Practicums and Labs

A practicum is a college course, often in a specialized field of study, that is designed to give students supervised practical application of a previously studied theory. Practicums are common for education majors.

Our required practicums are as follows:

- Christian Servanthood (CM199)
- Servanthood Evangelism
- Christian Research and Development

Christian Servanthood
Course Number: CM199
Course Credits: 2
Course Hours: 4 hours per week, 56 total per semester

This is a required class for all full-time students living on or off campus. The class requires that the student serve at either the Men's campus or the women's campus for four hours a week; doing assigned tasks. The tasks include housekeeping, landscaping, construction, kitchen. Students abilities and physical disabilities are taken into account when these tasks are assigned at the beginning of the semester.

The class serves two key purposes. First, the manual labour that is done by the student cuts down on the operational cost of the college and intern effects the cost of tuition. Second, the classes teaches the student to be a servant to their brothers and sisters on a weekly basis.

Servanthood Evangelism
Course Number: C
Course Credits: 1
Course Hours: 2 hours per week, 28 total per semester

This is a required class for all full-time students living on or off campus. The class requires that the student serve in the community for two hours per week. The goal of the class is to serve the community for the sake of sharing Christ with anyone who will listen. The service projects often involve caring for the poor around town and partnering with the local government in social service type arenas.

Christian Research and Development
Course Number:
Course Credits: 1
Course Hours: 3 hours per week, 42 total hours per semester

This is a required course for all full-time students living on or off campus. This class includes training in basic research and statistical analysis, development of useful research, and implementation of the planned research. Students work in teams of 3-5 students in our two research rooms. Many of the research projects that students do relate to recent Church history, Christian missions, ministry tool development. The goal of this practicum is for each team to produce a final product based off of the research done throughout the semester.