Assisi Pilgrimage and Theological Foundations of Franciscan Leadership

Catalog description

This course is designed for the traditional undergraduate student. Students will participate in a pilgrimage/immersion experience in Rome and Assisi with the intention of deepening the overall learning experience. Franciscan Leadership is a course designed to prepare students to be sound Christian leaders in the world. The Franciscan leader is defined as one who leads as Francis did, whose model for leadership was Jesus Christ in the gospels. The course will use scriptural understandings of leadership, and the writings of Francis and the Franciscans, to show a distinctive kind of selfless leadership. Students will be required to complete the study abroad application process and be accepted to the study abroad program prior to registration. Travel dates and costs will be announced. Concepts that students will come away with include: leadership as service; the common good; acceptance and empathy; moral leadership; community. Prerequisite: 160 or 342. IFP