Bachelor of Science in Global Community Development

Engaging The World In Every Course

Each semester, Global Community Development Students are enrolled in interactive courses with rich content and experiences. Every course has the added value of embedded fieldwork experiences, providing the students with a real-world application of course content.

Tracks:

• Global Outreach, Intercultural Entrepreneurship, International Community Development
• Selected GCD Courses
• Introduction to Global Engagement
• Foundations of Community Development
• Theology of Social Justice
• Diverse Teams and Community Building
• Foundations of Racial Reconciliation
• Funding Projects and Ministries
• Sustainable Development
• Cross-Cultural Conflict and Community Building
• International Public Health
• Introduction to Urban Ministry
• At-Risk Youth
• Community Development Capstone

Life-Changing Internships

Global Community Development students have access to hundreds of local and international internship options through our established networks in community development, relief and disaster response, missions agencies, and social business.

Site Visits Each Semester

Students will participate in a site visit each semester. The semester site visit will vary by discipline and ministry focus. Upcoming site visits include an organization addressing the needs of refugees and asylees, a consulate, the office of a community organizer, a cross-cultural ministry, a social business, and two international aid agencies.

International Experiences

Global Community Development students have access to several annual international courses. Past courses for Global Community Development students include:

• Cambodia and Thailand: Sex Trafficking in Southeast Asia
• Costa Rica and Nicaragua: The Journey of the Bean. Coffee and Community Development
• Spain and Morocco: Migration and the Strait of Gibraltar
• Nepal: People and Cultures of the Himalayas

Our Mission

Nyack College, a Christian and Missionary Alliance educational institution, through its undergraduate, graduate and seminary programs, pursues its historic mission of preparing men and women to “take the whole Gospel to the whole world.”

Core Values

Nyack seeks to exalt Jesus Christ and fulfill its mission by being:

Academically Excellent The academic excellence of Nyack has been recognized by the Middle States Commission on Accreditation, The New York State Department of Education, and The Association of Theological Schools.

Globally Engaged We live in a world that demands engagement from all of its citizens. Nyack will meet these 21st-century challenges with a commitment that for us dates back to the 19th century.

Intentionally Diverse Nyack is the most ethnically diverse Christian College in the history of American higher education. We celebrate this as an important part of both our effectiveness and our identity.

Personally Transforming This transformation is what occurs when students encounter Jesus Himself on our campus and abandon their citizenship of a self-centered, materialistic world in favor of becoming citizens of the Kingdom of heaven.

Socially Relevant Nyack graduates do more than take the words of Jesus to those who have never heard. Our graduates take the love of Jesus to those who have not known love.

A Little History

Over one hundred and thirty years ago, God ignited an overwhelming love for people of every race and tongue in the heart of a Canadian named A.B. Simpson. In those days, Simpson was pastor of a large and affluent church in Manhattan. In response to what God was doing in his own life, Simpson urged his congregants to reach out to the immigrants who were pouring into the city. He even went so far as to bring the poor and the downtrodden into his church. When he began to do this, many in the church were less than pleased.

So in a Sunday morning sermon in 1882, Simpson declared, “I am not interested in being a respectable Christian.” He left the church and began a new venture in which his burning desire to serve all people could be satisfied. He left his church to start a school in which people would be trained to take the Good News of God’s love wherever this news needed to be heard.

That school today is known as Nyack College.

Since its inception on the back of a Broadway stage in 1882, Nyack College has grown to become an institution of over 2,500 students pursuing a wide variety of graduate and undergraduate degrees on multiple campuses. At the heart of it all, is a burning commitment to bring the good news of God’s love wherever this news needed to be heard.

A.B. Simpson described this commitment as taking “the whole gospel” to “the whole world.” Today, as Nyack College serves students who represent “the whole world,” the result is a diverse and vibrant community unlike any other in higher education.