Doctor of Missiology - Biola University

Cook School of Intercultural Studies
Department of Intercultural Studies: Doctor of Missiology
HISTORY OF CSICS SECTION 1.4
In 1991, William Carey International University’s Applied Linguistics and TESOL program under
the leadership of Dr. Herbert Purnell moved to Biola and became the Applied Linguistics and TESOL
department within SICS. Further strengthening the school’s linguistics offerings, the Summer Institute
of Linguistics began a cooperative program within SICS, eventually joining the Department of
Applied Linguistics and TESOL.
By 1997, the Ph.D. degree in Intercultural Education was approved and the Ed.D. degree
discontinued. Today the school has over 16 full-time and part-time faculty, and several adjuncts,
serving over 500 undergraduate and graduate students. SICS offers the following degrees: BA in
Intercultural Studies and Anthropology; Certificate in TESOL and Linguistics; MA in Intercultural
Studies, Missions, Applied Linguistics, Linguistics & Biblical Languages, TESOL, and Anthropology;
Doctor of Missiology; and Doctor of Philosophy in Intercultural Education, and Intercultural Studies.
Over the years, three deans have provided leadership to the school. In 1989, the founding dean, Dr.
Mayers, returned to his work with Wycliffe, and Dr. Donald E. Douglas was installed as second Dean
of SICS. Dr. Douglas served abroad with SEND International, English Language Institute/China and
World Vision International and taught in the Philippines, at Missionary Internship, and at the
University of Michigan before coming to Biola University. Dr. F. Douglas Pennoyer was selected as
the third dean of the school in 1998. Dr. Pennoyer was the Executive Director of the Small Tribes
Organization of Western Washington (1978-1982), Seattle Pacific University's Director of the
Intercultural Institute of Missions (1983-91), and the Senior Pastor of the Snohomish Free Methodist
Church in Washington.
During the school's 25th anniversary in Spring 2009 SICS was renamed the Cook School of
Intercultural Studies, after former president emeritus, Clyde Cook and his wife Annabelle. Dr.Cook --
a former missionary to the Philippines who became Biola's president in 1982 – was the founder of the
school as he took part of the money sent by the PRC in payment for confiscation of the Hunan Bible
Institute and established the School of Intercultural Studies. His goal of giving students the practical
and academic training needed to make a cross-cultural impact for Christ continues today through the
school’s many degree programs and world wide activities.
Date: August 2007 Page 2 of 2