism by sharing testimony of a personal experience with Jesus Christ as Savior and by communicating the essentials of the Christian gospel. Strategies for how to engage people in gospel conversat...
MAGL5326 Urban Community Development This course examines the social and spiritual needs of marginalized urban dwellers. Students consider successful ministry models to address those needs, and to provide support in developing communities that seek transformation into a more healthy and...
MAGL5330 Introduction to Missiology An introductory study of the theory and practice of Christian missions, analyzing how the gospel is best communicated in specific cross-cultural situations. The course challenges students to consider how they can share Christian faith with those who...
MAGL5331 Cross-Cultural Living and Ministry The course provides orientation to people who will work in international or ethnically diverse settings where personal adaptation to a different language and culture is required. The course focuses on acquiring insights and skills for cultural adapta...
MAGL5332 Strategies for Missionary Work An in depth study of strategies and tactics for missionary work; reviews the history of strategic approaches in missions, culminating with current strategies for reaching unreached people groups (UPGs); includes overview of the development and nature...
MAGL5333 Local Church on Mission The class will provide practical steps in developing a missional church devoted to sharing the gospel in positive terms within its own community, in its region, nation, and world. Leadership tools will be provided for church workers to lead their chu...
MAGL5334 Chronological Bible Storying The course helps students learn to communicate more effectively to non-literate oral learners by using stories and narratives to communicate an essential Christian message. Students will understand that most of the world's population does not learn...
MAGL5335 Biographies of Outstanding Missionaries The course consists of reading biographies of inspiring examples of Christian living and ministry from the history of missions. Students will read biographies from the early church, from medieval missions, from the modern missionary movement, and fro...
MAGL5336 Current Trends in Missions The course considers important contemporary developments in global Christian missions. A review of approaches, strategies, methods, and problems will lead to suggestions about best practice and relevant applications in concrete settings. Since this i...
MAGL5340 Integrating Faith and Cultures The purpose of the course is to analyze how Christian faith intersects with cultures-whether one's own or other cultures. Biblical, missiological, and cross-cultural principles are applied to provide perspectives, guidelines, and methods for ministry...
MAGL5341 Global Christianity The course reviews recent and best thinking on the advance of world evangelization by reviewing the biblical basis for missions, the history of worldwide expansion of Christianity, cultural adaptation and competencies required for work among remote p...
MAGL5342 Ethnography, Cultures, Worldviews The course introduces students to applied ethnography, where they will learn the essentials of how to conduct interviews with persons from a different cultural identity to ascertain customs, values, and worldview understandings. Students learn to 'r...
MAGL5343 Understanding Islam The course is an introductory examination of Islamic faith and practice, designed for those with little previous understanding of Islamic culture and its doctrinal beliefs. Students will learn to describe the principle features of Islamic religious...
MAGL5344 Strategies for Urban Ministries The course provides tools to engage the urban setting around the globe as metropolis, inner city, and suburban area. Students learn skills for civic and personal transformation that grow out of Christian ministry and witness. Biblical models for ad...
MAGL5345 Business as Mission Business as Mission (BAM) represents a movement of entrepreneurs and business leaders uniting with missionaries and missions strategists to utilize their business acumen to take the good news of Jesus into the world. BAM businesses hold a dual emphas...
MAGL5360 Special Topics in Intercultural Studies This course examines and critically evaluates specified areas of interest related to Global Leadership. Students will engage current issues through the exploration of designated topics that might be time-sensitive to the life and ministry of the stud...
MAGL6312 Urban Church in Transition This course helps students to understand dynamics of contemporary urban ministry within traditional urban churches. Students learn about transition models that have proven successful in leading traditional churches in urban settings to adjust to the...
MAGL6313 Developing Neighboring Churches in UrbanSettings This course will explore a biblical, historical, socio-cultural, and missiological framework of urban spaces and God's work/actions in order to imagine and develop local congregations rooted in urban neighborhoods. Urban spaces are the places where n...
MAGL6322 Transformational Church Life The course examines examples of healthy and vibrant spiritual life in growing churches, where members experience personal transformation, healthy community, and minister to their broader community in transformational ministry strategies. The class an...
MAGL6323 Small Group Disciple-Making Small group ministries allow gospel seekers and new believers to understand the Christian gospel and to learn how to live a kingdom lifestyle as disciples. The range of small group ministry models-from a traditional Sunday School approach to a cell g...
MAGL6324 Church Multiplication Methods Churches can grow faster and reach more people by starting new churches and groups. The course reviews strategies for church growth, for saturation church planting, for missionary or kingdom expansion, and for prompting church planting movement to ac...
MAGL6325 Starting New Churches The foundational challenges for church planters are always spiritual and relational, yet starting new churches, especially in the USA, requires demographic research into the local community, vision casting, careful planning and goal which leads up to...
MAGLELEC Global Leadership Elective FINANCE ELECT Suggestion below sent 11/18/24 A generic course used for the External Transcript Equivalency Process. If the course does not have an equivalency but will meet subject area the ELEC is used along with the appropriate department to state...