The MESP encourages and equips students to relate to the Muslim world in an informed, constructive and Christ-centered manner at a time of tension and changes. Students earn 16 semester hours of credit. For additional information and application, see Dr. Marguerite Kraft, or make inquiry through the Department of Intercultural Studies . The rigorous academic program, aimed at increasing critical thinking skills and scholarship from an integrated Christian perspective, allows participants to choose from a wide variety of tutorial study programs in numerous disciplines, including the arts, religion, history, literature, and philosophy. In addition to two Oxford tutorials, students participate in a seminar and an integrative course through which they produce a scholarly project or term paper.
Field trips provide opportunities for experimental learning in England s rich historical setting.
Students earn 16 hours of credit. Moscow, St. Petersburg and Nizhnli Novgorod. For those opting for the four hours of Russian a seminar course entitled International Relations and Business in Russia is available. The RSP strives to give students as wide an experience as possible in this complex nation, beginning with time in Moscow, the heart of both medieval and modern Russia. Students then spend 12 weeks in Nizhnli Novgorod, a strategic city on the Volga River.