School of Social Sciences Dean's Welcome
Welcome to Christian Heritage College. We hope that the time that you study with us will be personally enriching and will help prepare you to serve whatever community and context you are called into.
Social Sciences is a broad field, but at its core is a desire to understand people and to serve them more fully – whether in more individual fields such as counselling, in more community-oriented contexts such as community development, or in a mixture of both as in youth work, human services and chaplaincy.
Over the last decade, as we have been developing the courses which now make up the Social Sciences at Christian Heritage College, we have become aware of several themes.
The first of these is that spirituality and God's presence are a part of everything we do, informing our thinking and influencing the people we are becoming – as students as well as those working in society.
Secondly, we desire to have high quality standards of academic knowledge. It is one of our goals that graduates are professionals who are well informed academically and can 'compete in the marketplace' of the real world.
Finally, it is our hope that each of us develops to be the people we have the potential to be. "The glory of God is a human fully alive," said Irenaus. Social Science courses unashamedly address the whole person, challenging each of us in our thinking and our behaviour.
We hope that you engage in your study at all of these levels, and leave the course "transformed to transform your world".
Praying that grace may be yours more and more,
Dr Irene Alexander
Dean, School of Social Sciences
