Cross-Cultural Adult Education is an interdisciplinary degree that combines missiological principles with pedagogy to adults (adragogy) to prepare students to teach and lead adult education programs. This major enables the student to enter creative access countries with marketable skill in the planning and implementation of adult education programs.
Students learn to research, design, plan, and implement adult education programs on a wide continuum based on cross-cultural knowledge and detailed ethnographic study. These programs can be in such areas as business training classes, health education, literacy programs, AIDS prevention training, English as a foreign language programs, computer literacy, and physical exercise classes. Students also prepare to assist mission agencies in the planning of leadership development programs, Theological Education by Extension programs, and the development of Bible Institutes.
This major prepares the student for immediate deployment as a cross-cultural adult educator. Students who minor in TESOL would find immediate opportunities available through ELIC and other English language organizations. This major also provides a training track for students preparing to enter ethnic ministries within the United States. Such cross-cultural ministry training prepares students to design and provide viable community service within the ethnic community such as ESL or GED completion.