undergraduate bulletin - LaGrange College
undergraduate bulletin - LaGrange College
undergraduate bulletin - LaGrange College
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PRE-SEMINARY<br />
The Church Leadership Concentration is designed to prepare students for future careers in<br />
church service. Many of our graduates take positions in Christian Education or Youth Ministry<br />
directly after graduation. Others enroll in seminaries as a preparation for ordained ministry.<br />
<strong>LaGrange</strong> <strong>College</strong> is one of only nine (9) colleges in the nation that are authorized by the United<br />
Methodist Church to offer certification programs in Youth Ministry and Christian Education.<br />
United Methodist students who complete our Church Leadership program fulfill all of the<br />
educational requirements needed for professional certification in these fields.<br />
THE EUROPEAN UNION STUDIES PROGRAM<br />
The European Union Studies Program is offered by the University System of Georgia in<br />
collaboration with <strong>LaGrange</strong> <strong>College</strong> and other institutions. It delivers a common curriculum for<br />
European Union (EU) studies that allows students to be issued a certificate in European Union<br />
Studies.<br />
OBJECTIVES<br />
The goals of the certification program are:<br />
• to foster interdisciplinary learning about the EU and encourage students to become global<br />
citizens.<br />
• to contribute the institutional goal of increasing the internationalization of the curriculum<br />
by allowing students to take a much broader range of courses on the EU and EU topics<br />
then they would otherwise be able to.<br />
• to enable students to globalize their educational experiences and to provide an additional<br />
educational credential that improves future employment and educational opportunities.<br />
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION<br />
To qualify for a certificate in EU Studies, students must take six (6) courses that total a<br />
minimum of 17 semester hours of academic credit. To earn the certificate, students must have a<br />
3.0 cumulative GPA in program courses upon completion of the program. An official certificate<br />
is awarded by a student's home institution for satisfactory fulfillment of the curriculum.<br />
<strong>LaGrange</strong> <strong>College</strong> also recognizes the accomplishment on the permanent transcripts of students<br />
participating.<br />
Aside from a certificate earned at one's home institution, students have an opportunity to acquire<br />
a certificate jointly conferred with a European institution. This option requires students to<br />
complete—with a grade of "B" or better—a minimum of two (2) online courses that are cotaught<br />
by European faculty. (No more than eight (8) hours of credit may be acquired through<br />
online instruction.) In other words, the certificate is bestowed by two (2) institutions, one in<br />
Georgia and one in Europe. The benefit is that students obtain a credential from a respected<br />
university in Europe, the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany.<br />
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