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EMU prepares students to serve and lead in a global context. Our community of learning integrates Christian faith, academic rigor, artistic creation and reflective practice informed by the liberal arts, interdisciplinary engagement, and cross-cultural encounter. (EMU Mission Statement)
As educators in the EMU Core, we join with students of all faiths, ethnicities, and cultural backgrounds to engage in, contribute to, transform and be transformed within EMU’s community of learning. The EMU Core, our undergraduate general education curriculum, seeks to support students’ growth “as unifying leaders equipped with intercultural competence, oriented towards peace and justice, and rooted in an active faith modeled on the life and teachings of Jesus” (EMU Mission, Vision, and Values). The Anabaptist Christian faith sustains EMU’s focus on equity and peacebuilding, sustainability, and intercultural understanding. Christians have been complicit in colonialism, racism, and other forms of systemic oppression; and yet the life and teachings of Jesus contain wisdom and power to transform systems of oppression, build peace, sustain hope, and help us live ethically with each other in the natural world.
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Communication: Students will apply effective communication skills by gathering, interpreting, critiquing, and presenting information from diverse sources.
Reflective Collaboration: Students will reflect on their growth as persons in diverse communities and their ability to collaborate constructively with others.
Innovative and Applied Learning: Through integrative reflection, students will design creative solutions and responses to real-world challenges and situations.
Integrative learning: Students integrate broad knowledge of human culture and the natural world with concerns that transcend disciplinary boundaries.
Reflective Collaboration: Students will reflect on their growth as persons in diverse communities and their ability to collaborate constructively with others.