This course provides a critical introduction to how post-modern communication is understood in determining culture and identity; and, it also explores insights as to how Christians might most effectively respond and use communication in their missional context.
This course is beneficial for many applications but is particularly useful to prepare students to relevantly engage the implications of communication on identity and culture and identity in their missional context.
Understanding the interrelation of identity and culture through communication is necessary for Christians to effectively engage their missional context.
As Scripture narrates the history of Triune God culminating in Jesus Christ, wherein Christ calls His followers to live according to God's promises, it informs Christians in understanding how communication shapes identity and culture.
The Missio Dei is a form of theological communication that informs identity and culture.
As identity and culture are informed by communication, context provides those specific elements needed for understanding them in particular.
This course is especially intercultural, as it develops how communication facilitates identity and culture through concrete exchange.
The scope of this course is the student to reflect how communication informs identity and culture and to develop the critical analytical skills for use in their particular missional context.
The course uses the student's experience and unique needs as the entry point of study to build on his or her understanding through immersive reflection and assignments in order to cultivate analytical skills and to increase competent appropriation.
