School of Social Sciences

Mission Statement

The School of Social Sciences is dedicated to generate and transmit knowledge to create purposeful and dynamic leaders.

Goals

This School’s goal is to:

• To introduce students to the salient discoveries and procedures accumulated from research in the Social Sciences through the assistance of Christian Instructors.
• To translate our Mission Statement into daily behavior.
• To encourage creativity and initiative.
• To encourage teamwork and team spirit.
• To nurture excellence and productivity.
• To nurture an environment of moral values and spiritual growth.
• To empower students to utilize this knowledge in furthering the mission of Seventh-day Adventists: restoring men and women to the image of their Maker.

The School fulfills these goals by three principal means:

• Instruction by Christian professors
• Course work, which develops a strong liberal-arts foundation and interdisciplinary preparation, leading to many different fields of Christian service.
• Extracurricular participation by students in voluntary activities, community service, and research.

What does our academic environment provide?

The School of Social Sciences is concerned with the study of how human beings think and behave as individuals, and in socio-cultural and ecological systems.