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  • URBS 238: Bible, Stewardship and the City

    3.00 Credits
    Messiah University

    A study of the relationship between resource stewardship and city life in both the Old and New Testaments. Key biblical texts and concepts serve as the foundation for considering how people can live appropriately on earth today and properly use human, material, natural, and social resources, even within an urbanized context. Attention is given to biblical texts relating a Christian response to such topics as personal consumption, land use issues, and environmental degradation. Cross-listed with BIBL 289. Meets General Education Knowledge of the Bible requirement.
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  • URBS 301: Worldview Perspectives of City Life

    3.00 Credits
    Messiah University

    An examination of various world-view perspectives that shape people's lives and the settlement patterns they design and inhabit. Ontological, epistemological, axiological, and teleological questions are examined within an urban context in assessing each of the following world-view perspectives: deism, naturalism, modernism, eastern pantheism, and post-modernism. Meets General Education World Views/Pluralism requirement.
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  • URBS 306: Urban Issues & Ethical Choices

    3.00 Credits
    Messiah University

    Ethical interpretations of and response to urban conditions caused by economic impoverishment, political disenfranchisement, and social marginalization are studied. Special attention is given to personal and group obligations to ¿community¿ and the role of churches in producing Christian social justice. The City of Philadelphia is used as a context for studying various issues that include economic development, environmental policy, public health, housing, criminal justice, and welfare reform. Meets General Education Ethics requirement.
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  • URBS 310: Urban Field Experience

    3.00 Credits
    Messiah University

    Service-related field experience in an urban setting. Students participate in a semester-long field placement that includes on-site work of at least seven hours per week for 15 weeks, participation in a weekly seminar and the completion of writing assignments designed to integrate classroom content from other courses. Please note that travel expenses to the field placement are the student¿s responsibility and may need to be considered before registering for this course.
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  • URBS 319: Practical Theology of the Urban Church

    3.00 Credits
    Messiah University

    This course studies how Christian beliefs and institutions have been shaped by and help to direct community life within urban locations. Course content focuses on current methods and skills of urban church ministry, community organizing, and social change within a city. Consideration is given to different church strategies used to accomplish service to a local neighborhood. Meets General Education Christian Beliefs requirement.
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  • URBS 382: Topics in Urban Studies

    3.00 Credits
    Messiah University

    Selected topics in urban studies not currently included in course offerings. Possible topics may include public service in urban settings, urban families, issues and change in the Harrisburg urban context. May be repeated for additional credit as the topic/study changes. Prerequisite: Three credits in Sociology or Urban Studies or Instructor¿s consent.
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