Academics Overview

Bring God’s Solution To The World’s Greatest Injustices.

 Encounter Christ-Centered, Holistic, Mentored, Online Education

  • Belong to a community

    Be part of a vibrant spiritual and academic community of learners, innovators, practitioners, and scholars and continue to collaborate.

  • Journey with fellow students

    Develop and enjoy deep friendships with your cohort of peer learners as you study the same curriculum together at the same pace throughout the program.

  • Be changed by a community

    Experience whole-person transformation that can take place only in the context of a wholesome community of people who care for one another through intentional discipleship, mentoring, and collaboration.

  • Catalyze community transformation

    Be an agent of blessing to communities around you by learning to partner with the Holy Spirit to use the areas of your personal transformation to transform others.

 

Distance Learning

  • Interactive

    Each course meets for weekly online live video calls for presentations and discussions.

  • Relational

    Faculty, mentors, and support staff offer consistent discipleship and mentoring to students inside and outside the context of courses.

  • Within reach

    Our integrative and holistic education is accessible, affordable, and flexible.

  • Practical

    Students have opportunities to engage with people in their local or global communities through outreach, service, collaboration, and research.

Programs

ICT

Certificate in Community Transformation

Graduate Certificate in Community Transformation

Take courses in Community Transformation for one of ICT’s Certificates.

To Complete Your Degree, Transfer ICT Courses to

City Vision University

Associate of Arts Degrees

Transfer up to 45 units of ICT’s courses in Community Transformation to our partnering university

and complete one of its 15-unit degree completion programs:

AA in Business

AA in Christian Ministry and Leadership

Bachelor’s Degrees

Transfer up to 90 units of ICT’s courses to our partnering university

and complete one of its 30- or 36-unit degree completion programs:

BS in Business Administration

BS in Nonprofit Management

BA in Christian Ministry and Leadership

Areas of Focus

This is how you impact the world.

Community Development

Integrative Theology & Missiology

Movement Dynamics

Social Business

Our Approach

Formation for Transformation

Head

Transformational Truth:

The Mind of Christ

Each student’s mind is renewed and formed through the transformative and evocative study of the Bible, theology, missiology, history of missions and movements, comparative worldviews, intercultural dynamics, and theories of community transformation and development.

Heart

Transformational Love:

The Love of Christ

Each student’s heart is formed and transformed through engagement in character-building discipleship, pursuit of personal and relational wholeness, and participation in spiritual and relational practices that build intimacy with God and others. In all of these ways, students are challenged to grow in their love of God and others (the Great Commandment).

Hands

Transformational Service:

The Mission of Christ

Each student’s hands are equipped through serving the vulnerable; praying for various communities; evangelizing near-culturally and cross-culturally; leading Bible studies; practicing empowered life, ministry, and discipleship; planting and forming churches; participating in community organizing; and investing in intercultural research and relationship-building.

Curriculum

For Healthy Foundations

Wholesome Growth &

Life-Long Fruitfulness

ICT’s curriculum unfolds in four phases to offer a transformational model that combines the best of university and ministry or mission school programs, equipping future global leaders to serve the vulnerable fruitfully and sustainably.

Phase 1

Foundations

Phase 1 lays the foundation for whole person formation and a missional calling in Community Transformation through study, spiritual formation, and community engagement.

Phase 2

Growth

Phase 2 extends and deepens whole person formation and the capacity for Community Transformation. Students will discern their vocation, choose an Area of Focus, and engage in applied learning in local communities.

Phase 3

Fruitfulness

Phase 3 offers our most challenging levels of holistic formation and community engagement through experiential learning, research, internship, and service in a chosen global community.

Phase 4

Degrees

Phase 4 offers opportunities for students to complete a degree completion program at our partnering university.

Learning Outcomes & Objectives

In our Community Transformation programs, we pursue learning outcomes in the following six areas:

  1. Spiritual and Vocational Formation

  2. Biblical Worldview and Lifeways

  3. Foundational Knowledge and Skills

  4. Critical Understanding of Community Transformation

  5. Community Research and Engagement

  6. Vocational Knowledge and Skills for Community Transformation