Term: January/Spring 2014 Description: Study Spanish in Guatemala for four weeks before beginning a life-changing journey to Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and El Salvador. The program includes rural service projects, family home stays, and encounters with both breathtaking scenery and wrenching poverty.
Term: January 2014 Description: The history, theology and practice of spirituality, and its implications for life today as we worship, work, build friendships and play. **Every other Jan Term **
Term: January 2015 Description: Examine the origins, development and influence of the Christian Church in Great Britain, particularly England and Scotland. Primary consideration will be given to the Church’s major historical figures, religious movements, spiritual traditions, theological issues, and ecclesiastical controversies that have played a formative role in British culture from the arrival of the earliest Christian missionaries to today.
Term: January 2014 Description: A study program of Biblical Asia minor (modern-day Turkey). Students will be exposed to the earliest Christian sites in the missionary journeys of the Apostle Paul and his companions, sites in Turkey associated with the early church fathers and the monastic movement in Cappadocia, the rise and fall of the Byzantine Empire, and the expansion of Islam in Turkey.
Term: Description: Study the history of Prejudice Across America. Fulfills the American Diversity requirement.
Term: January 2015 Description: Visit sites in Germany associated with the Reformation of the 16th Century and with the German Church struggle under Hitler in the 1930s.
Term: Description: The focus of this course is to engage and interact with the African culture. This will be achieved through a number of service projects, by home stays with host families and through large group lectures and debriefing sessions. Students will be expected to participate in the service projects and in the daily life activities of the host families. There are plans to travel to various areas in Tanzania which may include Dar-Es-Salaam and the former slave market in Bagamoyo. Participants will register for a 1.0 credit preparation course during Fall 2008.
Term: Spring 2014 Description: Semester-long study program in Tanzania, open to all majors. Students will immerse in the language and culture of Tanzania while studying in Arusha, Dar-es-Salaam, and Zanzibar.
Please visit the Off-Campus Studies page for a complete listing of off-campus programs that are available to Whitworth students.
