The MAIS program will:

• Give you a foundational knowledge of intercultural relationships while guiding you to develop a conceptual framework for understanding different, diverse approaches to knowledge and intercultural relationships.
• Enable you to learn how to integrate intercultural consciousness and empathy with practical skills necessary to live and work effectively between/among cultures.
• Teach you the critical skills necessary to evaluate new environments, situations, and information in intercultural settings.
• Teach you to conduct, document and apply field research. Every student is required to participate in an intercultural field research experience.
• Guide students to develop, communicate and implement a multicultural vision in which ethical decision-making and leadership are key.

The format of the program: a core of 27 hours taken by all students plus a track of 12 hours in the student’s area of concentration (TESL, business, nursing, education, theology, etc.)

The MAIS degree is highly interdisciplinary and is not designed to target a single country, language group or area of the world, since many people find that they change locations several times in the course of a career. Rather, it focuses on the principles of intercultural relationships and communication. The combination of classroom study and practical experience develops both the knowledge and skills needed for living and working in intercultural situations.

Required Core:

• Intercultural Communication (3)
• International Professional Realities and Opportunities (3)
• Organizational Systems of Society (3)
• Field Research (3)
• Field Experience (3)
• Field Data Analysis and Strategic Planning (3)
• Language and Culture (3)
• Artistic and Intellectual Expressions of Culture (3)
• Capstone Seminar (3)