Humanitarian Relief and Development (COL)

Program Learning Outcomes

  1. Compare diverse worldviews and explain how they influence intercultural studies and missions.
  2. Explain theoretical frameworks and purposes of nonprofit social enterprise organizations.
  3. Summarize the theology of compassion and explain and defend the role of the church in compassionate actions.
  4. Discuss administrative and financial strategies for leading and supporting humanitarian projects.
  5. Identify basic practices of crisis intervention specific to relief, development strategies, and procedures to support compassion services.
  6. Summarize physical, psychological, and spiritual methods of helping the poor and suffering.
  7. Evaluate a plan for relief, development, and long-term sustainability to disaster scenarios in domestic and international settings. Include strategies for collaboration with local, regional, international religious, relief, and government organizations.

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