Bakke Graduate University

Urban Immersion - Fresno, CA

March 12-17, 2012
This course is designed to expose the participant to urban ministry and community development in the context of the city with the nation's highest concentrated poverty--Fresno, California. The course contains many experiential features, as well as more traditional academic pedagogies to help the participant apply what they learn to their own context. The course culminates with a mini-CCDA (regional) conference.

Servant Leadership, Character & Ethics

January 3 - March 4, 2012 Servant Leaders
You . . . as a leader in a world that gets more complex by the minute. Spend some time getting YOU ready or more ready to lead both yourself and others in this world. This will be time well spent, and you can do it totally on-line with a first-class teaching team.

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DMin | MBA | MASCE | MAGUL | MTS

OVERTURE I/International Urban Immersion - China
February 13-21, 2012
Online coursework begins Mar. Jan. 22-Mar. 24, 2012.

Overture I is the introductory course for all doctoral studies at BGU. Students will be exposed to perspectives on transformational leadership, specialization emphasis, spiritual resources for global and urban ministry, research methods, and urban immersion.

There are drastic and dramatic changes in China. Chengdu, Sichuan showcases many of these changes. Being an inland second-tier city, it fares well in recent years. It was famous in its laidback lifestyle; yet, it may be curious why multi-national corporations chose to start their regional centers there. Students will also learn how earthquake reconstruction programs have worked. Chengdu was a city of culture. How has the exposure brought new spirituality to its citizens, if any?
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OVERTURE II - China
April 11-20, 2012
Online coursework begins Mar. 14-May 15, 2012.

Hong Kong - Shanghai - Beijing
China is the world’s most populous country and is also the most rapidly urbanizing nation in the world. In 2001, the government announced that they must create the equivalent of 20 new cities a year of at least one million persons in this next decade to handle the internal rural-to-urban migration, mostly to the east and south. Urbanization and other trends are explored in this course, especially those changes since 1978, following the Cultural Revolution. The religious policies, along with exposure to official Three-self Churches, house churches, religious schools and NGO’s are analyzed in their social contexts.