Faith, Life, and Learning at APU Global
A holistic approach to faith, life and learning means everyone at the university shares in the commitment to have an impact on the “whole” student. Each community member plays a unique role in this process.
Listen
Student, Kalvin Cressel, talks about how faith, life, and learning has impacted his journey in the MA in Leadership and Organizational Studies program.
Read
- Read this essay by Dr. Scott Edgar, who considers the role of faith in academics.
- And finally, click here to read a prayer of engagement to help you take first steps in your journey with us.
Faith, life, and learning as one whole
What you believe, how you live, and what you study are not three separate compartments.
The phrase names a conviction: that what you believe, how you live, and what you study are not three separate compartments. A Christian university takes that seriously by refusing to treat faith as an elective layer on top of an otherwise secular curriculum.
What it means for your program
- Faculty who can explain how their discipline connects to a Christian understanding of the world
- Ethics treated as central to professional practice, not a single required course
- Assignments that ask you to apply learning to your actual work and community
- Space to engage honestly with perspectives different from your own
Impacting the whole student
The goal is not only a graduate who can perform a job well, but a person shaped by the work, more thoughtful, more responsible, better able to serve the people their decisions affect. That is what APU Global means by impacting the whole student.
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Faith, life, and learning names the conviction that what you believe, how you live, and what you study are not separate compartments. A holistic approach means everyone at APU Global shares in the commitment to impact the whole student, with each community member playing a unique role in that process.
The goal is not only a graduate who can perform a job well, but a person shaped by the work: more thoughtful, more responsible, and better able to serve the people their decisions affect. That is what APU Global means by impacting the whole student.
