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  • 3.00 Credits

    The Entrepreneurship & Human Development Seminar provides students with a detailed introduction to the unique community of partnerships emerging in Washington, D.C. among commercial, governmental, and non-governmental organizations. ASP faculty and guest practitioners provide a comparative analysis of different approaches to the design and management of these types of collaborations as they pertain to the global development issue of hunger/food security. Students are required to reflect on the biblical demands of justice as they pertain to food security, and how these demands ought to be translated across the different institutional roles and responsibilities that comprise these partnerships. Students participate in lectures, briefings from guest experts, and facilitated discussions that equip them with the conceptual and analytical tools required to design and execute a research effort resulting in a written and oral deliverable suitable for a Washington, D.C. audience. Area exper
  • 3.00 Credits

    Students produce a portfolio comprising group and individual case-study findings, informational interviews, communications materials, and ethical reflections on strategic communication practices. The all-track case study investigates the role strategic communication-coordinating and measuring the impact of advertising, direct response, fundraising and development, marketing, and public relations-plays in achieving organizational goals. Direct engagement with Washington, D.C. organizations and communication professionals helps students learn from experience how to differentiate between the practices of strategic, tactical, operational, and contingency plans. Each student produces a case study tied to his or her internship or another national or international organization. A concluding conference allows students to share and compare research findings across institutional types and sizes.
  • 3.00 Credits

    Students work collaboratively in small teams for a real-world client to research and propose a communications strategy and an optimal target audience. This exercise in persuasive communication seeks to build constituent commitment to the client's mission, strategic initiatives, and fundraising activities. Consequently, communication objectives aim to achieve clearly specified and measurable educational, advocacy, and revenue goals. Students reflect on the ethical considerations in this work, and explain how biblical principles shaped their strategic and tactical decisions.
  • 3.00 Credits

    The Public Policy Project supports the student-researcher to complete individual research projects from the Public Policy and Advocacy Seminar and fashion empirical findings into an effective advocacy agenda. The advocacy component is designed as a group project. Students organize into a small research team tasked with the responsibility of providing policy recommendations that address three key areas of debate on immigration-economic/social welfare, security, and national identity. Research teams conduct personal interviews from among leading institutions and individuals in Washington, D.C., as well as attend area briefings, conferences, hearings, and other events related to the policy issue. Support of their domestic policy recommendations must include international sources. The final project requires each group to present an executive summary of their findings and recommendations in a mock congressional briefing held in a Congressional office building. The executive summary sh
  • 3.00 Credits

    In the Global Development Partnership Exercise students participate in key aspects of a research and development project designed to support strategic collaboration among stakeholders whose shared mission is to address a specific development problem or opportunity related to hunger and food security. Working as members of a project team, and (outlined in Project Description) to the client and selected project evaluators. The report and briefing features an analysis of specific food security problem, competing solutions to the problem and recommendations for collaborative action on the part of the client and its partners. The team project will be based upon selected components of research conducted by indivual students in the Entrepreneurship and Human Development course. Criteria includes a requirement for the research team to position its analysis, strategy, recommendations on the responsibilities of collaborating institutions, and preferred outcomes within the framework of biblic
  • 1.00 Credits

    This optional course matches students with an experienced professional engaged in vocational service relevant to one's own vocational aspirations. Monthly group meetings-consisting of 2 to 3 students sharing common professional interests-provide opportunities for you to explore further matters of both professional development and callings in your field. Meetings are structured, in part, around discussions a Supplemental Mentorship Text. The professional mentor selects the text, which is typically a novel or (auto)biography. The book serves as a basis of inquiry and insight into the challenges of weaving together our understandings of calling and career. Students submit a Mentorship Write-Up after each meeting, which includes notes from and reflections on the meeting. The first meeting between mentor and student is organized by ASP, scheduled to take place within the first three weeks of the semester. Mentors will schedule all additional meetings.
  • 1.00 - 4.00 Credits

    No course description available.
  • 2.00 Credits

    Provides students opportunities to serve in the marketplace and to reflect on that service to deepen faith, facilitate learning, and know more fully how God is calling them to his kingdom work. Taken in conjunction with ASP 393.
  • 4.00 - 12.00 Credits

    Provides students opportunities to serve in the marketplace and to reflect on that service to deepen faith, facilitate learning, and know more fully how God is calling them to his kingdom work. Taken in conjunction with ASP 390.
  • 4.00 Credits

    A study of the biblical background and contemporary significance of Israel. Taught in Israel during January, this travel-study course may count for either BIB 110 or a departmental elective. Offered January interterm-when available.
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