Understanding Worldviews
This course introduces students to worldviews. It helps them analyze the claims of different worldviews and emphasizes the importance and means of forming a Christian worldview which integrates faith and living. Students will consider the meaning, truth claims, relevance of creation and evolution, the origin of life, sin and evil, different offers of salvation, and various beliefs about how to live one’s life in the contemporary world. Students are encouraged to relate the different world views to their particular setting as well as the world today. This course is designed both to help students understand and appreciate the wide variety of worldviews in evidence today,
and to help them personally form a Christian worldview which encompasses the whole of life. In order to truly comprehend Christianity as a holistic worldview rather than a mere religion, it is important to understand the nature and characteristics of
other worldviews and to be able to analyze the Christian worldview in light of these competing worldviews. Students will also analyze these other worldviews, subjecting them to the same critical standard enforced upon Christianity. Worldviews and religions covered in this class are: Hindu, Buddhist, Chinese, Islam, African, Secular, and New Age.
Health & Wholeness
Uganda Christian University aims to prepare students to become “health seekers” and “health leaders” in their own context. UCU graduates should seek that which is healthy and good for them, and encourage the same for their family, community, and society. Through this course, students will: 1) Be encouraged toward better “health seeking” behaviour. Students will know strategies to maintain and promote health and seek help with health problems. Health is not automatic, one must work to attain and then keep it. 2) Acquire knowledge, skills and abilities that promote a longer, healthier and more complete and holy life. Health and wholeness is a key to success in what they pursue. Students will acquire basic health tools, skills, knowledge to carry for their entire lives. 3) Recognize that health and wholeness is a product of individual, family and community factors, including knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviour. We live within family and community context and how we live affects others (& how others live affects us). 4) Understand how the Christian concept of the “whole” person is integral to complete health. Christian values influence health; ethics and moral decisions have direct and long lasting effects on health. 5) Recognize their role as “health leaders” even if they are not professional health workers. A health leader will encourage others toward healthier and holier lifestyles and will use resources at their disposal to encourage and promote health.
Understanding Ethics from a Christian Perspective
This class understands that ethics is not something you learn but it is something you do, even who you are. This class provides an opportunity to think about ethics, the way you live your life and interact with the world. Over the course of the semester, we will be analyzing different ethical perspectives that will continuously be assessed against the Christian perspective to give a learner a spectrum on areas of divergence and convergence in shaping human ethical view of behavior. This class provides an introduction to ethics, as well as an African perspective, an Ubuntu perspective, Old and New Testament perspectives, a Classical Western perspective, and Modern and Post-Modern perspectives. This class also covers ethical frameworks as they related to Church and Society, Marriage and Sexuality, Progress and Professional ethics, Wealth and Poverty, and War and Punishment.
Understanding the New Testament
- Updated course description and syllabus coming soon. (3 semester credits)
Understanding the Old Testament
This course offers students a thorough survey of the Old Testament. Students will be expected to understand the historical framework of the ancient Israel, the general content of the Old Testament and the theological message they convey. The course will include two hours of the lecture and one hour of tutorial each week. At the end of this course students will be able: To gain an appreciation of the Old Testament books as word of God. To understand the history of Israel and the purpose of Israel as God’s people. To understand the message and major themes of Old Testament. To use basic skills of interpretation using selected texts. To relate the message of the Old Testament to one’s own life in the contemporary context and the world.
