The modular system also allows concentrated time on each topic. Visiting teachers may teach for a full week or two on their area of expertise, which allows the students to master and fully absorb one subject at a time. Usually the visiting teachers are available for private appointments in areas of particular interest to individual students. The concentrated study in one subject area during a twelve-week term prepares the student to be able to work effectively in a subsequent field assignment, usually in a missions setting. An example of modular education within the U of N is the sequence of early childhood education courses.
Students learn, research and practice within the framework of an on-site preschool.
In this way, students are able to learn theory and walk through practical training experiences with instructors who are committed to the development of the students full potentials. As a final module, the student may have the opportunity to help in developing a preschool in a missions setting, thereby expressing the training in terms of the mandate of the university and reaching out to be a multiplication factor for missions. Another benefit of the modular system is the mobility it allows the students and faculty. For example, a communication student may take an introductory communication course and a photography course at one U of N campus, followed by a photography internship on the mission field. Then he or she may choose to take video and graphics courses at U of N branches in other countries.