By joining the Intercultural Studies and Social Science Department, a student has a number of opportunities through excellent majors and minors for both domestic and international service. Our Intercultural Studies major will prepare students for a life of cross-cultural work and ministry, while our Teaching English as a Second Language (TESOL) major offers much of the same training but adds a specific vocational skill to enhance a student’s marketability overseas.

For students interested in Urban work and ministry, our new Urban Ministry Major provides the opportunity to live in Minneapolis for a year while taking classes and fulfilling an internship at a non-profit organization. In this same realm, we offer a Linguistics Major, in partnership with the Summer Institute of Linguistics. All of these programs will equip students to be effective culture brokers in work and ministry in diverse contexts. Two additional majors that our department offers are the Psychology Major and the Legal Studies Major. Both of these majors offer the student excellent opportunities to prepare for graduate school in their respective areas.

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Inside and outside the classroom, students receive excellent training in the Intercultural Studies and Social Science Department that will equip them to better understand people and their social-cultural contexts. In a globalizing marketplace, these tools of cultural understanding and working with people from diverse backgrounds are foundational that will make the graduate an effective partner in work or ministry.

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• Teacher of Second Language Learners
• Missionary
• Bible translator
• Non-profit worker