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About the Department

Offering a unique and excellent mixture of scholarship, missional experience and personal growth, the Department of Cultural Studies prepares students to comfortably live cross-culturally, learn to communicate in a wide range of contexts and mobilize people of other cultures to do the same. The cultural studies faculty represent some of the best in their fields, having not only worked with theory but application in real cross-cultural situations. They work to inspire and strengthen their students.  

Areas of Study

The Department of Cultural Studies offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in a variety of areas:

Cultural Studies:  that prepare students to comfortably live cross-culturally, learn to communicate in a wide range of contexts and mobilize people of other cultures to do the same.

Folk Studies:  that prepare students to understand unique worldviews of local people groups through study of their art, language, folklore, traditions, religious practices, kinship and social structures so they may bring the unchanging gospel of Jesus into changing human contexts.

Learning Outcomes

Students who successfully complete the programs in the Department of Cultural Studies are able to do the following:

• Use ethnographic tools for study of cultural-linguistic groups to understand their worldview as expressed through cultural and linguistic forms.
• Familiarity with relevant research and scholarship in the areas of anthropology, linguistics, ethnography, biblical missiology and current missional practices.
• Deeper awareness of and appreciation of the many unique local expressions of humanity and how God's mandate is to reach them all with the good news of Jesus.
• Sound biblical convictions about the unchanging nature of the good news of Jesus Christ and how to translate the message across cultures.
• Personal growth in Christian love and in putting aside prejudices and negative attitudes in relating with people across cultures so obstacles can be reduced that hinder the progress of the good news to the ends of the earth.
• Pioneering research to locate novel ways to bring the good news to unengaged people.