Global Village Curriculum

A liberal arts university with an Anabaptist faith tradition, EMU's curriculum prepares students for a variety of professions in diverse settings through a unique shared foundation (made up of five interdisciplinary team-taught courses throughout their academic career, as well as courses in faith and cross-cultural studies, academic skills and competencies, and community learning), student-directed coursework that allows students to choose from an array of courses and explore areas of interest and challenge, and focused studies within majors and minors.

Micah 6:8 centers and links these three strands to preserve the mission of the curriculum: to prepare servant leaders within a community of learners whose vocation is to become co-creators with God in reconciling creation. Passionate inquiry into the nature of things and compassionate engagement with the world characterize EMU’s approach to education.

What will the Global Village Curriculum do for you as a student?

• Cultivate Scholarly Inquiry: pursue, analyze, synthesize and communicate knowledge and experience; engage in lifelong learning.

• Engage Creative Process: value and engage creative processes in fulfilling your calling.

• Develop Global Citizenship: appreciate your own traditions while understanding and valuing cultural diversity; relate to others in culturally appropriate ways.

• Nurture Passionate Engagement: promote healing and hope by doing justice, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God.

• Foster Faith Commitment: witness faithfully, serve compassionately, and walk boldly in the way of nonviolence and peace.

EMU faculty is accountable for the attainment of these outcomes in accordance with a qualitative and quantitative assessment plan for 2004-2014.

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