Johnson University is a place of uncommon community where students get ready for a fulfilling career and a meaningful life. Join us in Tennessee or online!
Whether you're an incoming freshman, a transfer student, or a graduate student, this is the place to begin your application and join our community. Welcome to Johnson!
Johnson is more than a place where you receive a quality, affordable education - it's a community where classmates become friends, professors become mentors, and the campus becomes home.
Johnson University is a place of uncommon community where students get ready for a fulfilling career and a meaningful life. Join us in Tennessee or online!
Whether you're an incoming freshman, a transfer student, or a graduate student, this is the place to begin your application and join our community. Welcome to Johnson!
Johnson is more than a place where you receive a quality, affordable education - it's a community where classmates become friends, professors become mentors, and the campus becomes home.
The Certificate in Intercultural Studies is a customized one-year program for students who are 21 years or older. This certificate is applicable to students who are joining a team as support personnel, becoming missionaries as a second career, or want to increase their mission understanding. Students will complete a minimum 12 credits with a 2.0 cumulative grade point average. Working with their advisor, students have the freedom to customize their program by choosing 4 courses in Intercultural Studies most applicable to their studies. Contact the Department of Intercultural Studies to discuss course options.
Core Classes
This course invites students to explore how God’s story—as revealed in scripture—intersects with their own stories—their passions, interests, callings, and vocations. Emphasis is placed on appreciating the coherence of the biblical narrative from Genesis to Revelation and developing missional approaches to local and global contexts in which students may live and work.
Cultural Anthropology
This course applies cultural anthropology to everyday life and vocational living, with special attention to the application of an anthropological perspective. Students learn to examine various
frameworks that make up “culture,” including social status, language, power, economics, gender, and religion.
Practical Anthropology
This course applies cultural anthropology to everyday life and Christian mission, with special attention to the application of an anthropological perspective. Students learn to examine the framework of beliefs, assumptions, values, and behaviors that shape people’s lives, in order to be more effective in ministry.
Dynamics of World Religions
This course provides an introduction to the world’s major living religions through the study of primary and secondary sources. Students learn about the history and practices of these religious traditions through a variety of media. Each religion is allowed to speak for itself, but the course employs a comparative approach. Key aspects of Christian faith and practice are examined during the entire process.
Understanding the Muslim World
This course expands the student’s knowledge and understanding of Muslim culture, worldview, and practices.
Animism
This course enables students to develop a deeper understanding of folk religions and animism. Special attention is given to folk religions and animistic beliefs found in the world today, cultural differences, significant barriers to the gospel, and channels for better understanding.
In consultation with their advisor, students choose one course with the prefix: ANTH, ICEL, ICIS, ICLI, ICME, ICMI, ICST, or ICUR.
Online
The Certificate in Intercultural Studies is a customized one-year program for students who are 21 or older. This certificate is applicable to students who are joining a team as support personnel, becoming missionaries as a second career, or who want to increase their mission understanding. Working with their advisor, students have the freedom to customize their program.
This course introduces students to principles and processes for developing a theology of mission for the context in which they serve. Emphasis is placed on biblical precedent and a practical approach to the local context.
Cultural Anthropology
This course is an introduction to the social science known as cultural anthropology. Readings, films, websites, lectures, reports, and an exam provide a survey of vocabulary, concepts, and illustrations related to this branch of anthropology. Class lectures, outside reading, and films provide more in-depth case studies on the Near East Bedouin, Western Apache, and Old Order Amish, among others.
Practical Anthropology
This course introduces cultural anthropology with special attention to the application of an anthropological perspective to Christian mission. Students learn to examine the framework of beliefs, assumptions, values, and behaviors that shape people’s lives, in order to be more effective in ministry.
Survey of World Religions
This course provides an introduction to the world’s major living religions through the study of primary and secondary sources. Students learn about the history and practices of these religious traditions through a variety of media. Each religion is allowed to speak for itself, but the course employs a comparative approach. Key aspects of Christian faith and practice are examined during the entire process.
Understanding the Muslim World
This course expands the student’s knowledge and understanding of Muslim culture, worldview, and practices.
Animism
This course enables students to develop a deeper understanding of folk religions and animism. Special attention is given to folk religions and animistic beliefs found in the world today, cultural differences, significant barriers to the gospel, and channels for better understanding.
In consultation with their advisor, students choose one course with the prefix: ANTH, ICEL, ICIS, ICLI, ICME, ICMI, ICST, or ICUR.
