This course introduces the history, principles, and theoretical foundations for intercultural engagement with attention to global events and trends. (Formerly ICST 200)

Offered: Resident and Online

This course explores principles for effective intercultural communication and cultural competency. Students will evaluate the cultural stories, religious influences, and values that have influenced their context and will learn to identify and communicate effectively in the midst of other cultural values and worldviews.

Offered: Resident and Online

This course explores the elements that shape cultural communities and the influence of culture on beliefs, values, and behaviors. It also examines the impact of cultural values on local and global interactions. Key concepts include language, social structures, subsistence, power, kinship, religion, and globalization.

Offered: Resident and Online

This experiential learning course gives students the opportunity to engage in cultural training, global travel, intercultural interaction, and guided reflection of their experience. It requires immersion in a global context for the purpose of learning cultural values, navigating culture stress, identifying opportunities for service, and evaluating intercultural careers.

Registration Restrictions: A student must have been accepted through LU Send and the Department of Global and Intercultural Engagement for the Global Experience class OR have received written approval from the professor of GICE 380 for an alternative international experience. It is the student's responsibility to make up any prerequisite deficiencies, as stated in the Liberty University Catalog, which would prevent the successful completion of this course.

Offered: Resident and Online

Resident Prerequisite: ((ICST 200 or GLST 200 or GICE 200) and (GLST 220 or GICE 220) and (GLST 290 or ICST 300 or GICE 290))

Online Prerequisite: ((GLST 200 or GICE 200) and (GLST 220 or GICE 220) and (GLST 290 or GICE 290))

This course equips students for intercultural careers through personal assessment, skills acquisition, and preparation for seasons of culture stress and transition.

Offered: Resident and Online

Prerequisite: ((ICST 200 or GLST 200 or GICE 200) and (GLST 220 or GICE 220) and (GLST 290 or ICST 300 or GICE 290) and (GLST 441 or ICST 441 or GLST 385 or GICE 385))

This course, taken concurrently with the field internship, gives students tools to enable them to grow and thrive while engaging with other cultures.

Offered: Resident

Prerequisite: (ICST 200 or GLST 200 or GICE 200) and (GLST 220 or GICE 220) and (GLST 290 or ICST 300 or GICE 290) and (ICST 441 or GLST 441 or GLST 385 or GICE 385) and (RSCH 201 or Inquiry Research with a score of 80 or Research (prior to 2017-2018) with a score of 80 or Research Assessment with a score of 80)

This course, taken concurrently with the field internship, requires students to conduct an ethnographic research project in the culture in which they are completing their field internship. (Formerly GLST 488)

Offered: Resident

Prerequisite: (ICST 200 or GLST 200 or GICE 200) and (GLST 220 or GICE 220) and (GLST 290 or ICST 300 or GICE 290) and (ICST 441 or GLST 441 or GLST 385 or GICE 385)

This course, taken concurrently with the field internship, focuses on learning a language of the host culture through immersion and practice. (Formerly GLST 489)

Offered: Resident

Prerequisite: GLST 220 or GICE 220

This course is an introductory study of orality - the preference for spoken word and other oral means as a primary form of communicating thoughts, observations, and experiences. Skills will be developed in communicating and working among oral cultures through the telling of stories and use of other oral communication strategies.

Offered: Resident

This course explores the historic rise and expansion of Islam as well as basic Muslim beliefs and practices. Attention is also given to the diversity within the world of Islam. (Crosslisted with APOL 431)

Offered: Resident

This course is an introduction to the ethnic, religious, social, political, and geographic diversity of the Arabic world. Significant values and worldviews will be explored to equip students for interacting in Arabic cultural contexts.

Offered: Resident

This course covers the history and key influences shaping Christianity in the Arabic speaking world before, during, and after the rise of Islam. Special attention is given to the current status of Arabic Christianity and its interaction with Islam and the global church.

Offered: Resident

This course equips students with perspectives, tools, and skills to be effective catalysts for global and intercultural engagement in their current and future roles or contexts.

Offered: Resident

This course covers practical aspects of living, learning language, and understanding worldviews relevant to tribal engagement using both instructional and experiential methods.

Offered: Resident

Prerequisite: (GLST 200 or GICE 200) and (GICE 220 or GLST 220) and (GLST 290 or GICE 290)

This course explores and analyzes current trends and issues in global engagement with a focus on religious and cultural trends.

Offered: Resident

Prerequisite: GICE 499 or GLST 499

This senior-level capstone course guides students in analyzing prior internship experience and synthesizing previous academic content in preparation for intercultural careers. Attention is given to personal, spiritual, and professional development as the student moves toward graduation and career readiness.

Offered: Resident

This course is an individual study of advanced topics in Global Engagement.

Registration Restrictions: Junior or senior status and permission of the department chair

Offered: Resident

This course explores specialized topics in global engagement. The topic varies each time the course is offered and the course may be repeated.

Offered: Resident

Prerequisite: (GLST 200 or ICST 200 or GICE 200) and (GLST 220 or GICE 220) and (GLST 290 or ICST 300 or GICE 290) and (GLST 441 or GLST 385 or ICST 441 or GICE 385)

A supervised field experience in which the principles and theories learned in the classroom are applied in intercultural and global contexts. This course, required for GICE majors and optional for GICE minors, must be completed in an approved context.

Note: Online students must receive advanced permission to complete an internship and must communicate with the Department at least 2 semesters prior to the desired internship semester.

Offered: Resident and Online